"There is a compliment to all those who have played in the match. Tonight we won the match and the show, and this is the most important thing. We made another small step, we know we have to win the rest of the games to win the Scudetto", Coach Massimiliano Allegri stated after the victory at the San Siro tonight against Inter. He is inevitably talking about the new gap to 4 points on top of Napoli, who are busy tomorrow afternoon away at the Franchi against Fiorentina (to try to make the gap back to 1 point).
"Bringing home this beautiful game allows us to face the next best (Roma). It was decisive because in case of failure tonight, Napoli has the chance to get back to one point up on us if they win in Florence. It is always difficult to win the last games... In the second half we were not very good - we threw the ball away, but we were good at getting it back quickly."
"My removal? They continued to celebrate but the game was still missing 5 minutes and everyone had to stay focused."
"Cuadrado fullback? I thought about it since last Sunday. He made a couple of wrong diagonals but he will just work on it, it is a matter of reading the ball."
"We had to do something more in the first half - Allegri continued on SkySport microphones - We managed today, but when we miss chances, or play poor from the start, it becomes a mess... Fortunately for us, we were good at recovering the ball, but at a mental level the last games are always complicated and take the 3 points home is never easy. The brilliance is missing a little; when we go ahead the team starts to dribble but then we have to change gear. Last Sunday was one of the ugliest matches in the league, because they did not have a shot on goal until the 90th minute. It is not easy to always win, there is the moment when you stop playing your game and it comes back to haunt you. In football, everything can happen at any time during the match and in any competition. I always hear about too many theories and tactics ... The evil of Italian football is this: do not look at the technical gestures of the individual. Football is very simple, we must not make it complicated."
