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AC Milan's Seedorf: Time for talking is over
tribalfootball.com - February 5, 2006
Clarence Seedorf says it's time AC Milan players stopped talking and started producing on the pitch.
Carlo Ancelotti's outfit go into today's clash with Lazio 12 points behind Juve and in desperate need of a morale boost following the midweek Coppa Italia exit at the hands of Palermo and the 1-1 draw in the last league outing against Sampdoria.
"There is little to say and a lot to do," Seedorf said. "We have tried to do more in training in order to turn things around as soon as possible.
"But at this time we are finding it extremely challenging to achieve what we need."
Alberto Gilardino has failed to score in the last four league games while top scorer Andriy Shevchenko has not been able to pull off the same sizzling performances as he did last season.
"In the past few months we haven't had the consistency in terms of results that we did last term," added Seedorf.
"That is what it boils down to, if we look at last year in the first four or five months we played worse but the results nevertheless came our way."
Milan are already focusing all their efforts on solving the problems ahead of their Champions League with Bayern Munich as hopes of the Scudetto are fading.
"Our determination is even stronger now," the Dutchman added.
"We have to try to do well in the league, not only because we are looking to compete for second place but also because it would help us prepare better to our Champions League clash."
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