He was vindicated after the missed penalty last week. Photo EFE.
Swede Zlatan Ibrahimovic reached 501 career goals on Sunday and boosted Milan’s comfortable 4-0 victory at San Siro against Crotone with a double, which keeps the club leading in Serie A.
Milan regained the lead over Inter, second, and the seven that separate it from Juventus, who with their 2-0 victory this Saturday against Roma reached third place, and still one game less.
The logic was imposed by Milan at the San Siro against the bottom of the table, a Crotone who visited the leader after adding just three victories in twenty games and conceding up to 46 goals. The southern team competed with commitment, but could not contain Ibrahimovic, who vindicated himself after failing a penalty the previous day with two goals to reach twelve goals in the league competition.
The veteran Swedish striker broke the equality after half an hour, culminating a perfect triangulation with Portugal’s Rafael Leao and widened the gap in 64, by finishing off a low center from French Theo Hernández at pleasure.
He celebrated his 500th and 501st goals with the Ibrahimovic clubs, who in his long career played for Malmo, Ajax, Juventus, Inter, Paris Saint Germain, Manchester United, Los Angeles Galaxy and Milan.
A double by Croatian Ante Rebic put the final stamp on the triumph of a Milan that won fifteen games in 21 days, with four draws for just two losses, with two weeks remaining until the derby against Inter.