24 Matches Without Losing AC Milan Broke Up In The Hands Of Lille

JAKARTA - Trigol Yusuf Yacizi led Lille to beat AC Milan with a 3-0 victory in the third round match of Group H of the Europa League at the San Siro Stadium, Milan, local Thursday or Friday morning WIB.

Launching Antara, the victory boosted Lille's French representatives to the top of the group standings with seven points. Meanwhile, the first defeat for Milan this season saw them drop to second place with six points.

LOSC's hat-trick hero. 𝗔𝗴𝗮𝗶𝗻. 🎩 Yusuf Yazıcı on 🔥 in the #UEL pic.twitter.com/UHhU8r1SmZ

- UEFA Europa League (@EuropaLeague) November 5, 2020

Lille were awarded a penalty in the 22nd minute due to Alessio Romagnoli being considered to have pushed Yacizi in the forbidden box. The Turkish midfielder took the penalty himself, and he beat goalkeeper Gianluigi Donnarumma.

In the 55th minute, the visitors doubled the lead. Yacizi's speculative kick ball from outside the penalty box bounced at the mouth of the goal, and changed direction so that Donnarumma failed to anticipate.

Entering the 58th minute, Lille make a quick attack which ends in the ball through Jonathan David's through ball, the ball is then passed to Yacizi to convert into a goal that completes his hat-trick.

The result at the same time ended the Rossoneri's 24-match unbeaten run. As well as their first home defeat since they were beaten 1-2 to Genoa on March 8.

First set-back of the season. Full focus on Hellas VeronaPrima sconfitta della stagione. Ora subito testa al campionato # ACMLOSC #MilanLille #UEL #SempreMilan pic.twitter.com/wJ6GwGm98a

- AC Milan (@acmilan) November 5, 2020

In other Group H matches, Sparta Praha won their first win in the Europa League this season, after they beat hosts Celtic 4-1.

Lukas Julis broke the deadlock with a goal in the 26th minute. Starting from David Hancko's strike from a corner hitting the far post, the ball then bounced off the path of Julis, who greeted him with a powerful shot into the home net.

Julis doubled Sparta's lead in the 45th minute. From a quick counter-attack, the ball is then directed at Julis, who outsets a man and heads the ball into the corner of the Celtic net.

Celtic managed to reduce the deficit in the 65th minute. Tom Rogic created space and fired a shot that keeper Florin Nita was able to hold, but Leigh Griffiths moved quickly to shoot the bouncing ball.

Czech representatives Sparta restored a two-goal lead in the 77th minute. David Moberg-Karlsson pushed on the left and sent the ball to Julis to be kicked into the net from close range, completing his hat-trick.

Ladislav Krejci carved Sparta's closing goal in the 90th minute. Dockal's cross from the left side, freely headed by Krejci who was not guarded to enter the Celtic goal.