AC Milan

The Champions League round-of-16 second leg between Spurs and AC Milan starts 10 minutes late after both teams are caught up in London's gridlock.

AC Milan was based in a hotel in the Shoreditch district of London and only got to the ground just before 7pm local time, ahead of a scheduled 8pm kick-off. The game was pushed back by 10 minutes and when it did get going, things got worse for the hosts, unable to find the back of the net as their Italian opponents held on for a 1-0 aggregate win after their victory at Stadio San Siro three weeks ago. The start of the Champions League game between Tottenham and AC Milan has been delayed after their buses got stuck in traffic.

LONDON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan progressed to the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2011-2012 after a 0-0 draw with 10-man ...

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Match report as Tottenham deliver woeful performance in drab stalemate with AC Milan; Cristian Romero sent off for second yellow card late on as visitors ...

You can have the best house but if the furniture is not the best inside, it's irrelevant. There was a lack of energy and a lack of ideas. "People talk about Spurs having the best stadium. It was so flat and dull. Tottenham saw their hopes of lifting a trophy this season ended as they were dumped out of the Champions League by AC Milan 1-0 on aggregate after a 0-0 draw in the second leg of the last-16 tie at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. AC Milan were wasteful in possession and were there for the taking yet Spurs couldn't break them down before Romero recklessly slid in on Theo Hernandez by the touchline and was shown a second yellow card.

Milan are into the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 11 years - their young team are continuing to mature under Pioli.

A poor victor for this stage of the Champions League, this young Milan team were at least mature. Afterwards, Antonio Conte played the football heritage card, arguing the difference between Tottenham and “champions of Italy” AC Milan with their seven Champions League titles, is ‘abissale’, so deep it’s like staring into an abyss. In the meantime, Milan have to grind and edge ties like this last-16 encounter. The concern about the team’s recent form on the road (which flared up in Florence at the weekend), the anticipation Tottenham would suddenly turn it on like other Premier League sides have done against Milan and the question marks over Fikayo Tomori (who gave away another penalty on Saturday) washed away like the London rain. Some will turn up their noses at the football they played against Tottenham but Milan are under no illusion as to who they are at the moment. But Milan wanted to make progress and honour the history of the club in this competition with greater dignity. If Milan are to take another step towards a definitive reawakening, the club needs a ground like the one Spurs call home to bring in the transformative money San Siro, unfortunately, does not. As champions of Italy, Milan made the most of being top seeds in their group and reached the knockout stages, something they had not done since Massimiliano Allegri was in charge. Not the seven Champions League trophies in the Casa Milan museum. For a start, it did not have to be against an insipid Tottenham team who, to borrow a phrase from the lore of Italian football, gave a performance evocative of a ‘coniglio bagnato’, a wet rabbit. Specifically, a night in Athens in the Europa League comes to mind when his former team-mate Leonardo, Milan’s then-sporting director, blamed elimination against Olympiacos in 2018 on the noise in the stadium. Under shafts of bone-chilling rain, the Milan ultras turned their backs on the game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, pulling off their black T-shirts to reveal red, goose-pimpled torsos against a pitch-black sky.

Second place in the standings and playoff quarter-finals almost secured.

The objective of the team and coach is to continue to grow, and making the tricolour dream come true. Coach Lantignotti, on the other hand, guided the U17 team to the semi-final, which they then lost to Bologna. The team was good at closing the match at the right time, and I congratulate the boys because they gave everything and got a great result, perhaps not playing as well as other times".

Magic Mike makes his mark on qualification with a tie-winning save in stoppage time from Kane.

[MVP](https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/articles/awards). All this was enough for him to earn the award of being voted as the Rossoneri's Mike made his mark in booking the Rossoneri's place in the quarters with a save only champions make, in what is only his third game after a five-month absence.

After winning 1-0 back on February 14, AC Milan travelled to London for the return leg of their Champions League round of 16 clash against Tottenham in an ...

On the right, Junior Messias was the clear flop of the game as he offered little to nothing going forward and missed a big chance in front of goal. The times he did escape, however, he should’ve made more out of the situation and he failed to do so. Theo Hernandez had a great game and was one of the best on the pitch, helping a lot in the attacking phase and drawing a foul from Romero that got him a red card as mentioned. Oddly enough, Rafael Leao wasn’t on the same level as he seemed to struggle to find his spot on the pitch. It is great to see Magic Mike looking confident straight away, shouting and giving tips to the defenders in front of him which was perhaps lacking when he wasn’t available. The majority of the game was in fact fairly boring from a neutral point of view, but that meant Milan did their job well.