Milan, Pioli: “It wasn’t a worthy performance, a defeat that complicates things”

“It was not a performance worthy of our possibilities.” He is bitter Stefano Pioli after the second defeat in a row 2-0. The ko with the Spice it burns like the one in the derby with Inter, also because it risks complicating the path to success Champions. The Rossoneri coach explains the new slip-up as follows: “There was a lack of continuity. We had to have more pace and speed to break up a balanced game. After their goal, we fell apart despite a good first half.”

Pioli: “We can overturn the result in the derby”

The problem for Pioli now is being able to lift the morale of the players ahead of the second leg semi-final against Inter on Tuesday: “Clearly we’re playing a match that can make history given the result of the first leg, but we have to believe we can succeed If we play our quality and intensity football that has been lacking in the last two games, we will be able to do it. We have to believe in ourselves because we have shown that we can play much better. Waste from the defeat in the Champions League? It is normal that we have it in head and it is normal that we are disappointed with the first leg result, but this was a very important match because the season also passes from the championship and this defeat complicates things. difficulties in the world, we have to believe we can beat Inter, we can question the result and the next round.”

Pioli: “The fans encouraged us to give our best”

At the end of the match, the coach and players went under the wing of the Rossoneri fans to apologise: “In the confrontation at the end of the match they spurred and stimulated us to give our best. We have a big challenge ahead of us and a big goal. We got to the match well with the ‘Inter, but the first 20′ then conditioned the rest of the match. We’ll have to play a match similar to the one we played in the second half and try to turn the episodes in our favour. 95’ are long and anything can happen.” The difficulty will be managing to do the feat without two important players like Leao and Bennacer: “Clearly not having them takes away something but to have a chance we have to play for Milan. We’re doing everything we can to recover the injured for Tuesday, but if Leao is called up I think he will play from the start” he concludes.

Kjaer: “In these races we struggle too much”

Also Simon Kjaer he’s disappointed but is already looking ahead: “Our performance wasn’t enough to take points away. We’ve had a lot of difficulties in this type of match and it’s difficult to explain why. We need to improve in many aspects. Did we appear less bad? “I agree, but obviously we are Milan and we have to dominate, they scored a goal from a corner and these things change games. But now there is another match at the door and we have to cancel this defeat immediately. Tuesday will be a war. Through work we have to cancel matches and move on, they are two completely different matches, the mentality and preparation must always be the same”.