Arrigo Sacchi gave an interview to La Gazzetta dello Sport in which he also spoke about AC Milan. These are the words of Sacchi, who dwelt on yesterday's match against Monza and how the team of Stefano Pioli palyed:
"After a few performances like this, Milan seem to be a collective again. Not so much for the round result with which they beat Monza, a team that has improved and has good ideas, but for the order and organisation that the Rossoneri showed especially in the first half."
Sacchi added:
"In modern football, it is necessary that there are eleven players always in an active position, both in the possession phase and in the non-possession phase. Sometimes, I have noticed too much distance between the departments, an error to be corrected quickly: if you are far away and disconnected you cannot press, you cannot double mark, there is no communication and you get into difficulty. Let's take Hernandez: it is right that he unhooks and goes on the attack, but he doesn't have to be a wingman. Or, if he plays the winger, there must be a midfielder covering him. Otherwise it is always outnumbered and Tomori is forced to widen to play the full-back, thus leaving the other central defensive only against the opposing forwards. Milan must always reason as a collective, as a single block."
On Brahim Diaz:
"Brahim Diaz has shown that he is in great shape, too bad he was injured and will probably not be available for Tuesday's Champions League match."
Sacchi on the next Champions League match on Tuesday against Dinamo Zagreb:
"In Zagreb, it will be a battle: Dinamo will make a ferocious pressing, they will attack with their heads down and then Milan will have to keep their nerve, not react to some provocation that surely will be there and respond blow for blow. The Rossoneri must take control of the game and dominate the field."
Sacchi on Charles De Ketelaere:
"Pioli will probably trust De Ketelaere who, however, seems disheartened to me. It must not be discouraged: all the foreigners, even the greatest champions, struggled in their first year in Italy."
