Zlatan Ibrahimovic plays the heel but it is Napoli who suffer stage fright

Zlatan Ibrahimovic took some time off from co-hosting the Sanremo Music Festival to watch Milan draw with Udinese on Wednesday. After weeks of anguished speculation about how his involvement in the event might affect his team’s title push, the Swede had picked up a thigh injury that ruled him out of this game regardless.

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Nevertheless, after appearing on stage for the festival’s opening night on Tuesday, he made the 170-mile return journey to sit with teammates on the bench. Ibrahimovic could do nothing to help as Milan coughed up another two points in a title race that is starting to slip away from them.

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