AC Milan have left themselves needing a second leg comeback in order to get through to the last 16 of the Champions League after losing to Feyenoord last night.
The only goal of the game came in the opening few minutes and as Igor Paixao’s shot from range seemed to take a bounce that surprised Mike Maignan and he could only palm it into the back of the net.
Today’s front pages
After the 1-0 defeat, Milan are now in need of a much stronger second leg back at San Siro next week, otherwise the European journey will end prematurely.
La Gazzetta dello Sport: “Milan, what a blunder. Champions League: bad defeat in Holland. Maignan’s blunder, the 4 stars are turned off. Feyenoord win, now it will be tough at San Siro.”
Corriere dello Sport: “The skid. Milan and Atalanta beaten: a fifth spot in the Champions League at risk. Maignan’s blunder. The Fab 4 did badly. The Rossoneri beaten 1-0 in Rotterdam by Feyenoord.”
Tuttosport: “The Milan of the Fab Four fails. Maignan’s error, a flop in Rotterdam. The formula with Pulisic, Joao Felix, Gimenez and Leao doesn’t work, Paixao takes advantage of an uncertainty from the Rossoneri goalkeeper: bad defeat against Feyenoord.”
QS: “Milan, now it’s all uphill. Champions League, Maignan’s mistake: Feyenoord wins 1-0.”
Comedy club, players keep playing like they never receive their salaries. 0 hunger to win.
True be told Maignan’s has lost focus to back to his best, he fumble and committed unforgivable blunder in yesterday match. Milan need to overtune that 1 goal deficit in San Siro within first 15 minute of play. Otherwise Milan will loose out from the CL.
Milan players forget they need agreession for the whole 95 minute of play against any team and Leao need to recognise himself whenever is in position of a ball in opponent box, instead of loosing the ⚽️ casually to opponent. He need to have striker aggressiveness in him.
I can definitely say it that Milan will struggle in San Siro, except a magic happen within the first 15 minute of start of the return leg. Milan need to score 2 goal and conceded non in San Siro.
Atalanta wI’ll definitely scale through in Bergamo and they were robbed in awarding that penalty to Club Brugge.
My concern is Milan still needs a tall CF that can disturb opponent defence throughout the duration of the match. A CF like Victor Oshimen, event hough he doesn’t score goal, he create room for his teammate to score.
And Milan better start looking forward to Mike Maignan replacement needs to be in line by now. Maignan’s conceded a childish blunder in some Milan matches.
Lost as always, wearing a pink socks really bad luck