CHAMPIONS LEAGUE: No surprise by Dinamo this time – an easy win for Il Rossoneri

AC Milan registered their first win of the UEFA Champions League campaign with a 3-1 win over Dinamo Zagreb. The victory extends the Rossoneri’s perfect head-to-head record over the Croatian side in European competition to five wins in five.Arsenal’s target Mudryk on target again for ShakhtarAs expected, Milan started the stronger of the two sides, but struggled to create clear scoring opportunities. Despite dominating possession, Milan were stifled by a stubborn Zagreb defence, and Ismaël Bennacer came close from range but his effort was comfortably dealt with by Dominik Livaković. It looked like the sides were going to head into halftime goalless until Rafael Leão was tripped in the box, and up stepped Olivier Giroud to slot the penalty kick away for his 24th successful spot-kick in 25 career attempts.Milan got off to a dream start to the second half, doubling their lead just one minute in. A slick counter-attack was finished off by silky dribbling from Leão before his cross was nodded in by Alexis Saelemaekers. But with a two-goal lead, the hosts became a bit complacent and were duly punished. Just before the hour mark, Bruno Petković produced a fabulous piece of hold up play before laying the ball off to the onrushing Mislav Oršić, who made no mistake in registering his second UCL goal of the campaign.The visitors had their tails up after cutting Milan’s lead, with Oršić remaining a constant threat to the Italian’s backline. However, with just under 15 minutes to go, Tommaso Pobega smashed a shot off the underside of the bar and into the back of the net, after some neat link-up play with Theo Hernández, wrapping up three points for the Rossoneri. What was ultimately a comfortable victory puts Stefano Pioli’s side top of Group E for now with four points.UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE – ROUND 2TuesdayPlzen – Inter 0-2 (0-1)/Dzeko 20, Dumfries 70/Sporting – Tottenham 2-0 (0-0)/Paulinho 90, Gomes 90+3/Liverpool – Ajax 2-1 (1-1)/Salah 18, Matip 89 – Kudus 27/Leverkusen – Atl.Madrid 2-0 (0-0)/Andrich 84, Diaby 87/Porto – Club Brugge 0-4 (0-1)/Jutgla 15, Sowah 47, Olsen 52, Nusa 89/Bayern – Barcelona 2-0 (0-0)/Hernandez 50, Sane 54/Olympique Marseille (3.60) Eintr.Frankfurt 0-1 (0-1)/Lindstrom 43/WednesdayAC Milan – Dinamo Zagreb 3-1 (1-0)/Giroud 45 pen, Saelemaekers 47, Pobega 77 – Orsic 56/Shakhtar – Celtic 1-1 (1-1)/Mudryk 29 – Bondarenko 10 og/22:00: (1.40) Chelsea (4.80) Salzburg (7.75)22:00: (1.48) Real Madrid (4.40) RB Leipzig (6.75)22:00: (3.60) Copenhagen (3.40) Sevilla (2.20)22:00: (1.25) Man.City (7.00) Dortmund (12.0)22:00: (2.10) Juventus (3.50) Benfica (3.80)22:00: (16.0) Maccabi Haifa (9.50) PSG (1.13)22:00: (4.60) Rangers (3.70) Napoli (1.85)***odds are subject to change***©FlashScore

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