Davide Calabria has admitted that AC Milan were far from their best during last night’s defeat against Inter, and made an interesting statement on the first goal.
It was eight minutes into the game when Inter got the early breakthrough and it came via Edin Dzeko, who Simone Inzaghi had chosen to start over Romelu Lukaku. Hakan Calhanoglu’s delivery from the right was volleyed in first time by the Bosnian into the top corner as he beat Calabria to it.
Less than three minutes later they had doubled their lead, and this time it was poor concentration from open play that was Milan’s undoing. A ball from Federico Dimarco on the left was wisely left by Lautaro Martinez, and Henrikh Mkhitaryan strode into the box to finish past Maignan unopposed.
Calabria was interviewed by Sky Italia after the game to try and pick apart what was a very disappointing night for his side, with his comments relayed by MilanNews.
“It had already happened several times that their attacking moves put us in difficulty. The second goal came like this, the first too. Dzeko is clearly bigger than me, there’s not much we can do. We need to be more careful and improve because we’ve always struggled with them,” he said.
“The second leg? We have to be more clinical in front of goal. If you score a goal, it can change the game in the second leg. It’s not lost, we’ll give it our all, but they’re a great team and we’re aware that we have to approach in the best possible way and also finish better, which is a problem we also had in the league.”
