AC Milan

2023 - 3 - 8

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Tottenham vs AC Milan, live! Score, updates, how to watch, videos (Yahoo Sports)

Top-four in the Premier League is slipping away, as Tottenham try to overturn a 1-0 deficit to AC Milan in leg no. 2 on Wednesday.

AC Milan oust Conte, Tottenham from Champions League (ESPN)

While Milan can celebrate reaching the Champions League quarters for the first time since 2012, Tottenham are lamenting another lacklustre year.

[Premier League](/soccer/league/_/name/ENG.1) standings, they'll aim to stave off Liverpool and [Newcastle United](/soccer/team?id=361) for the final Champions League spot for next season. [Serie A](/soccer/league/_/name/ITA.1) title in 11 years. What matters for a coach is trying to work and raise the bar. Conte, on his future with the club: "I continue to work, I have a contract with Tottenham. Some booed at half-time, more dissented as Conte changed [Dejan Kulusevski](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/272695/Dejan-Kulusevski) for [Davinson Sanchez](https://www.espn.com/soccer/player/_/id/197105/Davinson-Sánchez) late on but the majority made their anger known at the final whistle. [Liverpool](/soccer/team?id=364) -- but this is a club at a crossroads. There are wider issues which predate Conte, specifically a charge levelled by many at owners ENIC and chairman Daniel Levy that they have not invested sufficiently in the team to compete with their rivals. [following gallbladder surgery that kept him](/soccer/tottenham-hotspur-engtottenham/story/4895060/tottenhams-antonio-conte-to-return-on-touchline-after-doctors-blocked-quicker-comeback) in Italy for most of February. That League Cup victory in 2008 is a distant memory for so many Spurs supporters, who know their team plays in one of the world's best stadiums and trains at one of the finest centres around yet remains incapable of winning any silverware to show for it. president, Lehman Brothers hadn't gone bust and the first iPhone had been on sale for less than a year. Spurs have often been passive in their matches before rousing themselves in the second half and while there was a modicum of improvement here, the collective lack of urgency throughout was nothing short of staggering given the stakes in play. Spurs needed to overturn a 1-0 first-leg deficit but lost by that score on aggregate after an insipid display at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in which they mustered just two shots on target.

AC Milan move into Champions League quarters after 11 years (Xinhua)

LONDON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan progressed to the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2011-2012 after a 0-0 draw with 10-man ...

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AC Milan have won back dignity – place in Champions League last ... (The Athletic)

Milan are into the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 11 years - their young team are continuing to mature under Pioli.

A poor victor for this stage of the Champions League, this young Milan team were at least mature. Afterwards, Antonio Conte played the football heritage card, arguing the difference between Tottenham and “champions of Italy” AC Milan with their seven Champions League titles, is ‘abissale’, so deep it’s like staring into an abyss. In the meantime, Milan have to grind and edge ties like this last-16 encounter. The concern about the team’s recent form on the road (which flared up in Florence at the weekend), the anticipation Tottenham would suddenly turn it on like other Premier League sides have done against Milan and the question marks over Fikayo Tomori (who gave away another penalty on Saturday) washed away like the London rain. Some will turn up their noses at the football they played against Tottenham but Milan are under no illusion as to who they are at the moment. But Milan wanted to make progress and honour the history of the club in this competition with greater dignity. If Milan are to take another step towards a definitive reawakening, the club needs a ground like the one Spurs call home to bring in the transformative money San Siro, unfortunately, does not. As champions of Italy, Milan made the most of being top seeds in their group and reached the knockout stages, something they had not done since Massimiliano Allegri was in charge. Not the seven Champions League trophies in the Casa Milan museum. For a start, it did not have to be against an insipid Tottenham team who, to borrow a phrase from the lore of Italian football, gave a performance evocative of a ‘coniglio bagnato’, a wet rabbit. Specifically, a night in Athens in the Europa League comes to mind when his former team-mate Leonardo, Milan’s then-sporting director, blamed elimination against Olympiacos in 2018 on the noise in the stadium. Under shafts of bone-chilling rain, the Milan ultras turned their backs on the game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, pulling off their black T-shirts to reveal red, goose-pimpled torsos against a pitch-black sky.

Cristian Romero sees red as Tottenham crash out against AC Milan ... (Eurosport.com)

AC Milan held Tottenham to a goalless draw in London and progressed to the UEFA Champions League quarter finals.

- That is the best chance of the game so far. - That is Spurs' best chance of the game so far. AC Milan work a brilliant free kick from the training ground, Tonali finds Messias Jr in the box but the Brazilian can only drag his shot wide. Tottenham will look back on tonight as a real missed opportunity, not purely for the fact that they were eliminated from the competition, but because of the manner that Spurs went out. The board went up for six minutes to a raucous reception and it was in stoppage time where Spurs had their best chance. At the half time whistle, neither side had managed a shot on target.

UNDER 17'S, STEADY COURSE FOR THE PLAYOFFS (AC Milan)

Second place in the standings and playoff quarter-finals almost secured.

The objective of the team and coach is to continue to grow, and making the tricolour dream come true. Coach Lantignotti, on the other hand, guided the U17 team to the semi-final, which they then lost to Bologna. The team was good at closing the match at the right time, and I congratulate the boys because they gave everything and got a great result, perhaps not playing as well as other times".

AC Milan reaches Champions League QF with 0-0 draw at Spurs (The San Diego Union-Tribune)

AC Milan advanced to the quarterfinals of the Champions League after holding 10-man Tottenham to a goalless draw.

Tottenham is now left to battle for a place in the Premier League top four, which would provide a route back into the Champions League. “For sure in our mind it was to put pressure on with intensity but in the first half we found it difficult offensively,” Conte said. “We felt a bit of pressure. Tottenham had gone into the game on the back of bruising losses to second-division Sheffield United in the FA Cup and Wolverhampton in the Premier League. We can do much better.” “I think we can do much better offensively.