AC Milan vs Inter Milan, Champions League live streaming: All you need to know | Football News

By admin On May 10, 2023

A blockbuster Milan derby awaits the fans in the second UEFA Champions League semi-final on Thursday. Italy will once again have a representative in the final of Europe’s biggest club competition, six years after Juventus lost to Real Madrid in 2016-17.

This will be the fifth time Milan and Inter have faced each other in European competition(AP)

For both AC Milan and Inter Milan, it’s been a long time since they last sat at Europe’s top table. The Rossoneri are participating in their seventh UEFA Champions League semi-final but first since 2006-07. They’ve lost the first leg in each of their last two (vs. Barcelona in 2005-06 and Man Utd in 2006-07), although they did manage to come back and progress to the final in the most recent.

For Inter, it’s just the third time they’ve advanced this far in a UCL season. They lost the first leg in 2002-03 against their opponents for this tie, Milan, and were eliminated, while they won the first leg in 2009-10 against Barcelona and went on to win the competition that season.

This will be the fifth time Milan and Inter have faced each other in European competition, with Milan unbeaten across the previous four (W2 D2). They previously met at this stage of the UEFA Champions League in 2002-03, with Milan progressing to the final on away goals (1-1 on aggregate).

The two sides have already met on three occasions across all competitions in 2022-23, and while Milan won 3-2 in their meeting last September, Inter have won each of the last two (3-0 in the Italian Super Cup and 1-0 in Serie A).

Since progressing past Benfica in the quarter-finals, Inter’s form has been exemplary. They’ve won five matches on the bounce, scoring 15 and conceding just one goal across those games. That run includes a 1-0 victory over Juventus in Coppa Italia and a 2-0 away win at Roma as Inzaghi and Co. hunt a top-four finish.

Since dispatching Napoli 4-0 in Serie A back at the start of April, Milan haven’t lost a game, and upheld that streak at the weekend against Lazio. But they’ve not been blowing teams away, scoring just eight goals in those seven fixtures since Naples, and drawing four of those matches. Milan’s Rafael Leao is an injury doubt for the first leg but is expected to be fit for the second leg next week.