Milan coach in shock, doesn't speak after match with Verona

After Milan's 1-0 victory over Verona, the "Rossoneri" coach Sergio Conceição did not stand in front of the cameras, but the club's advisor Zlatan Ibrahimovic. The reason was that during the match the Portuguese specialist found out about the death of the ex-president of his former team Porto - Pinto da Costa, with whom he had a very close relationship, reports gong.bg.

"The coach stayed in the locker room because he is shocked by the death of the president of Porto, who was like a father to him. That's why I'm here", explained Ibrahimovic before commenting on the match with Verona.

Ibra emphasized the performance of new signing Santiago Jimenez, who scored the winning goal. The footballer scored in his second consecutive match, making him only the third player of the “red-blacks” in the “three-point era” to score in his first two appearances in Serie “A”. Before him, Andriy Shevchenko and Christian Pulisic did the same.

"I expected things to go so well because Jimenez is a player who likes to score goals. It is not easy to arrive in Italian football as a foreigner, but we are helping him to settle in and become stronger step by step. This is a very important victory. It is true that we only scored one goal, but we dominated the whole time. With all due respect to the Verona players, but they came to “San Siro” only to defend, and it is not easy to play against such a well-organized team,” said Ibrahimovic.