AC Milan take on the visitors Borussia Dortmund at “Guangzhou Higher Education Mega Center Central Stadium” in the first round of the International Champions Cup. The game will be played in Guangzhou on Tuesday, July 18th.
AC Milan have failed another Serie A: last season Vincenzo Montella’s side occupied the sixth place in the standings with 63 points gained and qualified to the UEFA Europa League. But the most important is that last winter the club was bought by the Chinese and this summer AC Milan are probably the most active counterpart on the transfer market in whole Europe. Apart from the football players who were returned after loans and free agents, the Italian team has spent already more than 100 million EUR on new performers: Andre Silva - 38 million, Ricardo Rodriguez – 18 million, Mateo Musacchio – 18 million, Hakan Calhanoglu - 22 million, Andrea Conti - 24 million. Besides, “I Rossoneri” also recruited Leonardo Bonucci from Juventus and expect for arrival of Andrea Belotti from Torino. And that enforcement makes AC Milan a real contender for the title in forthcoming season.
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In previous season Borussia Dortmund settled on the third position of the Bundesliga table. In summer “Die Schwarzgelben” replaced the head-coach and they are very active on the transfer market. The side engaged a lot of players (Omer Toprak, Mahmoud Dahoud and Maximilian Philipp were signed for 44 million EUR) and sold enough (the team received 36 million EUR for three performers: Pascal Stenzel, Matthias Ginter and Sven Bender). During the break the Germans participated in two friendly clashes resulting in 2:3 loss to RW Essen and 3:2 triumph over Urawa.
Friendly battles are the great opportunities for the head-coaches to take experiments. Especially taking into account that AC Milan have new squad while Borussia Dortmund should get used to a new head-coach. I believe that the European grands will please spectators with an exciting fight with numerous scored goals.
Prediction for the match: Over 2.5 scored goals.
