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AC MILAN: LAZIO ARE RECOVERING

It’s not easy to manage so many encounters. After the two next games, Milan will have the opportunity to breathe. Nesta and Kaka for Arsenal, not for tomorrow. Pirlo against Lazio? Still to evaluate. Carlo Ancelotti speaks.

/noticias.info/ MILANELLO – These are the first declarations of Carlo Ancelotti on the eve of Milan-Lazio: “This is the moment, we must hold on in the next two games before a period in which we will be able to work better and manage better the injured players. It’s a constant also for other teams. It’s a very intense period with regards to games. Even last year w went through the same period, before the game against Torino we only had eleven players available. When you have many games, the risk of injuries increases and becomes difficult to manage the games. Even abroad they play a lot, just like us, so it’s inevitable that the quality of the game decreases. Lazio? They are recovering, they have paid for the effort and the fact they are less accustomed to play in the Champions League. The preparation of the preliminary has created a lot of problems until the elimination, but now they are recovering. They have a very good coach and players. Lazio is a team which plays, with speed, and we shall see a different game than other matches. After Lazio, we shall have a lot of time to recover. However, order and application on the pitch will matter a lot in order not to waste energies.”

Carlo Ancelotti again: “Kaka tomorrow will not play, but I think he will available on Tuesday. His contract renewal is a nice thing, for him and for Milan. Kaka will become even more the symbol of this team. Captain? I think not. I don’t think that external factors have accelerated the extension of the contract. There was the will of the player and there was the will of the club. Kaka has a great image on the pitch, he is very concrete and has great capacity. Kaka is training to be decisive on Tuesday and I think that he can succeed. The league? It’s regular, even though certain referee decisions have been wrong. We must highlight also the positive things. Rizzoli was perfect in Torino-Juventus. Rizzoli is not considered the best referee, he has not been chosen for high level games, therefore if Rizzoli is not considered the best referee, it means that there are better than him, who was very good during the Turin derby. The designation of the referees then is not an easy job. At Catania the referee evaluated very well the important episodes, but in the overall management there were too many whistles. In Italy they whistle too much. That’s the great difference when compared to Europe. On some contacts one can also wave play one. Nesta? He’s recovering, but I don’t think for tomorrow. He should recover for Tuesday. Pirlo? We shall evaluate today if he is available for tomorrow. He is not fine but he should make it. Gilardino is one of the few players who we have who is fine, therefore tomorrow he could play."

The Milan coach on other topics: “We don’t think about the league? We got used to in these last years to have other thoughts…Kaka accountant? It’s a joke, Mancini was surely not the type, when he used to play, who enjoyed the knocks. Someone also mentioned it to him…However he wasn’t the only one I was ‘nice' with…Favalli still shows me the souvenir I left him on his leg during Milan-Cremonese…On Borriello we shall make an evaluation with Genoa at the end of the season. For what he is doing, I think that he can play at Milan. Champions League? We're used o manage the pressure of other games, it’s a competition which gave us a lot of satisfactions and from which we want to give more satisfactions. Against Arsenal we shall need more courage than in the first leg, I think that we can get that from the fact that we’re playing at home. Before Arsenal we saw all the data, we’re at the same point we were a year ago before Celtic. The difference is that Celtic is not Arsenal, therefore the dangers increase for us. Pato? He is doing what we expected him to do. During the inactivity period, he showed us some great finishing qualities during training, he is confirming all of this. He has not yet shown his best, he can do much more, for us Pato is very important. I got angry for the foul Pato suffered against Catania in the first minutes. The referees must be careful in the evaluations of the foul from behind, finding the right balance in the referee decisions. The referee-players? I think that considering the difficult, the last thing a player thinks about at the end of his career is that of becoming a referee. And the can you see Maldini refereeing Milan? Maybe he would have some psychological subjection…” notas_de_prensa_archivo