Specialist in Sub-Champion VS Cups: AC Milan faces the Bologna at the end of Copa Italia
Milan (AP) – A drinks specialist will face a serial runner – UP this Wednesday, when AC Milan is measured against Bologna in the Italian Cup final.
And the two teams will seek to take the trophy for the first time in decades.
Bologna does not conquer the Cup tournament since 1974, when he obtained what was his last big trophy.
Milan has raised many titles since then, but his last Italian cup has increased it 22 years ago, losing two finals in recent years.
This time, however, the Rossoneri are led by a specialist in the field, coach Sérgio Conceição.
In fact, Conceição has already taken Milan to a trophy this season. He won the Italian Super Cup in January, just a week after being appointed coach.
It was the 12 -year -old trophy, nine of them in cutting competitions.
Conceição also obtained seven cup titles as a player, with FC Porto and Lazio.
However, even if Milan ends the season with two trophies during the five months of the management of Conceição, this could be insufficient to save the work of the Portuguese coach.
Milan walks eighth in series A with two days to play and has only a small possibility of qualifying for the Champions League or any European competition.
Winning the Italian Cup would give Milan a place in the Europa League and helped save a season during which the Rossoneri were never competitive in series A or in Europe. They were eliminated from the Champions League by the Feyenoord during the rehearsal round.
“Now is not the time to talk about my future,” said Conceição. “Now we are thinking of this final, against a team difficult to face.
“I have my character and my personality, I changed things and you need time, but in Milan, you don’t have time. In Milan, what matters is to win trophies and Wednesday, we have an excellent opportunity.”
Unlike Conceição, the Italian coach of Bologna Vincenzo did not have good results at the end.
He has never won a drink in his days as a player and, as a Fiorentina coach, he lost the consecutive league of the Conference of consecutive ends of Europe, in 2023 and 2024, in addition to finishing the runner -up in Italy in 2023.
Second game in a week
The Cup final in Rome will be the second team game in less than a week.
Two goals from Mexican Santiago Giménez alongside some of the American Christians Pulisic, allowed Milan to overcome Bologna 3-1 and complicate the possibilities of his opponent to qualify again for the Champions League.
“We have planned and thought that we could control him. Milan did not give the impression of wanting to attack,” said Riccardo Orsolini, goalscorer of Bologna, in an interview with the Italian newspaper Corriere della will be.
“We gave them the spark that rekindled them and we went through like butter. If we were playing like that in Rome, they will fight. We understood what we should not do.”
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