AC Milan coach Stefano Pioli has called for perspective after their 3-0 defeat to Inter Milan.

Pioli is confident his players will immediately bounce back.

He said, "Our strength is the balance. We believe in our job. We must be objective. One year ago or even three months ago we would have been happy to be where we are now.

"That being said, we are not happy because this was the derby, we wanted more, but we must not forget about our path.

"We didn't do our best in the last three games and we know we can do something more. We are sorry for today's defeat, but the bad game was the one against Spezia, not this one. We tried to give our best today.

"We are the only team who played the Europa League play-offs, we had some injuries and some players played too much. It's normal, we knew this season would have been difficult and that's why we must be happy of what we've done so far.

"It was a tough week, the worst one of the season. We want to qualify for the next stage of Europa League and then we'll focus on Serie A again."