Milan is out of the Champions League round of 16. Conceicao's team fails to overturn the 0-1 defeat suffered in the first leg at Feyenoord , betrayed by two follies by Theo Hernandez after a first half dominated.
At the Meazza it ends 1-1 , and yet the Rossoneri had started very well. After just 38 seconds, Pulisic's cross, Thiaw's header and a winning header from Gimenez , his third goal in four games as a starter for Milan.
Milan dominated the first half, creating a flood of opportunities to double the score: from Felix to Leao, from Reijnders to Hernandez and Gimenez himself, posts, goalkeeper and errors in front of goal kept the score nailed to 1-0.
At the start of the second half the script is always the same, another great opportunity with Gimenez anticipated when he was about to shoot on goal. But in the 51st minute the game changes: Theo Hernandez, already naively cautioned at the end of the first half, dives in the opponent's area and gets the second yellow for simulation . Feyenoord starts to make themselves seen near Maignan, Conceicao takes off two of the four attackers (Gimenez and Pulisic) to insert Fofana and Bartesaghi, but it's not enough. In the 74th minute a cross from Hugo Bueno and a goal from Carranza, who had just entered the field, makes it 1-1 .
Milan's final push does not have the desired effect, the Rossoneri leave the Champions League at the end of an evening that began under the best auspices. Now it's Atalanta's turn, who must recover at home against Bruges from the 2-1 defeat suffered in the first leg. Tomorrow it's Juve, who in Eindhoven defend the 2-1 home defeat inflicted on PSV .
(Unioneonline/L)