Zlatan Ibrahimovic (40) concluded the meeting between AC Milan and Bologna (0-0) with an imposing bandage on his forehead after receiving a violent whim with Gary Medel, a rough Chilean midfielder.
After being content with crumbs in recent meetings, Zlatan Ibrahimovic (40) played more on Monday in the draw between AC Milan and Bologna (0-0). The Swedish striker entered for the last twenty minutes in place of the French Olivier Giroud, who had been preferred to him as holder. And the Swede will keep a memory of this match. He found himself with a bloody face after a violent collision with the rough Chilean midfielder from Bologna, Gary Medel.
His opponent’s headbutt opened his left brow bone which started to bleed profusely. And this angered the striker with the referee. Taken care of by the healers, he ended the meeting with an imposing bandage around his forehead. This did not prevent him from being dangerous at the end of the match but Zlatan did not manage to force the opposing lock. Medel, nicknamed “Pitbull” for his rough engagement, also remained stunned. He even left the field in the 82nd minute of play.
The Lombards retain the lead in the championship but are only one point ahead of Inter Milan, their first pursuer. “Analysis of the game is easy, we didn’t find the game, the flicker, the last pass, a lot of balls could have been played better, we played but we found ourselves in front of a team that was very well defended, analyzed Stefano Pioli, the Milan coach at the end of the meeting. These are matches where everything becomes easy if you unlock them but which get complicated if you don’t. It was a nervous match, physical, we conceded few chances.”
The coach denies giving in to mental pressure when his team could have taken a three-point lead. “I totally exclude it, the performance was good with energy and quality until the last 20 meters where we missed something. We build a lot in this period but we do little, we don’t We weren’t presumptuous, we made the game and the performance remains good, there was just a little lack of readability, you just have to be more efficient in the penalty area.”
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