Milan had a hard time getting through to the Coppa Italia quarter-finals. The ‘Rossonero’ team had to use extra time to beat a Genoa team that had a great first half but shrunk as the minutes went by. Giroud equalized Ostigard’s opening goal and Rafael Leao and Saelemaekers saved the game in extra time.
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Milan
Maignan; Kalulu, Gabbia, Tomori (Florenzi 24′), Theo; Tonali, Krunic (Bakayoko 62′); Messias (Saelemaekers 80′), Maldini (Brahim 62′), Rebic (Leao 62′); Giroud (Roback 118′).
Genoa
Semper; Hefti, Ostigrd, Vanheusden, Johan; Portanova (Ghiglione 105′), Badelj, Melegoni; Ekuban (Cassata 71′), Caicedo (Destro 63′), Yeboah (Pandev 87′).
Goals
0-1 M.17 Ostigard; 1-1 M.74 Giroud; 2-1 M.102 Rafael Leao; 3-1 M.112 Saelemaekers.
Referee
Gianluca Aureliano. TA: Tonali (42′), Saelemaekers (115′) / Badelj (36′), Yeboah (47′), Ostigard (53′), Hefti (64′).
Genoa continue with the curse of the quarterfinals that they have not reached for exactly thirty years since the last time they achieved it in the 1991/92 season. Champion in 1937 and finalist in 1940, Genoa is not a team accustomed to great feats in the Cup and Now he will continue to dream of them when he was classified until the 74th minute.
Until that moment, when the Frenchman Olivier Giroud equalized with a header to the center of his compatriot Theo Hernández, Genoa brushed the victory with the goal at the beginning of the Norwegian Leo Ostigard.
The entrance to the field of play of the Spaniard Brahim Díaz revitalized Milan, unable to find holes through which to penetrate and hurt their rival. The player on loan from Real Madrid gave his teammates one more step and, in extra time, the verdict arrived.
It was given by the Portuguese Rafael Leao, who definitively put the tie on track for Milan with a move that will have to clarify if it was a coincidence or a success, a cross or a shot. And it is that, after getting rid of Ostigard on the left wing, he launched a Vaseline almost without an angle that surpassed the Croatian goalkeeper Adrian Semper, unable to avoid a goal that would be definitive.
With Genoa already on its knees, the Belgian Alexis Saelemaekers, with another assist from Theo Hernández, in his best form in a long time, closed a favorable result for Milan, who will face the winner of Lazio-Udinese in the next phase.
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