{"id":819182,"date":"2025-01-12T08:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/conceicao-urges-milan-strikers-to-be-selfish\/"},"modified":"2025-01-12T08:12:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-12T14:12:38","slug":"conceicao-urges-milan-strikers-to-be-selfish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/12\/conceicao-urges-milan-strikers-to-be-selfish\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceicao urges Milan strikers to be selfish"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer <\/p>\n<div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mmwebhandler.aff-online.com\/C\/35442?sr=155474&#038;anid=\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/wp-content\/themes\/SN\/images\/300x250_HR.gif\"><\/a>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Conceicao wants to see selfishness from his strikers after AC Milan drew 1-1 at home to Cagliari.<\/p>\n<p>Cagliari shocked Milan with a quickfire equaliser in the 55th minute through defender Nadir Zortea, four minutes after Alvaro Morata broke the deadlock from close range.<\/p>\n<p>The draw means Conceicao\u2019s winning start in charge of Milan came to an end, with the Portuguese coach having guided the Rossoneri to the Supercoppa Italiana title last week.<\/p>\n<p>Milan finished the match with 24 shots, with 11 of those being on target, and 2.14 expected goals to Cagliari\u2019s 0.37, and Conceicao feels his attackers must be more ruthless.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy feeling is that [the forwards] are altruistic,\u201d Conceicao told Sky Sport.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat\u2019s fine, I like a player like that. But there are moments when they have to be more simple.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn front of goal you have to be selfish, a winger has to go one one-on-one with the opponent.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe look for a difficult [solution] sometimes and I don\u2019t like that, football is simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"tr\">Rafa on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/MilanCagliari?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#MilanCagliari<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/SempreMilan?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#SempreMilan<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xfZ4ztNoi4\">pic.twitter.com\/xfZ4ztNoi4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 AC Milan (@acmilan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/acmilan\/status\/1878230892411322432?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 12, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Conceicao was particularly displeased with Milan\u2019s first-half performance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI expected much more at all levels,\u201d Conceicao said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ve been a coach for 13 years, and comparing the quality of this group to what we did, it was the weakest first half since I\u2019ve started coaching.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe lacked rhythm, quality, and we weren\u2019t that good and intelligent on this level.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Asked whether the team needed more rules and discipline, the Milan coach replied: \u201cIt\u2019s my way of doing things for many years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not that I come here and I have to do it by force. For me, it\u2019s the simple things: schedules, training, being involved in the work day by day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I got here halfway through the season it\u2019s because something wasn\u2019t right, and we have to take full responsibility. If we are strict and demanding outside the game then we will be strict and demanding in the game too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Milan, who have drawn three league matches in a row at home for the first time since January 2020, face Como on Tuesday before visiting Juventus next Saturday.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.soccernews.com\/conceicao-urges-milan-strikers-to-be-selfish\/380482\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a>SoccerNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Soccer Sergio Conceicao wants to see selfishness from his strikers after AC Milan drew 1-1 at home to Cagliari. Cagliari shocked Milan with a quickfire equaliser in the 55th minute through defender Nadir Zortea, four minutes after Alvaro Morata broke the deadlock from close range. The draw means Conceicao\u2019s winning start in charge of Milan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":819183,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46456,2005,29332],"tags":[46455,12912],"class_list":{"0":"post-819182","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-conceicao","8":"category-soccer","9":"category-urges","10":"tag-conceicao","11":"tag-urges"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819182","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=819182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/819182\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/819183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=819182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=819182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=819182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}