Max after Milan-Roma: “We did everything wrong in the first part, then the match changed. At half-time I changed and put the midfield with four men. Leao and Nkunku? Well, they can only improve”
Max Allegri will never forget this November 2nd. He lost a father and won a game, which disappears in comparison. Before the start, Allegri hugged Gasperini, like him a pupil of Giovanni Galeone, who left this world today. In the end, both did not have teary eyes but an excited smile and this too is significant: Galeone was a brilliant man, capable of lighting the heart. “For me it’s a sad day, I was humanly linked to the coach after 35 years – said Allegri -. I arrived at Pescara from Pavia, they had taken Ricky Massara (at San Siro as Roma’s sporting director, ed.) and they put me in the package. After half an hour of training, he told me ‘if you want to play football, you can’t be an attacking midfielder, you have to be a midfielder’. Galeone is spoken of as an offensive coach, but the concepts and principles of defensive phase I took them all from him.”
cheerful and tactics
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Allegri’s analysis of the match is not long but interesting. He focuses on two moments: Pavlovic’s opener and half-time. “Roma deserved the lead in the first 35 minutes, technically we did everything we could do wrong – he said -. We took the lead better, then we weren’t able to double the lead and in the end we defended reasonably well”. That zoom on the interval is worth it: “In other games we did badly in the second half, today I asked to come back and apply pressure. We started with the four midfielders, opening up Ricci on the left wing”. Here it is, the move.
cheerful and the players
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Allegri also said a few words about his young players, the players less accustomed to big matches: “The team must improve its self-esteem and belief in its qualities, here at San Siro it’s not easy. Without Pulisic, Rabiot and Tomori, we tested players with no experience and tonight they did very well. Bartesaghi, for example, didn’t do well in the first 30, then he played a great match.” And he appreciates and above all relaunches his attacking duo: “Leao played a good game, like Chris Nkunku. They can only improve. I have had many teams with pure center forwards and many others without, the important thing is to fill the area. Fofana could have scored two goals and didn’t.” And how he got them wrong: one of the two errors remains sensational.
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