{"id":15623,"date":"2023-09-27T22:12:12","date_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15623"},"modified":"2023-09-27T22:12:12","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T22:12:12","slug":"serie-a-milan-beat-cagliari-3-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/?p=15623","title":{"rendered":"Serie A: Milan Beat Cagliari 3-1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Italian big name, AC Milan, got the better side of bottom-placed Cagliari In a 3-1 victory at Unipol Domus stadium on Wednesday.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The home team, who seeks their first league win under coach Claudio Ranieri, got the lead in the 29th minute when Zito Luvumbo cut inside the Milan defence before firing a shot past Sportiello.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The home fans erupted in jubilation as they got their first goal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Switzerland international, Noah Okafor, levelled the scores for Milan in the 40th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Pulisic skipped past Cagliari\u2019s right back, Zappa, before making a low cross from the left to Okafor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The 23-year-old forward made no mistake to put the ball right into the net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Right on the half-time mark, Fikayo Tomori got his chance as he took Milan ahead by 2-1 within five minutes.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The home team got a great chance in the 56th minute when Luvumbo\u2019s volley from 10 yards out got deflected.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Milan star player, Rafael Leao came off the bench to replace Nigerian international, Samuel Chukwueze in the 69th minute.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Portuguese failed to register a goal in his name.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">As the play went on, with Milan taking a good possession of the ball for most of the game, former Chelsea midfielder, Loftus-Cheek, received a fine pass from Pulisic.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The Englishman struck the ball past Radunovic into the bottom left corner of the post at the 60th-minute mark.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With today\u2019s win, the Rossoneri occupy the second position on the league table sharing the same point with leaders Inter Milan, who have\u00a0a\u00a0game\u00a0in\u00a0hand.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Italian big name, AC Milan, got the better side of bottom-placed Cagliari In a 3-1 victory at Unipol Domus stadium on Wednesday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15624,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7682,7681,1451],"class_list":["post-15623","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-cagliari","tag-milan","tag-serie-a"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15623"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15625,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15623\/revisions\/15625"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}