The Milan coach after the match against Sassuolo: “A draw that will be useful for us, but it’s enough to concede two goals with everyone. Fofana returns for the Super Cup. Leao? Let’s see”
The worn jacket and the askew tie, leave them aside. This is Max Allegri fresh from an introductory Zen course: he scores two more goals from a newly promoted team but talks about a “good game”, compliments the team, smiles at the point gained. Two possible explanations, and both are good. The first: Sassuolo are newly promoted in name but not in fact, they have players who know how to invent two champion goals and have played well. The second: the voltage, like the heating in a car, must be raised and lowered. And before a Super Cup it is better to let the team live peacefully.
THE REFEREE
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Before talking about the pitch, Allegri’s comment on referee Crezzini, born in 1993, who only made his Serie A debut in May 2025. The AC Milan fans are arguing over the cancellation of Pulisic’s goal due to a foul by Loftus-Cheek but Allegri uses a light, very light hand: “He saw good things, it was the first time for him at San Siro, it was certainly not easy. The next time he comes he will have more experience”.
MATCH ANALYSIS
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This is Allegri’s analysis of the match: “Today we played a good match, we attacked well against a strong defence. Sassuolo is always dangerous, then at a certain point they split the game and leave three players in front: if you don’t recover the ball, then you have to go 90 meters backwards. We also risked losing, on Laurienté’s shot. Let’s take home a point that will be useful in the end, we have to get angry and not get demoralised.” Max continues to talk about fourth place as his goal and well, that’s only half true at most, but it’s a fact that he will travel to Riyadh – in the worst case scenario – two points from first place.
THE ERRORS
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Yes, but the glass half empty? What went wrong in Milan at lunch? “We could have been smarter about the goals, we had to defend better especially on the second – says Allegri -. We had a full defense. We broke away immediately in this situation but we had to continue to attack Laurienté: it’s too easy like this, so they can’t get in”. Then a bit of calculator, one of his classics: “We need to start conceding fewer goals because we conceded two in Parma, two today, two in Turin, two against Pisa, two against Cremonese”. Annoying multiplication table.
THE SINGLES
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At the end, the sentences about the individuals, starting with injuries. “For the Super Cup we should get Fofana back and we’ll see how Leao is. We hope to have Gimenez as soon as possible. Cage? Let’s see, let’s hope it’s nothing serious. Let’s see tomorrow. Then we will certainly have De Winter and Odogu who will be ready to play.” In short, Odogu has practically never played so far… As for Nkunku, who has received some whistles for the first time, Allegri goes into protection: “Today he played a good game, just like in Turin. He made a good play at the end, he was very good”. This too is moral.
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