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 AC Milan crushed Salzburg to reach Champions!

 November 2, 2022

French forward Olivier Giroud scored two goals and created another as AC Milan crushed Salzburg 4-0 on Wednesday to reach the Champions League knockout stages for the first time since 2013-14.

Needing to avoid defeat in its final Group E match to reach the last 16 against an Austrian side gunning for the win that would take them through,

Giroud settled any nerves around the San Siro with an early header into the bottom corner.

Watch the four goals of AC Milan today!

The Italians needed to avoid defeat in their final Group E game to reach the last 16,

while Salzburg needed to win.

Giroud headed in an early opener before assisting Rade Krunic to score.

Veteran striker Giroud drilled in his second and Junio Messias wrapped it up with a solo goal in stoppage time.

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The win meant Milan secured second spot in Group E behind Chelsea. Austria’s Salzburg go into the Europa League after finishing third.

They were never going to die wondering,

wishing or waiting. It’s not in the RB Salzburg nature to do so.

Whether it’s defying critics over the controversial umpteen transfer of marquee players to sister club RB Leipzig,

or punch ing above their weight in European competition,

the Austrian side fight. And they fight hard,

especially with Champions League last 16 progression on the line.

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But, as the likes of Anthony Joshua,

Nick Kyrgios and Lewis Hamilton have discovered in their respective fields,

admirably battling hard against stacked odds does not automatically correlate to success.

Nor does it correlate to fairness. Oliver Giroud may have played the role of a school bully running riot in a playground with a brace of goals and an assist,

and AC Milan may have tightly wrapped the game up within an hour, though the scoreline only tells a quarter of the storyline.

They were for a period admirable,

Maurits Kjaergaard and Noah Okafor leading the charge,

on the counter where possible, rattling the opposition and its fans on numerous occasions.

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French forward Olivier Giroud scored two goals and created another as AC Milan crushed Salzburg 4-0 on Wednesday to reach the Champions League knockout stages for the first time since 2013-14.

Needing to avoid defeat in its final Group E match to reach the last 16 against an Austrian side gunning for the win that would take them through,

Giroud settled any nerves around the San Siro with an early header into the bottom corner.

Olivier Giroud has a knack of delivering in big games.

He did it again on Wednesday with two goals and two assists as AC Milan beat Salzburg 4-0 to return to the Champions League knockout stages for the first time in nine years.

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