Inter defeated AC Milan 2-0 (2-0) in the Milan derby in the first semi-final of the football Champions League. The second leg will be played next Tuesday, May 16.
A well-tempered Inter rumbled in the first half and took the host in the first semi-final of the Champions League. Inter had gained confidence from their native Seria A, where they had won their last four matches with a crushing goal difference of 14–1.
Breathless and poorly defended, AC Milan fell off the board in just over ten minutes, when Edin Dzeko and Henrikh Mkhitaran scored the decisive 2–0 goals for Inter in the 8th and 11th minutes of the game.
Hakan Calhanoglu despite the corner kick Dzeko gave, the Milan captain stretched out his leg Davide Calabrian from the guard and with this direct volley the opening goal. Dzeko, at 37 years and 54 days, is the Champions League’s second-oldest goalscorer in the UCL semi-finals. Ryan Giggs37 years and 148 days, scored for Manchester United in the Schalke net in 2010-11.
Inter’s 2–0 goal was finished with great composure by Mkhitaran, who sneaked in Federico Dimarcon from the preliminary work from the middle sector to the best possible finish sector with incredible ease, and there was no mistake in the place of action.
Inter could have scored more goals in the opening period, as Calhanoglu, who scored the first goal, shot the ball once into AC Milan’s post, and not in the follow-up spot Nicolo Barella was able to pass the goalkeeper Mike Maignania.
At half an hour, the referee showed Inter a penalty kick when Simon Kjaer seemed to have brought down the Inter captain Lautaro Martinez’s Within 11 meters. However, at the end of the VAR review, the referee overturned his decision.
AC Milan was bad in the opening period and could be satisfied that it was only 0-2 down at the break. In the second half, AC Milan improved considerably, but couldn’t get a proper momentum going. In the 63rd minute of the match Olivier Giroud dropped the game tool For Sandro Tonaliwhose curling shot hit Inter’s post.
Inter beat AC Milan for the first time at the European level. Although AC Milan has been tougher than Inter in Serie A, the team was knocked out of the UCL quarter-finals by the combined goals of strong Napoli 2-1.
Milan’s last home game in the Champions League was suspended in a sea of smoke 18 years ago. In the spring of 2005, AC Milan advanced from the quarter-finals of the Champions League, winning the first leg 2–0 and the second leg 3–0.
In the second UCL semi-final opener, Real Madrid and Manchester City played to a 1-1 draw in Madrid on Tuesday.