Football World

By Football World - February 13, 2020

Cristiano Ronaldo and Zlatan Ibrahimovic are set to go down to business in Thursday's Italian Cup semi-last, first leg among Juventus and AC Milan at the San Siro.

Both Ronaldo and Ibrahimovic scored toward the week's end in vanquishes as Juventus fell 2-1 at Hellas Verona, while AC Milan disposed of a two-target lead in a 4-2 whipping by city rivals Inter.

"It wasn't the result we required," said the 35-year-old Ronaldo regardless of transforming into the first Juventus player to score in 10 dynamic union games, just one game short of the Serie A
record.

The five-time Ballon d'Or champ has scored 23 goals in general competitions this season. Ibrahimovic, 38, has scored three goals since returning to Milan a month back.

The Swede headed in the second goal on Sunday in the wake of setting up the first, anyway Inter hit back with four second-half strikes. "I showed that I can regardless make a qualification, even at 38," Ibrahimovic said.

In any case, Inter striker Romelu Lukaku will be looking to upstage the two different past Manchester United players against Napoli in the other prop up four first leg on Wednesday.

Gennaro Gattuso's Napoli, notwithstanding their present hang, expelled holders Lazio in the quarter-finals. "There's another ruler around," an euphoric Lukaku created on Twitter resulting to scoring the fourth goal for Inter in Sunday's derby.

"We run this town."
The Belgian was offering an explanation to Ibrahimovic's pre-derby post saying that "lions don't approach themselves to individuals".
Juventus coach Maurizio Sarri has inspiration to be worried by his side's away structure, with the securing Serie A saints having lost their last two games out on the town.

"I believe that someone will help me, it's something we have to resolve," Sarri said after the hardship to Verona. "Right now we have a differentiation in execution between home and away."

Juventus are offering to recuperate the trophy which they held for four seasons until losing to conceivable different members Atalanta in the quarters a year back.

Antonio Conte's Inter are the only one of the four semi-finalists to win in Serie A toward the week's end, with Napoli slamming into a 3-2 defeat by humble Lecce.

Bury's triumph lifted them before Juventus on target differentiate at the most noteworthy purpose of the table, as they center around their first Scudetto since 2010. The second-leg ties will take place on March 4 and 5.