Mixed Views After Thrilling Draw
Saturday 21st October 2000
Zinedine Zidane declared himself delighted with Juventus� late rally against Milan on Saturday night, but Milan boss Alberto Zaccheroni was furious at his side�s slackness.
Zidane, who won the man of the match award: "We are really happy tonight. After Milan went two up, we showed we had the temperament and we could have scored a third goal too. I hope we will carry on like this."
His coach, Carlo Ancelotti admitted that he was a bag of nerves during the game: "I was really nervous," he said.
"We didn�t deserve to lose the match and after Milan went two up I asked myself if I had done anything wrong at all. Of course the line-up was picked withthe match we will play on Tuesday in mind."
Ancelotti was asked about the choice of who to leave on the bench: David Trezeguet or Darko Kovacevic: "I know that David and Darko score often when they play. I hope they will go on scoring every time they have the chance to play. I must use all my players because we have so many matches to play. Tonight it was the turn for Inzaghi and Del Piero to start.
"We suffered a lot on corners and free-kicks, because Milan had many tall players: on the first goal, Ambrosini was marked but he was able to run free inside our penalty box. I�m happy because my team reacted very well to a double disadvantage. We didn�t deserve it for what we had done until that moment."
Zaccheroni was really devastated at the end: "I hoped that we could win the match after the second goal. Now I have two great regrets: first is that we let Juventus play during the whole first half; the second that we conceded two goals that we could have avoided with a little more concentration.
"Of course with teams as strong as Juventus you must never think that the match is won before last referee�s final whistle."
