Cisse hat-trick leads Milan to victory over Salzburg

AC Milan beat Salzburg 4–0 away in the second round of the Europa League league phase. Nineteen-year-old Italian forward Alphadjo Cisse scored three times.

Milan’s official match report lists Cisse’s goals in the fifteenth, thirty-second and forty-ninth minutes. Goncalo Ramos completed the scoring in the seventy-second minute. The game took place in Austria on October fifteen.

Speaking to UEFA afterwards, Cisse said he was proud of his three goals and the team’s victory. He said he did not identify with a single position on the pitch and wanted to reproduce the performance in his next match.

Milan has three points and sits sixteenth in the league-phase table. Salzburg also has three points and occupies twenty-first place.