Age does not change anything.
And Zlatan asserts it very strongly.
By registering a double to start the season.
And ensuring that you always feel younger.
"If I had been 20 tonight I would have scored four goals, not two, but luckily I have 39. I'm like Benjamin Button: I was born old, but I'm going to die young," said Ibrahimovic , author of a brace to give victory to AS Milan on the first day of Serie A.
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- ACM Comps (@CompsACM) September 22, 2020
Dominators for an hour of play, the Rossoneri managed their comeback and climbed to 3rd place tied with Napoli.
They could have done even better if the Swedish striker, perfectly launched against by Hakan Calhanoglu, had not missed the frame deserted by goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski whom he had just passed (63rd).
Omnipresent two weeks before his 39th birthday, Ibrahimovic could also have opened the scoring in the 12th minute, after a work by Davide Calabria on the right side, if he had not crossed his shot too much in the pivot position.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, 40 år nästa år, startar säsongen med att göra 1-0 och 2-0 för Milan word Bologna.
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- Simon Norberg (@__SimonSays__) September 21, 2020
But hard to blame the immortal "Zlatan", who begins his 22nd professional season, when we see him rise higher than Danilo, on a millimeter center from Théo Hernandez, to place a pricked head that leaves no luck to Skorupski (35th, 1-0).
The Polish goalkeeper could not do much on the second goal either, a penalty resulting from a foul by Riccardo Orsolini on Ismaël Bennacer and sent into the right corner by the Swedish legend (51st, 2-0).
Y otro gol de ibrahimovic #MilanBologna
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- Sergio (@ Sergiotala_91) September 21, 2020
“The team has done a good job: it is clear that we are not at 100% yet, but it was important to start well.
The goal is to do better than last year.
(...) This year, we have to think from match to match, play with confidence, as if it was always a final, ”added the Swedish veteran after the meeting.
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