Zlatan Ibrahimovic's Milan The group stage of the Europa League began this Thursday with a win against Celtic in Glasgow (1-3), despite the fact that the Scottish team added emotion to the match, corresponding to the first day of the Europa League group stage, by closing the gap in the final stretch. In the end, on the contrary, it was Jens Petter Hauge who rounded off the victory of the rojinegros in this duel between historical European football.
This time Ibra (who on Saturday gave the derby to his team with a double against Inter, 1-2) did not score (but helped his teammates by playing spaces), but Milan continued their winning streak (full of triumphs in Serie A, which he leads alone) also in Europe. Krunic, Brahim Díaz and Hauge were the ones who scored the goals for the team led by Stefano Pioli.
Perfect center of Samu Castillejo
It was in the 14th minute when Milan advanced. A perfect center by Samu Castillejo was used by Krunic to connect a header that Vasilios Barkas, Celtic goalkeeper, could not stop. It is the first goal of the Bosnian midfielder with Milan.
In the 41st minute, Ibra threw Theo Hernández, who went deep and sent the ball to Brahim Díaz, who scored with a cross shot. Milan was fully effective, as they took advantage of their practically only two clear chances in the first half to score two goals.
Celtic tried to react in the second half and Elyounoussi put the 1-2 in the 76 'in a mistake by Tonali in the marking. But the second goal of the Scottish team (whose squad has been affected by Covid-19) did not come, but the Norwegian Hauge achieved 1-3 in the 90th minute. In the other match of group H, 1-4 of the Lille to Sparta in Prague.