The Rossoneri coach after the game with Atalanta: “It is not easy for me, they talk about the next season as if the technician who has never had never trained”
Sergio Conceiçao has never found the road to Milan’s heart and this game with Atalanta certifies it once again, waiting for Wednesday derby. The post-match makes it clear that he is also tried, and it is not new. There is nervousness in one of his response on the next season. The question: “His future depends on the match on Wednesday with Inter?”. His answer: “Here I won the Italian Cup and from the next game they started talking about other coaches. It’s not easy for me, I think these people have no respect, they talk about the next season as if the Milan coach had never trained. If you ask me, I tell you that this is what I feel”. And then, immediately afterwards: “I haven’t known for how many years I haven’t won two titles”. Yes, Conceiçao has some pebbles to take off. Maybe some boulders.
Bad changes
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His analysis of the game is linked to the episodes: “The first half was balanced, we were a little too low but Atalanta did not put us in difficulty. We finished the first half well, even if we have to do more in the last step. At high level this is paid. We started the second half well but Atalanta scored on the first occasion”. Conceiçao tried to turn to four behind (“I wanted to try to equalize”) and then threw all the attackers inside. Cinquina: Gimenez, Chukwueze, Joao Felix, Abraham and Sottil. Five attackers together, in addition to the three who had started the game and, in the meantime, had come out: Pulisic, Jovic and Leao. However, Milan has never been dangerous and for the first time in the Conceiçao management he did not march at home. “Today whoever entered did not give us anymore -said Conceiçao -, but I also put Sottil in a position not his and it was not easy. It was missing aggression”.
Leao and the derby
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Speaking of attackers, Rafa Leao, once again, went to speak after a difficult game: clear leader as a leader. “Difficult to give an explanation -he commented -. What I can say is that since the coach arrived, we have managed to do many comebacks but sometimes we do not do good games. Sometimes we play well and we don’t win. I don’t have an explanation for this”. And on Milan-Atalanta in particular: “Today it was a strange game, we could go ahead, we entered well in the second half but it is a moment, a counterattack and … take goals. Now there is a very important game on Wednesday, we have to put everything on that evening to go to the final and give joy to all the fans in a very difficult season. We have to enter with the right desire”.
Inter a four?
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All true but for Conceiçao a question now arises for the Italian Cup Wednesday against Inter: defense at three or four? The 3-4-3 Milan was perfect in Udine but with Atalanta it has completely missed in the last 30 meters and has deserved to lose. The four defense, on the other hand, has annoyed Inter four times out of four. Conceiçao, in the Milanese night, has something to think about.
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