The Milan coach explains the win against Napoli: “They had two chances and scored two goals, we created more but we didn’t score. I haven’t seen any team with our attacking quality yet.” On Leao: “There is no conflict but I don’t need to beg the players to do it”
The goals made the difference. Paulo Fonseca sum up the win against Napoli like this, with a simple theorem: “If we look at the result, they scored two goals and we didn’t succeed despite creating more chances. I am always responsible for what happens on the field. Obviously it’s not easy to start scoring a goal after 5′, but if I look at the game, we had a good reaction playing positive, quality football, creating chances. It is not easy against a team that defends low in front of the district. Errors in scoring goals? There are always mistakes when there is a goal.”
“The goal is always the championship”
“I’m looking at it grow of the team”, continues Fonseca. “It is not easy to find space when there are 10 players in front of the area and we created. We need to improve our ability to realize the many opportunities we create. We failed to convert those 4 or 5 chances and it is not easy to create them against a team like Napoli. We need to improve defensively. But I haven’t seen any team that impressed them with the attacking quality we had today. The absences? I think who played well. We can say that important players are missing, but I don’t know if we would have done better with them than today because those who played did well.” Meanwhile, the defeat against Napoli does not change the objective: “Scudetto goal? I can’t say otherwise after seeing how the team played, how they reacted and fought together without important players. We’re only at 9 games, nobody wins or loses the championship after 9 games.” Finally, a very obvious joke about relationship with Leoagain starting from the bench: “He’s not there any conflict between usit’s just the coach’s choice. What I think is that it is the duty of every player to do their best for the team; we try to motivate the players in different ways, therefore I don’t have to beg them or ‘beg’ for their commitment. Today Leao came in well, he gave some good answers. Then if we are honest we look at the game of Okafor, who played well. It’s hard for me to decide right now. Leao is coming back to training, this is the most positive thing for me.”
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Morata: “The ranking doesn’t worry me”
He also spoke at the press conference Alvaro Morataanalyzing the win thus: “We have to stay positive, today the ball didn’t go in and that made the difference. Football is like that. We had good moments against the team who are first in the table: let’s take what we did which was positive, they had two chances and scored two goals. We have to think of the positive things because they are there. The ranking doesn’t worry me, it would worry me if there were three days left. There are things that don’t work… Not only are we lucky, but we have to go back to work, look at what we did well and what we didn’t. Must go through bad times too to achieve success.”