AC Milan midfielder Yunus Musah believes that the team looked ‘dangerous’ against Parma but it was undone by the bad work on the defensive end.
Milan were hoping to right the wrongs from Saturday night’s draw against Torino at San Siro, but instead they ended up conceding twice again and both times they were left wide open in transition.
Paulo Fonseca’s side found themselves behind inside two minutes as Valeri outpaced Davide Calabria and provided a perfect low ball across the box to Dennis Man, and the Romanian applied a powerful finish having beaten Theo to the ball.
Parma re-took the lead with 13 minutes left and it came after a sloppy giveaway from Leao. A ball out to the left found Almqvist who simply had to roll a ball past Tomori and Pavlovic to Cancellieri, and the first-time finish got the better of Maignan. They would hang on to win the game 2-1.
Musah spoke to Milan TV to try and assess what was a difficult night for the team and one that they have to quickly put behind them, with his comments relayed by MilanNews.
How do you think the performance went?
“I think we were a dangerous team, but we have to correct things defensively and it’s a collective job we have to do.”
Are you confident about a reaction from the next few games?
“I’m confident, many of us have been here since last year and we have the right experience for this season. There are some details to correct, going forward we will improve.”
Pavlovic was a positive note…
“I’m happy with his performance today, he helped me a lot, he was aggressive and recovered a lot of balls.”
Musah spoke to DAZN after the game as well, with his comments again relayed by MilanNews.
It was a complicated first half trying to find the balance between pressing and covering…
“Sometimes I was in doubt whether to press or stay back. Then I went aggressive and let the central defenders take on those behind me and we managed to be more aggressive and recover more balls.”
What difficulties did you encounter?
“We were dangerous with the ball, we were in good shape. When we lost the ball we were immediately exposed defensively and we have to improve this. We can’t have so much control and then when the others recover the ball make them be so dangerous.”
Do the same defensive difficulties as last season exist?
“With the ball we felt good, defensively at times we felt exposed. We have to improve this, we can’t be so exposed in the counterattack”.
