Cesc Fabregas created one of the big talking points for this game, and AC Milan will rightly be annoyed by the decision to send Massimiliano Allegri off.
When looking at the game on paper, Allegri being sent off would make most think that the Milan manager had done something, and whilst this would be partly true, it was a reaction to another action.
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In the 78th minute, Fabregas grabbed Alexis Saelemaekers, preventing him from getting towards the attacking Como players. An unsportsmanlike act that shouldn’t be seen anywhere near the pitch. Yet, the officials missed it.
Instead of giving the Spaniard a red, Allegri’s reaction caused him to see red, even if he was protesting the fact that the officials missed what was a clear error.
Fabregas’s apologetic opening
Nevertheless, the Spaniard spoke after the game to apologise, but it will probably have little effect on the season. Indeed, a wrong decision which could’ve cost the Rossoneri points. MilanNews relayed his words to DAZN.
“First of all, if you’ll allow me to apologize, today I did something I’m not proud of, I did something unsportsmanlike. I was so excited I touched the ball, my hands at home, as Chivu said the other day, especially the coach.
“We can’t do this. It’s something I hope to never do again [referring to the altercation with Saelemaekers]. Then about the match… We made the first exit from the goalkeeper in the 70th minute, which means they didn’t get there.
“We played a serious game, coming here to San Siro and playing with this kind of character is nice to see, we have to continue like this.”
How proud are you of your team today?
“I’m very proud, it’s a great performance. Something we need to repeat on Saturday if we want to get points. We need to get our heads down straight away in Turin. The team shows that, one way or another, they always deliver a positive response.
“It’s important to put in a performance like this after Saturday’s defeat.”
On the goal conceded…
“It’s true that if you look closely at the play, both Ramon and Kempf got to that ball. The goalkeeper didn’t make the right choice. We lost a stupid ball; when you let these world-class players on the counterattack, you know they can hurt you.
“It’s the only play they found that matches that way. But this shows you the level: you can play a near-perfect game and score once. This is the top, maximum level, which we need to understand to get there one day.”
The hug with Modric…
“It’s a pleasure to watch him play. I congratulated him… 41 years playing at this level. We tried to press him, attack him. He doesn’t give a damn. He comes forward with twos, with threes, finds the play with the outside, one-twos, oriented control, turns.
“He’s a phenomenon. We have to thank him for being here with us in Serie A and for being able to enjoy him every week.”
Fabregas holds back Salad..
Ref stamps on Salad’s toe…
Chivu stops Rabiot throw-in…
Zero consequences
What’s going on?
Maybe ref is inter’s sleeper agent
italian ref dislike non italian owner especially from america
Inter’s owner is American also. 🙂
Marotta is going on.
I’m glad the refereeing was as bad as it was this week.
Now we only need another 99 weekends this bad before the lega has a preliminary meeting to discuss the possibility of maybe doing something about it at some point in the future.
The referees were abysmal and once again we were at the recieving end of it. Meanwhile Inter gets every single decision with them.
Had a Milan player tackled a Como player the way Ignace Van der Brempt tackled Pavlovic he would had gotten send off.
Marotta is back baby.
It’s all in the game. We’ve seen many coaches do this. It clearly shows he was afraid of losing. You never can tell how you’d react in the heat of the moment. Gracefully, he apologized for his behaviour, which is nothing new to the game. But, I must admit, I’ve enjoyed watching Como since he came. Coaches like Fabregas market. I doubt if any Milan fan missed the game. Over 75,000 fans at San Siro, for that game; that’s something.
Young foreign coaches like Fabregas are what is news to relaunch Serie A successfully. Finally a coach who isn’t afraid or has a negative footballing philosophy! It’s no coincidence that Cominalrwady have the best young players in the Serie A.
This is what the Premiere League has done so well, getting new young coaches from abroard and let them revolutionize the English game. Italy couidnuse some of that…
Its easy to coach small teams.
Were is Motta now? How well did he do after Bologna?
Like i said its easy to coach thoose teams amd do “well”.
yes, he very good coach, but i think he is more inter rather than milan..maybe he courting for inter job or not, but im sure he dont want milan.. its like milan is evryone enemy, a public enemy
I am afraid Marotta managed to take over all referees once again as he did with Juve…
Something needs to be investigated seriously in Serie A refereeing. This type of ‘things’ should never decide the winner of the league.
Every controversial decisions are directly benefitting one team – Inter. Isn’t it strange?
They robbed Juventus in front of whole world.
Its insane he is even allowed to be part of a team again after what he did.
Marotta is just infinitely better at building a team than the bunch of clowns running Milan.
They have more quality and more depth in every department
No point in whining about refs when our team is struggling weak in weak out to beat minnows
From the Barcelona school of swarming the refs to give a yellow card, this doesn’t surprise me
it will be like this, over n over again util merda design another calciopoli trap