Sergio Conceicao is not the only member of the AC Milan staff and squad that was battling a fever during last night’s game, a report has revealed.
In his pre-match press conference ahead of the Inter game, Conceicao did admit that Milan have four or five players that are not in the best condition which certainly added to the selection quandaries he had to answer.
As MilanNews reports, the last week is almost the plot of a movie. Last Sunday, after the draw with Roma, Paulo Fonseca was fired as the head coach and the next day his replacement arrived in Conceicao.
The new coach immediately took the team onto the training pitch in the afternoon, then the next day he introduced himself to the journalists at his press conference and flew with the squad to Riyadh in Saudi Arabia to play for the Supercoppa Italiana.
Out in the Middle East, Conceicao planned intense and fast-paced work knowing his side would come up against against strong teams, with little time to get to know each other and many absentees. To complicate things, the flu also hit the Rossoneri coach as well as several players including.
For example, Tammy Abraham and Matteo Gabbia were among those who confirmed that they had suffered sickness in Saudi. For these reasons, the fever above all, Milan’s feat is even more epic. The players and staff returned to Italy today, with the coach and some players still far from 100%.
Now have some much needed rest. Conceicao got there just days ago, got hit with the flu, started tough training with the players, and they still pushed through it to win.
Unreal.
A beautiful win – made even more so by the fact it’s our first trophy under Sergio, AND it’s against Inter, AND we came from 2-0 down, AND we had flu.
It has been really something to watch Sergio make this team competitive and hungry in such a short time span. Playing and coaching with this year’s terrible flu is crazy.
I hope the coach can rally the team to go on a run of victories to climb up Serie A, it will take another incredible feat to make the top 4 with the quality of our rivals.
Forza Ragazzi!
Love the passion and grinta this man instilled in just 5 days. Hope they keep it up. All the best to the team and our new gaffer.
Maybe I’m too quick to jump on the train, but I’m really looking forward to the remainder of the season under Sergio.
Forza Milan!
Epic indeed. This will go down in the books. Hollywood couldn’t script this better. Fantastic win boys!
Wonderful coach, fantastic win, great job done and a trophy 🏆 to celebrate with in January, the super Coppa Italian,
Wow 😲 I love this feat dude
At least this is a sign of a great coach that has something great to offer, Wow, i’m really happy with Ibra, he has shown everyone that he knows his job very well.