Conte:Milan super favourites

Juventus boss Antonio Conte used his Press conference earlier than the Parma game to label Milan because the “super favourites” for the Scudetto.

The previous girl truly sit at the highest of the standings, one purpose earlier than the Rossoneri, however the tactician has piled the pressure on his rivals.

“Milan’s ability to win therefore simply is shocking,” Conte noted once the San Siro giants disposed of Cagliari 3-0 last night.

“Yesterday, with such a large amount of absences, they took the points with absolute tranquillity. they need a good champion like Zlatan Ibrahimovic who, at times, offers the feeling that he's Gulliver, a giant.

“They are therefore spectacular that they're the super favourites to win the title. Up till currently we have a tendency to are maintaining with them and that we hope to stay the championship alive till the terribly finish.

“There are still eighteen games to travel and there are fifty four points on provide, therefore something will happen amongst the highest six or seven sides.”

Nevertheless, Juventus themselves impressed onlookers with a 2-1 win over third-placed Udinese in arctic conditions.

“We knew for 2 days that it might snow on Saturday night. we have a tendency to currently have the means that to predict unhealthy weather.

“Football is gorgeous if you're given the possibility to precise yourself at your best within the very best conditions.

“We are providing a show and to play on snow or ice isn't nice. I hope selections are created within the future to shield the interests of the fans.”

The Bianconeri are next in action on Tuesday once they travel to the Stadio Tardini to face Parma and Conte might build changes.

There are question marks over the employment of Stephan Lichtsteiner and Arturo Vidal once each were criticised for his or her displays at the weekend.

“Lichtsteiner plays during a role where he needs to provides a heap,” added Conte. “As a good player he needs to push and canopy a good quantity of the pitch and he was enjoying his third game in seven days.

“As for Arturo, folks see his intercepted pass from that Udinese scored, however he worked onerous and that i liked his overall performance.

“Saying that, we have a tendency to currently have our fourth game in ten days therefore I’ll ought to evaluate things fastidiously.

“We didn’t have several midweek games at the beginning, however the adage that you simply don’t amendment a winning team doesn’t apply immediately.

“Fortunately I’m ready to decide from a squad of players who can give me sure guarantees.”

Returning to Ibrahimovic, Conte was asked how sensible his Juve facet would be with the super Swede in it.

“I’m pleased with the players that I actually have at my disposal,” he responded. “Ibrahimovic could be a player who makes the distinction, however my players stay the most effective within the world.”

Klose better than Ibra

Ahead of visiting Milan to the Olimpico this midweek, Lazio Coach Edy Reja reveals his belief that Miroslav Klose may be a higher striker than Zlatan Ibrahimovic.

Polish-born German international Klose has up to now scored twelve League goals since arriving in Italy on a free transfer this summer. Meanwhile, counterpart Ibrahimovic comes into Wednesday night's clash 3 goals previous the 33-year-old within the scoring charts.

However, Reja mirrored on the duo’s strengths and declared that the one he's employed with on a day to day is that the higher player.

“They are 2 totally different champions,” the 65-year-old Coach told Lazio vogue. “The Swede is additional spectacular and individualistic, Miro is additional sensible and prefers the collective.

“He drops back and helps out the team, it's rewarding for him. I didn't assume he had this fight, however he plays a basic half in build-up play additionally as in finishing moves.

“Klose works a trifle additional on the collective methods of the team and then within the final quarter of the pitch is invincible. he's a wise player, even when observing where to shoot.”

Zlatan Ibrahimovic Book Review

Written by Zlatan Ibrahimovic and David Lagercrantz, “Io, Ibra” sold five hundred  copies in Sweden and it's a part of each fourth household there. the newest news from the co-author is that there's interest to show it into a movie. What was it about?

A story of a ghetto-kid creating it huge. The yankee dream accomplished by a Swedish new face from a war-refugee family. A story on the way to defend your own and blast everybody else.

t felt alittle totally different than the opposite biographies thanks to its age. I heard it had been done through interviews and through the browse I got a sense like most queries came from scandals or YouTube (marvelous addition to the stories if you recognize the way to use it). Some would possibly recommend it had been all Ibra bragging concerning his triumphs and returning clean on selected episodes however he conjointly sheds light-weight on laborious subjects like segregation, alcoholism, drug abuse and poverty.

At first it appeared like a awfully honest piece to me. Zlatan talking concerning what happens behind the curtain and showing this to any or all who are against him. when finishing, however, it feels like he picked his fights terribly fastidiously. he's terribly strategic as he says it himself. By the tip it looks most of the episodes are him simply advocating his purpose of read to line the record straight and punch out his opponents.

Mama said knock you out

But I don’t hold it against him in the slightest degree. As weird because it sounds it makes me respect him even a lot of since this can be sort of a initial person read to the mindset he has. The confidence/arrogance he wears. He shows the perspective that's required to hold on. Deep down I see a person who understands his faults however plays on his strengths. the foremost similar issue I’ve browse is Salvador Dali’s “Diaries of a Genius”. Similarly, he criticizes everyone else whereas talking concerning his own grace though he has earned his spot within the history with such perspective. And if van Basten (another figure creating a supportive role within the book) was referred to as Leonardo da Vinci, Zlatan will take the odd-mustached egocentric place in his art.

Artist. Champion. Moustache.

The abundant furored book is everything you wished it to be. To his followers it had been sort of a bible, to his haters there was a sentence on each page to be ripped out and place into their context or logic. That’s what Zlatan is all regarding arduous to ignore, polarizing figure, unquestioned champion.

Ibrahimovic brought AC MILAN win

ROME -- AC Milan and Udinese each won Sunday to stay it a rare three-way race for the Serie A title with Juventus at the Italian season's midpoint.

Milan won 3-0 at last-place Novara with 2 goals from Zlatan Ibrahimovic and another from Robinho, whereas Pablo Armero and Antonio Di Natale found Infobahn to steer Udinese to a 2-1 victory over Catania.

Juventus, that beat Atalanta 2-0 Saturday, holds a one-point lead over Milan and is 3 points in front of unsung Udinese, that has never finished over third.For the foremost half, the Serie A title race has been a two-team affair in recent seasons, with Inter Milan winning 5 consecutive championships from 2006-10 and Milan taking the title last year.

"We required to induce 3 points once losing the derby," Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri said, bearing on last weekend's 1-0 defeat to Inter. "We've got forty points, that is what we tend to had last year once the primary half the season. Juve has done higher and they have an extra purpose however there are nineteen matches to travel. i am happy with what the lads do."

Inter was yearning for a seventh consecutive win in Sunday's late match against Lazio.

In alternative matches, it was: Lecce a pair of, Chievo Verona 2; Palermo five, Genoa 3; Siena one, Napoli 1; and Cagliari zero, Fiorentina zero.

Earlier within the lunchtime fixture, Bologna and Parma played to a 0-0 draw, with Parma captain Stefano Morrone exiting at halftime and heading to the hospital, where his son was being treated for a reported respiration drawback.

"There was an instant of panic and that we set to inform Stefano," said Parma coach Roberto Donadoni. "When you are talking a few six-month recent baby it's alarming, however it absolutely was resolved well."

The start of the Cagliari-Fiorentina match was delayed by a 0.5 hour thanks to a workers' protest over the closing of an Alcoa aluminum plant. employees surrounded each the hotel where Fiorentina was staying and Cagliari's coaching centre, forcing each clubs to go away late for the stadium, consistent with the ANSA news agency.

On Wednesday, Milan required an extra-time winner from Alexandre Pato to beat Novara within the Italian Cup, and it once more gave the look of the Rossoneri would possibly struggle when Ibrahimovic, Thiago Silva and Stephen El Shaarawy every did not benefit of probabilities within the initial 0.5.

However, Milan captain Massimo Ambrosini found Ibrahimovic on their own in front of the goal for a straightforward end within the 57th, Robinho scored from close-range within the 73rd and Ibrahimovic found the target once more within the ninetieth off a rebound to tie with Di Natale because the league's leading scorer with fourteen goals every.

In Udine, the hosts took management when Colombian winger Pablo Armero finished off a counterattack within the nineteenth, and Armero then provided the cross when Di Natale scored with a volley within the 53rd.

Francesco Lodi pulled one back for Catania with a penalty within the fifth minute of added time.

In Siena, former Napoli forward Emanuele Calaio place the hosts in front with a header within the 67th and goalkeeper Gianluca Pegolo created a formidable save to prevent a penalty from Napoli forward Edinson Cavani within the 79th. However, Napoli still equalized with a header from forward Goran Pandev within the 86th.

In Sicily, Palermo forward Fabrizio Miccoli started 3 goals and scored another.

After Rodrigo Palacio had place Genoa in front within the thirteenth, Igor Budan, Matias Silvestre and Andrea Mantovani struck back for Palermo. Palacio then converted a penalty within the 59th to form it 3-2, Miccoli scored within the seventy fifth to revive Palermo's two-goal lead and Giulio Migliaccio added another by meeting a free kick from Miccoli with a header within the 84th.

In Lecce, Chievo went ahead with 2 early goals from Alberto Paloschi and Lecce equalized with strikes by Andrea Esposito within the thirtieth and David Di Michele within the third minute of second-half added time.

ALLEGRI: "If we win on Sunday we'll be on 40 points"

MILAN - Here's what players and management had to say after the 1-0 loss to Inter Milan at the San Siro stadium on Sunday evening:

ADRIANO GALLIANI"We had a lot of possession but there were very few chances. It was clear that whoever scored was going to win. We’re still 5 points ahead of Inter and only a point from the top. Between Inter’s 32 points and Juve’s 38 points, there are five teams. We conceded in our best period of the game. You win or you lose due to individual incidents. And today we lost.
Inter gave us very little space but nevertheless, we had more possession than them, but in football you can lose because of single moments. What counts is the table. It’s impartial and with 20 games left, it says Milan are five points ahead of Inter. It was a game that would have given us the top spot in the league but we didn’t do it. Other results however mean that we’re only a point from the top. Three points against Inter are the same as the three points against Cagliari or Novara. We have to get to 40 points (before the half way mark) like we did last year and that’s still a possibility. There was a moment of depression in the changing room after the game but we’re already over it. The President shares my analysis. That’s life, that’s football and that’s fine.” 
MASSIMILIANO ALLEGRI"We found it hard to create things. Inter are a very physical team that concede very little. We made one mistake when the ball was in our possession and we should have done better. We paid a high price for it. At the end of the first half, my main worry was not to concede anything to them. We had done the work needed to go into the lead and we took very few risks, but this is football and in games like this the risk of a nasty surprise is always around the corner. We should have been more lucid in the final third of the pitch. They defended well and we had a few chances that we didn’t convert. Everything that could have been done was done against a good team that conceded little. If we play bad against the big teams? We’re a single point from the top of the table and if we win on Sunday we’ll be on 40 points. This is important.” 
URBY EMANUELSON"The coach talked to me after the goal and told me to play on the left. It’s incredible that we lost tonight. We didn’t create many chances but we were very unlucky. We‘re very disappointed with the result. Inter closed up shop with only Pazzini and Milito up front and it was very difficult for us to play in those circumstances. Today we had the chance to get to the top of the table all alone but we didn’t take it and Inter have got closer. I prefer to play as a left winger, but the position is not a problem for me. Left or right, the important thing is to play.”
IGNAZIO ABATE"We had a good first half even if it wasn’t brilliant. We played good football. After my mistake, the game opened up and we were no longer on top of things. We put a lot of players up the centre of the pitch trying to resolve the situation. I’m sorry for the fans, but the team on top at the end of the year will be judged the strongest and we’re convinced of our qualities.

STEPHAN EL SHAARAWY"It was very emotional I’m happy even though I’m disappointed with the result. I tried to do things on the pitch even if I only played a little bit. It’s a shame we lost. Inter did well to take the chances that they had and we were unlucky with Van Bommel hitting the bar. It was a very closed game. We’re get back on track focusing on Novara. It’s a loss but it doesn’t effect our ambitions. If the coach asks me to play, I’ll make sure I’m ready.Going somewhere on loan has come to mind, but even if I’m not playing here, I’m still improving with all the great players we have here in training. They involve me in everything, I feel good here and I hope I can stay.”