🗣️ Daniele De Rossi at the conference press: ' #Leao and #Pulisic are not ordinary players, the full-backs played a superb game and I'm very satisfied with them.'

🗣️ Daniele De Rossi at the conference press: 'I've watched many games, my staff has watched many too; they work even at night to find details that might solve matches. Great ideas also come from teams that have lost against Milan. We've also watched the derbies, of course, but…

Stefano #Pioli at the conference press: 'We're not lucky with this referee.'

Stefano #Pioli at the conference press: How do you judge the whistles against Leao?

'They were from Roma fans, I believe...'

Stefano #Pioli at the conference press: 'Rafa, in my opinion, was a little too central, not wide enough, and favored Roma's defenders. We need to improve circulation and the quality of the final pass. We can't always expect Rafa to dribble past two or three players. We have other…

Stefano #Pioli at the conference press: How steep is Milan's climb?

'The climb is steep because the level has risen, but I'm convinced that the team can play at a higher level, and if we play at that level, we have every chance. That's what I told the team after the game.'

Stefano #Pioli at the conference press: Concerned about the lack of aggressiveness?

'You are aggressive when the distances are right. I believe the team was very generous, but not with the courage and the right distances we needed to have.'

🗣️ Stefano #Pioli at the conference press: Was Roma surprising to you?

'It didn't surprise us, they just changed El Shaarawy's side, who did what he usually does on the left. In the first half, we weren't as clear, as sharp without the ball, we weren't aggressive. It wasn't our…

🗣️ Stefano #Pioli to Milan TV: 'We needed to make clearer choices in the first half, either to press or to wait, it wasn't our best night technically, we threw many balls into the box but unfortunately couldn't find the winning touch.'

🗣️ Stefano #Pioli to Milan TV: On Giroud's chance.

'The most obvious one, we also shot a lot from outside the box because they closed well, we were not very precise and we regret it. The next 90 minutes should see us at a higher level because we have the potential to do well.'

🗣️ Stefano #Pioli to Milan TV: 'Abraham wanted to head the ball and he got it with his hand, unfortunately, we're not very lucky with this referee...'

🗣️ Stefano #Pioli to Milan TV: On the return leg.

'We need to prepare better, we'll have all the possibilities to play for the passage to the next round but we'll have to increase our level of pace and play.'

🗣️ Yacine #Adli to Milan TV: 'We want to put on another performance at their home, I'm sure of that. It will be tough because they're strong, but what matters is now, we'll have time to prepare well for the return leg.'

🗣️ Yacine #Adli to Milan TV: Unlucky and missed chances.

'It's part of football, we have a return leg and we want to go to Rome to overturn the result, we believe in it.'

🗣️ Yacine #Adli to Milan TV: Regret in the second half.

'We tried to press them higher, stronger. We couldn't score but that aggressiveness that was lacking in the first half, we put it in the second half.'

🗣️ Alessandro Bonan to SkySport: 'Every time we highlight #Pioli 's merits, we are met with insults. He's a craftsman of football.'