After the disappointing 1-0 loss against Udinese, Stefano Pioli admitted that he didn’t prepare AC Milan well enough for the clash. He also made it clear that the fans were right to whistle and boo the team at full-time.
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Udinese took the lead in the second half after a controversial penalty decision, but most fans didn’t care about that as Milan looked incredibly poor themselves. In his post-match interview with MilanTV (see the video below), Pioli admitted that he needed to do a better job with the preparation.
On the game…
“We struggled. The longer the match went on, the more we struggled and lost our cool. After going behind there was still time to get back into it, the team did their best but it wasn’t our best performance. It was below our usual level, we need an instant upturn in form.”
“We knew that it would be tough against an organised team, we knew we wouldn’t have many chances. As always, moments decide games but I repeat: we cannot latch onto these things. We just need to do better.”
On the fans whistling…
“The fans were right, because the performance wasn’t there tonight. They whistled at me and they were right because it meant I didn’t prepare the team well. They are used to better performances. The fans hope to applaud us and to see us play in a certain way, today we didn’t do that.”
