AC Milan have sacked coach Sergio Conceicao after just six months in charge of the Serie A club. Former manager Massimiliano Allegri – who spent four years in charge at San Siro between 2010 and 2014 – is reportedly set, external for a return. Conceicao, 50, was handed the job last December after the the sacking of Paulo Fonseca and signed an 18-month deal which included a break clause in June 2025 which has now been activated.
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Nico Denz salvaged Red Bull-Bora-Hansgrohe’s Giro d’Italia with an opportunistic win from the breakaway on Stage 18. Denz got in the key move on the circuit in Cesano Maderno, missed by fellow breakaway acts Mads Pedersen and Wout van Aert, then went solo to the finish to triumph by over a minute. Earlier, Juan Ayuso abandoned the race after suffering an allergic reaction to a bee sting.
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Chelsea’s season ended in glory in Wroclaw as they came from behind to beat Real Betis 4-1 in the Conference League final to seal the London club’s seventh major European trophy. Everything for Enzo Maresca’s team hinged around a five-minute spell midway through the second half. In that window Cole Palmer turned a match the LaLiga side had enjoyed by far the better of into a Chelsea procession.
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Isaac del Toro staged a superb recovery to win Stage 17 at the Giro d’Italia, just 24 hours after a bruising day in the mountains hinted his days in pink were numbered. The Mexican was on the ropes again on Wednesday’s run to Bormio when he dropped back on the mighty Mortirolo, but he regrouped magnificently before launching a late move to take a maiden Grand Tour stage win.
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Isaac del Toro cracked as Italy got a home winner on a chaotic Stage 16 of the Giro d’Italia, while Primoz Roglic abandoned. Christian Scaroni won the day for XDS Astana, but that was far from the only talking point from Tuesday’s unrelenting mountain stage. Both Simon Yates and Richard Carapaz made huge gains on the Mexican leader, who still holds a 26-second buffer to second place.
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