Milan-Salzburg, where to see tonight's Champions League match

Milan-Salzburg

Tonight's match between Milan and Salzburg could mark the Rossoneri's return to the Champions League round of 16 after nine years of absence. The spotlight is on the San Siro stadium, but fans who want to follow the match from home can tune in to the Amazon Prime Video streaming platform, which will broadcast the game exclusively for Italy.

As already happened last year, the matches of the European championship were split between the "traditional" broadcasters - digital terrestrial and satellite - and the online streaming platform that refers to the ecommerce giant Amazon. The group in particular has secured the rights to the 16 best Champions League matches on Wednesday evening from here until 2024.

In the past few weeks we have created a guide to how the matches have been divided and where the matches will be broadcast, but to follow tonight's there are three elements to equip: a device compatible with the Prime Video app or with the website; an Internet connection capable of supporting live video and an active subscription to the service.

You can try Amazon Prime Video for free

What you need to watch Milan-Salzburg in high-quality streaming definition is first of all the subscription to the Amazon Prime fast delivery service, which also includes access to the Amazon Prime Video catalog.

The subscription is made by following the instructions on the appropriate registration page : it has a price of 49.90 euros per year or 4.99 euros per month, but starts with a free trial period of 30 days that starts automatically before the first withdrawal. In short, the procedure allows you to watch tonight's game for free, with one condition: the "trick" only works for those who have never tested the service.

Other services related to Amazon Prime Video For the rest, the Champions League matches are not just one of the dishes on the menu of the Amazon Prime fast delivery service. Both the actual subscription and the trial period provide benefits such as hundreds of films, documentaries and TV series; with Prime Reading you can read hundreds of books for free digitally as long as the subscription lasts; finally, on Amazon Music there are thousands of songs to listen to on smartphones, tablets, computers and smart speakers.

How to watch Milan-Salzburg

Once you have subscribed or entered the period of test, you need a device to access Amazon Prime Video, through the app or website of the service. The most common are certainly smartphones, tablets, smart TVs and consoles, but to watch the games and other content on demand, a computer with a web browser or in general any monitor or display has an HDMI port to connect to the set top box. or keys.

In the case of smart products, the starting point is the Prime Video app of the device, which can be obtained from the reference digital store; on computers, on the other hand, just point the browser to the Amazon Prime Video site.

For those who have a traditional and non-smart TV, the process is only slightly more complicated. One of the ways is to connect a computer to the TV using an HDMI cable and to send the computer's video signal to the TV; the second method consists in connecting a set top box or a smart key directly to the hdmi input of the TV. The most popular and compatible products with the Amazon Prime Video app are easy and cheap to find online, and include:

Sky Q TimVision Box Now Smart Stick Nvidia Shield Amazon Fire Stick Google Chromecast with Google TV Xiaomi Mi Box S

When Milan-Salzburg begins

The whistle for the match is set at 21, even if Amazon's pre-match programming has now become rich and those who want to enter the atmosphere of the match can already do it from 7:30 pm with the approach phase. At the end of the meeting it will be the turn of the highlights and the analysis of the salient moments.

When the link opens, the direct link to the live broadcast will be available on the Amazon homepage, but to get there from any point of the interface just a touch or a click on the drop-down menu to follow the path Categories> Sports> Your live and future events; alternatively just write "Champions League" in the search box next to the magnifying glass.

X-Ray and highlights

To fully enjoy all the action of the match you can use two functions already known to Prime Video customers: the first is called X-Ray and offers insights into what happens on the screen while playing Prime Video content. In the case of live matches, it offers real-time statistics on the teams in the field.

The second function is called highlights and also during live shows the most important moments of the actions just concluded, without having to wait for replays from the direction or the end of the match.

The two functions are activated differently depending on the device used. On smartphones and tablets just rotate the device vertically, while from products with remote control or mouse you have to move up with the arrows or move the cursor to make the button to be selected appear.