AC Milan, trailing 2-0, overthrew its great rival Inter Milan, who remained on three consecutive victories in the Italian Super Cup, to win 3-2 in the final of the 2024 edition on Monday in Riyadh.
Inter, winner of the event in 2021, 2022 and 2023, seemed to be heading towards easy success thanks to their Argentine captain Lautaro Martinez (45th+2), who had scored only one goal in two months, and Mehdi Taremi, started in place of Marcus Thuram, left to rest (47th).
But as he had already done in the semi-final against Juventus Turin, who led 1-0 before losing 2-1, Milan showed a completely different face after the break.
Théo Hernandez gave the Rossoneri hope with a direct free kick (52nd). The team led for the second time by Sergio Conceiçao took the lead and logically equalized thanks to Christian Pulisic (80th).
In added time (90th + 3), Tammy Abraham gave Milan an eighth title in the Italian Super Cup, its first since 2016, just one short of Juventus Turin’s record (9).
-“We must congratulate Milan and their goalkeeper Mike Maignan who was decisive, they deserve their victory,” admitted Inter coach Simone Inzaghi.
“We saw a group that was hungry, a team that never gave up,” Pulisic analyzed.
AC Milan, behind in the league (8th, 17 points from the lead, with two games in hand) had not won a title since their championship coronation in 2022.
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