UEFA Champions League 2022/23 Season

[Josefjix]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

AC Milan didn't have power when they faced Inter Milan in the first leg of the UCL semi-finals, even though in reality they had dominance in possession, but that was not enough because the most important thing to get victory they didn't have (attack).

Inter Milan dominated from the early minutes of the match and managed to score 2 goals in the 8th and 11th minutes which were scored by Dzeko and Mkhtaryan. Overall this match was a bad game for AC Milan, I'm not sure AC Milan can do much in the second leg later.

Another underwhelming Milan derby I was so excited for this game because it has been a long time since any Milan teams has progressed this far in the CL since Inter Milan won it in 2010 with the likes of Milito and the rest. I didn't expect AC to make it this easy for Inter Milan to progress to the final because there is nothing more to play for in the second leg, and a two goal advantage is a huge one to overcome. Inter Milan should be proud of themselves for winning the league last season and being so close to reaching the CL final this season. Three years ago, the team was a pure midtable team fighting for a Europa league spot. They might not win its worth it.

[Lida93]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

In first 20 minutes thereabout of the game AC Milan were sleeping on bike in a way that looks like they had forgotten that it's a semi-final stage and more critically it's in their home and they were supposed to be welcoming inter milan with a tough tactical game and not the other way round as it is with 0:2 defeat in favour of Inter.

How well you use every opportunity you have gotten is what the game of football is all about in getting a win at the end of 90mins and that's the magic inter Milan has displayed. I don't see AC Milan turning the aggregates around in the second leg playing away as inter is definitely going to take dominance with a home advantage that inter Milan failed to capitalize on.

[Lillominato89]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

AC Milan didn't have power when they faced Inter Milan in the first leg of the UCL semi-finals, even though in reality they had dominance in possession, but that was not enough because the most important thing to get victory they didn't have (attack).

Inter Milan dominated from the early minutes of the match and managed to score 2 goals in the 8th and 11th minutes which were scored by Dzeko and Mkhtaryan. Overall this match was a bad game for AC Milan, I'm not sure AC Milan can do much in the second leg later.

Another underwhelming Milan derby I was so excited for this game because it has been a long time since any Milan teams has progressed this far in the CL since Inter Milan won it in 2010 with the likes of Milito and the rest. I didn't expect AC to make it this easy for Inter Milan to progress to the final because there is nothing more to play for in the second leg, and a two goal advantage is a huge one to overcome. Inter Milan should be proud of themselves for winning the league last season and being so close to reaching the CL final this season. Three years ago, the team was a pure midtable team fighting for a Europa league spot. They might not win its worth it.

to say that inter has already passed the round is completely wrong! there are still 90 minutes to play and everything is still possible, of course for inter having a 2-goal lead means a lot, but i wouldn't give up milan so easily

[Merit.s]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

AC Milan didn't have power when they faced Inter Milan in the first leg of the UCL semi-finals, even though in reality they had dominance in possession, but that was not enough because the most important thing to get victory they didn't have (attack).

Inter Milan dominated from the early minutes of the match and managed to score 2 goals in the 8th and 11th minutes which were scored by Dzeko and Mkhtaryan. Overall this match was a bad game for AC Milan, I'm not sure AC Milan can do much in the second leg later.

Another underwhelming Milan derby I was so excited for this game because it has been a long time since any Milan teams has progressed this far in the CL since Inter Milan won it in 2010 with the likes of Milito and the rest. I didn't expect AC to make it this easy for Inter Milan to progress to the final because there is nothing more to play for in the second leg, and a two goal advantage is a huge one to overcome. Inter Milan should be proud of themselves for winning the league last season and being so close to reaching the CL final this season. Three years ago, the team was a pure midtable team fighting for a Europa league spot. They might not win its worth it.

to say that inter has already passed the round is completely wrong! there are still 90 minutes to play and everything is still possible, of course for inter having a 2-goal lead means a lot, but i wouldn't give up milan so easily

In every game,there must be a winner and they winner do take advantage of its opponent weaknesses to win the game. Tonight, Inter Milan has taken the advantage of AC Milan weakness to win the game. AC Milan players are not complete on the pitch because some of them are tied down with injury. If not for this,I don't think that Inter Milan will be able to win this game. A magnificent performance from Inter Milan tonight,which has given them an upper hand of qualifying to the finals after they defeated AC Milan 2-0 in the first leg of the semifinals. The second leg will not be that interesting anymore if AC Milan injured players hasn't recovered yet. The reason of  this is that Inter Milan will still win them in the second leg.

[puloweh555]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

AC Milan didn't have power when they faced Inter Milan in the first leg of the UCL semi-finals, even though in reality they had dominance in possession, but that was not enough because the most important thing to get victory they didn't have (attack).

Inter Milan dominated from the early minutes of the match and managed to score 2 goals in the 8th and 11th minutes which were scored by Dzeko and Mkhtaryan. Overall this match was a bad game for AC Milan, I'm not sure AC Milan can do much in the second leg later.

I saw the weakness experienced by Ac Milan in the counter attack. Inter always take advantage of this opportunity and what's worse is that Ac Milan never learns from that mistake. This can be seen from Inter's 3 wins in the last Derby match including the match earlier. Milan 0-2 Inter (UCL), Inter 1-0 Milan (Serie A), Milan 0-3 Inter (Supercopa) and these are 3 wins for Inter, in 3 different competitions. For Inter, with this victory, they have one foot in Istanbul.

AC Milan wasted the advantage playing at home, they even scored no goal. They actually played not so badly, they dominated the ball possession and made 13 shoot attempts. Sadly, their attackers have no good accuracy in shooting. It indicates that AC Milan needs a chance in their attacking line for the next season, especially for the striker (CF) position. AC Milan needs a new striker that has better quality than Giroud or Origi.

Yes, agree with your opinion, Ac Milan really wasted the advantage of playing at home, especially during the second half. Even though in the second half, Inter's strategy had lowered the tempo of the game and made substitutions, maybe for rotation to maintain the fitness of players in Serie A it seems, considering that the top four positions (UCL zone) are still being contested by six teams.

[SOKO-DEKE]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

Inter were fantastic today, especially at the start of the game, they were quite aggressive and effective. So the 2 goals in the first minute of control, namely the 8th and 11th minutes, were really astonishing and made Milan's mentality even more down. After that, Inter played more defensively, so that at least they had secured 2 goals and made a strategy so that Milan could not penetrate Inter's goal no matter what. Inter's victory at home to Milan was quite surprising, but at the same time it gave an advantage for Inter in the second leg later.

It was not a surprise to me that inter Milan defeated with  ac Milan in today's match with 0-2 because before this match started I quoted a comment that was saying ac Milan is good enough to won the game but I quoted the post that that the worst I expected from inter Milan against ac Milan in today's match is draw but I said, I don't see much potential in ac Milan securing victory in today's match. seriously I am very impressed with inter Milan victory.

I saw some bad performances from some important players of Manchester City. Haaland wasn't effective at all in this match. He found a few chances only but wasted all of them generously. De Bruyne was also not very good with his passes actually but he finally did what do the best again. It was a superb shot and goal by him that it was too difficult for Courtois to save that shot.

Haaland was not that effective on the pitch yesterday it is because he doesn't receive much creative passes from other players especially from de bruyne that always creates does nice passes.As you said that de bruyne was good with passes yesterday I agree with you, and that is the reason why Haaland did not pay to our expectations that yesterday too. infact Haaland doesn't have good spaces that yesterday to creat good chance with ball because rudiger was really given him a very close markings yesterday.just know any match de bruyne didn't play every well, it will be hard for Haaland to productive too.

[Leviathan.007]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

AC Milan didn't have power when they faced Inter Milan in the first leg of the UCL semi-finals, even though in reality they had dominance in possession, but that was not enough because the most important thing to get victory they didn't have (attack).

Inter Milan dominated from the early minutes of the match and managed to score 2 goals in the 8th and 11th minutes which were scored by Dzeko and Mkhtaryan. Overall this match was a bad game for AC Milan, I'm not sure AC Milan can do much in the second leg later.

I don't know how Ac Milan had this performance at the beginning of the game but I know except for the first minutes of the game, both teams had good performance and they were both close. While even in the second half of the game Ac Milan had better chances and they could at least score one goal to have an easier game in the second leg but they fail and the game finished with a 2-0 result.

[GiftedMAN]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

Inter were fantastic today, especially at the start of the game, they were quite aggressive and effective. So the 2 goals in the first minute of control, namely the 8th and 11th minutes, were really astonishing and made Milan's mentality even more down. After that, Inter played more defensively, so that at least they had secured 2 goals and made a strategy so that Milan could not penetrate Inter's goal no matter what. Inter's victory at home to Milan was quite surprising, but at the same time it gave an advantage for Inter in the second leg later.

In the overall performance Inter Milan were more composed, had much hunger to score goals and made good use of their chances to get those two goals in the first half and also defended the goal till the end of the match even when it seems like AC Milan were waking up from sleep they were so organized not to concede any goal from away. Inter Milan didn't defend all through rather they understood the pattern in which AC Milan used to defeat Napoli so they were going front and also makinh sure they return back once they lose possession of the ball.

[alegotardo]

In the overall performance Inter Milan were more composed, had much hunger to score goals and made good use of their chances to get those two goals in the first half and also defended the goal till the end of the match even when it seems like AC Milan were waking up from sleep they were so organized not to concede any goal from away. Inter Milan didn't defend all through rather they understood the pattern in which AC Milan used to defeat Napoli so they were going front and also makinh sure they return back once they lose possession of the ball.

I agree with his perspective on the game and add that one of the main reasons for Inter's excellent play was the trio of midfield players.
It was notable that Hakan Çalhanoglu refused to fill in for Marcelo Brozovic when he was injured... and Nicolò Barella proved that he remains the "engine" of the team, setting up the game well and marking the opponents very well.

Finally, I cannot fail to praise the new element in the team.... Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who played a very important role in this victory, he arrived from Rome as a "simple" attacking midfielder and is surprising.

You see... the success of Mkhitaryan's entry into Inter's midfield was so great that even Marcelo Brozovic, who is such an important figure at the club, has been a substitute for the trio who entered the field to remain in the starting lineup

[makishart]

I think it won't have much effect on teams as big as Real Madrid and Manchester CIty to play home or away, and with Agg still drawing, both teams still have the same chance and opportunity to advance to the final even though the second leg will be played at home to Manchester. City.

Even if the impact is still small but at least it gives impact tot he club. The mentality from real madrid will be tested in the second leg. I saw how manchester city was quite dominant in the first leg. It was making real madrid feels so difficult in the first leg.

in the first leg match Manchester City was able to control the game very well in the first half and it was seen in the second half there was a change in tactics for the two teams so that the two teams' games were a little even, apart from the 1-1 score in my opinion Manchester City's style of play was too much control Ballposition can be read and defended by Real Madrid by relying on counterattacks.

that's it. Manchester city thought that if owning the ball possession will help the club to build attack easily without any problem.
The main problem if grealish  and haaland being guarded by carvajal and rudiger. They can't move anywhere. It's caused by bernardo silva can do nothing. City was concentrating its attack into the grealish and KBD.

so I think in the second leg later, anything is still possible and very difficult to predict, this is the battle of the 2 best European teams at the moment and their battle is really fierce.

As long as real marid will be showing better performance than the first leg. it's possible for madrid to win the second leg.

[tiCeR]

But where is the twist in the logic that because they haven't won a cup in a long time, they are now more destined to win it? Lincoln City from League One in England also hasn't won a cup in a long time, perhaps it's their turn very soon?

In terms of Milan beating Napoli without difficulties, I think we watched different games or you are talking about a different year / season. Napoli was the better team in both games, but Milan scored the goals. That is soccer. But in the second leg Napoli had one of these games where you can do whatever you want, but you can't score. They dominated the game like they've never dominated Milan before ever. But Milan was able to resist the constant pressure with a lot of luck and won the game. Calling the second leg a win without difficulties could serve as a new definition for purely result oriented assessment of a game. The team won the game? Ok, then it was without difficulties, no matter what actually happened during the game. 

You have answered your own question. It's football and whoever scores the goals wins. Manchester City, for example, have never won a cup at all, but for some reason almost everyone believes they will win it this year. These are the final matches where you can expect any outcome. Milan now have a 25% chance of winning the Champions League. There may be no logic in the fact that they haven't won in a long time, but you can't deny that they're a contender to win.

Haha come on be fair, I never asserted that! I never said they can't win it, I only said that concluding that AC Milan is now ripe to win it because they haven't won it in a long time doesn't make a whole lot of sense. Even now that they are behind after the game against Inter, they are still not out yet. It is almost inconceivable that they can still turn this mess around now, but I would not deny that they still have a chance because they do for as long as they are willing to play the next game and not stay home.

The discussion about Manchester City and their role as a favorite is quite old by now, but it is still valid. I have somewhere seen the analogy here that if someone puts a gun to your head and says that you have only one chance to pick a team that wins the tournament, which one would you pick? I assume that most of the threatened would say Manchester City, and would you?

[CryptopreneurBrainboss]

Manchester City drew with Real Madrid at the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium Hopefully Pep Guardiola will be very happy for his boys with this result. Because Manchester City played the first match at the away ground. Pep Guardiola only wanted one result from his players in the first league match.  But all his plans revolved around the second league match Etihad Stadium. 
Real Madrid's win against Manchester City at the Santiago Bernabeu stadium was much needed.

Unfortunately I was unavailable to watch the match due to some urgent matters that came up but I wasn't impressed from the highlight I have seen so far, there were lots of shooting from both side but they could only produced one goal each. Though this was a high rated match and even though the match was to end in draw atleast it should be two goals and above draw and not 1:1 scoreline. My speculation for this game was for Manchester city to win by two goals then we wait for Real Madrid to come to the Etihad and perform their comeback to progress but as it seems Real Madrid might be on their way home.

Haaland was ghosted but he'll definitely give the fans something to brag about at Etihad stadium, Manchester city has been very dominate this season especially when they play at Etihad stadium so Real Madrid better come with their A game or go home. Manchester city dominated the first leg but got outsmarted by Real Madrid due to their directness. Real Madrid attacked whenever they go the ball and that's why they scored first. In the return leg, Manchester city needs to kill the game on time as if they let Real Madrid into the game then they'll pay heavily for that mistake.

[Lillominato89]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

AC Milan didn't have power when they faced Inter Milan in the first leg of the UCL semi-finals, even though in reality they had dominance in possession, but that was not enough because the most important thing to get victory they didn't have (attack).

Inter Milan dominated from the early minutes of the match and managed to score 2 goals in the 8th and 11th minutes which were scored by Dzeko and Mkhtaryan. Overall this match was a bad game for AC Milan, I'm not sure AC Milan can do much in the second leg later.

Another underwhelming Milan derby I was so excited for this game because it has been a long time since any Milan teams has progressed this far in the CL since Inter Milan won it in 2010 with the likes of Milito and the rest. I didn't expect AC to make it this easy for Inter Milan to progress to the final because there is nothing more to play for in the second leg, and a two goal advantage is a huge one to overcome. Inter Milan should be proud of themselves for winning the league last season and being so close to reaching the CL final this season. Three years ago, the team was a pure midtable team fighting for a Europa league spot. They might not win its worth it.

to say that inter has already passed the round is completely wrong! there are still 90 minutes to play and everything is still possible, of course for inter having a 2-goal lead means a lot, but i wouldn't give up milan so easily

In every game,there must be a winner and they winner do take advantage of its opponent weaknesses to win the game. Tonight, Inter Milan has taken the advantage of AC Milan weakness to win the game. AC Milan players are not complete on the pitch because some of them are tied down with injury. If not for this,I don't think that Inter Milan will be able to win this game. A magnificent performance from Inter Milan tonight,which has given them an upper hand of qualifying to the finals after they defeated AC Milan 2-0 in the first leg of the semifinals. The second leg will not be that interesting anymore if AC Milan injured players hasn't recovered yet. The reason of  this is that Inter Milan will still win them in the second leg.

I don't entirely agree, Milan only had Leao and Florenzi injured, Leao is their most representative player but I doubt he could have turned the tide of the match! Inter left Milan no way out in the first half, scoring 2 goals in a few minutes and came close to the third with chalanoglu, and she never let ac milan shoot on goal, in the second half she was more concerned with managing the advantage than pushing again for a more substantial victory and conceded more! but on paper the inter is clearly stronger than milan, moreover it must be said that there could have been a penalty and a red card from krunic for a foul on Bastoni. The return match will certainly be a fire match

[shinratensei_]

The match is very attractive for me. I saw that how ac milan was only focusing in the ball possessions instead of making some chances that will make its opponent scary. Intermilan is intensively attacking ac milan.
Dzeko and calhanoglu have two golden chances to add more goals for intermilan. Ac milan must be so lucky enough caused by it might be able to be conceded with more than two goals by intermilan. Intermilan is putting all of its focus on how to build proper attack against ac milan.

Ac milan's defenders feel panic when it comes to the counter attack thatbeing made by intermilan. intermilan is now leading the game with two goals. The match gonna happen in the same stadium and i thought that if intermilan will be winning the game soon.

Can intermilan become champion of europe this season?

[JoyMarsha]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

Given how well-informed Milan is, the fact that they let Inter score twice in the first eight to eleven minutes of the game without responding with an own goal till the conclusion of the game was a little embarrassing for them. They are playing at home, therefore it wasn't ideal to enable Inter to defeat them by two goals in the first leg. What will happen to them when they arrive at Inter's stadium? I guess that's another loss.
Am predicting Manchester City vs Inter as the finals of the champions league match. Manchester City is to win.

[Wiwo]

[FT] AC Milan 0 - 2 Inter Milan

Given how well-informed Milan is, the fact that they let Inter score twice in the first eight to eleven minutes of the game without responding with an own goal till the conclusion of the game was a little embarrassing for them. They are playing at home, therefore it wasn't ideal to enable Inter to defeat them by two goals in the first leg. What will happen to them when they arrive at Inter's stadium? I guess that's another loss.
Am predicting Manchester City vs Inter as the finals of the champions league match. Manchester City is to win.

Inter Milan played so well tonight and I enjoyed every bits of the 90+ minutes of this game the Champion league semi-finals are beginning to spring up with lots of surprises after Manchester city who is perceived as the potential winner f draw their last match with Real Madrid, the is no doubt the fact that Real Madrid is also a big club with the potential to win the champions leagues bit still the match was drawen which shows some possibilities that the final outcome of the champioleague is still very uncertain and can be predicted, just as AC Milan who have played some well in most game, lost it to enter Milan.

This game's results weaken my motivation but then and for Ac Milan to have been pushed back from reaching the finals.

[TelolettOm]

I don't know how Ac Milan had this performance at the beginning of the game but I know except for the first minutes of the game, both teams had good performance and they were both close. While even in the second half of the game Ac Milan had better chances and they could at least score one goal to have an easier game in the second leg but they fail and the game finished with a 2-0 result.

If you look at the stats, both teams actually played well. Not only Inter Milan, but AC Milan also created many shoot attempts as well. However, Inter Milan can play more effectively, they can score 2 goals from 5 shoot on targets. While AC Milan only made 2 shoot attempts although they created 13 shoot attempts. It means AC Milan strikers got difficulty executing the chances. It also indicates that Inter Milan defenders performed very well, they didn't let AC Milan strikers have good opportunities.

Anyway, Inter Milan take the initiative to play more offensively in the early game. AC Milan defenders look a bit panic, so they were conceded 2 goals. It is a brilliant tactic made by Inzaghi.

[Velvet78]

Such a poor night for Milan really. I didn't see as big effort as I expected from them. Because there were big problems with the shots. This 2-0 loss already in the first game can be a serious issue for Milan in the second leg. I was expecting Inter to play good but this was more than I expected. After capturing this psychological advantage Inter can most probably eliminate them.

I wonder why Inzaghi didn't prefer Lukaku in the starting lineup this time. He has been in a good shape recently actually.

[Majestic-milf]

I don't know how Ac Milan had this performance at the beginning of the game but I know except for the first minutes of the game, both teams had good performance and they were both close. While even in the second half of the game Ac Milan had better chances and they could at least score one goal to have an easier game in the second leg but they fail and the game finished with a 2-0 result.

If you look at the stats, both teams actually played well. Not only Inter Milan, but AC Milan also created many shoot attempts as well. However, Inter Milan can play more effectively, they can score 2 goals from 5 shoot on targets. While AC Milan only made 2 shoot attempts although they created 13 shoot attempts. It means AC Milan strikers got difficulty executing the chances. It also indicates that Inter Milan defenders performed very well, they didn't let AC Milan strikers have good opportunities.

Anyway, Inter Milan take the initiative to play more offensively in the early game. AC Milan defenders look a bit panic, so they were conceded 2 goals. It is a brilliant tactic made by Inzaghi.

Those two goals in the 8' and 11' of the game by Dzeko and Mkhitaryan to me was what weakened the AC Milan team so that despite the efforts at a comeback, it was just futile.
 Despite being the side with the lower ball possession, they still kept on keeping ac Milan on their toes, converting two of the shots on target and honestly with such confidence and display of dominance, they deserved to win. Hopefully they can still keep it up in the second leg.

[Sexylizzy2813]

Such a poor night for Milan really. I didn't see as big effort as I expected from them. Because there were big problems with the shots. This 2-0 loss already in the first game can be a serious issue for Milan in the second leg. I was expecting Inter to play good but this was more than I expected. After capturing this psychological advantage Inter can most probably eliminate them.

I wonder why Inzaghi didn't prefer Lukaku in the starting lineup this time. He has been in a good shape recently actually.

Wasn't expecting the game to be that hard for both sides and they have to settle it when next they meet in the return leg.  Inter didn't play a good football for me to say they're good to go. With Inzaghi always keeping the big man on the bench talking about Lukaku, is so worrisome, if he's not that good at least let him come in and cause problems to the defense of the opposition, he has the pace the energy to run through defenders but why keep him on the bench?
If not for the luck on his [Inzaghi] side he would be calling on Lukaku to start instead of keeping him on the bench.