CM: Conceicao a ‘caged lion’, Tomori vocal – the derby seen from the dugouts | OneFootball

A report has revealed some of the details from pitchside regarding how the managers and players behaved during the derby between AC Milan and Inter.

Calciomercato.com write that Conceicao is ‘literally a caged lion’. His perpetual wandering, back and forth, often in circles, is typical of lions who want to get out of the space that limits them. In short, the technical area becomes technical air and the lines didn’t seem to mean much.

He took off his jacket at one point and told Leao to ‘go to hell’ after a misplaced backheel, before correcting his position for the whole first half. He is literally obsessed – in general and even more so in these games – by the distance between the lines within the team.

He asked Ismael Bennacer, who came off at half-time mainly for this reason, to have the right position when the ball goes to Leao, but the Algerian did not find this position and since Conceiçao didn’t let him off the hook. Bennacer would leave the club on deadline day.

On 18 minutes he sent sends three men to warm up. And then his most typical gesture, especially to those who are far away: he raises an arm with a curled hand, a claw that wants to pull something hanging higher up.

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Since Conceiçao has been there, the captain is Maignan, who however does a warm-up separately from his team-mates. Fikayo Tomori was the one who ‘talked the most’ on the field, as per the report. He does it clearly for linguistic reasons with Walker, who has just arrived.

However he did so also with Abraham, Pulisic and Reijnders, who now speak Italian, but continue to prefer English. In general he did it because, incredibly, he seemed the most serene of all and as if the occasion did not scare him.