Robert Kukulis | Photo: David Catry / sportpix
Latvian striker Roberta Kukulias the represented Italian team Milan “Inter” suffered a loss in the quarter-finals of the UEFA Youth League on Wednesday. Inter’s youth lost 2:3 (0:1) to the Lisbon “Benfica” U-19 team.
Kukulis started the match on the bench and entered the field in the 87th minute. Shortly after the Latvian striker had entered the field, the Milan team made it 2:3, but the home team did not score any more goals during the rest of the game and suffered a loss.
It has already been reported that in the round of 16, the Milan team beat the new team of the Spanish team Sevilla “Real Betis” 5:3, which also includes the Latvian forward Nikita Doroņins.
In the UEFA Youth League, the national champions and the youth teams of the UEFA Champions League clubs compete in separate branches, meeting together in a single playoff tournament in February. Ten teams that have passed the third round enter it from the national champion branch.
Last year, the winner was “Barcelona”, which defeated the Turkish team “Trabzonspor” 4:1 in the Swiss city of Nyon. This season, none of last year’s finalists reached the round of 16.
