the Milan coach skips the conference – Corriere.it

The photo-finish victory in front of the 73,000 at San Siro when no one believed it anymore made everyone explode with joy. All but one. Stefano Pioli left the stadium in a hurry without undergoing the usual post-match press conference officially for personal reasons. The club has rallied around its coach, who has left for Parma.

Maldini speaks

So to comment on the last game of 2022 that keeps Milan in the wake of Napoli, eight points away, Paolo Maldini introduces himself. “Not winning would have changed the belay. We achieved this success with sacrifice without a harmonious game, but we wanted to win and we did it »declares the Rossoneri manager. “For us, the draw would have been half a defeat.”

The manager of the technical area of ​​the Devil takes stock: «We have two points less than last year, the difference is the performance of Napoli who are doing incredible things. We are more or less in line with what we did last year. We were ugly in Cremona and we misinterpreted the race, but otherwise nothing can be said. We are in the round of 16 of the Champions League, we need to recover some players. We have a different awareness that must be accompanied by the enthusiasm that led us to win last year ».

Maldini defends the new signings, in particular De Ketelaere, who has not even taken over. “He’s suffering, it’s a different environment with different pressures. He has more knowledge than before. We made Charles a contract of five years not five months, we are waiting for it, just as we are waiting for Origi. They have everything to be decisive. We have had many examples of players who took a while to understand what he wants to play in Milan. ” Milan greets the year with the commitment to chase the Scudetto until the end. “Of course we believe it. Last year when we played the second leg we were at -7 and then we won. We know that it is not easy to keep this pace until the end, we obviously have to grow ”.