The two giants of the Italian city of Milan, Inter and Milan, will meet tomorrow in Riyadh to win the first titles of the season in Italy, represented by the Italian Super Cup.
AC Milan are hoping that his coronation with the cup will encourage them to rebalance after a two-leg draw in the domestic league after a resumption of activity following the end of the World Cup in Qatar, leaving Napoli 9 points clear in the standings. to lead, in addition to their exit from the local cup competition, losing it after a 0–1 extension to Turin. The latter finished the match with ten players.
Milan, who are runners-up in the competition with seven titles most recently in 2016, rely on their fast Portuguese international striker Rafael Liao, who scored 8 league goals this season, and veteran French striker Olivier Giroud, at the time like Inter. AC Milan won the local cup and the Super Cup last season to win the title. The competition is ranked third for six times behind Juventus, the record holder for most titles (9 times) and AC Milan.
Inter’s offensive line is led by the duo of Argentine Lautaro Martinez and Belgian Romelu Lukaku as World Champion Martinez scored 9 goals for his country and Lukaku missed most of the first stint due to injury.
The two teams met head-to-head in this competition once, in 2011, and it ended 2-1 in Milan’s favour, thanks to a goal from Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who returned to the ranks of this club, but he will no longer be. available because he did not recover from a knee injury that sidelined him for several months.
The two teams have met in the championship this season and the match ended with Milan’s spectacular 3-2 victory on the third of September last year in the fifth stage, and they will meet again on the fifth of February next year.
The Milan giants managed to miss the Champions League group stage, so Inter were placed in the death group at the expense of the Spanish Barcelona to accompany Bayern in the final price round, where they will face Porto. Portugal February 22 again in Milan, and March 14 next year back.
As for Milan, it is the first time since the 2013-2014 season. qualified for the final prize by finishing second in Group E behind Chelsea, setting up a meeting with their London neighbors Tottenham on 14 February, the first match in Milan and the eighth match. March back in London.