[Aladino]

Yesterdays press conference, aead of todays game against Celtic

LET'S WIN THE GROUP!
12/3/2007 8:48:00 PM
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Carlo Ancelotti

'Celtic are a team with great physical power, speed, and technical qualities, the Scots do very well at home and not so well away.

'Aside from tomorrow's game, Inzaghi will have other chances to go past Muller and score more than 62 goals in Europe. He really cares about that, and he's not too far away from getting there, the objective is close so let's hope he'll do it tomorrow, even though he will have many more opportunities.'

'I think what happened after Fiorentina-Inter was a very nice gesture which should be repeated on all the pitches, and is a form of great respect, fairness and correctness. Because even though there usually is respect and correctness among the players on the pitch, this was a gesture made to improve the spirit and to give a positive image of what goes on on the pitch and transmit that to the stands.'

'Aside from the injured players, tomorrow we will have other unavailable players: Jankulovski, Emerson and Ronaldo. The others should be available, aside from Serginho who suffered a knock to his knee and he will be looked at today. Ronaldo's is not a serious injury, there is optimism and I think he will be available for the first match in Tokyo.
Tomorrow we'll play with our best formation. Our head is not on the trip to Tokyo, let's think about qualifying as group leaders because we have already qualified with the first match in Lisbon against Benfica. I don't expect to make many changes because like I said we give a lot of importance to this game. If it should end in a draw, I will not fear the criticism because we go on the pitch to do our duty. I'd like to add that in the Champions League we've always done well and also tomorrow we will play with utmost fairness and respect for everyone, but I think that considering our characteristics, we will do the same against Celtic.'

'Kaká would like to wear the captain's armband, I think it won't happen yet this year, next year it might happen if that's what the whole team wants. But I believe it's more important to feel like a leader of the team than wearing the captain's armband, at Milan there are a lot of players who are leaders without being captains, and Ricky is one of those players.'