The Rossoneri coach: “When we meet the smaller teams and we have to decide the pace, sometimes we do it and sometimes we don’t. With the stronger ones we defend better and we are more vicious in the counterattacks”
He has been trying, not since yesterday, to hide his Milan as much as he can (“Inter and Napoli are the favorites for the Scudetto”, “This derby is not a turning point” are two of the sentences uttered on the eve), but from tonight it will be much more difficult for Max Allegri to succeed. How do you stay under deck when you lead a team that up to now has won against Bologna, Naples, Roma and Inter, and drawn in Turin against Juve? The Devil confirms his greatness with the big teams and satisfies Allegri, who had expressed the desire to spend a peaceful week. Well, here we say that we go far beyond simple serenity: winning the derby (the virtuous circle inherited from last season continues) is a boost that involves all the senses.
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“It was a good victory, in a fun match – says Allegri after the match -. In the first quarter of an hour we were too stuck, then we got better. We had four or five situations in which we could have finished better in the last twenty metres. And we also need to finish better on crosses, be better at the quality of passes. Afterwards, we defended ourselves in an orderly manner. We played a good game, defending reasonably well even on dead balls. Winning head-to-head matches is a great joy. It’s true, we have lost points with the small teams but with Roma and Napoli we could have equalised, so I say that the points we have are the ones we deserve raise your level, defend better and be worse on the counterattacks. That’s why we become vulnerable with the small teams. Tonight’s result is very important on a psychological level, going to minus 5 meant finishing outside the top four places, which aren’t very many, but staying inside is very important.”