A series to be forgotten closed this Wednesday by the Cordovan defender
Cristian Cuti Romero
.
In the first leg he had missed the goal that
Milan
converted at home and which ended up being decisive on aggregate.
Because in London, the world champion kicked
two very strong kicks
that caused him to be sent off due to a double warning, he left the field with an injured right leg and watched from the locker room the elimination of his team in the round of 16 of the Champions
League
.
True to his style, and with the vehemence that characterizes him, Cuti earned the first yellow just after fifteen minutes into the first half.
The Cordovan went to the floor against Rafael Leao, who ran the ball at the right time and earned him the warning.
And the expulsion was the product of another strong entry.
Frenchman
Theo Hernández
made a climb up the left side, shot the long ball, but ran into Romero.
Against the line, late and violently, the defender tried to get the ball from him, but he ended up winning the second card.
With just over ten minutes to go until the end of the match, he left his team with one less and complicated the classification.
Referee Clement Turpin even had to show him the red card when Cuti was lying on the ground: he had to receive medical attention on his right leg, presumably with a tibia problem when he hit Hernández.
The Cuti series was not the best.
In the first leg, after miscalculating the jump, he collided with Theo Hernández, fell to the ground and let the Frenchman advance with the field at his mercy.
Finally, that play ended in a goal and it was the goal that decided the series.
The expulsion of the return diminished the chances of turning the result around in the final stretch, beyond what Tottenham could have achieved in a result of pure emotion in London.
Eleven years later, Milan returns to the quarterfinals of the Champions League, where it is the second highest winner with seven titles.
The last time had been in 2012, the year in which Barcelona blocked the way for him in that round, with an unstoppable Lionel Messi.
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