On the eve of the match against Empoli, the Milan coach, Paulo Fonsecaalso spoke about the images seen this week of Guardiola completely covered in marks on his head and face after the draw against Feyenoord in the Champions League, a match in which his team were ahead 3-0: “We can’t escape from this pressure when we are at clubs like Milan or Manchester City. I don’t know what happened with Guardiola (and the scratches on his face, ed.) But being here means having pressure at all times, every day.
Not only with the press and the fans, but also here and with the players. We are a team that must always win. If we don’t want to have this pressure we can’t stay here, at this level. I don’t think there is any other way. It’s a great, great pressure. And you hear it every minute, every day. I say that football is for strong people. If we are not strong we cannot be in football at this level.”
Many teams ahead of Milan have changed coaches like Milan…
“I’m sure that in the end we will be ahead of some of these teams. But let’s talk about it: we did the pre-season with many kids. The most influential players of the team arrived only eight days before the start of the championship and we never had We’re slowly growing. We work more with images than with training now. When you change a lot, it’s more difficult, but I don’t think the other teams in front of us have had it a pre-season like ours. Then many don’t play the Champions League, they can have more turnover during the week. There’s no need to talk about Napoli, because they have a new coach and every week to work. Then there are Inter and Atalanta with many years of training with him same coach. Then if we only want to see the result I’m the first to say that we have to do more.”