The team, although it will play at 8.45pm on Saturday, will remain at the sports center tomorrow evening. Fonseca, like Pioli after Covid, allowed the players to meet up on the morning of the match. And in the afternoon, unusual training at San Siro behind closed doors
On the eve of Milan-Cagliari, Milan will sleep at Milanello, as they are not used to doing in the post-Covid era. Sergio Conceiçao decided this way and it will probably always be this way, according to his principles. For Milan it is a break with the past, considering that Fonseca – in the case of evening matches at San Siro – asked the players to be at Milanello on the same day, obviously from the morning. Pioli himself, after Covid, met the players in a hotel in the San Siro area on the morning of the match.
respect for the rules
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Conceiçao thus continues along the lines of the rules, preferably strict, of the care of attention. It’s his way of doing things, it’s his principles. In his first week with the Rossoneri he had the team train several times in the evening, another change compared to the past. On the first day, December 30, he trained under floodlights and in Riyadh he also planned a double training session on the eve of the match against Juventus. He made the players wear shin guards in training and, the day before the Super Cup final against Inter, he called everyone for a video session at 9.30pm. Clear message: we are strong, but we must give our best. Even at the cost of returning to habits from a few years ago, which for some have been overcome, for others simply neglected.
finishing at San Siro
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The news isn’t over. Conceiçao has scheduled a finishing training session at San Siro for Friday afternoon, at 4pm, behind closed doors. An absolute novelty, perhaps to see the stadium – frequented by the player and then by the opponent – before the match, more probably to mark a discontinuity, send another message to the players: Cagliari is not worth less than the Super Cup derby.
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