Mihajlovic: “My greatest joy since I started coaching, the real Milan is still to come.

Sinisa Mihajlovic was overjoyed after beating Inter 3-0 at San Siro last night in what he considers the great joy since he began his coaching career.
 
“It is certainly the greatest joy I’ve experienced since I started coaching,” Miha told Sky after the match. “To win a Derby in such a clear manner was wonderful, as these games remain in history. I am especially happy for our President, as he finally got to enjoy this victory in the stadium. He is our First Fan, he’s happy when things go well and suffers when they don’t. I’m happy for the club, the fans and our boys.
“We’re on a good run, beating Fiorentina and Lazio, drawing with Roma when we deserved to win. I said the second half of the season would be revenge for results in the first and so far it’s going well. We enjoy this victory but on Wednesday we have another important game.

“I think we won because we made the most of our scoring opportunities, though there could’ve been even more. I told the lads at half-time not to think we were leading and had to defend a lead, but to treat it like 0-0. We knew the longer the game went on, the more irritable Inter would get and they’d leave us more space to attack them. We showed the kind of clinical approach that we haven’t so far this season.

“We are now making up ground after a slow start to the season. I want to take things one game at a time though,” Sinisa added. “Apart from the opening 15-20 minutes, when we were under pressure because we didn’t close them down enough, we eventually got into our stride and played well. We could have done better on a couple of counter attacks, but we gave a good performance & I feel this is a deserved victory.
“All of the players were aware of the importance of this match. It will now be important to motivate the squad for the coming matches because the motivation for the derby comes by itself. When you don’t collect positive results, it’s only normal that your position is in doubt. But I like the pressure, it’s more exciting and interesting this way (there were several reports indicating Miha could get sacked mid-season).
“I haven’t given any sort of lesson to Mancini. He remains a great coach. We are now one a piece in terms of derbies this season. I do my job and focus on myself. The President was happy. We have dropped points along the way this season, but if we keep this up, we can achieve a lot of great things.
“The real Milan is still to come.” Mihajlovic also stated that the objective remains the Europa League and the Rossoneri face Palermo next and it will be a very important match to stay in the fight.