Ranieri: ‘Cagliari players wasted chance to prove me wrong’

Claudio Ranieri tried to cover his frustration after Cagliari capitulated 4-1 to Milan within the Coppa Italia. ‘Some gamers wasted an opportunity to show I used to be unsuitable about them.’

Each Ranieri and Stefano Pioli fielded fully revamped line-ups for the Spherical of 16 tie at San Siro this night, however regardless of fielding quite a few youngsters, the Rossoneri nonetheless comfortably ran out winners.

“I’m very upset,” Ranieri informed Mediaset.

“We had began fairly nicely, however then on the first aim we conceded, we simply melted like snow within the sunshine. For a staff that’s preventing for Serie A survival, that type of angle will not be ok.

“You possibly can lose to Milan, however no less than make them sweat for it… Some gamers wasted an opportunity to show I used to be unsuitable about them, to indicate that I ought to think about them for extra taking part in time.”

Essentially the most damning aim for Ranieri was when Antoine Makoumbou was caught napping within the opposition remaining third by Theo Hernandez, who sprinted the size of the pitch to arrange Luka Jovic.

“It’s worrying to see that of all of the objectives now we have conceded this season, only a few of them are actually nice strikes. Now we have too many distractions, errors, lack of sharpness.

“I’m making an attempt to cover my frustration, however I’m indignant, it’s true. I anticipated a greater response from those that don’t get to play as a lot, however they floundered so shortly. You can’t lose like that.”

It was introduced earlier than kick-off that Gianluca Lapadula shall be out for some time after he was identified with two cracked ribs.