It’s always horrible to lose at home, especially when you’re 11 points away from the current Serie A leaders, AC Milan. But Inter learnt this the hard way yesterday when they lost to 20th-placed Novara in the league. Again, you can blame it on the freezing, negative temperatures in Milan (-1.4 °C !) or you could point your finger at Claudio Ranieri. Blaming the coach seems to be the easiest way out (oh, those ridiculous links to Fabio Capello taking over!) but it never helps the cause when ‘experiments’ fail to work against the smaller teams. Cosa stai facendo, zio? (*whatcha doing, uncle?)
“The club and [president Massimo] Moratti are behind me 100 per cent. We have an excellent communication and I completely feel their support. We tried to score during the game in a thousand different ways. We had to change our tactics during the game and put three men in midfield, instead of four, which is very different.” – Ranieri
Meanwhile, AC Milan’s 2-1 victory over Udinese put vice-president Adriano Galliani in a ‘jubilant’ mood. But his side is meeting Arsenal in the Champions League on Wednesday, so he’d best ensure they are ready for it…
“Now we’re top of the table. The work done by Maxi Lopez and El Shaarawy was worth seven points because 10 minutes from the end we were third in the table.”
There were a lot of tears at the San Siro yesterday afternoon, as Milan officially bid farewell to six of their players – Gennaro Gattuso, Pippo Inzaghi, Marc van Bommel, Clarence Seedorf, Gianluca Zambrotta and Alessandro Nesta. Milan have traditionally ...
AC Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic is still reeling over the fact that Juventus snatched the Serie A title from under his nose - literally. No surprise there, given that Milan were pretty consistent this season and still failed to win a ...