It was a dream night time for AC Milan on the Santiago Bernabeu as they ran out 3-1 winners within the Champions League towards Actual Madrid.
It was three objectives and three beneficial factors for Milan as they . The primary objective of the sport went to Malick Thiaw as he headed in a Christian Pulisic nook, then Vinicius Junior’s penalty appeared to have steadied the ship for the house aspect.
Nevertheless, Milan retook the lead not lengthy earlier than half-time when Alvaro Morata pounced on a rebound from a Rafael Leao shot, earlier than Tijjani Reijnders together with his third objective within the competitors.
Under are the perfect stats from a memorable night time within the Spanish capital.
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Paulo Fonseca in his post-match feedback relating to how open the sport was between two sides who need lots of the ball.
The match stats from the sport present that it was certainly very open, with 37 pictures in complete (23 of them for Actual Madrid, 14 for Milan) and 19 of them being pictures on track (10 to 9 in favour of the house aspect).
There have been additionally 13 corners with Actual once more edging the depend eight to 5, whereas the mixed Anticipated Targets quantity was 4.89, virtually completely break up.
Data tumble
Milan ended Actual Madrid’s 15-game unbeaten streak at residence within the Champions League, a run which stretched again to April 2022 after they misplaced 3-2 to Chelsea within the second leg of a quarter-final tie (however went by means of on combination anyway).
Milan are the primary workforce to attain at the least three objectives towards Actual Madrid on the Santiago Bernabéu greater than as soon as within the European Champions Cup/Champions League, having already accomplished so in October 2009 (3-2).
It was the fifth time Actual Madrid head coach Carlo Ancelotti had confronted his former aspect Milan since teaching them (2001-2009), and the primary time in European competitors.
The earlier 4 video games all got here whereas answerable for Napoli between 2018 and 2019, with Ancelotti solely managing to beat his former aspect on one event (D2 L1).
Milan had solely received one among their final seven away video games within the Champions League (D3, L3) going into the sport, with that one victory coming towards Newcastle United in final season’s group stage (2-1).
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Álvaro Morata has scored seven objectives towards Actual Madrid, greater than every other opponent from one of many ‘high 5’ European leagues in his profession contemplating all competitions.
The Rossoneri quantity 7 has scored three objectives in three appearances towards Actual Madrid within the Champions League and towards no workforce has bagged extra within the competitors (three additionally towards Celtic, Dynamo Kyiv and Ferencvárosi TC).
Tijjani Reijnders has scored 4 objectives in his final three video games in all competitions, as many as in his first 60 video games for AC Milan mixed.
Malick Thiaw scored his first objective with AC Milan throughout his sixtieth match for the Rossoneri in all competitions. He’s one among three gamers to have scored a header for AC Milan towards Actual Madrid in a UCL recreation, along with Rivaldo and Filippo Inzaghi.