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Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss AC Milan's Champions League return against Liverpool due to tight Achilles tendon... despite making scoring comeback from four-month injury lay-off at the weekend

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss AC Milan's first Champions League game in seven-and-a-half years when they face Liverpool on Wednesday due to a tight Achilles tendon.

The 39-year-old forward only made his return from a four-month lay-off with a knee injury on Sunday in his first Serie A appearance of the new season.

And he marked the occasion seven minutes after his introduction from the bench by scoring the second goal in Milan's 2-0 win against Lazio at San Siro.

Zlatan Ibrahimovic will miss AC Milan's return to the Champions League against Liverpool
Ibrahimovic made a goalscoring return on Sunday after a knee injury but a tight Achilles tendon has ruled him out

But the Swedish striker will have to sit out their first Group B fixture against Jurgen Klopp's men at Anfield and will stay in Italy as a precautionary measure.