Milan achieve an exciting victory against Lazio

Milan confirmed their right to end 2020 in the lead with a final victory over Lazio 3-2 this Wednesday in the fourteenth stage of the Italian soccer league, to regain first place from their neighbor Inter, who led for a few hours with a difficult victory over their host Verona.

Against Croatian Repic (10), Turkish Hakan Jalhanoglu (17 from penalty), Frenchman Teo Hernández (90 + 2) for Milan, Spanish Luis Alberto (27) and Ciro Immobile (59) for Lazio.

Milan will finish 2020 in the lead after raising its score to 34 points, compared to Inter’s 33, while Lazio’s balance stalled at 21 points in eighth place.

Milan was the only Major League team that did not lose a game until this time, taking advantage of the defeat of Juventus, current champions, on Tuesday, while their guest Fiorentia, with three goals.

Swedish veteran Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 39, remained absent from the Lombard squad due to an injury suffered on 22 November, despite his return to training nearly ten days ago.

Milan was quick to open the scoring after Jalhanoglu played a corner kick on the ladder to the head of Repic, who completed it at the net (10).

Al-Turki doubled the score with a penalty, which hit the opposite corner of veteran Spanish goalkeeper Pepe Reina (17).

And the referee awarded a penalty for Lazio, who scored the top scorer in Europe last season, Ciro Immobile, but the gigantic goalkeeper Gianluji Donnarumma brilliantly deflected it to reach Alberto, who deposited him in the net (27) .

The guests tied after a ball from Sergey Milinkovic-Savic, which was received by Imobili with a left shot “on the fly”, went under Donnaruma (59).

Hernández snatched the winning goal when the match headed in after a corner kick from Jalanoglu (90 + 2).