CARNAGO (VARESE) (ITALPRESS) – “It’s as important a game as any but not a decisive one. It’s not more important than the one after with Empoli, but it’s still a different game. I am always positive and I think we can win, we have a lot of respect for Juve but not fear, we are Milan.” Paulo Fonseca thus presents tomorrow afternoon’s challenge at the Meazza against the Bianconeri. “I like Juve a lot, they are a totally different team than last year, they like to play, offensively they are strong: the most influential players are the outside players,” warns the Rossoneri coach, who is also ready to see Weah as center forward instead of Vlahovic. “I know him well since he worked with me at Lille although not as a striker. Anyway he and Vlahovic are different players, Tim is a fast, depth player.” Fresh from his meeting with Sinner (“it was a pleasure to support a Milanist like him”), the Portuguese coach admires in the tennis player “many good things that I would like to see in our team. He has an impressive ability to concentrate, he almost never makes mistakes because he is always very focused. I would like to see the same thing in my Milan.” That this season he has not missed the big dates, as if he does not feel the pressure. “It’s not a question of pressure as much as motivation: against Inter, Juve or Real it’s easy to be motivated, it’s more difficult then to go to Cagliari and have the same motivation, that’s what we’re looking for. The pressure is there every day, if we didn’t want it we wouldn’t have to be here.” And in this regard, Fonseca agrees with Ibra “when he says we need to find a better balance. In my opinion it’s a matter of concentration and attitude, the way we see matches against the small ones. For me it is a mental issue but we are working on it, we are talking about it with the players.” Having an extra Morata will help a lot but “we cannot be dependent on one player, what the team does counts. Then if the team is good, the players will do better individually. We want to be an offensive team but Juve is strong defensively, they are the team that has taken fewer goals. It will be a difficult game offensively. Tactical setting like in Madrid? It will be a different game. Juve defensively today is stronger than Real.” But can this Milan team still be in the running for the Scudetto? “The players make me believe that we can be the team we would like to be, they are working well and this makes me be positive,” he guarantees, “I feel that slowly we are improving, we are progressing, we are following the path to be a stronger team. – photo Ipa Agency -(ITALPRESS).
