Following his team's loss against AC Milan earlier tonight, AS Roma head coach Paulo Fonseca has spoken about the game through the microphones of Sky:
On the match:
"We got in very badly today, the situations that Milan created were all born from turnovers in our first phase of construction. We missed the first 20 minutes, we were passive and against a team like Milan it is difficult to recover. Then we recovered and had chances, but we missed the first 20 minutes."
On the referee:
"I don't want to talk about the referee. It's easy to find excuses, there's something I didn't like but I don't want to make excuses."
On Rebic's winning goal:
"It is difficult, it is clear that Pau is alone and without pressure. It is difficult for Mancini to do more, he was open. It's about Rebic and our demerit in the first moment. When there are these kinds of mistakes, and we've had a lot of them against the big teams, it's hard to catch up. And it was the moment of the game when we were better off."
On whether did he expect Milan like this:
"When we entered, the team lost so many balls on the way out that allowed Milan to go out quickly on the counterattack, they recovered the ball near our area when the team was open. We have been passive individually. In the second half we were losing and it was normal that there were more spaces for Milan. In the first half we lost a lot of balls."
On Milan's rapidity:
"We know that when they recover the ball they are very quick to come out. They have players who carry the ball well and we cannot miss this moment of the match."
On whether there is a technical or mental limit in big matches:
"No, when we are wrong we are all wrong. It doesn't just happen due to individual mistakes, we didn't do well in the first phase of construction and we didn't decide well. It is difficult to understand, some details are always missing against the big teams, we cannot escape from this. These are matters of detail in my opinion."
