AC Milan vs Newcastle United in the Champions League Group F 1st leg is scheduled for Tuesday 19 September at 19:45 at the San Siro live on Digi Sport 1, Orange Sport 2 and First Sport. 1.
AC Milan and Newcastle, two teams backed by two of the world’s most powerful investment funds and meeting for the first time, open the strongest Champions League group, which also includes PSG and Dortmund.
Last season, AC Milan reached the semi-finals of the Champions League, losing to local rivals Inter after 0-2 (a) and 0-1 (a), becoming the team with the second most trophies won in history. seven competitions (only Real Madrid have more, 14).
In the current Serie A season, the team coached by Stefano Pioli has nine points after four stages, and in the last match of the championship, which is considered as an away match, they lost 1-5 to Inter.
As of the summer of 2022, AC Milan is owned by the $7.5 billion US investment fund RedBird Capital Partners, which paid $1.3 billion to another US firm that owned the club, Elliot Management Corporation.
RedBird Capital Partners owns significant stakes in two other European soccer teams, Liverpool (11%) and Toulouse (85%), as well as the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox baseball teams, and Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team.
Newcastle last played in the groups of Europe’s top competition in 2002-03 and went from a side trying to avoid relegation in the Championship to a side in the Champions League after the club was taken over in 2021, with an 80% chance. The Public Investment Fund (PIF) from Saudi Arabia, under the auspices of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.
PIF manages US$400 billion in assets (by comparison, City Football Group, the United Arab Emirates company controlled by Sheikh Mansour bin Zayed that owns Manchester City, is worth €27 billion) and has since this year taken control of more four important national clubs, two from Riyadh, Al-Hilal and Al-Nassr, and two from Jeddah, Al-Ahly and Al-Ittihad.
In the Premier League, Eddie Howe’s team has recorded two wins and three losses this season, and in the last round of the championship, they won at home against Brentford with a score of 1:0.
Superbet offers odds of 1.45 on the 1X prediction: a win at home or a draw in the match Milan – Newcastle.
| Milan – Newcastle | 1X | ||
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| Quota | 1.45 |
* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
Source: Hot News
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