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AC Milan coach Pioli laments mistakes and attitude for Lecce draw

AC Milan coach Stefano Pioli says their 2-2 draw with Lecce wasn't good enough.

Pioli said they paid for their errors and didn't show the right attitude on the day.

He said, “I'm absolutely not satisfied. In the second half, we played with a frenzy that doesn't represent us. We needed to control the game better and manage the ball better. We had two chances to go 3-0 up. We gave the opponents space and they punished us. We conceded the same goal from a corner as on Tuesday against PSG. These are mistakes that we are paying for dearly.

“There were opportunities to close the match, 3-0 probably would have closed the match. Not having succeeded should have made us maintain better compactness. Unfortunately, once again we were unable to win a match we could have won."

“It shouldn't be like this, let's say that the possibility of not approaching a match like today after the Champions League match was there but we did approach it well. It cannot be that a goal conceded, in a match in which you were in control, makes you lose everything you were doing. Yet you can also see on the second goal: we had the ball, there was a teammate on the ground, we could have managed it better. We could have put the ball out to get help but instead, we conceded a goal.

“We are making mistakes of frenzy and clarity that have prevented us from winning two games that we could have won. Having gone ahead by two goals in almost two consecutive games and not being able to bring the points home is disappointing."

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