Alessandro Nesta lamenting lack of pace in the defeat against Bayern Munich: Serie A news
Veteran defender, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Alessandro-Nesta-c4735, believes A.C Milan face a tough task to defend the Scudetto and thinks there is a lot to be done before the season begins.
Nesta has lamented the pace of his team in the defeat against Bayern Munich and believes that they will have to work hard on it, if they are to defend their crown successfully. Bayern defeated Massimiliano Allegri’s men 5-3 on
penalties after both teams finished 1-1 in the normal time.
Milan could not capitalise on the early lead provided by http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Lazio-c39775 defender believes that the German giants were far ahead of his team in terms
of pace and they could not catch them.
Talking to the reporters Nesta said, "It's a shame we did not go 2-0 up, but games like these are necessary to help us gain speed as well as find our match tempo. I think we need to improve in this aspect, and the second half of
pre-season will help us do this."
"We played a Bayern team who were well ahead of us [in terms of preparation]. They are better and they are ahead of us, whereas we are lacking pace." added the defender
The Rossoneri also lost on penalties against Brazilian side, http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Internacional-c39573, after the game finished 2-2 in normal time yesterday. The 35-year-old added that his team should show the hunger to kill off games after taking early
lead. The defender believes that there is still a lot of work left to do before they commence the defence of the title.
The Italian international believes that these friendlies against bigger teams was a real test of where they stand in terms of the preparation for the next season. Nesta is confident that second half of the pre-season will bring
much better results and Allegri will work on improving the weak areas in the training.
Milan will play http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Inter-c39567 in the Supercoppa Italiana game before beginning his title defence against Cagliari on August 28th, 2011.
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