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00:00In Italy it is often said that between the Italian league and the Champions League there is a big difference in the way you play.
00:07I imagine it is a shared opinion, even outside of Italy.
00:12I wanted to ask you, how will your Milan change if it changes between the league and the Champions League?
00:19Or do you continue to say that the way you play in Milan is always the same?
00:24Yes, our way of playing is not always the same, but the intentions are almost always the same.
00:39A day later we can talk in depth about this.
00:45Now I think it is a bit early to talk about this, but I can say a lot about this.
00:53About our way of playing and the way these teams play.
01:00But I don't think it is the right time to talk about this.
01:07Andrea Ramazzotti, Gazzetta.
01:09Hi, I have a question for the coach.
01:13Tomorrow is going to be a very difficult test for Milan against a team that last season
01:19interrupted the winning series of Bayern Munich.
01:24We will see in the attitude, if you want to call it that, even in the men,
01:30the same Milan that we have seen in the last few games.
01:34No, I don't think it will change.
01:37I have always said in the last few days that we have to continue.
01:42We know it is a different game.
01:45I think it will be a similar game to the one we have with Liverpool.
01:54But we have to continue what we have done.
02:01Mainly defensively.
02:04I think the team has grown.
02:07This is a good test to see our defensive ability at the moment.
02:14I have already told the players that to win this game,
02:19to have the chance to win against a strong team like Bayern,
02:27we have to play a defensively perfect game.
02:34Enrico Curro, La Repubblica.
02:39The same question that can be applied to both.
02:43You talked about the captain, saying that there are many for you, at least five.
02:51I wanted to know if you had already done this rotation in your career,
02:58and if it will continue, for example tomorrow,
03:01and to Rafa, what did it mean for him to have this line-up?
03:05Yes, what I want is...
03:09When I arrived, the captains here are the players with the most games in Milan.
03:18I want to respect this.
03:26But I want a shared leadership,
03:31more extensive,
03:33and we have the possibility of having more players with the possibility of being captains.
03:41We want to share this responsibility more.
03:48Probably tomorrow there will be another player to be captain.
03:55But for me, we have five at the moment.
04:01Anyone can be.
04:06We'll see later.
04:10I am always proud to be captain of Milan.
04:14I've been here for six years,
04:17so when I play with this shirt, it's always a responsibility.
04:21But when I'm captain, it's even more.
04:24I'm happy, I trust my coach,
04:28so when these things happen, I'm very happy.
04:35Good evening, both of you.
04:36A question for Rafa.
04:38In the post-match interview, the coach talked a lot about you.
04:45He used the nicest words someone has ever said about you.
04:49He said that the commitment you're showing defensively,
04:53he values it a lot.
04:55It represents your growth, even as a human being.
04:58I wanted to know if you share this concept.
05:01What do you feel?
05:02Do you like defending, not just dribbling and scoring?
05:07The first day he arrived, he called me to his office.
05:12He didn't talk to me about goals or assists.
05:15He told me that he wanted a player who had changed in this situation,
05:23who was more focused on defending.
05:30He wanted me to be a better player,
05:33to be more focused.
05:35I like these things.
05:38Every day during training, we watch videos.
05:43When he came here, he showed me a couple of things.
05:48In the car?
05:52A couple of videos from the last game.
05:55He's someone who's helping me a lot.
06:00I think he'll help me in this season and in this chapter.
06:05Francesca, welcome.
06:10A question for the coach and Rafa.
06:12The coach referred to the game against Liverpool.
06:17Since that game today, the Milan world has completely turned upside down.
06:23I wanted to ask about your mood about this new start in the Champions League.
06:29You were able to turn the team upside down and find an important key.
06:34If you're in a good mood,
06:36how do you feel about your role in this team?
06:43I wanted to ask Rafa,
06:45Giroud was talking about you today,
06:47especially as a technical leader.
06:49You don't have to ask Rafa to be a charismatic leader,
06:54but he's already a technical leader.
06:57Do you recognise yourself in this description?
07:04I'm always confident.
07:13This is a different kind of game.
07:15It's true that we played well in the last few games of the season.
07:24But I have to say that Serie A is very different from the games we have in the Champions League.
07:35Today I was sent the words of Xabi Alonso.
07:42When you talk about the Italian team in the Champions League,
07:50the words are always the same.
07:53They are a very good team to defend.
07:56They are a very good team in the counter-attack.
08:00I liked being in a different team here.
08:06With time, I wanted to have a different kind of word when talking about AC Milan.
08:13We have to work hard,
08:15but we don't want to be this kind of team.
08:21I think when you talk about the Italian team in the Champions League,
08:25they are the only team that defends.
08:29We don't want to be like that.
08:31Tomorrow we will defend more.
08:34We will play against a very strong team.
08:40But when we have the ball, we want to play.
08:45I am very happy with what we have done in the league,
08:51but I am also a little curious
08:54to see the team's behaviour in other scenarios.
09:00Tomorrow will be a different game than the one we had in Serie A.
09:09Yes, my personality is a little reserved.
09:15I am a shy boy who doesn't like to talk much.
09:21When I am the captain,
09:24I talk a little more before the game and on the pitch.
09:31But my strength is to respond with my qualities,
09:35which is to help the team with goals and assists,
09:39play good games and help my team.
09:45Luigi Garlando, La Gazzetta dello Sport.
09:49Good evening.
09:51There are Italian teams that sometimes attack and not only defend.
09:55For example, Atalanta.
09:57Atalanta jumped on Bayern in the final of Dublin
10:02and stayed until the end and attacked on 3-0.
10:05It's a curiosity.
10:06It has been seen with the game
10:08and if such an attitude of continuous aggression to Milan can allow it.
10:14Yes, I watched the games.
10:22This shows how difficult Serie A is.
10:27Because Bayern Leverkusen faced a scenario that they never had here,
10:35which is pure man-to-man in all fields.
10:38And they had difficulties.
10:41Now I also watched a player, Declan Rice,
10:45after the game against Atalanta,
10:49he said it was difficult.
10:52We don't have this in England.
10:55Pure man-to-man.
10:57I think it's very difficult for this type of team,
11:03which doesn't have this scenario,
11:07which is a team of space,
11:09but when you play against a team of man-to-man,
11:12there is no space.
11:15But changing the team to play against a team of man-to-man
11:22is always difficult, as they have confirmed.
11:27What I can say is that we are not like Atalanta.
11:34We are not a team of man-to-man.
11:38We are not a team of man-to-man in all fields.
11:41We are a different team.
11:43It won't be the same to see tomorrow in Milan
11:50and to see Atalanta when they played against them,
11:56knowing that Atalanta created so many difficulties for Bayern.
12:04But if I am a coach who is not a coach of man-to-man,
12:10they know that from the first day,
12:13it's something I don't defend.
12:16I can't go and play with Bayern or Leverkusen and say I'm going to play.
12:23Now we are a team of man-to-man.
12:26It's impossible.
12:28Because it will be totally different.
12:31Fabio Conte, Area.
12:33Good evening, Paolo.
12:35I wanted to ask,
12:37is there a different way to face the Champions League now,
12:40which is different, it's a tournament in Italy,
12:42so can you do different calculations and revisions
12:45or do you have to go in just to win?
12:48Then I wanted to ask Ale something else, but I'll wait for the answer.
12:53When we prepare games, I prepare every moment.
12:58I have already said that we have to play a perfect game defensively,
13:05to win.
13:06But I also prepare the team to have the ball,
13:10to have the initiative, to attack, to score.
13:13What the game will be, I don't know.
13:17I know it will be a difficult game.
13:21Maybe we have more defensive moments,
13:24but even when we have the ball,
13:27we want to be an offensive team,
13:29a team that attacks, a team that attacks.
13:34Ale, I wanted to ask you
13:36if he showed you the beautiful things you did,
13:38or the wrong ones.
13:42He showed me the action without the ball.
13:46The positioning to close the second post,
13:51close the inside, more defensive things.
14:00Good evening, a question for Alfonso.
14:02I wanted to know what was the mistake you made against Liverpool
14:05that you don't want to see tomorrow night?
14:08I think we didn't play a good game.
14:13We made a lot of mistakes.
14:16When you make a mistake,
14:19especially defensively against this team,
14:23it's difficult.
14:25I think we made more mistakes defensively
14:33against Liverpool.
14:35I think against this type of team,
14:38we don't have a lot of chances.
14:41I think against Liverpool,
14:43we made four or five mistakes
14:47that we had to learn defensively
14:51in order to decide in the last few metres.
14:55But also in these offensive moments.
14:58Alessandro, good evening.
15:00I have two quick questions for Rafa.
15:03The first one.
15:04You're always very keen to set goals for Milan
15:08and they're usually the most ambitious ones.
15:11I want to ask you about this Milan,
15:13which you've seen reborn in the league,
15:15where can it get to in the Champions League
15:17if it can fight with the bigger teams?
15:20And another quick question,
15:21since I've read your words on Milan TV,
15:24where you say that,
15:25admiring Abraham and Morata,
15:28you want to sacrifice yourself even more for this shirt.
15:32Do you aim for a big goal tomorrow
15:35or do you aim for a lot of defensive saves?
15:42The two?
15:43Yes, starting with the first one.
15:46Where can this Milan get to?
15:48Yes, lots of things.
15:50It's better to think game by game.
15:53Tomorrow is a difficult and important game.
15:57As you said, when I spoke on Milan TV,
16:01it's important to win in the Champions League.
16:05It's a very good game.
16:08Tomorrow will be a good game for all of us.
16:12So I think winning in the Champions League is good.
16:16It gives us confidence,
16:18but it will be difficult.
16:20But the second thing,
16:23I want to win.
16:25To win, you have to make sacrifices,
16:28fight for the team,
16:30do good things.
16:31What you were saying about the cuts,
16:34they are very important in these games.
16:37Maybe one more metre in,
16:40without the ball,
16:41then I can get the ball back,
16:43go for the cross,
16:44and maybe score a goal.
16:46These things make the difference in the game.
16:50Carlo Pellegatti.
16:52A question to Paolo Fonseca.
16:55As a journalist,
16:57we like to think that you play with 4-2,
17:01then Morata, Sispo.
17:03Let's pretend.
17:04We said at the end of the 2000s,
17:072009,
17:084-2 fantasy.
17:10I would say 4-2 courage.
17:13This 4-2,
17:14let's pretend it's 4-2,
17:17how would you like to define it?
17:20Then a word to Rafa.
17:33It's not...
17:36I keep saying it's not 4-2.
17:42It can be many things.
17:44It can be many things.
17:46It depends on the moment,
17:48on the pitch,
17:50where we are playing.
17:54What I know is that
17:57it seems to me that when you talk about Morata
18:03and that we play with Morata and Abraham,
18:06we are more offensive.
18:10But we also play with them,
18:13because they work a lot defensively.
18:16I think we are stronger offensively,
18:20but we are also stronger defensively.
18:26Rafa,
18:27let's go to the week before the derby.
18:30Paolo Fonseca,
18:32whom you know but not for long,
18:34doesn't show you Inter.
18:36You say,
18:37doesn't Inter show us something about Inter?
18:39No.
18:40And you stayed like that.
18:42Then you say,
18:43we play with Pulisic,
18:45Leao,
18:46Abraham,
18:47and then Morata.
18:49What did you think?
18:51And maybe that's what charged you.
18:54We are strong, brave, let's go.
18:56Can this be a vision of this Milan that has changed?
19:00No, in my opinion,
19:03I wasn't surprised,
19:05because we already know how Inter play.
19:10The coach didn't want to put too many things on our heads.
19:16It was a game to go there and win.
19:20It doesn't matter how,
19:22you have to be more on the left, on the right.
19:25It's a derby.
19:27I haven't won a derby in two years,
19:32so it was more of a game to win.
19:37It wasn't about being the star,
19:40it was about helping the team do a good job and win.
19:45Do you have the courage of these 4-4-2?
19:48Yes, it gives us strength, of course.
19:50I think we are more compact,
19:52more of a team.
19:54We don't give space to others,
19:56to create opportunities.
20:00I personally feel more comfortable defending without the ball.
20:06I think the other defenders, the wing-backs, the midfielders,
20:11they all feel comfortable with this tactic.
20:17Let's do the last one.
20:36Do you know him?
20:38If yes, what do you think about him and the team,
20:41Bayer Leverkusen in general?
20:44Yes, I know him.
20:46He's a teammate from Chukwueze.
20:50We were talking about him this week.
20:54Of course, he's a striker,
20:58dangerous, very technical, fast.
21:03We need to watch out for him.
21:08But I think we need to be prepared for the other teams.
21:13The centre-back, the right-back, Frippong, Grimaldo,
21:18I think all the players from Bayer play very well.
21:23It will be a difficult game.
21:26But, of course, Boniface is wonderful.
21:30He's not scary, of course not,
21:34but he respects his abilities.
21:37I think we are prepared to...
21:44I don't know, to...
21:46Face it.
21:48To face it, yes.
21:49Thank you, everyone.