The whistle had barely faded when Jake nudged it straight to Reyes.
Reyes took it, shaped forward, and the commentary lifted slightly.
"Reyes on the ball early, and he looks like he might—" the commentary tried to say.
But whatever they thought he would do, Reyes proved unpredictable.
Instead of pushing it forward like he had shaped to do, he dragged it back with the sole of his boot, slow and deliberate.
The two Milan forwards who had begun to close down the space had to stop and reassess, and in the half-second that cost them, Reyes had already found Luke Robinson wide left.
The stands gave a small ripple while Luke Robinson inverted centrally, pulling his man with him, and before he could go past the centre circle, the ball went left to Carlo, who took it forward into the channel.
There, AC Milan's right back Jimenez was already across, cutting the angle, and it wasn't only him as Ricci arrived from behind to seal it.
