Milan fought back from 2-0 – and a failed punishment from Santiago Giminenez – to set up a nervous finish for Napoli after the goal of Luka Jovic.
In the end it was not enough for Milan and Conukicao said afterwards: “Since I have been here, that is almost three months, I have never sought apologies about the lack of time to train, but everything happened today.
Milan lost Ruben Loftus-Cheek in the morning after he underwent an emergency operation to remove his attachment.
Concuyo continued: “I woke up at 7.30 am on a call from the doctor, Loftus-Cheek was sick. After 12.30 we spoke to the players, because Malick Thiaw could not play while he felt a little later Rafael Leao felt pain in his calf.
“I had already thought of it without starting Leao, so it is not that he did not play it. He came out of the international duty after playing two games, just like Santi Gimenez, I had to take that into account.
“We had prepared the game in a certain way and had to change a lot. That everything said, we could have done much more in the first half, we gave a goal after a minute after a minute, the first 20 minutes were not what we had planned.
“These little things continue to happen, I don't want to call bad luck, but we really had a terrible day. At least there was a very positive response in the second half, we have created so many scoring opportunities and I feel that we deserved a draw of this.”
Concuyo explained on Gimenez's stored Spotkick: “There are three players we have on the list, they train regularly, but I have been a player, so I know that the decision is sometimes taken on the field. I think Pulisic tried to give his teammate confidence, he did not go in a few weeks, he did not score, he scored, he did not score, he did not, he scored in a few weeks, he scored, he did not score, he did not, he scored in a few weeks, Scored, he did not score in a few weeks.
“I think it was a good sign of teamwork that they wanted to do that. I still feel that we could have had a point of this game with the number of opportunities we have created.”
The Portuguese concluded, satisfied: “The team has potential, it has quality, but we have to find this balance. We have to press higher and have the courage to do that, but Napoli managed to endure our first press far too easily in the first half.
“I saw a different attitude in the second half, because in football you need quality, but also the courage, desire and hunger to accept men. If you are struggling with the ball, then you are not fresh to attack with quality when you get the ball.
“I have a lot of faith in this team, it is a healthy group that wants to change this atmosphere and on Wednesday we have the chance to do that.”
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