Juventus pushed out of Champions League spot with loss against AC Milan

Leaving Juventus’ bid for the Serie A top four in complete doubt, AC Milan dished out a 3-0 thumping to the defending champions in Turin on Sunday, increasing their own hopes of Champions League football for the first time since 2014.

Brahim Diaz opened the scoring for Milan just before the break and Anton Rebic, Fikayo Tomori added two more in the second half. Milan could’ve added more to their tally when Franck Kessie missed a penalty.

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With the win, the seven time European Cup winners move up to third, equal on 72 points with second-placed Atalanta, with Napoli a further two points behind in fourth.

Meanwhile, Juventus are now fifth, one point behind the top four with three games left to play, including next weekend’s clash with newly-crowned champions Inter Milan.

The breakthrough came just before half time with Diaz scoring on the rebound after Juventus goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny cleared a Hakan Calhanoglu free-kick.

Milan should have gone two up just before the hour when Giorgio Chiellini was judged to have handled the ball, but Szczensy denied Kessie’s weak penalty.

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Star striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic came off with a knee injury after 65 minutes with Diaz also replaced five minutes later.

But Rebic doubled Milan’s lead with a fantastic strike with 12 minutes to go and Tomori put the cherry on the cake when he headed home the third minutes later.