{"id":36527,"date":"2025-07-25T14:45:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:45:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36527\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T14:45:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T14:45:08","slug":"fofana-discusses-tough-liverpool-clash-and-the-difficulties-of-a-pre-season-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/36527\/","title":{"rendered":"Fofana discusses &#8216;tough&#8217; Liverpool clash and the difficulties of a pre-season tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ahead of the game between AC Milan and Liverpool tomorrow, the Rossoneri midfielder Youssouf Fofana said a few words at the press conference.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After losing 1-0 to Arsenal in the first pre-season friendly, Milan and Max Allegri will be eager to bounce back with a win or at least a draw against Liverpool tomorrow. As <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/allegri-previews-liverpool-pre-season-purpose\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">stated by the manager during his presser<\/a>, however, it won\u2019t be an easy game.<\/p>\n<p>That being said, it looks like Allegri will have both Maignan and Fofana back at his disposal for the clash, which is certainly a boost. Whether they will play from start or just get a few minutes, however, is a different question.<\/p>\n<p>Fofana\u2019s press conference<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the press conference alongside Allegri earlier today, as transcribed by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.milannews.it\/news\/live-mn-fofana-la-scorsa-stagione-e-il-passato-ora-abbiamo-un-nuovo-allenatore-584890\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">MilanNews<\/a>, Fofana shared his thoughts on the game and his overall feelings for the upcoming season.<\/p>\n<p>Will the weather conditions affect the game?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think anything will change. It\u2019s still football, and it will be the same for both teams during the game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What do you expect from the match against Liverpool?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s a tough match because they\u2019re one of the strongest clubs in the world over the last five or six years. It\u2019s a tough match, but it\u2019s good preparation for us: we can\u2019t wait to face them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>How\u2019s the desire for more consistency going? With the coach and the new staff?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re working on it. It\u2019s something you can\u2019t fix in a week or two. We\u2019ll see in the end if we\u2019ve done it right or not.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You (as a team) had several problems last season: how do you feel on a personal level?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI feel good. Last season wasn\u2019t the best for us, but that\u2019s the past. Now we have a new coach, a new staff who wants to inject new energy into our work. We\u2019re working with them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>What is it like to play pre-season games in different locations?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s very hard, especially on the body.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahead of the game between AC Milan and Liverpool tomorrow, the Rossoneri midfielder Youssouf Fofana said a few&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36528,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-36527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36527\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}