{"id":412593,"date":"2023-02-14T17:41:48","date_gmt":"2023-02-14T22:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=412593"},"modified":"2023-02-15T00:23:26","modified_gmt":"2023-02-15T05:23:26","slug":"diazs-diving-header-gives-milan-first-leg-lead-against-spurs","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/diazs-diving-header-gives-milan-first-leg-lead-against-spurs\/","title":{"rendered":"Diaz diving header gives Milan first-leg lead against Spurs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time European champions Milan secured a memorable win as they emerged 1-0 victors in the Champions League&#8217;s round of 16 first-leg clash with English club Tottenham Hotspur.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">First-leg victory! \u270c\ud83d\udd34\u26ab<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ACMTOT?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#ACMTOT<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/UCL?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#UCL<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SempreMilan?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">#SempreMilan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/oppoitalia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@oppoitalia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/FumG2BQlax\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/FumG2BQlax<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AC Milan (@acmilan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmilan\/status\/1625615639183237158?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 14, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Spaniard Brahim Diaz scored the only goal &#8211; a diving header after Fraser Forster parried Theo Hernandez\u2019s shot.<\/p>\n<p>The victory at home and another clean sheet made it a memorable evening for nearly 80,000 fans at San Siro, who have witnessed a home Champions League&#8217;s knockout-stage win for the first time since the 2013-2014 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1txl5fmmzy6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3\"><span data-reactid=\".1txl5fmmzy6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-3.0\">The north London team looked relatively comfortable for long periods of the contest against the Italian giants &#8211; as a youthful pairing of Pape Sarr and Oliver Skipp deputized ably for the suspended Pierre-Emile Hojbjerg and the injured Rodrigo Bentancur in midfield.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"\" data-reactid=\".1txl5fmmzy6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\"><span data-reactid=\".1txl5fmmzy6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4.0\">However, they Antonio Conte&#8217;s side were rarely able to build any attacking momentum with their front three of Harry Kane, Son Heung-min and, until his withdrawal, Dejan Kulusevski well shackled by a disciplined home defense.<\/span><\/p>\n<p data-reactid=\".1txl5fmmzy6.0.0.0.1.$paragraph-4\">\u00a0The return leg will take place in London on Wednesday, 8 March.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven-time European champions Milan secured a memorable win as they emerged 1-0 victors in the Champions League&#8217;s round of 16 first-leg clash with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":412594,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[17381,16966],"news_category":[142,136,14235,138],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"The return leg will take place in London on Wednesday, 8 March","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412593"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=412593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/412593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/412594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=412593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=412593"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=412593"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=412593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}