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Milan had substitutes Noah Okafor and Samuel Chukwueze to thank for beating Membership Brugge within the Champions League on Tuesday, in keeping with head coach Paulo Fonseca.
The three-1 residence victory ensured Milan earned their first factors of their European marketing campaign, with Dutch midfielder Tijjani Reijnders scoring a brace within the second half.
Okafor got here on for Ruben Loftus-Cheek after an hour with the sport at 1-1, whereas Chukwueze was swapped in for Rafael Leao, and each gamers supplied assists for Reijnders to win the sport.
“The credit score goes to the gamers and primarily to those that got here on,” Fonseca informed a press convention.
“They modified the match, altering our sport, the depth.”
On the time Fonseca made the modifications, Milan had been labouring towards a Membership Brugge aspect who had been enjoying with 10 males after midfielder Raphael Onyedika had been despatched off within the first half.
“Clearly, within the first half, we didn’t do issues properly,” Fonseca stated.
“We had been up towards a workforce with 11 gamers that was very deep, then with numerical inferiority, they grew to become even deeper.
“We had difficulties in any such sport, in creating and frightening area.
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“Then, once we don’t discover the appropriate answer, the sport begins to be too gradual. Once we don’t discover area, we have to have a unique depth in our actions. We didn’t do properly… I feel it was an issue of understanding the sport.”
Fonseca introduced on 16-year-old Francesco Camarda with Milan main 3-1, with {the teenager} enjoying the ultimate quarter-hour and having a objective dominated out for offside.
“I’m very sorry for the disallowed objective,” stated Fonseca. “But it surely was a phenomenal second for the workforce, all on the pitch celebrating a toddler who works so laborious.
“Camarda could have many alternatives to attain extra targets throughout his profession.”
Camarda is the youngest participant to have made their debut for Milan within the Champions League at simply 16 years and 226 days.
He’s additionally the youngest Italian participant to function within the competitors, having crushed the document beforehand held by former Juventus ahead, Moise Kean (16 years, 268 days).
