AC Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri maintain
that his Milan side “played well” against Juventus and defended Philippe Mexes. “It wasn’t a punch.”
The Rossoneri took
the lead after 19 seconds, but eventually lost 3-2and are 13 points adrift of
leaders Roma.
“At this moment
talking about objectives is almost impossible. We need to get our players back,
take it one game at a time and try to climb up the table,” he told Sky Sport
Italia.
“It was a good
performance, though we made a few mistakes and allowedJuventus too
many chances. Both sides did well tonight, but we made more errors than they
did.”
Mexes was
sent off for two yellow cards, but should’ve seen red earlier for punching
Giorgio Chiellini on
the back of the head during a corner.
“It wasn’t a punch, it
was a tussle in the box and he hit him on the back. If you want to call it a
punch, then call it that, but there are a thousand different fouls like that in
the box. He didn’t even catch his face. It was absolutely not a punch.”
The Milan defender may
face a lengthy ban using video evidence, particularly as he is not new to this
sort of behaviour.
“On the first goal we
lost the ball in our own half and sparked a counter, forced to give the free
kick. It’s normal between two quality sides that a mistake will be paid for.
“I’d say overall in
terms of performance the team allowed little to Juventus, though we should’ve closed down their
long-range shooters earlier.
“It’s a long season,
there is time to recover and we will do everything possible to achieve that.
We’ll see before the Christmas break where we are.
“The table right now
says we have eight points and so that means we deserve eight points. You don’t
have to be a scientist to see Milan aren’t doing well when they only have eight
points.”
Andrea Pirlo was
man of the match, but Allegri was visibly irritated at being asked
about the player he let go.
“I’ve been asked this
question for four years, it’d be nice to change it once in a while. Andrea is a
champion, he hit some wonderful free kicks, but he left Milan three years ago.
He left for several different reasons, not because there was no space.
“It gets boring to say
the same things over and over again. Nobody doubtsPirlo is
talented, but then we’d have to talk about all our former players.”
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