first champions league final in 13 years. they beat city rivals ac milan 2 0 at the san siro to grab the advantage heading into next week s second leg. earlier, i spoke to our european football reporter john bennett for his take on an eventful night. an astonishing start, dzeko with a brilliant side foot volley on just eight minutes. then three minutes later, henrikh mkhitaryan. a parting of the ways of the ac milan defence, he runs through makes it 2 0, and it could easily have been 3 0. the referee gave a penalty. martinez going down, a challenge by simon kjaer. it was then overturned. the var told the referee to go to the screen. he changed his mind and ac milan didn t have a shot on target until the 81st minute, inter hit the post. milan did hit the woodwork as well, tonali, but they were completely outplayed advantage inter they ve got one foot in the final. inter milan will be the hosts if you will in that second leg with both into an ac playing their home games at the
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Names are accurate but those are the names in this translation. The statement goes on to say that the enemy, in other words israel has been refusing to accept these do hostages since friday. This does actually tally with a statement that was put out a couple of nights ago which at the time because a certain amount of bafflement which was the same names and her mouth saying they were willing to release them but they were willing to release them but the relate two israelis were refusing to accept them. At that time we thought this would be a pr stunt, it was not reported but now we see the same names being released in a statement. Weve heard nothing from israelis. Weve heard inside gaza that there does seem to be movement but it may be only that to you hostages, not 50 something are in the process of being released. I underline that at the moment none of this is confirmed. This is confirmed. Hamas had been seemed to this is confirmed. Hamas had been seemed to be this is confirmed. Hamas
the hot, hot favourites, it is hot in istanbul, but yes, simoni inzaghi, they finished back to back finalists, five out of six cup finals he has won as a player, seven out of seven as our manager. they are set up very defensively. they have a world cup winner in lautaro martinez, probably end in dzeko. romelu lukaku waiting on the bench, look at henrikh mkhitaryan, they have some very tricky and dangerous players. you cannot see them beating manchester city, but perhaps the key to manchester city winning will be not underestimating inter milan, who do have a greater european pedigree. they won their last european title backin they won their last european title back in 2010. that wasjose mourinho s treble winners. they
that he misses out, huge personal blow for him. pep guardiola has had to fiddle about with things at the back. manuelakanji to fiddle about with things at the back. manuel akanji switches flanks, and nathan ake comes in on the left of that defence, a role he has excelled in. he isjust coming back from injury as well. that is the big point for city. inter milan, as expected, lautaro martinez and ed and dzeko getting the nod up front. he was part of that success when manchester city won their first premier league title, but now he will be leading the line for inter milan. brozovic comes into midfield, and former manchester united man, henrikh mkhitaryan makes the bench. kick off around 45 minutes away. thank you.