AC Milan overcame having to play with 10 men for over an hour to beat Udinese 1-0 on Saturday, a dramatic win which moved the seven-time European champions two points behind Serie A leaders Napoli. Paulo Fonseca’s side are third and level on 14 points with second-placed Inter Milan after surviving two offside scares, including […]
Serie A: Marcus Thuram Treble Fires Inter Milan Past Torino And Up To Second
Marcus Thuram shot Inter Milan second in Serie A with a hat-trick in Saturday’s 3-2 win over 10-man Torino which moved the champions to within two points of league leaders Napoli. France forward Thuram headed home first-half crosses from Alessandro Bastoni and Francesco Acerbi before bundling in his third on the hour mark to give […]
Inter Milan Sweep Past Red Star To Claim First Champions League Win
Inter Milan won their first match of this season’s revamped Champions League on Tuesday by sweeping aside Red Star Belgrade 4-0 at the San Siro. A stunning free-kick from Hakan Calhanoglu opened the scoring in the 11th minute under a downpour in northern Italy, before Marko Arnautovic rolled in his first goal of the campaign […]
Bayer Leverkusen Hold On To Beat AC Milan In The Champions League
Bayer Leverkusen showed attacking flair and then defensive grit to see off AC Milan 1-0 at home in the Champions League on Tuesday, continuing their perfect start to life in the competition. The decisive moment in the match came early in the second period when Leverkusen’s Victor Boniface showed his striker’s instinct to follow in […]
AC Milan, Inter Ultras Arrested For Alleged Organised Crime Offences
Hardcore supporters of AC Milan and Inter Milan were arrested on Monday for alleged organised crime offences as part of a probe into illegal profits made around matches and the infiltration of mafia gangs into so-called “ultras” groups. Italy’s finance police said leading figures among the “ultras” groups were arrested for “criminal conspiracy aggravated by […]