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LONDON, March 8 (Xinhua) -- AC Milan progressed to the UEFA Champions League quarterfinals for the first time since 2011-2012 after a 0-0 draw with 10-man ...

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Match report as Tottenham deliver woeful performance in drab stalemate with AC Milan; Cristian Romero sent off for second yellow card late on as visitors ...

You can have the best house but if the furniture is not the best inside, it's irrelevant. There was a lack of energy and a lack of ideas. "People talk about Spurs having the best stadium. It was so flat and dull. Tottenham saw their hopes of lifting a trophy this season ended as they were dumped out of the Champions League by AC Milan 1-0 on aggregate after a 0-0 draw in the second leg of the last-16 tie at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium. AC Milan were wasteful in possession and were there for the taking yet Spurs couldn't break them down before Romero recklessly slid in on Theo Hernandez by the touchline and was shown a second yellow card.

Milan are into the Champions League quarter-finals for the first time in 11 years - their young team are continuing to mature under Pioli.

A poor victor for this stage of the Champions League, this young Milan team were at least mature. Afterwards, Antonio Conte played the football heritage card, arguing the difference between Tottenham and “champions of Italy” AC Milan with their seven Champions League titles, is ‘abissale’, so deep it’s like staring into an abyss. In the meantime, Milan have to grind and edge ties like this last-16 encounter. The concern about the team’s recent form on the road (which flared up in Florence at the weekend), the anticipation Tottenham would suddenly turn it on like other Premier League sides have done against Milan and the question marks over Fikayo Tomori (who gave away another penalty on Saturday) washed away like the London rain. Some will turn up their noses at the football they played against Tottenham but Milan are under no illusion as to who they are at the moment. But Milan wanted to make progress and honour the history of the club in this competition with greater dignity. If Milan are to take another step towards a definitive reawakening, the club needs a ground like the one Spurs call home to bring in the transformative money San Siro, unfortunately, does not. As champions of Italy, Milan made the most of being top seeds in their group and reached the knockout stages, something they had not done since Massimiliano Allegri was in charge. Not the seven Champions League trophies in the Casa Milan museum. For a start, it did not have to be against an insipid Tottenham team who, to borrow a phrase from the lore of Italian football, gave a performance evocative of a ‘coniglio bagnato’, a wet rabbit. Specifically, a night in Athens in the Europa League comes to mind when his former team-mate Leonardo, Milan’s then-sporting director, blamed elimination against Olympiacos in 2018 on the noise in the stadium. Under shafts of bone-chilling rain, the Milan ultras turned their backs on the game at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, pulling off their black T-shirts to reveal red, goose-pimpled torsos against a pitch-black sky.

AC Milan held Tottenham to a goalless draw in London and progressed to the UEFA Champions League quarter finals.

- That is the best chance of the game so far. - That is Spurs' best chance of the game so far. AC Milan work a brilliant free kick from the training ground, Tonali finds Messias Jr in the box but the Brazilian can only drag his shot wide. Tottenham will look back on tonight as a real missed opportunity, not purely for the fact that they were eliminated from the competition, but because of the manner that Spurs went out. The board went up for six minutes to a raucous reception and it was in stoppage time where Spurs had their best chance. At the half time whistle, neither side had managed a shot on target.

Second place in the standings and playoff quarter-finals almost secured.

The objective of the team and coach is to continue to grow, and making the tricolour dream come true. Coach Lantignotti, on the other hand, guided the U17 team to the semi-final, which they then lost to Bologna. The team was good at closing the match at the right time, and I congratulate the boys because they gave everything and got a great result, perhaps not playing as well as other times".

Magic Mike makes his mark on qualification with a tie-winning save in stoppage time from Kane.

[MVP](https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/articles/awards). All this was enough for him to earn the award of being voted as the Rossoneri's Mike made his mark in booking the Rossoneri's place in the quarters with a save only champions make, in what is only his third game after a five-month absence.

After winning 1-0 back on February 14, AC Milan travelled to London for the return leg of their Champions League round of 16 clash against Tottenham in an ...

On the right, Junior Messias was the clear flop of the game as he offered little to nothing going forward and missed a big chance in front of goal. The times he did escape, however, he should’ve made more out of the situation and he failed to do so. Theo Hernandez had a great game and was one of the best on the pitch, helping a lot in the attacking phase and drawing a foul from Romero that got him a red card as mentioned. Oddly enough, Rafael Leao wasn’t on the same level as he seemed to struggle to find his spot on the pitch. It is great to see Magic Mike looking confident straight away, shouting and giving tips to the defenders in front of him which was perhaps lacking when he wasn’t available. The majority of the game was in fact fairly boring from a neutral point of view, but that meant Milan did their job well.

Former Inter, AC Milan, and Lazio midfielder Cristian Brocchi feels that, whilst the Nerazzurri may have a strong squad, they are not at the top level as.

“Just talking about the style of play, Inter have a lot of top players, but the way that they play is more linear, they don’t have the kind of European-quality style of play that Milan and Napoli do,” the former midfielder added. Moreover, both the Nerazzurri and the Partenopei have a good chance of progressing to the quarterfinals of the competition along with the Rossoneri given the first leg advantages that they have in round of sixteen ties against Porto and Eintracht Frankfurt respectively. Former Inter, AC Milan, and Lazio midfielder Cristian Brocchi feels that, whilst the Nerazzurri may have a strong squad, they are not at the top level as the Rossoneri and Napoli are in terms of their style of play.

The Rossoneri come into the game on the back of the defeat at Fiorentina (1-2), after a month of wins and clean sheets (four on the spin) in Serie A and the ...

Instead, with Spurs, always in the group stages: Tottenham 2-7 Bayern Munich in the 2019/20 Champions League edition, Inter 2-1 Tottenham in the 2018/19 edition, and Borussia Dortmund 1-2 Tottenham in 2017/18. He has been involved in two AC Milan games: AC Milan 1-1 Porto in the 2021/22 Champions League group stages and AC Milan 0-2 Arsenal in the 2017/18 Europa League Round of 16 first leg. The Rossoneri come into the game on the back of the defeat at Fiorentina (1-2), after a month of wins and clean sheets (four on the spin) in Serie A and the Champions League. It's currently a bad period for them, and in the Premier League at the weekend they fell to a 1-0 defeat to the hands of Wolverhampton Wanderers (goal by Traoré in the final ten minutes), their second consecutive defeat after the FA Cup exit to Sheffield Utd. Then, on Tuesday 14 March, again at 21.00 CET, there's Manchester City v RB Leipzig (1-1 after first leg) and Porto v Inter (0-1). [Tottenham](https://www.acmilan.com/it/news/videos/media/2023-03-07/tottenham-milan-london-calling) are the team to knock out, with both a win or a draw on the night enough to go through, thanks to the 1-0 lead from the first leg. On the list of being one game away from suspension is Ballo-Touré, Krunić, Tomori and Tonali. The last-16 second legs got underway last night, bringing about the first quarter-finalists from Benfica 5-1 Club Brugge and Chelsea 2-0 Borussia Dortmund, with the Portuguese and English side going through. At stake is a place in the [Champions League](https://www.acmilan.com/en/season/2022/schedule/uefa-champions-league) quarter-finals, where the Rossoneri haven't been since April 2012. At the back, Thiaw should keep his place, with Messias favourite on the right and Leão in attack, who is back from his suspension in Florence. On the eve of the game, the main question seems to be whether to start with [History](https://www.acmilan.com/en/news/articles/history/2023-03-06/time-machine-ac-milan-and-the-round-of-16-second-legs) cannot be cancelled, but it can be rewritten.