AC Milan and Inter were forced to settle for a point in what was a dramatic derby at San Siro last night between two teams who fought until the end.
As MilanNews writes, Milan can feel disappointed that they were unable to see out the five minutes of added time to claim a third straight win against their neighbours, yet Inter also hit the post three times and can feel a bit unlucky.
What happened after the game? Sergio Conceicao revealed everything in his press conference: “Honestly, if they ask me if the draw is fair, I say yes, but I saw two important signs: when I arrived in the dressing room, I saw my players very disappointed and sad, while there was great joy among the Inter players.”
It must be a sign for the Rossoneri that with a certain mentality, you can get a result against anyone. In particular, Fikayo Tomori was truly very disappointed by the final result; the Englishman, after choosing to stay at Milan and having played a great game in the derby, expected to celebrate everything with a victory.
He only came close, as did his team-mates. The one to console Tomori and give heart to the entire dressing room was the latest arrival, Kyle Walker, who gave a solid performance in his debut at San Siro.
Credit must be given for the character displayed by the Rossoneri throughout the 90 minutes, in stark contrast to the listless performance seen just a few days ago in Zagreb, showing this team is capable of going from one extreme to the other in terms of spirit.
Tijjani Reijnders also underlined this: “We fought as a team tonight: that’s the spirit we should have in every match. In Croatia we weren’t like that. We need to have this fighting mentality always, because then the quality comes by itself.”
If Milan players can sustain such mentality in all matches, they will definitely catch up in top 4. But Milan still needs a CF that can be a threat to our opponents in any match.
Santi Jiminez bro
Stupid. That’s normal reactions from both Milan and I twr when you are winning or losing u til 93.Next match Milan would likely go back to their usual way.
I understand him wanting to cheer his team or present a good vibe…but bro Inter are cheering because they qualified for CL straight up finishing 4th, staying 3 points behind Napoli with a game in hand and equalizing after dominating the game and hitting the post 3 times, 3 disallowed goals and penalty not giving I never saw Milan coming back after that…Milan are sad because they are 8th and ended up with just a point nothing to fight for and also have to play 2 additional games after a defeat in Zagreb….Inter are not cheering because they got a point against Milan in 1 game it’s the context mate
This disaster happened because of the last three substitutions made by concenciao , especially leao and pulisic . This turned the whole team mentality into defensive approach, even when jiminez had the chance to pass the ball to chukiwize which could surely have turned into a goal , he rather stopped the counter and passed the ball to defender . Secondly, the substitution of Abraham was the main reason behind this . He was taller and was making a huge impact during set pieces especially in defence . Overall 0 rating to concenciao for his lack of character and mentality.
For a very first time I heard someone praising Abraham. Abraham is a garbage and he’s not Milan type player. Instead of starting Abraham, he could have started Okafor.
I agree about not sending Pulisic off. He is one of Milan’s best defenders and we know how he can score a late goal. Chuck loses the ball to often which he did when he came on.
This is a good analysis. The short pass to a defender instead of a clearance. Soon as I saw that, I felt mistake.
Time for depression mode in the next game. Hell, it would’ve happened even if we had won.
Time for you to cry once Milan wins next 5 games. Enjoy
Abraham had a good game yesterday, infact all of our player try is not easy to play agaist inter. intermilan have better player than us
this is so not true
The game was lost wen u removed the only holding midfielder in the team benacer ,that was why we could not control the game well any more and inter keep on coming
All he wants is attack attack and u think 🤔 💬💬 before I attack plan and slow ur opponent down
“I saw my players very disappointed and sad, while there was great joy among the Inter players.”
Well, duh. They’re playing for the title and were happy to pick up a point while denying us the win. We were playing for 3 points and are now 2 points further behind 4th.