Champions League
Salzburg – Milan 1: 1: absolute balance in Austria
Salzburg and AC Milan began their Champions League Group 5 duties with a 1-1 draw in Austria thanks to goals from Noah Okafor and Alexis Salemacher.
Milan had possession Salzburg was pleased with his counterattacks and eventually sealed goals from Noah Okafor and Alexis Salemakers 1-1 in the balanced game of the “Red Bull Arena” for the premiere of the 5th group of the Champions League.
The game started with a very good pace from both teams who easily got into shooting positions. They were pouring milk at this point, resulting in nearly 20 1st-half finals recorded, but without many big stages.
Nevertheless, the two goals of the game fell during this period. Noah Okafor with an “apron” on Pierre Kallou and a shot that went under Mike Menian made it 1-0 against the flow of the game and Milan equalized in the 40′ with Alexis Salemakers.
In the 2nd half the Italians were much better with Stefano Pioli trying to be effective with Divock Origi and Junior Mesias. Serginho Dest also made his debut for the Rossoneri, but the score remained 1-1 despite Origi’s added-time goal.
SALZBURG: Ken, Dedic, Sole (42′ Bernardo), Pavlovic, Ulmer, Seewald, Capaldo, Kjaergaard, Cameri (65′ Gurna Duat), Fernando (65′ Cesko), Okafor
MILAN: Menian, Calabria (57′ Dest), Tomori, Kallou, Hernandez, Benaser (57′ Pombega), Tonali, Salemakers (80′ Mesias), De Quetelare (70′ Dia), Leao, Giroud (57′ Origi)
The results of the 1st round
The ranking of the 5th group
The program of the 2nd game day
Source: Sport 24
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