AC Milan beat Slavia Prague (4-2) in the round of 16 first leg of the Europa League, Thursday evening at San Siro, with Olivier Giroud’s 14th goal of the season.
Moribund at the forefront of AC Milan’s attack in recent weeks, at the age of 37, Olivier Giroud at least found the net again, Thursday evening, during the round of 16 first leg of the Europa League against Slavia Prague. The French international opened the scoring against the Czech team.
By taking a shot from Rafael Leao off target, the 2018 world champion scored his 14th goal of the season and, with his 9 assists on the clock, he is decisive on 23 goals in all competitions this season, as many as Marcus Thuram , one of its competitors in the offensive sector of the France team.
Leao double unintentional decisive passer
The Rossoneri ended up winning 4-2 against these Prague players who were reduced to 10 in the 26th minute with the exclusion of Malick Diouf. After Giroud’s opening score (34th), Tijjani Reijnders (44th) and Loftus-Cheek (45th+1) increased the score, the English midfielder continuing his crazy season since his arrival in Lombardy.
But, to everyone’s surprise, David Doudera scored with a superb strike which escaped Mike Maignan (36th) and Ivan Schranz also beat the Blues goalkeeper (65th). Christian Pulisic scored a 4th important goal at the end of the match on… a strike from Leao (85th). A rather comfortable two-goal lead one week before the return leg in the Czech capital.
