The first leg of the Champions League semi-final belongs to Inter. Two lightning goals, first Dzeko then Mkhitaryan. Pioli’s analysis after the match: “They played better than us in the first half and scored two goals. We were better in the second and we didn’t score,” he told Sky Sport. It’s a heavy result but we have to believe in it, playing like in the second we can try to recover. Leao? It wasn’t there, so there’s no point in looking at it. Even Bennacer’s injury didn’t help us, but he is part of football. We had to do better in the first half, both in ball handling and in duels. In the second, there was a different pace and a different quality, and we did better. How is the game reversed? Playing for Milan. To take the lead to create the possibility of overturning everything.”
Leao: “The hope is that there is”
At Prime Video also the theme of the great absentee, Rafa Leao, with a view to possible recovery: “How are you? We see. He wasn’t in condition today, let’s see in six days and the hope is that he will play.”
Calabria: “Difficulties with Inter have already happened”
The words of the AC Milan captain to Sky: “In the offensive phase they put us in difficulty, too many counter-attacks, too many actions, too many insertions lost. In the first goal I was on Dzeko, and he is much bigger than me. We have to be more attentive and awake, all eleven, from attack to defence. We’ve always had a hard time with them. Return? We have to be more cynical, if you score immediately the game changes immediately. It’s not lost yet, we’ll give it our all.”