AC Milan manager Sergio Conceicao played down his fight with Davide Calabria after their 3-2 win over Parma, saying “we are not in church.”
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Conceicao brushed off his fight with Calabria
Milan scored two goals in added time to secure victory at San Siro.
However, the celebration was cut short when Conceicao and defender Calabria had to be separated by teammates and staff.
Conceicao appeared to confront Calabria but was quickly held back before the situation escalated.
However, the Portuguese boss played down his heated clash with the 28-year old, saying there was an “extra adrenaline.”
“I live the matches and in terms of how I live them and how I feel them there is a lot of passion and desire to win,” Conceicao said.
“In the end, there was a little extra adrenaline, I was talking about a game situation with Davide and in my opinion, there was one too many words spoken.”
The manager added that he feels the squad is like a family and handles this type of situation in the same way.
“The players know that they are all important to me, like a family. If I’m at a restaurant and my son does something I don’t like, I’ll tell him, there’s no hypocrisy,” Conceicao said.
“It wasn’t nice to see, but in football it’s okay. We are not in church.”
“Not a positive year” for Calabria
Calabria had to endure a difficult season in Milan.
The Italian made only his fourth league start of the campaign and had also lost the captaincy to goalkeeper Mike Maignan.
Brazil’s Emerson Royal has taken over the right-back role since his signing from Tottenham Hotspur.
“It is not a positive year like others have been,” Calabria told broadcaster DAZN.
“There are situations that are not simple, even private and personal ones that nobody is aware of. I don’t even want to talk about it too much.
“I want to end this season in the best possible way for the good of the team which is the thing I care about the most, even more than myself sometimes.
“Honestly, I’m thinking about staying focused on that, having grown up with this shirt. Then there are situations like today that can happen but they are part of the journey.”
Conceicao plays down fight with Calabria: “we are not in church”
