Luca Gotti was furious after Milan converted a penalty with the last kick of the game. ‘If this happened to other clubs, there’d be chaos, but with Udinese nobody cares.’
The Friulani had taken the lead through a Rodrigo Becao header and thought the match was over when Jens Stryger Larsen clumsily flailed his arm in the box to handle a cross.
“We had the victory in our hands. The epilogue to this game is the kind of thing that gives you sleepless nights,” Gotti told DAZN and Sky Sport Italia.
“I’ve seen games end five seconds early, but the penalty was awarded after 95 minutes had passed. It won’t change anything now, I know that, but I can at least be allowed the opportunity to be angry about it.
“To concede a penalty like that after injury time had expired, if this happened to other clubs, there’d be chaos, but with Udinese nobody cares. These would’ve been three very important points for us.”
It is also fair to say that Udinese parked the bus for most of the match, scoring on a header from a corner, but Gotti insists that was the only approach they could take.
“It was obvious that coming to San Siro against this Milan, you need to do a lot of defending. We had prepared that, but not just defending, and in fact we had been winning the game until that happened at the end.
“Unfortunately, we lost Roberto Pereyra’s quality and then Samir had to come off, and these events changed the end of the game in a way we had not predicted. Look, I am well aware that a point here is precious, but this team did not come here just to impress. We came here for points and until the 95th minute, we had three of them.”