Valencia vs Milan: Valencia lock horns with Milan in their penultimate pre-season friendly match on Wednesday as they eye successive wins.
LIVE LINK to watch Valencia vs Milan:
https://www.valenciacf.com/en
Match Details:
Teams: Valencia vs Milan
Date: Thursday 5th August, 2021
Time: 12:00 AM IST
Venue: Estadio de Mestalla, Valencia, Spain
Tomorrow’s trophy! 🏆🍊
See you then, @acmilan! 👋🏼🤩— Valencia CF (@valenciacf_en) August 3, 2021
MATCH PREVIEW:
Valencia is in action against Milan on Thursday as they eye successive wins following an important 1-0 win over Levante in the previous match.
Alderete’s second half strike helped the Spanish side succeed.
The 6-time La Liga champions have been in good pre-season form winning 4 of their last 5 matches with the only loss coming against Real Zaragoza 2-0.
On the other hand, Milan was held to a 1-1 draw by Nice in their previous match with Giroud and Gouiri scoring for either side.
🎥 Giroud comes on and scores: relive #OGCNiceMilan
🎥 @_OlivierGiroud_ entra e segna: rivivi le azioni migliori del match #SempreMilan pic.twitter.com/HkO07i2HH4
— AC Milan (@acmilan) July 31, 2021
The Italian outfit has 2 more pre-season matches to follow after this as they face Real Madrid and Panathinaikos before the curtain raiser against Sampdoria.
Meanwhile, Valencia will play Brentford in a final pre-season match before their season gets underway.
With the leagues beginning this month, all teams are looking to perfect the playing combination and getting their players match-fit.
Both sides last met in a pre-season friendly 7 years back which Valencia won 2-1.
Line-ups
Valencia:
Mamardashvili, Vazquez, Alderete, Diakhaby, Guillamon, Correia, Gaya, Burlamaqui, Guedes and Gomez
AC Milan:
Maignan, Hernandez, Romagnoli, Tomori, Calabria, Pobega, Tonali, Krunic, Rebic, Castillejo and Giroud
Prediction: Valencia 1-1 Milan
The two teams are in good form and pose a number of quality players capable of making the difference.
With the season being ever so close, each game is important and hence, both sides will go for a result.
The quality on display makes it difficult to predict a winner and we foresee a share of the spoils.
