Milan director Geoffrey Moncada insists they ‘did badly and should do higher’ in opposition to Torino and Bologna after Champions League elimination. ‘We merely need to get into the highest 4.’
It kicks off on the Stadio Olimpico Grande Torino at 17.00 GMT.
The Rossoneri’s marketing campaign suffered a devastating blow midweek with , a sport dominated by the Theo Hernandez crimson card.
It had been instructed he could be dropped for this match as punishment, however as Kyle Walker, Emerson Royal and Alessandro Florenzi are all injured, Alex Jimenez is required at right-back.
“After a sport like that, it is rather tough to get again on monitor, however we returned to the coaching floor, spoke to the gamers and coach as a bunch and individually. We’re with them and spoke once more within the lodge right now,”
“We did badly and should do higher, each right now and on Thursday.”
Milan will face Bologna on the Stadio Dall’Ara on Thursday night within the rescheduled Serie A match that was known as off in October 2024 resulting from flood warnings.
Milan making an attempt to rescue disappointing season
The experiment of utilizing the Fab 4 collectively of Santiago Gimenez, Joao Felix, Rafael Leao and Christian Pulisic has largely failed to date, however Sergio Conceicao tries once more this night.
Youssouf Fofana can be on the bench for the second consecutive sport, regardless of having been virtually ever-present till this week. How a lot was Conceicao concerned in selecting the January arrivals?
“We work to seek out options, however we’ve got to do it with the coach and his employees. We watched loads of movies, we had confrontations, mentioned what he needed, identical to we did with Paulo Fonseca earlier than. We do all of it collectively.”
Zlatan Ibrahimovic instructed that the present Milan squad is twice as robust because the one which received the Scudetto, so does Moncada agree?
“I don’t know if it’s twice as robust, however we’ve got modified loads. I do assume we’ve got extra choices off the bench, it’s an attention-grabbing squad. We began engaged on the Scudetto crew a 12 months or two earlier, so these items do take time, although hopefully not that lengthy.”
If Milan miss out on the highest 4 and due to this fact fail to qualify for the Champions League, will there be a radically completely different switch technique for subsequent season?
“We’re not fascinated by that, we merely need to get into the highest 4. We dropped factors in opposition to Bologna earlier than and we’ve got an opportunity on Thursday, we’re motivated and need to get proper again on monitor,” concluded Moncada.