AC Milan vs Tottenham LIVE: Champions League result and final score as Spurs survive late missed chances

5 mins: Kulusevski turns down the chance to swing the ball into the box as Spurs waste a short corner, but it’s been a decent start from the Premier League side.

3 mins: The free-kick finds Leao on the other side of the box but his header is cleared by Lenglet. Son tries to break but he is taken down.

Tottenham then work it wide to Kulusevski, but Thiaw wins his challenge on the touchline.

1 min: Tottenham, all in white, are booed every time they touch the ball early on. There are early touches for Skipp and Sarr, but Tottenham give it away and Emerson lunges in to bring down Leao from behind.

Underway in Milan!

What a noise inside the San Siro! Over 80,000 fans have flocked to see Milan’s first Champions League knockout game in 10 years.

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Antonio Conte, speaking to BT Sport:

On Tottenham injuries: “Last week we had important injuries and big losses for us, but this is the reality and we have to face the situation, to show character and the right spirit. In this situation, it’s no use to complain or cry, you have to become stronger and face the situation in the best possible way.”

On Skipp and Sarr starting in midfield: “It’s a big night for both. We are talking about young players but really good prospects. We trust them a lot and they feel our trust. Our expectation is a good performance and to adapt to the emotion.”

On Milan’s formation: “They started to play with a three but it’s the same system as us, 3-4-3. I’m not surprised.”

Tottenham legend Glenn Hoddle says Antonio Conte’s tactics cannot work in the Champions League.

He told The Independent: “I don’t think [Spurs] can go out and control a game, certainly with that system.

“We have to pedal back because he wants to go to a five. It is very hard to get pressure on the ball in midfield then. You can press high up, but if they get through then you’re in trouble.

“They have to play that way, but I’m not sure they can go and play that way against a Real Madrid. If they get past Milan they’d need a good draw again to get to the semis.

It’s 12 years to the day since Tottenham last played AC Milan in the San Siro, in what was one of the club’s greatest nights. Peter Crouch’s goal earned a 1-0 win for Tottenham, before they knocked the Italian side out in the next leg to reach the quarter-finals.

The match is perhaps best remembered, though, for Gennaro Gattuso’s headbutt on Joe Jordan after the final whistle.

“Gattuso lost himself,” Jordan told Sky in 2016. “It was a big game, he was captain of his club, we won the game and he had problems with one or two of the players. He had a problem with the referee. He obviously had a problem with himself. He picked on an old man like me.”

“The more concerning point is how the financial gap between England and everyone else means it’s still so much for opposition to overcome. Chelsea’s easy group-stage wins over Milan felt so instructive.

“So, while a fixture between Tottenham and the Italian champions feels like it should be huge – and that Milan are of course the bigger club – it takes a different perspective if you stand back. It is one of Europe’s wealthiest clubs against a side in the third financial tier. That usually tends to tell, and is often forgiving for the wealthier side.

The great encouragement for Milan beyond their own return to form this weekend, however, is how Leicester eviscerated Spurs on Saturday. Milan, coincidentally, are one place – and €12m (£10.6m) – ahead of Leicester in the latest Deloitte Football Money League.

“They are seven places and - more importantly – 50 per cent of the revenue behind Spurs. If it feels so dreary to be talking about this, that is the world that Uefa and the Premier League have created.”