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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wolverine GTR" data-source="post: 24114663" data-attributes="member: 158020">Sampdoria 0 AC Milan 2 (after extra  time): Super-sub Cutrone spares Rossoneri  <img src="https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2019/01/12/19/wire-8443796-1547323031-962_634x421.jpg" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />     Patrick Cutrone came off the bench to score twice as a below-par AC Milan  battled through to the Coppa Italia quarter-finals with a 2-0 extra-time victory  at Sampdoria.   After a forgettable 90 minutes at the Luigi Ferraris, Cutrone side-footed  home from Andrea Conti's teasing centre and followed that up with another fine  finish to earn a scarcely deserved win for the Rossoneri in the additional  time.    Sampdoria will feel they created the better of the chances against a Milan  side that lacked creativity and ideas until Cutrone's introduction, but Pepe  Reina made crucial saves from Riccardo Saponara and Albin Ekdal when it  mattered.   The win is unlikely to do much to ease the seeming ever-present rumours that  Gennaro Gattuso's position as head coach is under threat, although they can at  least look forward to a last-eight tie with either Napoli or Sassuolo.   Milan had a let off in the 23rd minute when Jakub Jankto's dipping right-wing  cross was spilled by Reina and Gianluca Caprari's claims of a push by Cristian  Zapata in his attempts to reach the ball fell on deaf ears.   Gonzalo Higuain wastefully drilled wide of the left post after getting in  behind the defence and the lacklustre nature of the match continued until Hakan  Calhanoglu wasted a glorious 70th-minute chance from Samu Castillejo's  right-wing delivery, somehow squaring across goal instead of turning the ball  home at the back post.   Higuain then rightfully had a goal ruled out for offside, and Fabio  Quagliarella fired wastefully into the side-netting for Sampdoria before  ex-Milan man Riccardo Saponara placed an effort wide of the bottom-left  post.Reina came to the fore in extra-time, first brilliantly closing the angle  to deny Saponara before a brilliant double save denied Ekdal and Dawid  Kownacki.   Those interventions proved crucial when Conti, whose time at Milan has been  injury plagued, put one on a plate for Cutrone to guide past Rafael, and the  Italy international lofted another expert finish over the goalkeeper from  Calhanoglu's pinpoint pass to seal the win.</blockquote>

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