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At times, football matches are decided by certain incidents and sometimes they go in your favour and sometimes they go against you. Despite this, we’ve made many mistakes in the championship, otherwise we wouldn’t be here with just 14 points, but there have been some situations, let's say incidents, which have gone against us, for example conceding a free-kick in the 95th minute, where, quite rightly, we made a mistake with our positioning of the wall against Parma, but maybe nine times out of ten that free kick finishes wide, or is blocked by the wall. The important thing is that the team continues to work hard, that they're convinced of their abilities, and above all, look to climb the table, to do so we need to start winning, this year in the league we have't won away from home, and it will be difficult to do so tomorrow. The thing that upsets me most is that so far I haven't had a full squad available to me, and I want to say that it isn't simply a case of having your top players available or not, no, it's the fact that with a full squad there is more motivation within the group, it's one thing to be sure that you're playing every match week in, week out, it's another thing when you're place is in doubt with increased competition and with more players. Tuesday we lost another two players, leading some to say that Milan are the side with the most injuries in the world, but if a player falls having been pushed and hurts his shoulder, I don't think the coach can do anything about that, it's nothing to do with our preparations, or an issue to do with the medical staff, if Abate takes a hit and twists his ankle, and tomorrow we will have the defensive line made up of Poli, Bonera, Silvestre and Emanuelson, with Poli having to adapt at right back, even though he can play there and do well, there is nothing I can do about it. The same thing applies to Mexes, in the pre-match warm up against Genoa, he began to see small white shapes out of his left eye, and unfortunately he is now out and let’s hope to have him available for Livorno. Fortunately though, we've got El Shaarawy back and he's back within the group, he hasn't had any game time yet, but slowly he will get back to full fitness, he is determined and wants to show his worth, and above all reach the levels of last season, he's basically played two matches, likewise De Sciglio who is struggling with his knee injury and it's giving him problems, but we will have to do without and not let it get us down, and tomorrow we face a tough match because Catania at home have collected all of their points that they have in the league.