NO FEAR IN MADRID

(IN THE PHOTO: Adel Taarabt skips past an opponent in Udinese-Milan)MILAN – This is what midfielder Adel Taarabt had to say in an exclusive interview with the Milan Channel ahead of Atletico Madrid-Milan on Tuesday in the last-16 of the Champions League.The first comments from Taarabt were about Saturday evening’s match away to Udinese: “We’re obviously not happy with what happened, but at the same time we’ve got be 100% focused on Tuesday’s match which is the most important one of the season. We lost, but we have to remain focused. I’ve noticed that it’s harder for us to play against teams that use a 3-5-2 formation, like against Torino. It’s an aspect in which we need to improve in because it seems that at times we don’t have an answer to this formation with a 3 man defence. If we don’t score immediately we give too much away to our opponents and we give them the chance to build up confidence which puts us in difficulty. Yesterday we controlled the game in the first part. Had we scored in the first-half it would have been a different match.”Taarabt then turned his attentions to the next match with Atletico Madrid: "We should have won at the San Siro, it could have been 2-0 but we were unlucky. On Tuesday we’ve got no fear about taking on Atletico Madrid. They’re a strong side, they’re top of the Spanish League, but the Champions League is a different competition. At the San Siro we showed that we can dominate, I see no reason why we can’t do the same over there in Madrid.”