The first leg of the Champions League quarter-final between AC Milan and Napoli is scheduled for Wednesday, April 12 at 10:00 p.m. at the San Siro live on Digi Sport 2, Orange Sport 3 and Prima Sport. 2.

Milan and Napoli repeat the heated matches in the championship in the quarter-finals of the Champions League, just ten days after the last direct meeting.

AC Milan sit 4th in Serie A, 22 points behind leaders Napoli, and with nine stages to go in the season, one point ahead of Inter Milan and three points ahead of Atalanta, the main contenders for the place in the Champions League.

Milan drew 0-0 at home to Empoli last weekend after a 4-0 win at Napoli’s home ground in the previous round (they have one win, two draws and two defeats in their last five league matches).

Stefano Pioli’s side reached the quarter-finals of the Champions League as runners-up in a group won by Chelsea that also included RB Salzburg and Dinamo Zagreb, in which they won three, drew one and lost two, while in the tour of 16, they beat Tottenham, 1-0 at home and 0-0 in London.

Milan is the second most successful team in the history of the Champions League, with seven trophies (more than only Real Madrid, 14). The last of them was won in 2007 after the final with Liverpool, the score 2-1 in Athens (they lost five times in the last act of the competition).

Napoli sit top of Serie A, 16 points clear of second-placed Lazio, with nine games remaining in the season, and are looking to win their third title in their history, with the first two coming in the ‘era Maradona”.

In the last five league games, Luciano Spalletti’s team lost twice, each time at home, 0:1 to Lazio and 0:4 to Milan, and in the last round of Serie A won at their ground with a score of 2:1. from Lecce

Napoli reached this stage of the competition after beating Liverpool, Ajax and Glasgow Rangers in a group that saw them win five and lose one, with an impressive goal difference of 20 goals and six conceded. Yachiv, as well as in the 1/8 finals. past Frankfurt, 2-0 away and 3-0 at home.

Before this season, Napoli had never progressed beyond the last 16 of the Champions League, where they reached it in three tournaments (2011-2012, 2016-2017 and 2019-2020), knocking out Chelsea, Real Madrid and Barcelona. .

In two matches this season in Serie A, two teams have shared victories, each winning at home: Napoli 2-1 on September 18, 2022 (Politano 55p, Simeone 78 respectively, Giroud 69) and Milan 4-0, 2 April 2023 (R. Leao 17, 59, Brahim 25, Salemakers 67).

The winner of the double match between Milan and Napoli will play in the semi-finals of the competition against the winner of the quarter-finals, in which Benfica and Inter will meet.

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