Vs AC Milan (2)

The shot from Banda had faded into the night, just past the post, and a stunned collective gasp echoed through San Siro. The crowd leaned forward, jaws slack, breath caught. For a moment, it felt like time itself had slowed. Lecce, against all the odds, had felt closer to a shock lead than anyone would have dared to believe. Hope had flickered like a fragile flame. But that hope had no time to bloom.

Because just seconds after, like a sudden jolt to the system, AC Milan clicked into another level. It wasn't just a switch in tactics. It was a switch in intention, in belief, in tempo. From the twenty-third minute onward, their aggression transformed. It wasn't the same Milan that had probed earlier. No, this was different. This was a team that had decided they were done waiting.