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00:00Good morning, Milan Empoli press conference, Mauro Suma for Milan TV.
00:04Thank you Nicola, good morning coach.
00:06Good morning.
00:07Coach, the most used term when we talk about Milan every day, every minute, is balance.
00:14Can balance, as you say, be a synthesis between the defensive phase of Milan Juve and the offensive phase of Slovan Milan?
00:24Yes, that's what we want.
00:26There have been two different games, with different defensive moments.
00:35With Juve, more moments of organisation.
00:39With Bratislava, more moments of transition.
00:44But we try to have a balance.
00:48Sometimes it seems to me that we improve on some things and then other things arise that are more difficult for us.
00:59But we are working on something that for me is not important.
01:06Because if you win, you have to think that everything is fine.
01:11You don't have to close your eyes to the problems.
01:14That's what I did this week.
01:17We won, Bratislava was the main thing.
01:21It was very, very important.
01:23I liked it.
01:25But we had defensive moments that I can't close my eyes to.
01:33We talked, we worked to improve on those moments.
01:40Pepe Di Stefano, Sky News.
01:42Don't close your eyes to the problems.
01:44What is the biggest problem?
01:46You talked about the defensive phase.
01:48In your opinion, is it more a psychological thing or a tactical thing?
01:54Because the team has these characteristics.
01:56You are someone who talks a lot.
01:59What do the players think?
02:02Sometimes the problems arise with the matches.
02:11For example, the last match against Juve.
02:19We worked a lot on the defensive side.
02:23The team was good in that moment.
02:28Now we had a transition team.
02:32We had problems.
02:34But they understand the problem.
02:36The problem for me is...
02:40I have to say something else.
02:42We are always talking about the defensive problem.
02:45That the team gets a lot of goals.
02:48I can't forget to say this.
02:50We are the fifth defense in the league.
02:53We got a lot of goals.
02:56For example, Inter or Lazio.
02:59Less than Atalanta.
03:04Sometimes we make the problem a monster.
03:10We want to improve.
03:12We are always working to improve.
03:14The players are doing well to improve.
03:20Sometimes there are things that are not tactical.
03:25The problem of Bratislava is not tactical.
03:30It's about reading the moment.
03:33Sometimes it's an individual moment.
03:35This is something we work a lot on.
03:38We continue to work on reading individual moments.
03:44Individual technique.
03:46When we have to defend an individual situation.
03:50But we are working.
03:52The players understand this.
03:56For me, as I said, it's important to work on the problem.
04:01It's not that we won and everything is fine.
04:04No.
04:05The problem is here.
04:06We have to show it.
04:07We work to improve this.
04:10What I feel is that the problem we had in the game.
04:17When we work on it, the team has a positive response.
04:21I expect that now we can continue this positive response to the problem.
04:27The second and last question is about the offensive phase.
04:32We have seen many versions of Milan.
04:36One of the best is the one with the two points.
04:41With Morata and Ebram.
04:43Is it possible to do it again?
04:45I don't know if it's possible tomorrow.
04:47Is it an idea you had?
04:49It's still in my head.
04:51This possibility.
04:54When we need to do it against a structure.
05:01I think we have the advantage of using these two points.
05:08It's always a possibility in this team.
05:13Federica Zille from Soto.
05:15Good afternoon, coach.
05:17Why can't Milan use the technical gap against the opposition?
05:22They can win games with Slovenia, Bratislava, Udinese, Monza, Cagliarini.
05:28You always need to score one more than the opposition.
05:30There's never a clear win.
05:32Tomorrow's game will be against this type of opposition.
05:35Are you worried about Milan not being able to dominate?
05:40It's not easy.
05:43It's hard to dominate against Empoli.
05:55It's hard to dominate against Atalanta.
06:00Because of the characteristics of the other teams.
06:03What we want is this balance.
06:06We always have the possibility to do it.
06:12The team creates to do it.
06:14The team is doing it.
06:16What we want is this balance.
06:20To feel that the team creates the opportunity.
06:23To feel the defensive security.
06:27To continue to do the same.
06:30For example, in Bratislava.
06:33We had an excellent opportunity to do this.
06:39We scored.
06:42It was the opportunity to dominate the game with the ball.
06:46To have this confidence to continue.
06:49But we suffered another situation.
06:53The team took this moment.
06:58I think the most important thing is to find this balance.
07:02Between the offensive and defensive moments.
07:06Francesco Rocchi, Rai.
07:08Good morning.
07:10In light of the month of November.
07:13Do you agree that Leo is better on the pitch than on the bench?
07:20Now yes.
07:22Now yes.
07:30The coach has different strategies.
07:33It seems to me.
07:36Because I've only played four games.
07:39I've used two.
07:42One didn't work.
07:45I think the other one worked.
07:48I'm very happy that Rafa reacted like this.
07:55To be on the bench.
08:00But I want to continue.
08:02I want to continue.
08:04The team needs this Rafa.
08:09Marco Guidi, Gazzetta dello Sport.
08:12Good afternoon.
08:14The first one was about two strategies.
08:17One was to keep Rafa on the bench.
08:22The other one didn't work.
08:25I can't say.
08:27I can't say.
08:30Let's talk about tomorrow's choices.
08:33Empoli is a team that defends very well.
08:36They don't concede much.
08:38They have a goalkeeper that you know.
08:41Milanello too.
08:43What does Milan need to do?
08:45Compared to the game against Slovakia?
08:47Compared to other home games?
08:49Against teams on paper?
08:55We can say that...
08:59Here in Italy, teams need to have two attacking sides.
09:10If we face Juve and Slovakia, it's one side.
09:20Now we need another side to face Empoli and Atalanta.
09:28Which side?
09:35I have to say that there are two different ways to attack.
09:43When we face a team like Empoli,
09:45they are more important than Juve.
09:51Which are the important things?
09:53I don't think I can say.
09:59For me, this is very clear.
10:02When we face Empoli tomorrow, it will be very difficult.
10:07They are a good team.
10:10They are very aggressive when defending.
10:13They don't concede.
10:15I think they are the second...
10:17No.
10:19The fourth defence in this moment.
10:25It will be difficult.
10:27We have to play with this face.
10:29For this type of game.
10:31Daniele Longo.
10:33Good morning, coach.
10:35At the beginning of October, during a press conference,
10:38you underlined the need to find a central defender.
10:42You said you had found one in Gabbia and Tomori.
10:47In the last few weeks,
10:49have you found a central defender?
10:51Is it because of Matteo's injury?
10:56Is it because everyone is doing well?
11:01Or are you worried about the nine points?
11:06At this moment, it is clear to me that I have a doubt.
11:11How do you say it?
11:13A doubt.
11:17It is more stable than anything else.
11:22But we also have to understand that we have a lot of games.
11:27We cannot play with ourselves.
11:30Matteo was injured.
11:34He played a game.
11:36It was difficult for him to play after the injury.
11:42I am aware that it is important to have the same players on the defensive.
11:52The problem is that we have a lot of games.
11:56And since we had this problem with Matteo,
12:02we have to manage it.
12:09This management is almost mandatory.
12:14And we are happy.
12:21You don't talk much about this.
12:24But we don't have a lot of injuries.
12:27I don't like to talk.
12:30I don't like to talk.
12:32What we see here in our team is very positive.
12:39It is because we do this management.
12:44We need it at this moment.
12:46How many games do we have until the end of the year?
12:56Nine points?
12:57Yes.
12:58I can't say anything else.
13:02I would have liked to have more points.
13:05But it is still very positive.
13:08Franco Ordine, Il Giornale.
13:12Good afternoon, coach.
13:14I wanted to say this.
13:16You said that when you train specifically for the defensive phase,
13:23the players understand.
13:26The first goal you scored against Bratislava
13:32seems identical to the one you scored against Udinese
13:39when Reinders was sent off.
13:43If you always make the same mistake,
13:50and in this case it was a corner kick,
13:53no one can raise their hand or shout at someone
13:59and say,
14:00why did you go 9-10 up front and cover your backs?
14:05Is there anyone missing who speaks to the team on the pitch?
14:16It seems to be the same situation.
14:20At the end of the day, we saw Tigi running after the player.
14:26It seems, but it's totally different.
14:29The situation is totally different.
14:32There is no comparison.
14:34A situation is played,
14:37it comes from other things.
14:39This situation is a solid pass,
14:43a corner kick,
14:44and we have three players ready for this moment.
14:53It's an individual choice.
14:55It was an individual choice.
15:01I can, or someone on the pitch can speak,
15:10but this is an individual choice.
15:13Even if Mike says,
15:15get ready,
15:18do you see this situation?
15:20Yes.
15:21But then it's the result of an individual choice.
15:27It's a totally different situation.
15:30At the end of the day, because it was Tigi who was in the box,
15:35the result is the same.
15:39But it's a totally different situation.
15:43Fabio Conte, Area.
15:44Good evening, Paolo.
15:46Good evening.
15:47It struck me that the two goals in Bratislava
15:51were made with space in front.
15:54Having points like Pulisic and Leao,
15:58who are very fast,
15:59having space obviously favours the team.
16:04What do you mean by dominating?
16:07Can you dominate more compactly in midfield,
16:10leaving more space in front for our faster players
16:15and, perhaps,
16:17presiding over the back-line a bit more?
16:23What I'm wondering is,
16:28I don't know if I understood correctly,
16:31if we can't stay behind to have more space for these players.
16:36I think that in this match,
16:38in the last match, we had two moments.
16:43It's true that in this last match
16:49we were a team that was ahead in several moments,
16:54because Bratislava was a team that defended with 10 players in front of the box,
17:00but we scored two goals with space.
17:03One with Cristian and the other with Rafa.
17:10It's ideal to have two moments.
17:12It's ideal to understand that when we get the ball back,
17:16we have a player who can come out fast.
17:21When we can't,
17:23we stay with the ball,
17:24the other team is behind,
17:27so we have to attack.
17:31It's an organised attack, as we call it.
17:35But, honestly,
17:38the goals we score are more with space,
17:42and the team has that,
17:44than with a positional attack,
17:46an organised attack in the last 30 metres.
17:51I think we have both.
17:54The goals we normally score are with a lot of space,
17:58to get the ball back,
18:00and to have space in the defensive line.
18:04Antonello Gioia.
18:05Good afternoon, coach.
18:06Thanks.
18:07I'll take advantage of your lucidity to ask you an extra question.
18:10Last week, there was a bit of a commotion,
18:12with images of Guardiola with scratches on his face and nose.
18:18Is it an underrated problem
18:20that the coaches are always under so much pressure,
18:24under so much stress?
18:26Some things are a bit exaggerated,
18:28but they can happen.
18:30The coach is always the one who has to deal with everything,
18:33and has to move forward.
18:37We can't escape this pressure,
18:40when we're in a club like AC Milan,
18:44or like City.
18:48I don't know what happened.
18:51I don't think anyone knows what happened.
18:56But...
18:59Being here means having pressure at all times.
19:04Having pressure every day.
19:06Having pressure, not just outside of you,
19:09with the press,
19:11with the fans,
19:13in here, with the players.
19:17Because we're a team that always has to win.
19:21This pressure...
19:22That's what I'm saying.
19:24If we don't want this pressure,
19:26we can't be here,
19:28at this level.
19:35It can be otherwise,
19:37but I don't think so.
19:40I have to say, it's a lot of pressure.
19:43You feel it every minute,
19:46every day.
19:50That's how it is.
19:52I always say,
19:54football is for strong people.
19:59Either we're strong,
20:01or if we're not,
20:03we can't play football.
20:05At this level.
20:13You said it could change in defence,
20:16and that helped the players not get injured.
20:20There's a player in midfield
20:22who's playing every day, Fofana.
20:24Do you have the idea of replacing him
20:27in this game,
20:28since he's out,
20:29and next time he'll play Atalanta?
20:31Or will he stay at the hotel?
20:33At the hotel.
20:36He's not at the hotel, he's here, in Milan.
20:39No,
20:41I can't take that risk right now.
20:45Not to use Fofana.
20:50The next game is the most important.
20:54I expect
20:58Fofana to play a smart game,
21:02to not get injured,
21:04but if we need to.
21:07Honestly,
21:09what worries me is not Fofana,
21:13at the moment.
21:17If Fofana makes a mistake,
21:19he makes a mistake.
21:20I hope the others don't make a mistake,
21:22at the moment.
21:25Stefano Bressi.
21:26Good afternoon, coach.
21:29We've often spoken about a process
21:32that Milan are going through to improve.
21:35Let's look at the table.
21:37In the first six,
21:39I see four teams
21:41that have changed their coach.
21:43They've changed a lot.
21:44I thank you for talking about this.
21:47Let's talk about it.
21:49They've changed a lot.
21:50Which teams?
21:51Napoli, Juventus, Fiorentina and Lazio.
21:56Four out of six have changed.
21:58They've changed the way they play.
22:01In general,
22:02they've come from a more complicated situation.
22:04Does this justification
22:07for the process of change
22:10mean that the season
22:13is starting to fall apart?
22:19First of all,
22:21I'm sure that we'll be ahead
22:25of some of these teams.
22:27But let's talk about this team.
22:32First of all,
22:34I have to start with us.
22:37We started the pre-season
22:41with 15 players and the kids.
22:46We went to the United States
22:48and things were great.
22:51We started eight days
22:55before the first game
23:00with the other players.
23:02They were the most influential players in the team.
23:07They were in Europe.
23:15Eight days.
23:17I arrived and trained four or five days
23:23before the first game.
23:25After that,
23:26we never had time to train.
23:31This is the truth.
23:33We're slowly,
23:36in the little time we have,
23:39and I have to say
23:41that we're improving
23:43in terms of training.
23:47But when you change so much,
23:49it's more difficult.
23:52It doesn't seem to me
23:54that these teams,
23:57not Napoli,
23:58because Napoli is a different case,
24:01have had a pre-season
24:03without almost all the players
24:05who play at the moment.
24:08It's four or five weeks of training.
24:11It's very important when you change.
24:16I have to say that
24:19one of these teams
24:21plays in a competition
24:23that is not the Champions League.
24:27They can change during the week.
24:30We can talk a lot about this.
24:35I don't think we need to talk about Napoli
24:39because they have a new coach
24:42but they have a whole week to work.
24:46This is a different case.
24:49And then we have two teams
24:52that are very strong,
24:54like Inter and Atalanta.
24:59How many years of training
25:01with the same coach?
25:04We can understand if we want.
25:07Things are like this.
25:09If we just want to see the result,
25:11I'm the first to say
25:13that we need to have more.
25:22Good afternoon, coach.
25:24I wanted to ask
25:25if you heard Ibrahimovic's words
25:27about Ben Nasser
25:28and if you're calm
25:30about the second half
25:32of the Algerian season
25:34and his physical condition.
25:38Yes, we're waiting for Ben Nasser.
25:42We're waiting for him to recover
25:45for the second half of the season
25:48and maybe he can be an important player for us.
25:54We're confident about his recovery.
25:59The last one.
26:00Carlo Pelegatti.
26:01Good afternoon.
26:03I can't do both of them
26:04but please be kind.
26:06What he does in the last half
26:08is very difficult.
26:12Why?
26:14I don't know.
26:16I wanted to ask you this.
26:18Can you tell us
26:20what you can tell us
26:23about tomorrow's game
26:26in terms of training,
26:28formation,
26:29schemes,
26:30players,
26:31what you can tell us.
26:32If you don't want to,
26:33it's up to you.
26:35I'll start with the question
26:37and you can finish with the training.
26:39It's great to start right away
26:42with Pioli already successful
26:44because there's less pressure.
26:47Lempoli is a very difficult game
26:51also because you can't make mistakes.
26:54You can equalise or lose
26:56with confidence in the scudetto
26:58but it would become a titanic game.
27:01This pressure
27:03and the fact that all the games
27:05are inside and outside
27:07for example in the Champions League
27:09you don't have that
27:10because it's a different game
27:12and you're well placed in the table.
27:15We were in Madrid under pressure.
27:18If we don't win in Madrid...
27:22I wanted to understand
27:23how you manage all the games
27:25inside and outside.
27:27I can say that I'm an expert
27:30in moments of pressure
27:33because since the first day I've been here
27:35all the games have been like this.
27:39For me, there's nothing new
27:41in tomorrow's game.
27:43It's the same pressure I've had.
27:48The players too.
27:50The players too.
27:53We all know that we have to win tomorrow
27:57and that we have to win with Sassuolo
27:59and Atalanta.
28:02Honestly, I don't feel any more pressure
28:06than I did in the other games.
28:11It's the same.
28:14I'm not good at myself
28:16because I'm the first one
28:18to put this pressure on me.
28:23It's not different.
28:24What's the difference between
28:25the pressure from the first, second
28:27or eighth and ninth?
28:29Seventh.
28:32It's a different pressure
28:34to be in the lead.
28:37That's why I say that I'm an expert.
28:39I wasn't there.
28:40I was just...
28:43Yes, yes.
28:44But I really like being there
28:46rather than here.
28:47The most difficult is now
28:49for the teams that are behind.
28:52This is a very different pressure.
28:54Very different.
28:57The pressure to win is much better.
29:01But of course it's different
29:03when we're there
29:07in the first place.
29:10There's always pressure.
29:12If the team is in the first place
29:15even Napoli feel a lot of pressure
29:17because they're behind
29:19with one point.
29:20There's always pressure.
29:23There's always pressure.
29:24OK, for me
29:26it's a different pressure from Napoli.
29:30Obviously.
29:32But I've always felt that
29:34when I'm here.
29:36I have to say
29:38you work a lot here
29:41but I always sleep very well.
29:46I don't sleep many hours
29:48but the hours I sleep,
29:50I always sleep well.
29:52Yes, yes.
29:53I like to sleep a bit more
29:56but I have a one-year-old
29:58and sometimes I don't.
30:00It's the only way not to sleep well.
30:05Yes, but we're there together.
30:09It's not easy.
30:11The team, the team.
30:18I can't say anything.
30:21But in one hour
30:24you'll know the team.
30:26I know.
30:27In one hour
30:28you'll know the team.
30:32Not for me.
30:33I'm not the one talking.
30:38What's a coup de théâtre?
30:39A coup de théâtre.
30:40What Letizia said the other day.
30:43A dry run.
30:45Maybe.
30:47Maybe it's something different.
30:51Good work.
30:53See you later.
30:57See you later.