Milan beat Atalanta at the San Siro and get to a single point’s distance from Juventus with 180 minutes left to play. Allegri: “Juve’s destiny is in their hands but we just have to do our best to keep the race open.”



They were 10 important minutes for the league. We couldn’t draw this game and it’s great now to go into the derby against a team that’s playing for the Champions League. The team is doing well physically and mentally speaking you have to suffer a bit because we’re behind. I think Juventus are playing an extraordinary season; they’ve won 8 games in a row and tonight they drew. Unfortunately, we lost against Fiorentina and Juve’s lead comes from that. No one likes to lose, we‘ll be thinking of winning our games and then we’ll see. There’s always been a good level of tension in the league and on the league table. After Lecce equalized, we got very psyched up and we got the second goal. This evening, I gave a rest to some players to keep the levels of tension high De Sciglio has shown that he’s a Milan player. He’s young and he has to qualities to become a good player. We’ll evaluate Thiago in the next few days without taking anything away from Nesta and Mexes who played a great game.”


"There’s absolutely nothing to regret but we need to prepare ourselves for the derby because Inter are fighting to get into the Champions League and it’ll be a very tough match. Juventus have their destiny in their hands and we just have to do our best to keep the race open and hope for another slip up but that’s tough to see. The team played a good game and we started well in the first half. Then we stretched ourselves a bit and they cause us some problems. We’ll see now what happens on Sunday. This is why football is beautiful; anything can happen in a game. I didn’t play Abate because he was a booking away from a ban, just back from an injury and has played a lot of games. De Sciglio played a good game from the start. We have the derby ahead of us and they play against Cagliari: it’ll be a very emotional evening from the start".



"The atmosphere in the changing room? Perhaps no one thought that Juventus would have dropped two points and we’ll have to realize that tomorrow. This is the proof that the most impossible things to achieve are always the most beautiful and you always have to believe. The authorities will decide on that given that it’s title deciding match. I coach Milan, I don’t know that Juventus will be feeling but they’ve already shown great strength. We just have to give our all to make sure the title is decided on the last day of the season. Thinking about Inter now would be crazy. We have to think of ourselves. We have to play a tough game both mentally and technically because we haven’t the same strength in our legs as a month ago."

Not sure about any of the named players except El Shaa.

You mean you don't have anyone in your mind that might be good enough for Milan senior team?

Primavera beat 3-2 Verona today, after going under 0-2 first. Apparently both of Verona's goals resulted from two mistakes from Mexes.

What's with this guy? He looked fit in the Euros, but in merely a month he gained weight and went out of shape? Unbelievable. As much I like him, stuff like this is unforgivable.