Author: Soccerhuz
Inter Milan Star Suffers Thigh Strain – Out For Man City Showdown, Doubt For Derby Vs AC Milan This according to Italian outlet FCInterNews. Yesterday, Inter wingback Dimarco started in his team’s Serie A match away to Monza. The 26-year-old in fact played the full ninety minutes of the match at the U-Power Arena. This is relatively rare for Dimarco. Typically, the Italian international is one of the players who Nerazzurri coach Simone Inzaghi takes off as a substitute. The coach tends to change things up at wingback regularly. However, Dimarco played from first to…
AC Milan have confirmed that midfielder Ismael Bennacer has undergone surgery on an injury just a day before hosting Liverpool in the Champions League. The Reds travel to Italy to face the Serie A giants in their first league phase fixture of the competition. Arne Slot’s team go to the San Siro on Tuesday night to face Milan in the Champions League. However, Milan will be without one of their key players for the game due to injury. Bennacer suffered a calf injury during the international break while training with the Algeria squad. The midfielder subsequently returned to Milan…
Liverpool face AC Milan tomorrow in what will be a barnburner of a UEFA Champions League tie for the opening week of the revamped competition. Having suffered a historic defeat last weekend against Nottingham Forest, Liverpool will be keen to return to winning ways ahead of tomorrow’s clash at the San Siro, where Milan’s Christian Pulisic is up for the occasion. With the Rossoneri set to welcome Fikayo Tomori back to the starting XI, Liverpool are set to face a refreshed Milan side who are coming off the back of a 4-0 Serie A win against newly-promoted Venezia. …
According to Gazzetta dello Sport, Fikayo Tomori is set to return to Milan’s starting XI having been rested this weekend in the Rossoneri’s Serie A win against Venezia, which the Italian giants won 4-0. Tomori was linked with Liverpool last year with the former Chelsea defender establishing himself as one of the best centre-backs in Europe after making the move to Milan, with the England international hailed as ‘fantastic’ by Total Football Analysis. With Liverpool heading to the San Siro off the back of a historic defeat against Nottingham Forest, Milan having one of their best players in Tomori…
Liverpool kick off their UEFA Champions League campaign this week in one of the competition’s great match-ups against Italian giants AC Milan. The two titans of European football have met for some truly incredible ties in the Champions League, namely the 2005 final where Liverpool came from 3-0 down to beat Milan on penalties in the Miracle of Istanbul. Whilst Milan got their revenge on the Reds two years later in the Champions League final in Athens, the two sides will be looking at their next encounter with great excitement, with Christian Pulisic excited to face Liverpool. And…
Arne Slot had made a serene start to the unenviable task of succeeding Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, but a 1-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest has brought the Dutchman’s honeymoon period to an abrupt end. Arne Slot had made a serene start to the unenviable task of succeeding Jurgen Klopp at Liverpool, but a 1-0 home defeat to Nottingham Forest has brought the Dutchman’s honeymoon period to an abrupt end and exposed cracks in the Reds’ facade. Liverpool have little time to lick their wounds with a trip to AC Milan to come on Tuesday to open their return to…
It has been a mixed start to life as West Ham United manager for Julen Lopetegui. After being named as successor to David Moyes during the summer, the former Wolves boss got his Hammers reign underway with a 2-1 home defeat against Aston Villa before getting off the mark seven days later when Tomas Soucek and Jarrod Bowen netted in a 2-0 win at Crystal Palace. The positivity continued when Bowen got the only goal of a Carabao Cup win at Premier League rivals Bournemouth before the Hammers ventured into the international break on the back of a defeat…
Gerry Cardinale left Italy yesterday after seeing AC Milan’s first win of the Paulo Fonseca era, and he had a phone conversation with the head coach after the game as per a report. According to La Gazzetta dello Sport, Cardinale will not be in the stands tomorrow night for the debut in the Champions League against Liverpool due to work commitments, but Zlatan Ibrahimovic will return from his period of absence. It remains to be seen whether Cardinale will return to attend the derby on Sunday which will be Inter’s home game. If with their previous owner Steven Zhang…
Ruben Loftus-Cheek has revealed that he would have left Chelsea while he was still in the academy if he could turn back time. The 28-year-old, who now plies his trade in the Serie A with AC Milan, spent 19 years with his boyhood club before departing. After arriving at Cobham as an eight-year-old, Loftus-Cheek went on to make 155 senior appearances after rising through the ranks, notching up 13 goals and 17 assists in all competitions. However, due to injuries and competition for places, the Englishman never established himself as a regular and he was sent on loans to…
The signing of Emerson Royal from Spurs in the summer transfer window was one that divided fans, and that theme has continued after his first two starts of the season. As Calciomercato.com write, winning is always good and doing so by a four-goal margin and with a clean sheet is even better. The positives after the Venezia game were obvious: Christian Pulisic got a goal and an assist, Tammy Abraham scored on his debut, while the centre-back pairing looked more solid. The good notes don’t stop there: Rafael Leao got an assist and drew a penalty, Theo Hernandez netted…