‘Milan made Atalanta suffer, penalty is modern football’

Gian Piero Gasperini acknowledges Milan ‘made Atalanta endure’ for a degree at San Siro and he too struggles to defend the penalty name. ‘They are saying that is fashionable soccer.’

La Dea had received 5 in a row going into this match, however have been already a objective down by the third minute when Rafael Leao nutmegged two gamers to twist into the far high nook.

“We conceded after what felt like 30 seconds on a scenario that we had labored on through the week, as a result of we knew that was one in every of Milan’s strengths,” Gasperini told DAZN.

Had been Atalanta shocked by Stefano Pioli’s midfield set-up, particularly the place taken by Ismael Bennacer?

“It’s pure that every one groups have completely different options and Milan do sometimes play with a three-man midfield. We didn’t anticipate Bennacer to be there, generally Loftus-Cheek is on the proper. We inverted Ederson’s place with that of De Roon, in order that definitely didn’t have an effect on our efficiency.”

Marco Carnesecchi made a sequence of nice saves and Teun Koopmeiners transformed a penalty to equalise, awarded by way of VAR after Olivier Giroud mistimed the clearance to catch Emil Holm on the arm and chest.

“Milan put in an excellent efficiency, we struggled tonight, however managed to carry house a degree amongst nice issue. This was definitely our hardest match of current months and the credit score goes to Milan for that.”

Charles De Ketelaere was substituted at half-time by the returning Ademola Lookman, however Gianluca Scamacca disenchanted by losing a late counter-attack.

“We won’t at all times face Milan, each recreation has its personal story. We suffered tonight, however getting a degree in these circumstances will increase our confidence. We hope the following video games shall be higher.”

Atalanta shall be again at San Siro on Wednesday night time for the rescheduled Serie A Week 21 fixture towards leaders Inter.

This consequence means they’ve misplaced fourth place to Bologna, however proceed their spectacular unbeaten run.

Pioli was livid on the penalty name, particularly as Holm put his fingers to his face when there was completely no contact there, and even Gasperini struggled to defend the choice.

“Orsato went to view it on VAR. We’ve seen a variety of these VAR penalties this season. I’ve by no means been in favour of this sort of penalty, however they’ve turn out to be frequent. Plus we’ve bought credit score with Milan in the case of penalties, so it turned our method this time.

“Individuals say it’s fashionable soccer, favoured additionally by your tv protection that tends to take pleasure in specializing in this type of factor. It’s actually not one thing individuals of my technology recognise, however there you go.”

This is the penalty determination towards Olivier Giroud that value AC Milan three factors on the San Siro…

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