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.
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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)