Milan vs. Rome, for the Europa League: result, summary, goals and controversies

At the San Siro, Paulo Dybala and Leandro Paredes’ La Loba opened their quarterfinal tie with a key victory as a visitor.

Roma beat Milan 1-0 in the first leg of the Europa League quarterfinals. In the match played at the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Paulo Dybala provided an assist for Gianluca Mancini to score the only goal of the match and Leandro Paredes started for the team led by Daniele De Rossi.

At 17′ into the first half, Roma took the lead against Milan. After a controversial previous play that led to the corner, in which Romelu Lukaku seemed to have offside, Paulo Dybala took charge of the corner free kick and placed the ball on the head of Gianluca Mancini, who opened the scoring. It should be noted that La Loba had won the Capital Derby against Lazio with a very similar goal from the same protagonists.

With this result, Rome gained a slight advantage for the return match that will be played on Thursday, April 18, 4:00 p.m. at the Olympic Stadium in Rome. In addition, they extended their good moment since the assumption of the former Boca, Daniele De Rossi: they won 10 of 16, they are fifth in Serie A and along the way they eliminated Brighton and Feyenoord from this competition.

Milan had just beaten Lecce 3-0 in Serie A, where it acts as a guard for its staunch rival Inter, with 68 points. In the Europa League, they had defeated Slavia Prague 7-3 on aggregate.

For its part, the team from the Italian capital had beaten Lazio 1-0 in a new edition of the Roman classic, to place itself in fifth place in the standings with 55 points. In the continental competition, La Loba had eliminated Brighton 4-1 on aggregate.