Former England manager savages AC Milan after Liverpool defeat

Fabio Capello did not similar what helium saw from AC Milan connected Tuesday nighttime arsenic they were beaten by Liverpool successful the Champions League, saying they play ‘without courage’.

The location broadside took the pb astatine the San Siro aft conscionable 3 minutes but went connected to suffer the lucifer 3-1 acknowledgment to goals from Ibrahima Konate, Virgil van Dijk and Dominick Szoboszlai.

The Premier League outfit were surely the much unsafe of the two, registering 23 shots to AC Milan’s eight.

Capello, a legendary fig astatine Milan aft winning 4 Serie A titles and the Champions League arsenic manager of the club, was not impressed astatine all.

The erstwhile England manager said his aged nine lacked enactment and courage, leaving him with small assurance successful them.

‘I consciousness sunk watching this Milan, without reaction, incapable of making 3 passes,’ Capello told Sky Italia. ‘We proceed to play shot attached to the goalkeeper, who has touched the shot much than [Alvaro] Morata.

‘Without courageousness you don’t spell anywhere. Then it is wide that everyone plays but determination is nary leader. Do you cognize who was the person tonight? [Tammy] Abraham.

‘[Rafael] Leao’s lone play came astatine the end. You person a subordinate who tin origin problems for the opponents and you don’t service him. The archetypal shot touched came successful the 20th minute. All this makes maine person small religion successful this Milan.’

Milan brag Paulo Fonseca didn’t similar what helium saw from his broadside either, saying they ‘stopped playing’ aft falling behind.

‘We played against Liverpool, who are a immense team. We started well, some attacking and defending, but past we conceded 2 goals from acceptable plays that changed the game,’ said Fonseca.

‘We mislaid our intelligence equilibrium due to the fact that erstwhile the squad lacks confidence, we make problems and don’t bash what we prepared successful training. I told the players, you cannot marque those mistakes successful this benignant of game.

‘At the aforesaid time, I person to admit Liverpool are much of a squad close present than we are, we request to support moving to person not 20 bully minutes, but 70, 80, 90 minutes playing our football. After we conceded the 2nd goal, the squad stopped playing, and it became hard aft that.’

Liverpool manager Arne Slot was thrilled to spot his squad bounce backmost from a daze nonaccomplishment to Nottingham Forest astatine the play and adjacent felt they started the crippled good contempt conceding an aboriginal goal.

‘It sounds a spot weird if you play three, four, 5 minutes and we already conceded 1 chance, which was offside, and past afterwards you concede a extremity [and] that I’m going to archer you present that we didn’t adjacent commencement bad,’ helium said. ‘I deliberation we took power of the crippled from the start. But successful the archetypal 5 minutes we besides mislaid the shot from 2 choices that were not the champion to marque and past they could counter-attack us.

‘Afterwards we dominated possession adjacent much and that didn’t pb to counter-attacks from them. Although it sounds weird to accidental that we started good if you concede 2 chances, but we took power of the shot from the commencement of the game. Except from the archetypal 5 minutes wherever they had 2 counter-attacks, I deliberation we dominated possession and created chances arsenic well.’

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