Lost occasion: Birsa knocks Samp down and re-launches Milan

An
occasion lost. It’s difficult to find other words to describe the
fourth consecutive defeat over six matches played of this melancholy
Sampdoria 2013/2014. In an almost empty "Meazza", acoustically
more blucerchiato
than ever, even Milan’s remainders have the best of Delio Rossi’s
derelict group, knocked down by the Slovenian Birsa, who scores the
only goal of the game at the beginning of the second half. A
predictable team, unable to bite and to take advantage of Milan’s
numerous absences; a team incapable of showing, during more than 47
minutes, an appropriate reaction.

Wake
up. Critical situations continue and this further fall doesn’t help
thinking about the future with serenity. «Can this team secure
safety from relegation? This team must secure safety – argues Rossi
-. But we have to wake up now because we can’t go on like this. The
table is not good and in this moment we shouldn’t look at it. We
played against teams that are stronger than we are, that’s true,
but we made mistakes too. We don’t play that badly but I think we
need more conviction in ourselves».

Bitterness.
«We could have taken points – says a disappointed Lorenzo De Silvestri
from San Siro’s mixed-zone -. I’m very sorry for not having done
it. Now we have to roll up our sleeves, shut up, and try to get the
first victory in the next match, on Sunday, against Torino. It’s a
very hard situation, but we are professionals, paid to overcome
difficulties like this and we must leave it behind».