[translated by MANUELA]
WE DESERVE THE 4TH PLACE
VERONA – He has seen Ferron doing things that human goalkeepers can’t even imagine. Filippo Inzaghi tells about the match and he uses also some hyperboles, but if the hyperbole arrives after a goal and much more it can be understood. "Finally I have arrived at the double figure in championship: tenth goal, but I’m happy above all for the result and for what Milan has made to see. We have played well, as always in this period. We play great matches, we spend much energy and then at the first shot our opponents score; it often happens to us to reap little but fortunately this time it has gone in a different way. Ferron has made things never seen before and we have had also the bad luck to hit a goalpost on a penalty: a team with less character would have given in, we haven’t done it, and we have obtained the victory that we need to depend only on us. But now we must think to prepare well the next match, because we mustn’t think against Lecce it will be easy: they won’t do us favours and it’s right so, we don’t want them, let’s hope Brescia will do us one of them against Bologna. Besides, it must still fight to remain in serie A, isn’t it?"
Milan has done what he had to do, and also Verona has done it, "and I hope at the end this team remains in serie A and so also Piacenza. They are teams where I also played, I am attached to them. In some matches Verona had also bad luck: with the championship it has played I didn’t think it had to suffer in this way till the end, but for this match there’s little to complain. The refereeing? According to me Farina has refereed very well and not even Verona players have complained about it during the match. We can discuss about the fault on Shevchenko, but episodes like this one often happen in the penalty area and referees don’t always see them".
He is relaxed, Inzaghi, but not enough not to start thinking immediately about Lecce. "Galliani has told me Milan will try to bring more people in the stadium, and we would like it was full. We always try to do group, also against Verona we have been all reunited in the midfield at the beginning and in such a situation I’m surprised, but not so much, by the fact Ancelotti rushes in the field as soon as he sees an uproar: we were still on 1-1, we had to avoid to waste time, we wanted to play to try to win. We are very united and we are able to help each other, but in a match like that one of next Sunday also the help of our supporters will be fundamental. We care very much about Champions League, it would be a great result to achieve it at the end of a season with so many injuries; I have hoped to reach the 4th place since I came back, now we have arrived to it and we must defend it. Who would be the favourite one in a play-off against Bologna? Let’s not think about play-off, let’s think only about winning the next match. Milan deserves Champions League for what it has done in the last matches: we played well against Juve and Roma, and it seems to me that Roma has scored 5 goals to other teams, while we deserved to win at least against one of this two teams that are fighting for scudetto. Who will win it? I don’t know and I don’t care much. I think only about the 4th place of Milan".
