Milan director Leonardo was furious after the Europa League exit to Olympiacos, blaming the referee. “In the days of VAR, it becomes difficult to accept.”
The decisive moment was a very controversial penalty for Ignazio Abate’s embrace of Vasilis Torosidis in the 3-1 result.
“We are out of the Europa League and have to evaluate everything. I just want to see the footage of the goals and the penalty before saying what I think,” he told Sky Sport Italia.
“It looks to me as if the penalty was non-existent. On a couple of occasions too, they had this system of putting the hand on the corner as if to wait for someone else and taking it, outside the corner, which we tried once and the referee whistled to stop us.
“If you go out of the Europa League for something like that, in the days of VAR, it becomes difficult to just accept a result. It’s ridiculous that an instrument like VAR that everyone now uses cannot be used in a European tournament.
“We also went to complain, as there was a bizarre noise every time we went to attack. I don’t know if it was a flute or a klaxon or what, but it’s not fair to use a sound like that to distract every time we go forward. It was genuinely irritating. The referee should’ve stopped play and told them to cut it out.
“After they scored, it actually got louder.”
Milan could’ve afforded to lose 1-0 or even 2-1, but 3-1 was the result they could not handle.
“We were three points ahead of Olympiacos, it was a difficult situation for them to win and it was in fact totally decided by these incidents.
“This is a team under construction, I’m not saying we were impressive today or that we deserved to go through. We know this is a tough season, I don’t want alibis, but it seems so obviously unfair and unjust that I cannot stay silent.”
vemdelpt
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Milan problem is middle fielders, hope the management will buy creative not all these kesie ,bokoyoko and Biglia All these are not middle fielders.
vuhceiltu
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Milan is big club .replace gattuso with iConte, zidane if possible wenger.buy players like isco,barella,benatia,ibramovic,etc
Jim2win
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It is true that Milan is a small team. but losing with a Greek team is shameful, hopefully realize that gatusso is not a true technician
Did u really just call Milan a small team? Lol
Keenlyroos
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Awful substitution, why take a forward off when you need a goal for a full back?
reallybaby
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🔴⚫️ All AC Milan needed was: - A win - A draw - A loss by one goal - A loss by two goals other than 2-0 or 3-1 Result: 3-1. Milan are OUT!
ManUpogba
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It's not about patient for waiting a process. It's all about pure class in tactical as a coach. Make a change before it feels too late..
deduce
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Hopefully we never participate in this competition ever again. Last season a non existent penalty was given to Arsenal against us & now the same happened with Olympiacos.
ointment
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No words for this shameful display, absolutely unacceptable.
Kingstonu
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It is true that Milan is a small team. but losing with a Greek team is shameful, hopefully realize that gatusso is not a true technician
Diegojuan
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7 years...for 7 years not 1 manager has managed to fix our defense!
Robberyone
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The team that played today must be capable of winning or at minimum don't lose against Olympiacos. Race for 4th place will be tough, mistakes like these with smaller teams could cost us, like in last years.
fascinating
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changing the manager means starting from step one again. Believe in Gattuso because he is doing a fine job keeping the team together while half the team is injured.
FCBribery
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The present Milan squad is good enough but same can't be said of the coach
foolhardy
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Gatusso needs to go out. The team struggles even when they win games.
Busterbe
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Thanks to make OUR OPPONENT FANS SO HAPPY😑
introduce
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I am sorry for Tonight, but we need other manager now.
vellmacar
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Sack gattuso please Get Conte or anybody just not a former player!
operations
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💔 I swear player like Hakan Doesn’t deserve play to Ac Milan
Robinsonde
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What a shame , I can’t believe it !!
postag
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The penalty does not justify anything. Milan, with those players, should play better.
kemdklpsu
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Milan has an injury problems for many players like biglia,musacio,caldara,romangnoli,bonaventura,suso,and co.they need to fine some matured players at early January, and then sincerely they have to sack gatusso if they want to improve honesty.
ikxen
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gattuso if u love milan plsss resign
suneikoptu
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Short ur mouth up.... Sack gattuso
Aaronkv
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Milan stop complaining and put your house in order.... you are a powerhouse in European football and as such, you should know better by now![cup]