Milan, Pioli: “We aren’t aggressive, Inter are. And the referee…”

One-two at the start and Milan is gone. Pioli returns home with two straight right hooks to the face, a heavy knockout that wipes out the good performances seen in the last few games, above all the 2-0 against Lazio. Without Leao and with Bennacer injured after only fifteen minutes, Milan sinks in the derby. And now we will need a company to return. “Inter played better in the first half and scored two goals, maybe we did better in the second half.”

The analysis

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These are Pioli’s words: “The Nerazzurri put in more quality and we missed more balls. We have to believe it though, matches change, episodes can upset even a result that has already been written. We will try to do better in the second leg”. The Rossoneri coach analyzed the match, conditioned by the two goals at the start: “We wanted to be intense, compact and aggressive, but we didn’t succeed. Inter got the better of the duels. The match was complicated from the point of mentally and tactically. In the second half, however, I saw a great reaction. And that’s what we’ll have to do on May 16.”

Referee

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And again: “We had a couple of chances to shorten the match, now we have to raise the level. We need a different performance. There is disappointment among the players, but also the will to overturn the result”. Pioli also spoke about the referee and the decisions made during the match: “he had double standards in half-and-half situations, but I won’t go into specifics”. The last comment is on Leao, absent due to an elongation to his right thigh remedied against Lazio: “Let’s see in the next few days. Six to go, I hope he can recover for the return leg”.