Milan Takes a Step Closer to Champions League with Win Over Lazio

San Siro already smells, feels and expects the Champions League. At the Milan stadium, Saturday morning started badly because their best player, their star, their differential footballer, had to be substituted ten minutes into the game due to a problem. And of course, in four days there is a city derby in the Champions League semifinals and today’s match against Lazio, at times, ceased to be so important.

But the one who was worried about this match was Stefano Pioli, who rotated but also brought in important men, like Giroud. TAfter the injury of the Portuguese, Saelemaekers entered and the Belgian assisted Giroud, from there to Bennacer, who did not fail and punished Lazio after a bad start from behind. The party was not being very showy, but the ‘rossoneri’ already were in advantage.

That advantage was very important, because the Champions League is there, close, but Series A cannot be neglected. With this goal, Milan tightened more the classification and a league in which this day the teams faced each other from the second to the seventh position.

A few minutes later, Theo Hernández received a ball from his goalkeeper, Maignan, on the edge of his own area. The French winger starts the race, continues, passes one, they don’t stop him, he continues with the ball at his feet, gets into the center of the field as number ’10’, reaches the edge of the area and shoots… with a bit of luck that the ball brushes against a defender and makes an impossible parabola for a Provedel who tries but does not arrive. 2-0 and the ‘rossonero’ team was three points behind the Romans, who made life a little more complicated.

The second part had less history. Pioli began to think, now yes, a little more about the Champions League. The coach first removed his captain, Calabria, later Kjaer, then Giroud and finally Theo Hernández. His spine, out. The Milan derby is worth a lot and fighting for a place in the Champions League final is much more.

Marcos Durán is part of the Relevo international soccer team. Born in Mar del Plata, Argentina and raised in Alhaurín de la Torre, he studied Journalism at the University of

Malaga. Since he was little, he was clear that he wanted to be a journalist and his first steps were in the mixed zone of La Rosaleda before starting his degree. He went on Erasmus to Rome from where he began to collaborate with Cadena Cope. After completing a Master’s in Multimedia Journalism in Granada, he requested an internship at Diario AS, where he was part of the AS América team. He witnessed and carried out the coverage of the Copa América 2021 from Brazil for AS and Cadena Ser, seeing on site how Messi lifted his first trophy as captain of Argentina. He was at the Maracana, Wembley and Lusail.


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