AC Milan vs Liverpool Match Analysis and Prediction

AC Milan vs Liverpool Match Analysis & Prediction

AC Milan

17/09/2024 10:00 pm

Liverpool

by Vincent

1 year ago 0 238

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Old Champions League rivals reunite in Tuesday’s league phase opener, as AC Milan and Liverpool begin their latest top-level European campaigns under the bright lights of San Siro.

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Before passing the Anfield torch over to Arne Slot, Jurgen Klopp succeeded in his quest to bring Champions League football back to the Liverpool faithful, although with a third-placed Premier League finish rather than the Europa League title that many foresaw at the start of the season.

Between now and the end of January, Liverpool will engage in a handful of blockbuster ties in the new-look league phase, Anfield showdowns against reigning champions Real Madrid and Bayer Leverkusen are particular highlights.

Bologna, RB Leipzig, Girona, Lille and PSV Eindhoven will also endeavour to prevent Liverpool sailing through to the last 16 as one of the top eight teams in the 36-club league phase, where the sides ranked ninth to 24th will have a playoff safety net, while clubs finishing 25th to 36th will crash out of Europe altogether.

Liverpool travel to San Siro with four wins to their name from their last five away matches against Italian clubs in European competition, but they were memorably eliminated by Atalanta BC in last year’s Europa League quarter-finals and were a shadow of their usual selves at the weekend.

After winning each of their first three Premier League matches of the season without conceding a single goal, Liverpool slumped to a humbling 1-0 defeat to Nottingham Forest through a Callum Hudson-Odoi strike.

AC Milan concidentally got up and running at the fourth attempt at the weekend, having failed to take maximum points in any of their first three Serie A matches under Paulo Fonseca.

Fonseca only took two points from his first three matches in charge of Milan, leading to extremely premature talk of the sack, but the international break clearly did both him and his side the worid of good if Saturday’s display against Venezia was anything to go by.

Within just 29 minutes of that league game, Milan had already scored four goals through Theo Hernandez, Youssouf Fofana, Christian Pulisic and Rafael Leao, and the Rossoneri eventually declared at 4-0 as Fonseca belatedly secured victory number one.

Milan will also face Real Madrid, Leverkusen and Girona in league phase action, as well as Club Brugge, Dinamo Zagreb, Slovan Bratislava and Red Star Belgrade, but the Rossoneri fans will hope that revenge is the first dish on the menu in midweek.

The 2005 miracle in Istanbul was already avanged in the 2006-07 Champions League final, but Liverpool won both group-stage matches during the 2021-22 season, where cult hero and now-Milan outcast Divock Origi was one of the scorers in a 2-1 win at San Siro.

AC Milan vs. Liverpool Head to head

In the previous seven meetings between these two teams, Milan have claimed two victories while Liverpool have won five. Milan have scored nine goals and conceded 17 in the process.

03/08/2014

AC Milan

0

Liverpool

2

International Champions Cup
31/07/2016

Liverpool

2

AC Milan

0

International Champions Cup
15/09/2021

Liverpool

3

AC Milan

2

Champions League
07/12/2021

AC Milan

1

Liverpool

2

Champions League
16/12/2022

Liverpool

4

AC Milan

1 P

Club Friendlies

AC Milan Team News

Liverpool new boy Federico Chiesa did not make the squad for the Reds’s latest Premier League match, as Slot is being especially careful with his fitness.

A debut for the Italian attacker in his homeland has not been ruled out, but the tight turnaround means that he is still a serious doubt for the trip to Milan, where Harvey Elliot is definitely out due to his foot fracture.

AC Milan's Last 5 Matches

13/08/2024

AC Milan

3

Monza

1

Trofeo Silvio Berlusconi
17/08/2024

AC Milan

2

Torino

2

Serie A
24/08/2024

Parma

2

AC Milan

1

Serie A
31/08/2024

Lazio

2

AC Milan

2

Serie A
14/09/2024

AC Milan

4

Venezia

0

Serie A

Liverpool Team News

All of Ismael Bennacer (ankle), Alessandro Florenzi (ACL) and Marco Sportiello (ligament) will be unavailable for Milan’s Champions League opener.

German defender Malick Thiaw is also nursing an ankle sprain that is proving difficult to overcome, and his chances of a midweek comeback are slim to none.