Milan head coach Paulo Fonseca slammed his gamers for his or her lack of effort regardless of beating Pink Star Belgrade 2-1 within the Champions League on Wednesday.
Tammy Abraham struck the profitable objective within the 87th minute for the Rossoneri after Rafael Leao’s effort had been cancelled out by Nemanja Radonjic’s gorgeous effort.
Milan dominated proceedings on the San Siro for a lot of the competition, registering an anticipated objectives (xG) complete of two.13 from their 20 photographs to their opponents’ 0.48.
The outcome additionally noticed Milan earn a fourth consecutive win within the competitors for the primary time since a run of 5 victories between February and April 2005.
Nonetheless, regardless of his facet shifting as much as twelfth within the 36-team standings with two video games remaining, Fonseca had some stern phrases for his squad after the sport.
“I’ve to speak to the crew. I don’t wish to discuss an excessive amount of, I wish to analyse (the sport), however there are issues which can be clear to me,” Fonseca informed Sky Sports activities.
“It’s not a tactical or technical situation – we arrive right here to a decisive match for us, and having this sense of not doing all the things to win the match is the worst feeling we might have.”
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With Pink Star managing only one win from their 5 video games heading into the encounter on the San Siro, they created a number of probabilities to take the lead within the second half.
However that objective by no means got here for Vladan Milojevic’s facet, who’ve now misplaced all 12 of their away Champions League matches, the worst away file by any facet within the historical past of the competitors.
Nonetheless, their show left Fonseca with loads to ponder forward of Milan going through Genoa on their return to Serie A motion this weekend, even questioning his facet’s dedication.
“I do know that I work every single day to do properly. I don’t know if everybody in our crew can say that,” Fonseca added.
“We’ve the duty to provide and do all the things to win, and we didn’t do it.
“I’ve to speak to the crew about what occurred on the pitch. They’ve to know that this can’t occur.”
