The first round of Milan-Naples goes to the Rossoneri and for Luciano Spalletti it’s already time to look at the match in six days at Maradona to overturn the result and earn the semi-final of the Champions League. In the heat, however, the coach complained about some situations he didn’t like at San Siro, especially from the referee in managing the cards: «I wanted to make three substitutions, two had already been decided, I hesitated about the third, but it was already smelling like replacement. I have to be careful of these things knowing the dynamics, then you can talk about the management of the tags – his words to Amazon Prime -. The yellow I asked? I was asking for Krunic, he made a foul worse than Zielinski, who was booked. They are Italian things, I don’t talk about the referee. What I saw tonight, the free bomb for everyone, will go down in football history ».
Spalletti and anger with Di Canio for Leao’s failure to book
Spalletti on Sky, however, has pressed Paul DiCanio who spoke of a “striking gesture” on the occasion of Kim’s yellow card. “So since you’re talking about grand gestures, tell me about the flag. More striking than this… All the children in the world who watch the game are told ‘You can strike the flags because nothing is done to you, go and kick everything around the field’. You come to tell me about Kim’s admonition. I’m not asking you anything, it’s you who has to comment on what you see». In fact, Leao destroyed the corner flag with a kick in the first half after a missed goal opportunity.
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“What I saw at Maradona against Milan I’ll never be able to understand: if it happens in the second leg, I’ll leave the bench and go home.” Luciano Spalletti does not digest what happened in the league against the Rossoneri, with the protest of the fans and «an all against all that I will never be able to understand and I will always carry with me, because it is inexplicable. We haven’t won for 33 years and yet what I saw in our stadium I don’t understand. My players are sensitive and they haven’t been helped by this.” Spalletti also refers to the atmosphere at San Siro: «Playing a match in an atmosphere like tonight’s gives further credit to my players, who had the correct reaction and entered the field with the attitude of a tough team»
