MILAN - AC Milan made light work of Serie B side Sassuolo with a 6-1 thrashing at the San Siro to reach the quarter-finals of the Coppa Italia on Tuesday, where Samuel Chukwueze scored two first-half goals.
Milan will face the winner of the last 16 tie between AS Roma and Sampdoria.
The game was already over as a contest by the 23rd minute after Chukwueze's brace along with goals from Tijjani Reijnders and Rafael Leao handed Milan a 4-0 lead.
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Milan added a fifth through Davide Calabria 11 minutes after the interval and after Sassuolo found a consolation goal with Samuele Mulattieri scoring three minutes later, Tammy Abraham rounded off the win in the 61st minute.
Chukwueze opened the scoring in the 12th minute when a Reijnders ball over the top put him through one-on-one with the keeper and after his first effort hit the upright he tapped in the rebound.
Reijnders drilled a shot home from outside the area five minutes later and Chukwueze netted his second in the 21st minute, curling a shot beyond the reach of the keeper after a Tammy Abraham lay-off.
Two minutes later, a no-look pass from Ruben Loftus-Cheek found Leao in the area and he struck a powerful shot low into the far corner.
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Milan manager Paulo Fonseca's starting side had eight changes from the team which beat Empoli 3-0 at the weekend, and at the start of the second half he sent on four substitutes.
One of those replacements, Christian Pulisic, sent a lofted cross into the box which came off the post and Calabria reacted quickest to convert when the ball came back out.
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Mulattieri's shot squirmed under Milan keeper Lorenzo Torriani, another half-time substitute, to finally give Sassuolo something to cheer about, but Abraham finished off the rout, tucking his finish past Sassuolo keeper Giacomo Satalino.
Bologna also cruised into the quarter-finals with a 4-0 home win over Monza, with the goals coming from Tommaso Pobega, Riccardo Orsolini, Benjamin Dominguez and Santiago Castro. They await the winners between Atalanta and Cesena.
