Sergio Conceicao once more lashed out at Milan for his or her lack of ‘soccer fundamentals’ and mentality left them within the Champions League play-offs.
The Rossoneri had received 5 Champions League video games in a row and put themselves in a robust place to go straight into the Spherical of 16.
Nevertheless, they by no means regarded within the operating for a victory away to Fabio Cannavaro’s Dinamo Zagreb this night, conceding when Matteo Gabbia fell over on the Martin Baturina strike, then Yunus Musah was despatched off.
Christian Pulisic bought them again on stage phrases, however Marko Pjaca pounced on one other defensive error to seal the 2-1 outcome.
As soon as once more, Conceicao was visibly livid together with his gamers for his or her angle, which was extraordinarily sluggish within the first half.
“The incidents went towards us, however except for that we lacked soccer fundamentals within the first half,”
“The game is made up of duels, each attacking and defending, of aggression. For the primary 20-25 minutes we bought to the ultimate third after which tried to take an additional contact, or didn’t end, didn’t shoot in any respect, these are particular person errors. Errors can occur, however we have to do extra.
“With the purple card, all of it bought extra sophisticated, we bought our heads down and tried to get again into it. We equalised, tried to win the sport after which one other particular person error was pricey. At this stage, even when groups have little to play for, they’re nonetheless powerful and we should be prepared.”
Conceicao inherited endemic Milan issues
Stefano Pioli and Paulo Fonseca each criticised the Milan gamers for his or her lack of dedication and mentality, so is that this an endemic drawback and might or not it’s solved?
“That will depend on the satisfaction in every of us, the place they need their careers to go. We will speak about ways, techniques, dynamics, however at occasions we’ve seen – and this isn’t new – we’ve to be a lot, rather more aggressive within the duels and current within the match,” added Conceicao.
“I preferred the second half, we tried to win it right down to 10 males. We didn’t handle it, now we’ve to give attention to the following match and attempt to change this surroundings round us. We’ve bought time to try this and we should do extra.”
The coach additionally confirmed his dislike of post-match interviews and couldn’t wait to go away the media centre, hitting out on the lack of options.
“I had 17 gamers in the present day, I had Tomori as a right-back, two or three younger gamers on the bench. Some are cup-tied, some are injured, it’s a second like this. I may’ve come right here searching for excuses speaking about these things, the state of the pitch, the very fact the refereeing was less than the requirements of the Champions League, however I don’t wish to do this,” mentioned Conceicao earlier than strolling off abruptly.
Davide Calabria was suspended in the present day, with Emerson Royal, Malick Thiaw, Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Alessandro Florenzi injured, plus new signing Kyle Walker cup-tied.
and are on monitor to face Feyenoord or Juventus within the play-offs.