As often this season for AC Milan, the light came from a Frenchman against Lazio (2-0), this Saturday afternoon. After a quick recovery from Mike Maignan, Théo Hernandez began a ride of more than 50 meters, before unleashing a clear shot from the left from outside the area, which nestled in the Roman skylight (29th). This sensational goal, in the characteristic style of the vice world champion follower of sharp climbs, sheltered his people, during an important match in the race for the Champions League.
Before this masterpiece, another tricolor, Olivier Giroud, put the Rossoneri in orbit. The striker recovered the ball on a bad recovery from the opposing goalkeeper Ivan Provedel, then intelligently shifted Ismaël Bennacer, scorer with a half-volley from the left (17th). Rather quiet thereafter and hardly worried by an inoffensive Lazio, Milan managed their lead. After idling in the previous weeks (4 draws in 5 games), the Lombard club is back in the standings. While waiting for the duel between Inter (5th, 60 points) and Roma (7th, 58 points) this Saturday at the end of the afternoon, Stefano Pioli’s players are in 4th place (61 points), three units away. of Lazio, whose 2nd place is now threatened.
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By winning this top-of-the-table clash, AC Milan prepared well for their Champions League semi-final first leg on Wednesday against their interior neighbor. But the picture is all the same blackened by the premature exit of Rafael Leão, the real spearhead of the Milan attack in the quarter-finals against Naples (passer on the way there and back). Hit in the adductors, the Portuguese winger was replaced by Alexis Saelemaekers in the 11th minute. His state of health will necessarily be scrutinized before this derby eagerly awaited by the Rossoneri, deprived of a half of C1 since their last victory in the competition, in 2007.
