Allegri after Milan-Fiorentina: “I told Leao to kick”

How the world changes in 15 days. Two weeks ago Allegri began the break by criticizing Leao in front of his teammates in the locker room at the end of Juve-Milan, now he finds himself commentating on a match in which he started him, receiving two goals in return. One even on a penalty. “What if I decided for Rafa to kick? Yes, Leao had tried them, he shot well. Fofana also takes them well. However, I never watch penalties…”.

estupinan does not recover

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Allegri obviously doesn’t hide, he doesn’t talk about the championship and refers (implicitly) to fourth place as his seasonal goal: “No message to the championship, there are still a lot of points left for our goal.” Also because on Friday for Milan-Pisa there will still be an emergency: “Now we have to recover energy because on Friday we will still be like this, perhaps we will recover Loftus-Cheek and Nkunku. Without getting excited, the road is still long”. The news is that Estupinan will certainly still be out for a week.

the commentary on the match

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Milan-Fiorentina was a tense match and Allegri didn’t mind: “Until the goal we didn’t concede a single shot. We conceded an avoidable goal, there were two chances in the first half on a dead ball, then a cross from Athekame in which Leao had left his mark well. After the goal there was a good reaction, the team looked for victory until the end, it wasn’t easy.” For the future, a leap in quality is expected in two aspects. The insertions: “Fofana has started making insertions as a midfielder – Allegri points out -. So we manage to fill the area with those arriving from outside, it’s important”. And the shots from outside: “They are a solution that we need to try. Rafa did it, Saelemaekers did it too in the first half. It’s a solution that could give us an advantage.”