Ruben Amorim spoke about the type of “mentality” and mindset he always wants to see from Milan players. His team is still facing the problem of fluctuation in performance after the win against Genoa.
Milan is still an unpredictable team; A team that has been constantly fluctuating between negative and positive results and repeated the same process once again in Marasi Stadium.
The Rossoneri continued their inconsistent run with a 2-1 win at home to Genoa after a midweek defeat against Bologna, a win against Inter Milan in the derby della Madonina and a 2-0 loss to Ferencvaros in the Europa League on Thursday.
Alfajo Cisse and Christian Pulisic scored for Milan in the opening minutes of the game. The Rossoneri came under pressure after Mikel Elsertsson’s own goal and deflection, but eventually managed to hold on and end Genoa’s three-match winning streak.
Amorim said in an interview with Italy’s DAZN channel: “Once again, I am proud of my players. I said before the match that the most important issue for us is to be competitive; Because if we have this attitude in all games, we will be closer to winning every match. There are moments during the game when we change the way we play, fight for second balls and play different football. This is the sign of a great team; “A team that can play football in different ways during a match.”
The main problem for Milan is to maintain this kind of performance consistently, not just once a week. However, the Rossoneri are now fourth in the table, just five points behind league leaders Lazio.
Amorim continued: “We have the ability to win against any team, but I can’t tell you that we will achieve this goal at the end of the season; Because I still don’t feel the necessary stability in the team. I don’t want to talk more about the future. For now, I can only say that we have the ability to win the next game, but achieving that goal depends on many factors. If we have all our players, we will perform better not only in Serie A, but also in European competitions. This tournament was very difficult because of the events that happened to the team. However, I can say that we have the ability to beat any team in the league if we enter the field with all our strength and competitive spirit. So it is better to focus on this issue and move forward day by day.”
Now Milan is facing the break of national games and hopes that the conditions of the team’s injured will improve a little during this time. In this match, the Rossoneri did not have several of their players due to injuries; including Strahinia Pavlovic, Fikaio Tomori, Matteo Gabbia, Samuel Chokwueze, Ruben Loftuschik, Pietro Trachano and Alexis Salmakers.
The head coach of Milan said earlier that his team is not yet ready to compete once every three days. Milan players seem to be keeping all their motivation, passion and energy for the weekend matches.
But what exactly do we mean by being competitive? In response to this question, he said: “The matter is related to the mentality and way of thinking of the players. When you play for Milan, there is no day for mental rest. You can’t lose focus like we did against Ferencvaros on Thursday and then come back with full strength on Sunday. This is not possible and such an approach will not work. This is not a physical issue; Rather, it is related to having that sense of anxiety and worry about failure. I don’t mean that players should be afraid of losing, but they should feel that losing is the end of the world. This is exactly the mentality I want to see in my team. Everything depends on this.”
Goncalo Ramos once again played a role in both of Milan’s goals, but still failed to score or assist himself. Amorim said about the situation of the Portuguese striker of his team: “When a striker does not score, the situation becomes difficult for him. But we don’t spend a lot of time in the final third. We have a lot of possession, but when we can reach the final third of the opponent’s field more often, Goncalo Ramos will score a lot of goals. This is a team problem. The way we play at the moment is not helping Ramos, while he is helping the team. This is a gradual process and we should reach a point where Ramos spends about 60% of his time on the field inside the opponent’s penalty area. But we haven’t reached that stage yet.”
See: Video Summary of the game Genoa 1 – Milan 2/ Twenty minutes was enough for the victory
