Pioli after Inter-Milan: “Up until the 3-1 we were in the game. Too heavy a defeat”

Stefano Pioli doesn’t look for alibis. He has lost all of the last five derbies and he has lost almost all of them in the same way, that is, by conceding goals in the first minutes: “But until 3-1 we were in the game, then…”. Then the Nerazzurri dropped the three of a kind, the four of a kind and the five of a kind. “It’s too heavy a defeat for how we played, but we have to think about the Champions League immediately. The team won’t have any problems from a psychological point of view. We are mature.”

approach

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Pioli spoke like this after the match. He encouraged his team to improve and did not give up, despite the clear 5-1 defeat: “Having conceded the goals in moments in which we could have put things back in order was a blow. It must be said that we are were careless in the restarts. That’s how it went. We were playing the game, but the 3-1 cut our legs short. Losing the derby hurts. But I repeat, up until the 3-1 we were in the game. Inter were more clever in some situations. This was the gap in today’s match, we need to improve.”

pride

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Pioli continues: “I have no comment to make on the foul by Dumfries on the occasion of the first goal. The referee decided like this, Inter won because in some situations they were better than us. We talk about the approach, but in the first 4 minutes we didn’t start badly. They are a square and difficult team. They waited for us. We should have stayed wider with the wingers and looked for an extension. Then the game went the way they wanted. We weren’t as precise and effective as Inter, this is it.” Substitutions chapter. Milan has several new faces. Today no one had an impact: “Whoever I replaced didn’t even have time to come in before we conceded a goal. Inter are strong, but so are we. We come out clearly beaten, but I’m convinced that we can play for the championship and have positions of the top”.

head held high

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Pioli shows his pride. “Not having won doesn’t take anything away from the quality of my players, I repeat. The new ones have to settle in. It didn’t go as we wanted, but now we’re heading to the Champions League. Doing well against Newcastle is decisive. The team will have no consequences. It’s mature No problems from a mental point of view, of course. It went badly, period.”

no excuses

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Pioli also spoke in the press room. He was asked if he feels like apologizing to the fans after the 5 goals. Clear response from the coach: “We’re sorry, we certainly didn’t want to concede 5 goals. Apologize? And why should I? We didn’t lose on purpose.”