Roberto Mancini left the following comments to Sky after the game:”I comfort myself by looking at the way we played, we tried to win but we didn’t succeed. Milan defended well and they were lucky, when that happens there’s not much you can do. This year is like that, let’s hope that next year is different. The bad luck, the penalties not given, let’s hope they fall to our favour next season. The players did everything they could. We suffered a bit when Milan attacked on the break, at half time I told Mateo that he was too slow when covering up his wing, we had to back off a little and Milan won some ground. Juan Jesus also made an unintelligent tackle and I told him so. Kovacic had a good game in my opinion, when you are as young as he is you need to understand where to go on the pitch, when to stop, when to take your time, it will take a while to learn. I think that he is a mezzala, but he is good enough to play any role in midfield.
A head coach who arrives in november will have some difficulties, he takes over a team that he doesn’t know too well, errors will be made but I thought I would have 6-7 points more than we have at this stage and be able to fight for third place. My own mistakes and those of the team have forced us to understand a few things, and then we have lost some absurd games because of bad luck, we could have been up there. If I am satisfied right now? For me the penalty on Hernanes was clear, last Sunday the referee had no problems seeing the penalty for Verona, you have to understand what people talk about at work on Monday mornings, now it’s better to go home and rest because to do otherwise doesn’t help anyone. I have not said anything until now but tonight I can’t keep quiet. The own goal was correctly disallowed, but the penalty…”.
Source: FcInterNews.it
