Milan's Fonseca praises substitutes after Brugge win

AC Milan substitutes Noah Okafor and Samuel Chukwueze changed the crippled successful their favour, manager Paulo Fonseca said connected Tuesday aft they bushed Club Brugge to assertion their archetypal Champions League triumph of the season.

Milan secured their archetypal points successful Europe's elite nine contention with a 3-1 location triumph implicit the Belgian champions arsenic Dutch midfielder Tijjani Reijnders scored doubly successful the 2nd half.

With the crippled level astatine 1-1, Fonseca made his archetypal changes connected the hr arsenic Okafor came connected for midfielder Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Chukwueze replaced striker Rafael Leao, with the substitutes mounting up Reijnders to reconstruct the pb and, subsequently, seal the win.

"The recognition goes to the players and chiefly to those who came on," Fonseca told a property conference.

"They changed the match, changing our game, the intensity."

Milan were struggling against an assertive Brugge side, who looked determined to enactment connected a almighty show astatine the location of the seven-time European champions.

"Obviously, successful the archetypal half, we didn't bash things well," Fonseca said.

"We were up against a squad with eleven players that was precise deep, past with numerical inferiority they became adjacent deeper.

"And we had difficulties successful this benignant of game, successful creating and provoking space.

"Then, erstwhile we don't find the close solution, the crippled starts to beryllium excessively slow. When we don't find space, we request to person a antithetic strength successful our actions. We didn't bash well... I deliberation it was a occupation of knowing the game."

With Milan starring 3-1, Fonseca brought connected 16-year-old Francesco Camarda successful the 75th infinitesimal and helium had a extremity ruled retired for offside soon earlier the last whistle.

"I'm precise atrocious for the disallowed goal," Fonseca added. "But it was a beauteous infinitesimal for the team, each connected the transportation celebrating a kid who works truthful hard.

"Camarda volition person galore opportunities to people much goals during his career."

At 16 years and 226 days, Camarda is the youngest subordinate to person made their debut for Milan successful the Champions League.He is besides the youngest Italian subordinate to diagnostic successful the competition, having surpassed the erstwhile people that belonged to erstwhile Juventus forward, presently astatine Fiorentina,

Moise Kean (16 years, 268 days). 

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