UEFA Champions League match report: A.C Milan 2-0 BATE Borisov: 1st half report
A.C Milan continued their impressive run in the UEFA Champions League as they beat BATE Borisov 2-0 at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza on Wednesday, October 19th, 2011.
http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Zlatan-Ibrahimovic-c38029 opened the scoring for the host’s in the first-half while Kevin-Prince Boateng’s powerful strike in the 2nd half sealed the game for the Rossoneri.
Massimiliano Allegri made three changes to his team from the 3-0 win over Palermo over the weekend. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Robinho-c31382 respectively.
On the other hand, Viktor Goncharenko made several changes to his team after suffering a 5-0 defeat at the hands of European Champions, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604, recently.
The game got off to a lively start as the host’s came close to scoring in the 4th minute. BATE defenders failed to clear their lines and the ball fell to http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alberto-Aquilani-c4313 just outside the penalty area and the Italian
thumped a powerful volley but it went over the bar by few inches.
Minutes later, Boateng played a lovely pass to Ibrahimovic and the Swede tried an audacious effort from 40 yards but the ball sailed whiskers over the bar.
Aquilani came extremely close to opening the account for his team in the 11th minute, as the former http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Liverpool-c39809 star’s effort from 20-yards rattled against the post.
The Rossoneri had total control over the game and continued to create several goal-scoring opportunities. The Belarusian side’s first real scoring opportunity came in the 19th minute when Dmitri Likhtarovich’s powerful
strike from 25-yards went centimetres away from Christian Abbiati’s near post.
Milan almost paid a heavy mistake for a huge error by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Renan-Bressan-c30813 in no man’s land but Abbiati came to his team’s rescue with a wonderful save to deny the visitors.
The Red and Blacks made up for the huge error by taking the lead in the 33rd minute. BATE defenders failed to clear Boateng’s pass inside the box and Ibrahimovic drilled a powerful shot past Aleksandr Gutor to make it
1-0 for his team.
Immediately after taking the lead, the Swede came extremely close to doubling his and the team’s tally for the evening. http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Cassano-c6302 played a delightful pass to Ibrahimovic, who controlled it beautifully before chipping it over
the goalkeeper but the ball went centimetres wide of the far post.
The game entered a barren period in the final minutes of the half as three yellow cards were witnessed in nine minutes period. First, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Antonio-Nocerino-c6332 was booked for a sliding challenge on Mateja Kezman. Maksim Bordachev and Marko
Simic also got their names in the referee’s book for their poor tackles on Aquilani and Ibrahimovic respectively.
Milan went into the break thanks to an Ibrahimovic strike in the 33rd minute.
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