Liverpool meet AC Milan of their first Champions League recreation of the season in every week’s time, however their Italian counterparts are struggling to promote out the San Siro.
After a season out of the competitors, the Reds kickstart their European marketing campaign below Arne Slot with a visit to AC Milan on Tuesday, September 17.
It will likely be the Reds’ second recreation in a run of seven earlier than worldwide fixtures, once more, disrupt the home calendar and an early probability to get factors on the board within the new format.
The membership obtained an allocation of 4,395 tickets for away supporters, which is able to promote out as soon as the gross sales are full early this week – the identical can’t be stated for Milan.
With every week to go, Milan nonetheless have 1000’s of tickets on the market across the San Siro and there’s a consensus over the explanation why.
Firstly, Milan have did not win a recreation thus far this season, with two attracts and a defeat, and the value of the tickets are steep, to say the least.
Their remaining tickets for the match – inclusive of hospitality seats – vary from €349 (£294) to €59 (£49). For comparability, Liverpool’s most costly common grownup seat in Europe this season is £61.
Corriere dello Sport‘s headline on the matter reads, ‘Liverpool is coming, however the followers are chilly’, and it’s not exhausting to see why.
As per SempreMilan, a ticket within the ‘Secondo Rosso’ part – equal to the Higher Essential Stand – prices €139 (£117) a chunk in opposition to Liverpool, however in the identical part for his or her subsequent Serie A match, it’s simply €59 (£49).
They go on to say that within the devoted household part, a ticket prices €129 (£108) in opposition to the Reds – rightly noting “a household of three or 4 normally doesn’t have a spare €387/€516 to spend on ONE recreation.”
Ticket costs are spiralling uncontrolled seemingly all over the place we glance nowadays, and Milan is proving to be no exception regardless of their sale for this match being open to anybody.
The San Siro can home 75,923 spectators, however at the moment they don’t look near reaching that determine for the Reds’ go to.