Milan once again dropped a lead to Liverpool after Fikayo Tomori’s opener and the 2-1 home defeat means they finish bottom of the Champions League group and can concentrate only on Serie A.
Champions League Liveblog: Real Madrid-Inter and Milan-Liverpool
The Rossoneri knew they had to win and hope for the best news from FC Porto vs. Atletico Madrid, as any one of those three teams could still enter the Round of 16. Liverpool were already sure of top spot, so could rotate the squad, but Olivier Giroud, Ante Rebic, Rafael Leao, Simon Kjaer and Davide Calabria were out for the hosts.
Atletico Madrid ended up winning 3-1 away to FC Porto, so this result was largely irrelevant anyway.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic had the first real attack blocked for a corner, from which Minamino threatened an own goal and Fikayo Tomori tapped in the rebound on Alisson Becker’s save.
Divock Origi fired straight at Mike Maignan after some fancy footwork, but the goalkeeper only parried an Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain effort into the path of Mohamed Salah for the rebound. The defending was poor, as Oxlade-Chamberlain was allowed to spin away from Franck Kessie too easily and Salah reacted quicker than Theo Hernandez on the loose ball.
Kessie went down in the box after the restart, but while Tsimikas didn’t get the ball, his push was too slight to be considered a penalty.
Tomori went from hero to zero when caught horribly in possession by Sadio Mane, as Maignan again made the save, but Origi was quickest on the rebound this time.
With news filtering through that Atletico Madrid were winning away to Porto, any remaining confidence ebbed away.
Alisson was alert on Theo Hernandez and a through ball for Junior Messias, then Kessie was sent clear on a Tiemoue Bakayoko through ball, but the Ivorian’s dinked finish was too weak and parried by on-rushing Alisson.
Milan 1-2 Liverpool
Tomori 29 (M), Salah 36 (L), Origi 55 (L)
Absolutely shocked at how poor Milan were. Liverpool’s second team played in second gear and won easily. Says a lot about the standard of Serie A.
So welcome to scudetto….
Milan is opying Inter last season.
Milan keep finding ways to embarrass themselves this season. Losing at home to a Liverpool team that had nothing to play for and fielded youngsters in midfield and defence. They now have no excuses not to win Serie A but they will find a way to choke away the Scudetto like last year.An embarrassing club. Milan is such a joke.
*copying
Serie A+Farmers league= TRUE. LETS GET REAL HERE
Hope Kessie winds his neck in on his contract demands. He’s Just been outclassed by a 12 year old in midfield and could watch as bit part player ‘The Ox’ walked round him for the first goal.
This was not even the Liverpool B team. It was largely the C squad against a first choice Milan team. I am aware that Milan had many injuries but that is no excuse. At home, needing the win and against a team who have easily qualified. Kessie allowing Oxlade to waltz right through is embarrassing. He is average at best. As for Maigan two very bad goalkeeping errors. First one putting right back into the danger area and the second was just bizarre with the hand. So this is the league leaders against high quality opposition. Serie a is getting worse and Inter should have lost 3-0. As for Juve the less said the better. Farmers league for sure. The most shocking thing is the typical slow and lethargic approach of Italian teams. Tonight Milan demonstrated that from start to finish. If Liverpool had fielded the A team and really wanted to go at them it would end 6-0.
I need to stop watching Serie A, waste of time
Serie A is such a low standard and the 2 best teams in the divisions both lost to teams tjat were not even at their best.Serie A is such a farmers league..like for real.
milan are such an embarrassment. but cmon we all knew they theyd get trounced soon as draw came out. its surprising they even still had a chance to advance on final day.
they dont deserve Mike Maignan their star keeper.
imagine him at juve or or Inter…. they’d would be actually be contenders for CL final.
I wanted all the Italian teams in.
After the lack of work to defend the first goal, Kessie has some nerve to make those outrageous wage demands. Also, he should have scored on his chance.
Later, bro. You should be begging to wear that shirt.
(I’m not a Milan fan)
You can always support Inter Inter Inter.
They did need a miracle. The needed Porto vs Atletico to end in a Draw and a win for them.
Bilan fans, let’s get real.. your team is lucky enough to come top of serie A table because your players already now serie A better, but UCL is another league.. they called it “champions” league for reason.. even dominant Rubentus can’t win it, hell their “unusual” dominations in serie A ruins the quality of the league, sporting and economically
Brandon why you are so stupid, what happened.to you? They not needed any draw between porto and atleti, they simply needed to win same margin like atletics, and they keep in CL. But anyway to play in europa league maybe would been even better for them… not needed any miracles at all, biggest miracle was only that they can make is to drop out of euro at all, and they done this miracle
Love watching Milan & Inter lose. There was a time when i would support all Italian teams in Europe, but that time is long gone.
For all those talking about A, B and C teams, none of it matters. It is all down to Klopp.
What this shows is that whatever team he puts out they are so well trained and drilled that they are very difficult to play against.
If we swapped the teams around it would’ve been the same result.
The big difference between the Prem teams and Serie A teams is not so much money but the managers (who come because of the money). They have at least 3 of the best managers in the world right now: Guardiola, Klopp and Tuchel.
Look at the difference between Salah now and Salah when he played in Serie A. When he played in Serie A no one would’ve predicted he’d have become the best player on the planet. If he was still in Serie A he would not be the best player on the planet.
It’s all about the coaching. Pioli has done an amazing job but he’s not as good a coach as Klopp. Few are.