Italian journalist Francesco Letizia spoke as follows on his YouTube channel while commenting on Milan’s 2-0 victory in Udine:
“We are happy, we are satisfied, we are calm. We really needed this evening. It was by no means a foregone conclusion, not at all, because I was incredibly afraid: the irrational fear of someone who has been burned by explosions. In the last 120 minutes of play, we were 5-0 down, the last 30 minutes against Atalanta and the 90 against Bournemouth."
"It was a difficult week, an extremely tough one, in which the significant absences of Diego Moreira, Mario Gila and Adrien Rabiot seemed to have dealt us the final blow. And we arrived at this match with everyone feeling extremely low. When the official line-up came out, we also had to spend energy trying to understand how they would line up on the pitch. Personally, I had guessed that it would be a 4-2-3-1, with Bartesaghi deployed further forward."
"I have to say, and I am revealing this behind-the-scenes detail because I like being honest, that we were really worried. Instead, we have to acknowledge that we played a beautiful match and that the coach evidently came up with a brilliant idea, one that deserves to be studied to understand how it can be developed further and used again in the future."
If I have been critical of Ruben Amorim this week, now, we have to give the coach great credit, because he got the match right, got the line-up right, and got the tactical moves and decisions right. He got everything right, and so we are happy about that.
We are happy to have seen a calm Milan. Tonight, we really needed these outlets, guys, this sense of serenity and tranquillity, and to finally lower our levels of tension and fear.”
