Ivan Juric made a surprising evaluation of the controversial Milan goal and confirmed Torino had worked on that Vanja Milinkovic-Savic long ball routine. ‘Maybe I was wrong.’
The Granata survived an early scare with two horrible Rafael Leao misses in the opening five minutes, then hit the Champions of Italy with a quick one-two, Koffi Djidi’s header and an Aleksei Miranchuk angled drive in the space of 120 seconds.
Milan did get one back in controversial circumstances, as Junior Messias seemed to clearly shove Alessandro Buongiorno out of the way to shoot into an empty net, while Milinkovic-Savic had come flying off his line.
Juric was so angry about the decision from the referee and VAR not to intervene for that foul that he was sent off from the touchline.
“The anger goes pretty quickly, I am happy now,” assured the coach on DAZN.
Juric was made to watch the replay of the Messias shove on Buongiorno and made a surprising evaluation, probably helped by the fact he won the game and it proved irrelevant.
“I saw the images on the tablet and it looked like a foul. Perhaps we should’ve dealt with the situation better, but maybe from the angle I saw it earlier it looked worse… It looked really obvious, but from another angle maybe not so much. Maybe I was wrong.
“Ah well, that’s life!”
Toro had managed one point in five rounds, but this was their second straight victory after the 2-1 away to Udinese.
“That determination can be decisive and we often underestimate the importance of these elements. At times, you need a few disappointments and negative sensations to shake you up. I too need to be more lucid in my analysis and realise that ambition pushes you to have everything at once, but that is not possible.
“I am sure we’ll have other negative moments in future, but we must remember to reassure the lads and not set targets that are too high.”
The second goal came from a Milinkovic-Savic long goal kick that was flicked on by Pietro Pellegri for Miranchuk, taking advantage of the fact you cannot be offside from a goal kick, throw-in or corner.
“We do work on his kick in training and it went well this evening. We conceded a goal against Udinese because we tried to move the ball through the middle too much, whereas tonight we were more solid.”
Pellegri provided an assist and also tested Ciprian Tatarusanu, after scoring last week’s winner against Udinese.
“He can still improve in many areas, but the most important thing is that he can now finally train regularly and is growing day to day. He is physical, makes himself felt in the penalty area and is hungry for goals.”
Now, I regret that Milan didn’t win!
Hopefully Torino concedes more goals like the one they did today.
Milan as allways has referees in their pocket. That goal and 9 minutes extra was disgrace ro calcio.
Toro deserved the win.