Milan take on the visitors Tottenham in the first leg of Champions League 1/8-final round. The match will be played on Tuesday, February 14th at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) (Milan).
Milan are the reigning champions of Italy. And this, of course, is the merit of Stefano Pioli - under him, the popular project was finally able to add, and without particularly significant financial injections. He managed to get to the Scudetto. But now the mentor is getting closer to being fired. After a good autumn segment, when, among other things, it turned out to beat the “Red Bull” from Salzburg and “Dinamo” from Zagreb in a dispute top-2 in the CL’s group, now the Italians frankly failing. After a long pause, they managed to win only the 1st duel, with a modest “Salernitana”. But then there were almost continuous failures, including significant ones, such as 0-3 in the Super Cup derby, or 0-4 with Lazio and 2-5 with Sassuolo. Yes, and in the Copa Italia was a home defeat to “Torino”. A winless stretch has already led to a drop from the top 4 Calcio - this is with the problems of Juventus, which was knocked out of the fight for a place in the quartet. And only with “Torino” last Friday they finally managed to take a victory, albeit a minimal one - 1-0 due to the only goal of Giroud.
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Tottenham after quite a long pause returned to the Champions League. It turned pushing out the rival, Arsenal, out of top-4 in the final rounds! Now, however, the “Gunners” have added very sharply, breaking away not only from their neighbors, but also from everyone else. But the “spurs” are too unstable. They can show great results, for example, Kane's only goal helped to beat Manchester City. But at the same time, there were enough misfires, and it’s not in vain that you have to go beyond the top 4 in the Premier League. Moreover, then Leicester won devastatingly, with a score of 1-4. Not everything worked out for the Spurs in the Champions League. For example, they couldn’t at least once beat the Sporting. However, with Eintracht Frankfurt 4 points out of 6 possible were taken. And with Marseille they gave out a 100% result, including a strong-willed victory in France in the 6th round - this secured the right to play in the 1/8 finals of the main continental tournament.
In 1972, the Italians went through the Spurs in UEFA Cup, winning against them first, and then bringing the second leg to a draw. Tottenham did the same thing in the playoffs in the Champions League in 2011. According to experts, this is an almost equal pair in terms of strength. But both have a number of problems, so this duel should not be overestimated. We recommend that you stop at the offer in the form of a bet on what will be issued in a football match “total less than 2.5 goals”.
Prediction for the match: Under 2.5 scored goals.
