Paulo Fonseca feels as a result of they confirmed ‘braveness’ and no concern, but additionally insists it’s in some methods ‘simpler’ to play within the Champions League than Serie A.
Membership proprietor Gerry Cardinale was within the stands and went into the locker room to congratulate everybody after a dominant efficiency on the Bernabeu, which was sealed by Malick Thiaw’s header, Alvaro Morata and Tijjani Reijnders round a Vinicius Junior penalty.
“I believe we gained as a result of the gamers had the braveness to return right here and play their sport, with out being afraid of something,”
“We needed to maintain the ball, we did nice issues within the first half after which struggled a little bit extra after the break, however we did it collectively and completely deserved this victory. It’s not simply because we scored three targets, but additionally we performed with a whole lot of high quality.”
Fonseca mentioned when he first joined Milan that he needed to alter the way in which that Italian groups are seen in Europe, so does he assume that he achieved that this night with this coup on the Bernabeu?
“I don’t agree when folks say Italian soccer is defensive. We generally is a staff with extra initiative and dominance of the match in Europe, these are the traits of the staff. We proved that Italian groups don’t simply defend, we performed the ball and had nice positioning. The aspect has the persistence to maintain the ball, selecting the correct second to assault.
“We should proceed to enhance, as we’ve a whole lot of potential.”
Fonseca admits Milan solely have one Morata
Morata began the match because the centre-forward and scored the second aim on the rebound from a Rafael Leao strike, however Milan wouldn’t have somebody who can do the identical job.
“Abraham is a participant with completely different traits. Alvaro has this skill to attach the midfield with the assault, whereas Abraham doesn’t have these qualities. When Morata got here off, it’s true that we stopped having a lot of the ball,” confessed Fonseca.
“Nonetheless, Alvaro was actually drained and we would have liked to make the possibility. Abraham does work nicely defensively and holds up the ball, however naturally he isn’t the identical as Morata.”
Noah Okafor additionally got here off the bench within the last levels and appeared to be given extra directions than anybody else by Fonseca on the touchline. Did he not have the appropriate angle?
“It was throughout the interval of the strongest Actual Madrid strain. We should not overlook that Actual Madrid overturned a whole lot of ends in the closing levels, they have been shedding 2-0 to Borussia Dortmund and beat them 5-2.
“We tried to defend higher as a staff, but additionally misplaced high quality in controlling the ball in these moments after we had the additional areas to strike on the counter-attack. Nonetheless, it was nonetheless a deserved victory.”
The tactical key this night was utilizing Yunus Musah on the appropriate aspect of the supporting trident, who successfully grew to become an additional full-back to guard Emerson Royal and take care of Vinicius Junior.
Fonseca was requested if he anticipated a Milan efficiency of this stage so few days after the disappointing displaying to beat Monza 1-0, however hit again by insisting Serie A was underrated.
“Truthfully, I’ve to have a look at the general context. For the way in which I wish to play my soccer, these are video games with extra space to play in. Folks outdoors of Italy don’t perceive how powerful it’s in Serie A. Monza man-mark, Cagliari up subsequent will man-mark, you will note that Atalanta have been the one staff who managed to beat Bayer Leverkusen final season and so they man-mark.
“It’s truthfully harder to play in Serie A than it’s within the Champions League due to these tactical points. It’s simpler for us to play tonight, even when it was in opposition to Actual Madrid the perfect staff on the planet, as a result of it’s fully completely different,” insisted Fonseca.
“This is perhaps why in Italy the video games aren’t as entertaining, but it surely’s as a result of they’re actually troublesome.”
Milan misplaced the primary two Champions League video games, however are actually climbing the desk with six factors from 4 matches, having overwhelmed Membership Brugge 3-1 and Actual Madrid by the identical end result.