AC Milan defender, Fikayo Tomori has explained how his club’s defence contained Victor Osimhen in Tuesday’s Champions League quarter-final second-leg tie between AC Milan and Napoli.
Osimhen played his first start for Napoli after recovering from a muscle injury which made him miss three games for the club.
During the game, the well-organised Milan defence frustrated the Super Eagle’s forward.
The 24-year-old’s goal in stoppage time was not enough to qualify the Serie A leaders, as Milan went through to the semi-final with a 2-1 on aggregate.
Speaking after the game with CBS pundit and Arsenal’s legend, Thierry Henry, Tomori said:
“Obviously Victor is having a great season and I know how dangerous he is. I just tried to make sure I got my body in between in and the ball at all times as much as possible,” he said.
“I was disappointed he managed to score at the end. I just tried to get to him as tight as possible and try not to give him a lot of space.
“We actually frustrated them and we limited the amount of times that the ball could get to him in dangerous areas, and when the ball actually came we defended really well, we got tied to him, we had a lot of cover.
“Coming into a game like this with a player of that quality you know that you have to be tied to him, you have to be switched on and I think we were today (Tuesday).”
For the Semi-final, Milan will take on city rivals Inter Milan while Real Madrid will face Manchester City.
