UEFA announced the ideal squad after the curtain fell on the first legs of the Champions League quarter-finals.
Algeria’s Ismail Bennacer, the star of Milan’s Italian team, has made it into the ideal squad for the continental championship, as posted on UEFA’s official Twitter account.
The Algerian player’s choice came after he led AC Milan to a valuable 1-0 victory over their guest Napoli by scoring the only winning goal for the Rossoneri in the 40th minute of the first half in the Italian match. derby that brought them together last Wednesday night at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium on the outskirts of Milan’s San Siro.
Ismail bin Nasser scored his first goal in the Champions League, and it could become the most expensive goal of his career so far if the Milan team manages to reach the semi-finals of the prestigious European Championship after a long absence.
The confrontation between Napoli and AC Milan will resume in the second leg, which will be held on Tuesday, April 18, at the Diego Armando Maradona stadium, to determine the identity of the eight-year-old footballer.
The finalist of the Italian derby between Milan and Napoli will play in the semi-final of the Champions League with the winner of the confrontation between Milan Internationale and its Portuguese rival Benfica.
It is noteworthy that Inter Milan came out with a valuable victory from the stadium of the host Benfica (2: 0) in the match that brought them together last night, Tuesday, at Al Noor – Estadio da Luz in the capital Lisbon, and also in the quarter-finals of the European Football Champions League.
And just as he was in the perfect squad for this Champions League stage, 5 players from the brilliance of Manchester City who inflicted a massive 3-0 defeat on their German guest Bayern Munich in a match that brought them together last Tuesday . in the evening, at the Al-Ittihad Stadium in Manchester.
It is noteworthy that all the players in the ideal squad were from the four winning teams in the matches of the first leg: Manchester City (5 players), Real Madrid (3 players), AC Milan (two players), Inter Milan (one player ). .
Here is the ideal composition:
Goalkeeper: Thibault Courtois (Real Madrid)
Behind the line: Englishman John Stones (Manchester City), Portuguese Robin Diaz (Manchester City), Italian Alessandro Bastoni (Inter), Dane Simon Kjaer (Milan), Austrian David Alaba (Real Madrid) .
In midfield: Algerian Ismail Bin Nasser (Milan), Portuguese Bernardo Silva (Manchester City), Spaniard Rodrigo (Manchester City), Brazilian Vinicius Junior (Real Madrid).
For the offensive line: Norwegian Erling Haaland (Manchester City).
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— UEFA Champions League (@ChampionsLeague) April 13, 2023
The second legs are set to take place in the Champions League quarter-finals next week as Chelsea host Real Madrid on Tuesday at Stamford Bridge in London, and on the same day Napoli will face Milan at the Diego Armando Maradona Stadium in Naples.
Manchester City will host Bayern at the Allianz Arena in Munich, while Inter will host Portugal’s Benfica at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium in Milan’s San Siro suburb.
Source: “twitter/Champions League”