AC Milan vs Tottenham Hotspur in the first round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League is scheduled for Tuesday 14 February at 22:00 at the San Siro live on Digi Sport 2, Orange Sport 3. and Prima Sport 2.
Milan and Tottenham, two teams in a crisis of results and have not qualified for the European spring for some time, meet in the first leg of one of the most interesting “doubles” of the 1/8 finals of the Champions League.
Milan won their last Serie A match 1-0 at home to Torino after a seven-match winless streak, including the Coppa Italia and Supercoppa Italia, and are 5th in the table, shared on points with Atalanta and Roma, teams with 3 and 4 seats.
In the Champions League, with three wins, a draw and two defeats, AC Milan finished 2nd in a group won by Chelsea, to whom they lost twice, 0-3 away and 0-2 at home, and from which RB Salzburg” and “Dynamo” Zagreb also took part.
Thus, Stefano Pioli’s team again reached the 1/8 finals of this competition after a nine-year break.
Ciprian Tetarușanu, AC Milan’s increasingly popular Romanian goalkeeper, will also start against Tottenham, having already made 21 appearances this season in all competitions, benefiting from an injury to right-back Mike Magnan.
Milan is the second most successful team in the history of the UEFA Champions League, having won seven trophies (more than only Real Madrid – 14), the last of which was won precisely in the 2006-2007 season after the final against Liverpool. , score 2-1 in Athens.
Tottenham come off the back of a Premier League defeat, 1-4 at Leicester, which came just six days after beating Manchester City 1-0 at home, to remain in 5th place with a good chance of reaching the Champions League final.
Antonio Conte’s side won their Champions League group, which also included Eintracht Frankfurt, Sporting Lisbon and Olympique Marseille, with three wins, two draws and one loss.
The Londoners’ biggest result in this tournament is the final of the 2018-2019 season, lost to “Liverpool” with a score of 0:2 (in the last performance, in the 2019-2020 season, “Tottenham” stopped in the 1/8 finals).
The two teams also met in the 2010-11 UEFA Champions League, also in the round of 16, with Tottenham qualifying after a 1-0 away win over AC Milan and a 0-0 draw in the second leg. :0.
Superbet offers odds of 1.50 on the 1X prediction: a win for the hosts or a draw in the match between Milan and Tottenham.
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* the tariff is valid at the time of publication of the article
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