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00:00Welcome to Manchester, and welcome to a tie that's been called a Champions League match-up
00:11in Europa League clothing, and that is a pretty good description of a game between two of
00:17the most famous club sides in the world. Manchester United, three times Champions of Europe, currently
00:24second in England's Premier League behind their city rivals, and AC Milan, seven times
00:30European Kings, and also second in Italy's Serie A, also behind their rivals Inter. Harry
00:40Maguire leads out the Manchester United side victorious in the round of 32 of this competition
00:47against Real Sociedad. A 4-0 win away in the first leg, followed by a goalless draw on
00:54this pitch. Milan had a few more problems along the way in their round of 32 tie. They
01:03went through and away goals against Verena-Schwester. 2-2 away from home, and then a 1-1 draw at
01:14the San Siro. Waterproofed up the Milan players, it is a typical Manchester evening. The weather
01:29has eased over the last few minutes, but expect a few more downpours on and off all day long.
01:35It's been absolutely pouring down and then stops abruptly, and it's accompanied by a
01:41pretty stiff breeze too, so not ideal conditions, but the pitch is perfect, and it's set up
01:50beautifully between two sides who are in form as well. Milan are four games unbeaten, United
01:57have gone 11 games without defeat, and that's a nice embrace between two absolute legends
02:04from their playing days, Paolo Maldini and Ole Gunnar Solskjaer, now of course the United
02:10manager. Getting used to seeing Dean Henderson in the Manchester United goal, he's on a run
02:25of clean sheets and he's going to get a run of games with David de Gea currently back
02:31in his homeland Spain, and that's because his partner has just given birth to a baby
02:39daughter, congratulations to them. Well for Manchester United, Dean Henderson does continue
02:49in goal with Eric Bailly and Alex Tellez coming into defence, Bailly making his 100th appearance
02:54for Manchester United, Nemanja Matic replaces Fred in midfield, and there's a start for
02:59teenage striker Mason Greenwood, Marcus Rashford having been ruled out by an ankle injury.
03:05David de Gea, Paul Pogba, Juan Mata and Edinson Cavani all remain unavailable.
03:14Referee and his assistants hail from Slovenia, Slavko Vincic is the man in the middle.
03:35Well as you've just seen, goalkeeper Gigi Donnarumma captains Milan's side, minus a
03:46number of its most experienced and star names, Simon Kjær comes back into defence in place
03:51of injured skipper Alessio Romagnoli, Diogo Dalot plays against the club he's on loan
03:55from, there's also a return to Manchester for former City prospect Brahim Diaz, and
04:00Rafa Leal, still only 21 himself, plays as the only fit senior striker, Ibrahimovic and
04:06Mandzukic are out injured and didn't travel, along with Hernandez, Benazza, Calhanoglu and
04:12Revic, and the rain comes down again.
04:35Dean Henderson turns 24 tomorrow, bearing in mind that David de Gea was Manchester United's
04:42regular number one from the age of 20, so he's ready, and at just 22 Gigi Donnarumma
04:48has already clocked up 237 senior Milan appearances, before the ball gets kicked for the first
05:01time, all of the players on both sides take a knee, reiterating the stance that any form
05:08of racial discrimination is wholly unacceptable, it is Milan who get the game started in their
05:23change strip, white shirts and black shorts for this one, Manchester United in their traditional
05:29red, there's a lot of red and black around, who will the roulette wheel spin most kindly
05:37before, that's not easy to say, Tenez playing his 50th match in European club football,
05:50it's his 17th Manchester United appearance since signing from Porto, successful themselves
05:57in the Champions League this week, Stefano Pioli acknowledges that this is going to be
06:08a difficult match, he's explained that it's not like a final as many people are calling
06:15it, there are many clubs still in the race, says his players should take belief from the
06:25numbers since the 1st of January 2020, he pointed out yesterday in Europe's big five
06:29European leagues, only four teams have exceeded 100 points, his Milan being one of them, Bayern
06:35Munich, Real Madrid and Manchester City the others, James wins a throw courtesy of Calabria,
06:52Olig and Assange are full of praise for the club that he's trying to get the better of
06:57in this round, says he's got ultimate admiration for AC Milan, tradition, history, quality,
07:03absolute class act, sure those feelings are reciprocated from the Italian side too, Matic
07:14got to it, Kakao Tomori, young defender on loan from Manchester United's Premier League rivals
07:25Chelsea, doing very well in Italy too, send himself high praise from none other than Franco
07:35Barresi who knows a thing or two about playing centre-back to the highest level, there's
07:43Bailly, Wan-Bissaka and now Scott McTominay, Tellez is challenged by Salamakas, Scott McTominay
08:00is on a good run of form, scored in all of his last three home appearances, adding goals
08:07to his high energy midfield play now, becoming much more of an all-round midfield man, turn
08:28into Matic, Dalot had made a useful run down the left, he's still waiting for the ball, here he is
08:37on his home turf here, taking on Wan-Bissaka, Wan-Bissaka has effectively forced him out of
08:46Old Trafford, Dalot is really more of a right-back than a left-back and that's where he's been
08:51pressed into service for Milan at the moment, his 21st appearance for Milan, he's played 35 times
08:59for United, Kessier stopped by Wan-Bissaka, that was a shove in the back of Greenwood, he's taken a
09:11knock to the shin too, it's Kessier's barge but actually there was a bit more damage being done lower
09:26down, Harry Maguire, it's Rafa Leal who comes to close him down, Manchester United pass their way upfield
09:43James, Martial, Teles, stopped in his tracks by Kea, Calabria, Maguire's let that one run and Rafa
10:10Leal has got a run on goal, staying in front of Bailly to score, what an excellent finish from
10:16Rafa Leal and only now does the flag go up to rule out the strike, Harry Maguire seemed to know
10:24either that or he got away with a huge error
10:29now it's a clear one, just a slight bit of doubt about Wan-Bissaka's positioning on the right-hand
10:36side but it was relatively easy to spot that, Maguire was never ruffled, he looked as though
10:43he always knew that was going to happen, so still nil-nil, might just give a bit of confidence to
10:49the Portuguese striker though, who's gone 12 games without scoring, didn't look like he was
10:57short on belief there
11:08touched on by Brahim Diaz but only to McTominay, here's Greenwood
11:15it's Morey who keeps him in a safe zone as far as Milan are concerned, Bruno Fernandes, Greenwood
11:27it's Brahim Diaz beaten to it by McTominay, Telez
11:35no-back by Bruno Fernandes to Harry Maguire
11:41Maguire the only player on the field at the start of play who's just got to watch his step in terms of
11:47getting a caution that would rule him out of the second leg
11:50ah Telelai, Milan's goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma is in the same boat
11:56Victor Lindelof and Brandon Williams on the bench for Manchester United
12:08Alex Tellez
12:13McTominay
12:19James
12:23can't get it through to Martial, will be a home throw
12:37Captain Maguire
12:44Bayern
12:50Bayern
12:55Matic, Alex Tellez
13:00Martial collects and shoots and forces the save from Donnarumma
13:06they look sharp there the home team
13:11this was neat
13:12Temori misjudged his movement to the ball he missed out and Martial didn't hang about
13:25might have been bound for smacking against the crossbar Donnarumma's palm did the job for Milan
13:32Tom and I can't get through the crowd Maguire can't get above Kier who wins a free kick for AC Milan
13:51Dalot
13:56maybe something to prove against Wan-Bissaka tonight he's running to a blind alley there but
14:03Henderson clear
14:11taken up by Krunic who's going to have a go at goal
14:17that would have missed two goals
14:24Donnarumma with the first save of the night
14:27it's Temori's misjudgment and Martial had to do everything quickly what a good strike it was
14:35maybe looking at that trajectory it was just gonna
14:39flip the top of the bar and go over but Kiji Donnarumma couldn't take any chances
14:51strange to think he's still one of the youngest in the side the Milan goalkeeper and yet he's
14:55clocked up more appearances for the team than anybody else currently in the squad
15:08that's Maite
15:13Matic
15:17Bruno Fernandes
15:20stopped by Maite here's Brahim Diaz
15:25Maite was looking to find a pass through to Krunic
15:40So Alio Maite on loan to Milan from Torino and this is 12th appearance for the team
15:46Kessier bounced away still gets a shot in what a good one brilliant goal from front Kessier
16:03Stefano Pioli's side have the lead and they have a crucial away goal in the tie
16:16Kessier unchallenged and then as he took control it looked as though he'd touched it a little too
16:23far in front of himself still no pressure on the ball he was simply invited onto it
16:30and when the gates are open like that go through
16:36it's a brilliant shot
16:40no chance for Dean Henderson
16:42a sharp outtake of breath from Stefano Pioli as he watched it fly in
16:49now we just have to wait and see whether the VAR who is the German official Bastian Dankert
16:56has seen that there was something untoward in the build-up to the goal Ole Gunnar Solskjaer's
17:01expression seems to suggest that he can't think of anything being wrong there
17:12and let's see bounces away from Kessier and hand ball is the verdict
17:24what a let off for Manchester United hard to tell from that angle
17:31but he's a judge to have controlled it with his left arm as he took possession of the throw
17:37and he can't believe it
17:43it stays nil-nil it's actually two let-offs that United have had now
17:51Rapha Liao was offside when he ran through to score that was a pretty clear wonder spot but still
17:57on another day might just have timed his movement a little better
18:01and then Kessier with what he will tell us was an accidental hand ball means that he's brilliant
18:10volley past Henderson counts for nothing
18:16Martial is okay
18:24Manchester United are such a curious beast this season
18:27this season so many games they started slowly particularly away from Old Trafford actually
18:34they found themselves behind and had to get the win or the draw the hard way and yet in other
18:40games such as at Manchester City in the Premier League last weekend they started like an express
18:45train and reaped the rewards for it there's no doubt that AC Milan had started this one better
18:53with confidence rising
19:00twice they put the ball in with nothing to show for it
19:11Kier
19:15that's not a wake-up call for Manchester United and I don't know what ever will be
19:18Kier
19:22Kroenig that's caught by the boot of Greenwood
19:36not only those two shots past Henderson but there was also the
19:39shot of Kroenig that went well well wide
19:43Manchester United just had the one Martial effort tipped over the bar by Donnarumma
19:49open start
19:57now Kroenig with a Milan free kick
20:07deep with it really deep met by Alex Telles there's Salamak is back in
20:14and Tamori couldn't get his stride pattern adjusted to get on the end of it
20:18I think it's meant as a shot from the 21 year old Belgian Alexis Salamakis and Tamori would
20:27have been well offside anyway
20:34oh there is there any intent in that from Frank Kessier
20:44does it brush his arm at all from all the angles that we've seen it's hard to see
20:48really hard to see at the VAR Bastiaan Dankert saw something
20:55Slavko Vincic certainly didn't
20:59calming word now with Scott McTominay
21:02keep it
21:14nicely kept by Rafa Leal
21:19that's Calabria bounces away from the striker this time
21:25and it's headed out of play a little awkwardly by Tamori
21:28Manchester United need to settle Milan need to get over the disappointment of
21:38in particular that last disallowed goal playing well
21:45unbeaten away in Europe this season and with a tremendous away record
21:49in Serie A too Kessier has given the ball away there
21:52Bruno Fernandes down the referee played advantage it never really developed but he hasn't brought it
21:57back
22:02Bruno Fernandes is upright again
22:12by
22:19Matic
22:20Matic
22:23Rahim Diaz running into Maguire who didn't feel a thing
22:31Matic got a hold of Greenwood that will be a free kick for Manchester United
22:37Matic very quickly pointing it to the referee that's his first defence
22:47Bruno Fernandes
22:50full width to Tellez James now
23:00late challenge on Alex Tellez
23:03Alexis Salamecas was the culprit and he's getting the first yellow card of the match
23:10Alex Tellez just too quick for him
23:17a booking for the Belgian
23:20so
23:29so
23:49Alex Tellez swings it in
23:53nearly turned out to be a good effort on goal I don't think that was his intention
23:59so maybe it was he's seen a gap there surely not
24:09Tom Aruma would have got across to cover anyway
24:17hasn't scored for Manchester United yet
24:19so
24:25it's a good leap there from Krunic rapidly out
24:30offside
24:36second time that Andras Kovacic has been uh
24:41a little delayed with his flag in the air
24:45following the protocols rigidly
24:49so
25:06straight to McTominay
25:09here's Wan-Bissaka
25:14McTominay
25:19Greenwood
25:24Maguire
25:26Alex Tellez on the left wing
25:29Maguire has put that one straight out Marshall was moving towards him
25:41no goals but plenty of incident in the first 20 minutes
25:45Ole Gunnar Solskjaer has uh been disturbed enough by what he's seen to leave his seat
25:54just get a bit closer to fire out some instructions
26:01he was asked about uh let's just see if uh Salamakis could get to that and he does in front of Bailly
26:15Kessier
26:19I'm just going to say how Solskjaer was asked about his team's lightning start at Manchester
26:24City at the weekend and why they don't start at that sort of brisk tempo every match and
26:29he uh brushed it off by saying well they're only human can't do it every time but
26:37there's a consistency factor that
26:39all the truly great teams seem to have Manchester United are still despite the
26:46fact they're second in the Premier League a work in progress I would guess right now
26:55Henderson out to beat Rafferty out of the ball comfortably
27:10Bailly
27:17too high for Kessier
27:23Dalot
27:28Tomori to Kiep
27:29Milan
27:36lovely football this from AC Milan that's my take this is Brahim Diaz
27:42support from Dalot left side ball in is cut out by McTominay
27:54Tomori takes no chances
28:00so
28:17Matic and the pressure from Mate
28:30Maguire
28:35Henderson has plenty of time
28:41Wan-Bissaka
28:49Alex Tellez
28:55James gives it away to Salamakas
29:00Kier
29:02Kessier
29:09it's Krunic
29:14Raffale out it's taking on Bailly for pace
29:19good nows displayed there by Eric Bailly
29:23Bruno Fernandes pass cut out by Tomori
29:26Kessier
29:29Matic too much on that for Greenwood
29:39I reckon Solskjaer having a word in the ear of Michael Carrick sitting with the mask on
29:44just in front of him former Manchester United midfielder now on Solskjaer's first team coaching
29:50staff
30:04foul committed by Bruno Fernandes on Davide Calabria
30:13Brahim Diaz
30:18Dalot
30:20Salamakas has come to Krunic deflected off Bailly but no force in the shot whatsoever
30:34it's a big chance that and I think this was the moment it was a better chance
30:40needed the perfect touch to control it once he'd cut inside
30:44and there was a little bit more pressure around him
30:48once again though Milan finding themselves in a very useful position
30:59against a Manchester United team that has kept four clean sheets in a row doesn't look like that
31:03tonight just look a little bit shaky at the back ball's been in their net twice one ruled out for
31:10offside one handball the offside one wasn't debatable the handball one
31:17will be disagreed with loudly in Italy
31:22Raffalea taking on Bailly again
31:30Wan-Bissaka
31:35Hector Henderson was the best bet
31:40yeah
31:50Rahim Diaz he's got it through suggestion of offside possibly against Calabria
31:57flag stayed down that time
32:00Matic
32:05closed by Maite
32:11again neatly worked Rahim Diaz played his part oh he's well on side isn't he Calabria
32:18just had to wait for it and it's a good
32:21down to one knee with the back leg outstretched by Eric Bailly to stop him
32:31Milan continue to do most of the attacking in the game and look dangerous
32:35Tomine there has dispossessed Rahim Diaz
32:43Diaz incidentally still takes a pride of place in one of the huge photo murals outside United's
32:50rivals City's ground from the party played in a win at Southampton at the end of the season a
32:56couple years ago that brought City a record 100 points in the Premier League he's there
33:04celebrating Gabriel Jesus only played 15 times for City Tom Lone at Milan from Real Madrid
33:22McTominay Bruno Fernandes
33:34Matic
33:56McQuiett
34:05Maite
34:18McTominay probably had the ball more often than any other Manchester United player certainly in a
34:24in a midfield role he didn't use it well there and it's spot to Milan attack with Kessier
34:31Salamak is supported by Calabria
34:34Matic
34:47Matic holds off Bruno Fernandes
34:52Rahim Diaz
34:58Matic
35:03Tomore
35:08Kierkegaard
35:12roughly out moving into Harry Maguire it's not the first time he's done that
35:19Fernandes, Tellez
35:28Matic
35:38Diaz
35:45good checking field by Salamakis who stings the palms of Henderson
35:50Matic
35:55won by Maite it's going to be a Manchester United throw in again Milan Alexis Salamak at this time
36:04gets away from Matic
36:07shot two straight
36:10Matic
36:14Maguire was making me the long route the curler to the far corner
36:20a prospect that was nigh on impossible so he had to go the other way and Henderson was ready
36:30McTominay
36:33Fernandes James shows his pace Martial he's waiting for it
36:38come off Donnarumma and it's uh
36:41well the referee's whistle's gone anyway but there's a bit of good fortune for Milan in that
36:46Tomore sliding in to stop it could easily have taken that away from his goalkeeper and possibly
36:50even turned it into his own net not that it would have counted because James is offside
36:55from the first pass
36:58a good old swing at it though Tomore
37:08Maite is dispossessed by Matic
37:30make it give it against
37:33Martial there holding on to Calabria
37:38so
37:47and towards Diaz Maguire had to stretch McTominay
37:57Calabria stops the ball from reaching James here's Maite
38:00Maite
38:07Milan still on top
38:15Kessier still ruining his luck
38:20took the throw in under control but must have just brushed his arm
38:24and all the angles we've seen it's hard to see whether it did or not if it did
38:28and unfortunately with the uh the laws as they are unfortunately for him
38:32he can't have an argument that will change next season
38:39one back by Alex Terles
38:44he's away Maite is uh just about with him all the way
38:50Martial
38:51trying to go around Simon Kier and there's no foul there he just ran out of room
39:12Martial's only scored in one of his last 16 games that was when he got two in Manchester United's
39:17relatively recent nine nil hammering of Southampton here
39:25a good performance in the Manchester derby last weekend but
39:29it's by and large been a pretty disappointing season for the French
39:35Matic James
39:42Fernandes having anything but a disappointing season
39:51I haven't really been able to make any sort of mark on this game yet though
39:59McTominay
40:07Fernandes
40:12McTominay
40:27Greenwood
40:35Force back by Kessier
40:36Kessier
40:52Greenwood never quite opened up for him and Bruno Fernandes has been caught there
41:00Salamakis with the foul he's the only player who's uh got a booking in the game so far
41:05there's no yellow card for that but he's got himself too close to Bruno Fernandes
41:10he's got his back to goal isn't going anywhere fast a bit of a needless free kick to concede
41:18Bruno Fernandes will be most interested in taking it Alex Telles is the left-footed option
41:35so
41:48requiring McTominay making life a little more difficult for the Milan wall
41:57so
42:04the money would be on Fernandes that's what Donnarumma has to be expecting first
42:10Rahim Diaz is the extra barrier behind
42:18but it's Alex Telles who hits it and the wall did its job
42:28much more than a decoy
42:33suppose the positioning of the two united players was the clue that
42:36McGuire and McTominay were always going to try and get out of the way
42:58so
43:03by at the back of the queue for Alex Telles corner
43:10slipped across and McGuire has somehow not managed to put it in
43:16how on earth did that not cross the line for a 1-0 Manchester United lead
43:20well he's cleared it it's easier to score little fingertip on it from Donnarumma and
43:31he's put it against the post off his shin onto the post and away open goal missed by United's captain
43:39another one that Fernandes has attempted to flick on
43:41Salamakis asking far too much of Rafael
43:57McTominay
44:05Matic
44:21by
44:26Matic Fernandes gives the ball to Tamori
44:38Dallar
44:42by trying to make his presence felt on Rafael
44:51Dallar
44:56Tamori
45:07it's Krunic can sit back from Kessier, Rafael Leal, Diogo Dalo
45:15swung it across and it's a crucial header from Alex Telles because Calabria was steaming onto that
45:21he's got his arm in the air and Dallar was trying to pick him out
45:37Tamori
45:43Matic has charged into Diaz and the referee deems it a fair challenge
45:53I suppose it's a mismatch in terms of height and weight
46:03Kessier too much
46:14McGuire
46:22Wan-Bissaka
46:31Henderson
46:32Dallar
46:45kept in by Greenwood but not kept in United's possession Kessier now Dallo
46:56must be a strange experience for Diogo Dalo still technically a Manchester United player yet
47:02changing in the visitors facilities
47:05had he gone on loan to another English club in the Premier League he wouldn't have been allowed to play against United
47:13different rules in your way for competition
47:19scored at Marona on Sunday his second goal for Stefano Pioli's team
47:24he'll be delighted with everything but the scoreline right now well even the scoreline won't exactly upset him
47:32will feel that their dominance deserves a goal or two
47:39Manchester United for their part will say that they really should have had a goal
47:43how did Harry McGuire not put this in
47:47it just has to be a little bit quicker he's got around the back of Kessier
47:51but he couldn't believe his luck when he saw it sail over the glove of Donnarumma
47:55but he couldn't move quickly enough and lift that left leg high enough to get boot to ball rather than shin
48:17thrown into Bruno Fernandes
48:24Wan-Bissaka
48:36he's got it again a little bit of hesitation from Radu Kunic there's Matic
48:43James
48:47Matic
48:54Greenwood
49:03he has did his best to get the ball back couldn't manage it James
49:10forcing collaborator back away Martial down cheaply claiming he's being held onto by Kess
49:16referee not impressed Simon Kier not particularly best pleased about it either
49:25let's see holding on to one another this side
49:31well certainly Kier's doing the the bulk of the holding
49:36I don't think you're ever going to get a penalty for that come on says Simon Kier
49:44seems to be an accepted part of defending now
49:55so
50:06Tomane fortunate to see the ball ricochet straight back to him
50:13Bruno Fernandes teasing one in but too close to Donnarumma
50:18he's just not got going and Manchester United need him to spark for the whole team to come alive
50:29seven goals in his last 10 appearances 23 this season
50:38no doubt he has been the main man for Manchester United ever since signing just over a year ago
50:43from sporting Dalot doing well Bailly doing well
50:53Wan-Bissaka not doing so well there's Kessier
51:02last seconds of the first half at Old Trafford
51:07Matic there'll be one last opportunity for Milan here's Calabria Kessier
51:12has drifted into a decent position Calabria's got the better of James here's Salamakis
51:21one minute of added has gone Manchester United can't get it away Diaz with the back heel and
51:28now Maguire does thump the ball out and that will do it for the first half the first half that has
51:33seen Milan play most of the better football and they've had the ball in the United net twice
51:40Rafael's effort rightly ruled out for offside and then Frank Kessier's stunning volley
51:45and luckily for him ruled out because the ball just brushed his arm as he took it from a throw-in
51:52Manchester United should have scored through Harry Maguire but as it is
51:55nobody's netted not properly not that will count half-time Manchester United nil Milan nil