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Denmark’s Christian Eriksen led his team to Inter to a 2-1 victory over Milan in the Italian Cup quarter-finals.
Milan came first through Zlatan Ibrahimovic, while the Nerazzurri scored Romelu Lukaku and Eriksen in the 98th minute.
Inter will wait for the winner to face them in the semifinals, be it SPAL or Juventus.
It was the Rossoneri’s second consecutive loss after days of losing 3-0 to Atalanta in the League.
Eriksen, the author of the lethal goal, scored his first goal this season, after his name was linked to leaving Inter in the current transfer market.
Ibrahimovi was sent off for the fourteenth time in his career and the fourth with Milan as the most sent off team with his jersey.
Inter have achieved their fifth victory over Milan in the last 6 meetings in all competitions, just as they have in the previous 14 matches.
Description of the match
A minute before the start of the game, Milan began threatening Inter’s goal with a shot from Raphael Liao that went past goalkeeper Samir Handanovic’s left post.
In the 13th minute, Milan came back and threatened Inter with a Liao cross from the left, Ibrahimovic got on it, but his header went through the post before Brahim Diaz joined him.
Simon Kayer tried to correct his mistake, hurting Alexis Sánchez outside the penalty area and earning a yellow card in the 17th minute.
But he could not complete the match to be injured and be replaced by the young Englishman, Vicayo Tomori, in his first appearance less than a week after joining the Rossoneri.
Inter began to threaten Milan’s goal with a cross from Matteo Darmian to Lukaku, who dominated his ball and shot under Romanioli’s control, but Milan goalkeeper Tatarochano was by his side and served it brilliantly in the 24th minute.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic took advantage of a drop ball on the edge of the penalty area, and received his ball and hit a creeping ground ball to the right of Handanovic, who saw the ball hit his net in the 31st minute.
Inter attacked again to equalize, and after several passes from Lukaku to Vidal it reached Ivan Perisic, who sent a cross to Sánchez, and the latter finished with a header that Theo Hernández took off the line in the 37th minute.
The last seconds of the first half witnessed exciting events, Lukaku made a mistake after a strong intervention from Romanioli, verbal confrontations began between the players of the two teams and then Lukaku became entangled with Ibrahimovic face to face.
The match referee is the duo’s most famous yellow card, so Lukaku will miss his next match in the Italian Cup and the events of the first half will end.
Ibrahimovic and Lukaku met at the end of the first half, each with a yellow card, before Ibrahim got a second yellow card and was sent off from the match. pic.twitter.com/NRGoUri9aC
– FilGoal (From 🏠) (@FilGoal) January 26, 2021
Inter domain
In contrast to the start of the first half, the second witnessed absolute dominance by Inter, which began with the relegation of Achraf Hakimi in place of Dramian.
The Moroccan side sent a cross 4 minutes after landing for Sánchez, who shot the bird, which was taken by the Roman goalkeeper for a corner.
Hakimi continued his offensive throws, sending a cross pass to Lukaku, who fired, but Tomori sent him into the corner in the 55th minute.
The match turned upside down, after Ibrahimovic received a second yellow card and was sent off after Kolarov was blocked in midfield from behind in the 58th minute.
Stefano Pioli immediately made a change with Croatian Ante Ribic relegated to Brahim Diaz.
In the 69th minute, the video’s technique indicated a penalty kick after Liao blocked Nicolo Barrilla inside the area.
The fast pace of the match continued, in the 74th minute referee Paolo Valerie suffered a muscle strain, and the fourth official made up for it in the remaining minutes of the match.
Inter’s offensive attempts continued, as Sánchez crossed the field to Hakimi, who hit hard ground, which was blocked by Tatarochanu in the 83rd minute.
In the 88th minute, Lautaro Martínez took advantage of a false pass from Frank Casey Vanfred and struck, but Tatarushanu blocked the ball.
After two minutes of two passes between Lautaro and Lukaku, he fired at the latter, but his shot was brilliantly blocked by the Roman goalkeeper and the referee counted 10 minutes later, instead of to no avail.
The 99th minute saw a yellow card for Frank Casey, then Ashraf Hakimi, to confirm the absence of both in the next match of the competition.
And there were seconds left until the end of the match, announcing the victory of the Nerazzurri and putting them ahead in the semifinals of the Italian Cup.
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