Gennaro Gattuso felt a 4-0 Coppa Italia Final defeat to Juventus “does not reflect the performance” and Milan must fight for a Europa League spot.
It was 0-0 until the 56th minute, when Juve scored four goals in eight minutes, including two Gianluigi Donnarumma howlers and a Nikola Kalinic own goal.
Gennaro Gattuso felt a 4-0 Coppa Italia Final defeat to Juventus “does not reflect the performance” and Milan must fight for a Europa League spot.
It was 0-0 until the 56th minute, when Juve scored four goals in eight minutes, including two Gianluigi Donnarumma howlers and a Nikola Kalinic own goal.
“Football is like that. The result does not reflect the performance, but you pay for errors. For 56 minutes, we did what we had to and Juve never troubled us other than a Mandzukic header,” the Rossoneri Coach told Rai Sport.
“We have to accept it and realise we made our own errors and must accept them.
“I too am a young Coach, I am learning, I make mistakes and have to figure out where we have gone wrong to improve. We shouldn’t look at the 4-0 result, but rather how we lost it and what we can do to improve.”
Winning the Coppa Italia was particularly important for Milan, as it would’ve given them direct access to the Europa League group stage.
Now fifth, sixth and seventh in Serie A enter the Europa League, although seventh must go through the preliminary rounds starting in July.
Milan still have to earn that qualification with two big games against Atalanta and Fiorentina.
“I think it hurts more that we took 40,000 fans here and gave them a result like this. It hurts, we’ll now have two games against sides who are in better shape than us and must try to get into the Europa League with better performances than this.”