An early aim from AC Milan midfielder Brahim Diaz was sufficient at hand the Serie A champions a 1-0 win towards Tottenham Hotspur at San Siro. The Rossoneri confirmed nice high quality towards a depleted Tottenham aspect to safe a first-leg benefit of their Spherical of 16 conflict.

Either side final confronted at this similar stage of the competitors within the 2010/11 season, with Tottenham claiming a 1-0 combination victory over AC Milan. Spurs have been, nonetheless, severely weakened coming into the conflict with accidents to Hugo Lloris, Rodrigo Bentancur and Yves Bissouma forcing Antonio Conte at hand begins to Senegal midfielder Pape Matar Sarr, Oliver Skipp and goalkeeper Fraser Forster.

AC Milan have been seeking to construct on their 1-0 win over Torino on the weekend and rapidly went in entrance at dwelling after solely seven minutes. Theo Hernandez stung the palms of Forster, who reacted rapidly to parry a second effort from Diaz earlier than the previous Manchester Metropolis and Actual Madrid man headed dwelling the rebound on the second time of asking.

The match descended right into a scrappy affair as either side seemed for a measure of management within the first half. Tottenham noticed their greatest likelihood fall to Harry Kane within the field, however the membership’s record-goalscorer noticed his effort ricochet off the upright after the intervention of a defender, though it wouldn’t have counted as Heung-Min Son had been offside earlier within the transfer.

Neither aspect managed to essentially trigger bother for the remainder of the match, with each Charles De Ketelaere and Junior Messias responsible of spurning good probabilities for AC Milan within the second half of the encounter. The Rossoneri held on to select up a first-ever win towards Tottenham within the Champions League and a primary knockout win since 2013. Either side will renew hostilities on the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in three weeks’ time.