MILAN – Milan’s shot-stopper Diego Lopez has become a father for the second time! Earlier today at the San Raffaele Hospital in Milan, Bianca was born and is the new baby sister to Zoe.

Congratulations to the father and mother from all the fans and everybody else involved with the club.

MILAN- Luca Antonelli reflects on Milan’s derby day display against Inter, looks ahead to the Udinese clash while also commenting on the team’s hopes of a European finish in an exclusive interview with the Milan Channel:

“I have watched the match against Inter. I think we did well for the first 60 minutes, but then we dropped off and Inter began to push us back. They’re a good side. However, we did well to keep a clean sheet even if we could have perhaps done a bit better on the counter-attack. We’re happy with the point and we’ve kept Inter behind us in the league table.

“Let’s hope we can restore winning ways against Udinese on Saturday. There are still 21 points up for grabs and we’re just 6 points off a European finish. We have to try and win every single match. If the sides above us drop points we have to make sure we take full advantage. We drew on Sunday, but we have to try and win the remaining 7 matches.

“We believe we can qualify for Europe as we’re training well and working hard every day. We want to get into Europe and we don’t want to miss out on this objective.

“Antonio Di Natale is a champion. He’s scored many goals and still is scoring in Serie A. Let’s hope that on Saturday though he stays quiet! Widmer is another good player but we have to play as a team and if we do that we will win.

“For me it’s an amazing feeling to play for Milan. I was born in Monza and grew up here, so it’s the ultimate. I’ve always said that Milan is the only club that would have made me leave Genoa and that’s what happened. It was impossible to say no. I’m very pleased to be here and we have to end the season well and start off next year strongly.”

MILAN – This Saturday’s match between Udinese-Milan will be the 42nd meeting at the Stadio Friuli. Milan have won 13 and Udinese 11, while there have been 17 draws. Udinese have scored 37 goals from those matches and Milan 47.

Milan’s last win meanwhile away at Udinese was in the 2011-12 season. Udinese on the other hand won the last meeting between the two teams at the Stadio Friuli in March 2014.

MILAN – Antonio Damato will referee this Saturday’s Serie A match between Udinese-Milan. It will represent the referee’s 143rd match in Serie A. Interestingly, his top flight debut was in Catania-Udinese: 1-0 on the 10/12/2006.

He has overseen 16 matches involving Milan with an outcome of 8 wins for Milan, 4 draws and 4 defeats. He has taken charge of 13 matches meanwhile involving Udinese: 8 wins, 2 draws and 3 defeats.