The Milan coach Paulo Fonseca spoke to the microphones of Skyafter the 1-3 success away against Real Madrid.
What makes you most proud and where did this masterpiece come from?
“We won because the players had the courage to come here, not be afraid of anything and play our game. We prepared the game to have the ball, we did important things in the first half and suffered together in the second. Deserved victory, we played with great quality”.
You wanted to change the mentality in Italy, which was too defensive, and today you succeeded.
“I don’t agree when people talk like this about Italian football, but I think that we too can be a team in Europe with more initiative and dominance. These are the characteristics of the team. We have done great things positionally, the team has the patience to have the ball and look for the right moment to attack. We have to continue to grow, we can do it.”
After the substitutions, the playing conditions that existed before were no longer there.
“Abraham has certain characteristics, Alvaro manages to connect the game. We started to not have the ball as much, they are players with different characteristics. Abraham is not a player who serves the ball, he plays more forward. Alvaro was very tired and we had need to change. Abraham helps the team, but they are with different characteristics that change our game. There was also more pressure from Real, we can’t forget that they changed a lot of results in the last minutes, for example against Dortmund and Maybe in the These images of Real enter the players’ heads. We lost the quality in the output, but I think the players tried to continue with this result.”
Did you expect a match like this after Monza?
“I have to understand the context. These are matches where we have more space, not like in Italy. A lot of people don’t understand how difficult it is, Monza man-marks like Cagliari, Bayer Leverkusen lost only one match against Atalanta The matches in Italy are more difficult, obviously today we played with the best team in the world but they are different matches and in Italy it is really difficult.”