Alberto Zaccheroni: “Ismael Bennacer Dominates The Midfield Battle”

AC Milan’s coach, Alberto Zaccheroni, praised the performance of the Algerian international midfielder, Ismail Bennacer, in the Italian derby between Inter Milan and AC Milan.

The match on Sunday evening calculated the 23rd round of the Italian championship and Inter Milan won with 4-2.

Alberto Zaccheroni said that AC Milan dominated the first half of the game because of having the midfielder like Ismail Bennacer, who was able to paralyze the Inter Milan attacks and also feeding the players in the front line of his red and black team with balls in the opponent’s operations area.

Midfielder Ismail Bennacer played all the stages of the match with his team AC Milan against the competitor Inter Milan, in the first participation of the Algerian international in such derbies with a world-class reputation.

Zaccheroni expressed, in a media statement that was published by the Italian press, on Monday, his regret that AC Milan’s control did not continue in the second half, as Bennacer’s teammates surrendered to the opponent, which turned his deficiency with a clean duality into a victory (4-2).

The technician, Alberto Zaccheroni (66), led the AC Milan team to win the Italian championship, 1998-1999 season. He also coached the Japan team that won the Asian Nations Cup, Qatar 2011.

The coach – who has also previously coached big teams in Italy such as Inter Milan, Juventus, and Lazio – believes that Ismail Bennacer’s brilliance is not enough to improve the results of AC Milan, due to the poor performance of some of his teammates, whose performance has decreased significantly, contrary to last season.

Alberto Zaccheroni also believes that relying on a 38-year-old player has made him a “beating heart”, and it concerns the Swedish striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic, considering it a major mistake that was made by the current coach of “Rossoneri” Stefano Pioli because this player can no longer grant the necessary technical addition regularly, as he did when he was young.

After this loss, AC Milan tanks 10th with 32 points, 15 rounds before the Italian championship, while Inter Milan tops the ranking list with a total of 54 points.