Tuesday, April 23`, 2025
Year : 2, Issue: 34
Reuters: AC Milan can salvage something from a disappointing season with success in the Coppa Italia and do not need the motivation of spoiling neighbours Inter Milan’s bid to win the treble, manager Sergio Conceicao said on Tuesday. Milan are ninth in the Serie A standings, out of the Champions League and well off the pace to qualify for next season’s competition, while Inter are top of the domestic league and in the semi-finals of Europe’s elite club competition.
Last season, Inter secured the Scudetto with a win over Milan, but Conceicao has enough reasons of his own to want to overcome their rivals in Wednesday’s Cup semi-final return leg, which is poised at 1-1 after the first game at San Siro.
Milan defender Kyle Walker, on loan from Manchester City, fractured his elbow two weeks ago and midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek has been recovering from appendicitis, but Conceicao will have both players available against Inter.
“Walker has been training with the team, even if he is not at the top,” the manager said. “But both he and Loftus-Cheek will be there. It is positive news for us.”
Conceicao began his press conference by remembering Pope Francis who died on Monday.
