Fonseca questions Milan squad´s commitment despite Red Star win - Soccer News

[ad_1] Milan head coach Paulo Fonseca slammed his gamers for his or her lack of effort regardless of beating Purple Star Belgrade 2-1 within the Champions League on Wednesday.

Tammy Abraham struck the profitable objective within the 87th minute for the Rossoneri after Rafael Leao’s effort had been cancelled out by Nemanja Radonjic’s beautiful effort.

Milan dominated proceedings on the San Siro for a lot of the competition, registering an anticipated targets (xG) complete of two.13 from their 20 pictures to their opponents’ 0.48.

The end result additionally noticed Milan earn a fourth consecutive win within the competitors for the primary time since a run of 5 victories between February and April 2005.

Nonetheless, regardless of his aspect shifting as much as twelfth within the 36-team standings with two video games remaining, Fonseca had some stern phrases for his squad after the sport.

“I've to speak to the group. I don’t wish to discuss an excessive amount of, I wish to analyse (the sport), however there are issues which might be clear to me,” Fonseca advised Sky Sports activities.

“It’s not a tactical or technical difficulty – we arrive right here to a decisive match for us, and having this sense of not doing every little thing to win the match is the worst feeling we may have.”

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With Purple Star managing only one win from their 5 video games heading into the encounter on the San Siro, they created a number of probabilities to take the lead within the second half.

However that objective by no means got here for Vladan Milojevic’s aspect, who've now misplaced all 12 of their away Champions League matches, the worst away document by any aspect within the historical past of the competitors.

Nonetheless, their show left Fonseca with a lot to ponder forward of Milan dealing with Genoa on their return to Serie A motion this weekend, even questioning his aspect’s dedication.