MILAN – Filippo Inzaghi also gave an exclusive interview to the Milan Channel today. Here were the coach’s thoughts to the club’s in-house TV station:

Opening comments on the last Champions League triumph for the rossoneri, which happened on this day in 2007: “The final in Athens brings back great memories. The 23rd of May is an unforgettable date and so was the year 2007 too. The luck that I had as a player is still missing as a coach because we’ve often been unlucky with all the players lost through injury. Destiny was kind to me in 2007 as I was able to play against Liverpool and Boca Juniors after the previous finals that we lost. I am sure that we will go back to being great again.”

Inzaghi continued: “This team has had an excellent attitude in the past 3 matches. I am hoping for a match like the one against Roma. Against Napoli and Sassuolo the attitude was also good. We have to be consistent with our performances. The team want to end the season on a high. Bonaventura and Diego Lopez have shown they are real men and there are many of them in this squad.”

Team news: “El Shaarawy is coming from a period in which he’s spent many months without playing. My hope is to give him a start. He seems fine but I also have Di Molfetta in that position. I will decide today whether to start El Shaarawy or maybe Di Molfetta or the other way around.”

Focus on Sunday’s opponents: “It will be a hard match, Torino are doing well. We cannot think about the players that we have missing. We hope we can play well and give a good response and end the last match by leaving a good memory.”

More from the coach: “I have grown, just like the team has. There have been positives to build on, while there have also been negatives. I hope to stay and to give my all with the same passion as always. We must be good in bringing the fans back to the San Siro.”

Closing comments: “Playing for Milan makes things more complicated. Saponara against Palermo was perhaps one of the best players out on the pitch, but then the next day it was written that he was the worst. It’s never easy with the young players because there is no patience. We hope that, just like with Niang, they do well and they can one day come back to Milan and do well.”

MILANELLO – The rossoneri’s final pre-Torino training is underway at Milanello. A full training report will follow afterwards on the homepage.

Individuals: Ignazio Abate has started the session with the rest of his team-mates.

MILAN – Torino coach Giampiero Ventura has called-up the following 20 players for Sunday’s Serie A match against Milan at the San Siro:

GOALKEEPERS: Ichazo, Padelli, Zaccagno (74).

DEFENDERS: Darmian, Glik, Jansson, Molinaro, Moretti, Bruno Peres, Gaston Silva.

MIDFIELDERS: Basha, Benassi, El Kaddouri, Gazzi, A.Gonzalez, Vives.

FORWARDS: Amauri, J.Martinez, Morra (75), Rosso (90).

Unavailable: Cesare Bovo, Luca Castellazzi, Alex Farnerud, Fabio Quagliarella and the suspended Nikola Maksimovic. Maxi Lopez misses out against his former team-mates with a muscular injury.

MILANELLO – The club’s CEO Adriano Galliani is at Milanello ahead of the rossoneri’s training session this afternoon. Upon his arrival, he also took the chance to greet and hand out autographs to a selection of fans gathered at the club’s training centre.

MILAN – Paolo Maldini was recently interviewed by former Liverpool defender Jamie Carragher. Here is an extract of that interview from the Daily Mail website:

“I started at Milan when I was 10 and finished when I was 41. My father, Cesare, was captain, my kids are in the academy now. Milan is not just a team for me. It is part of my life. My family loves those colours. We built with other great players something unique. Training used to be a little bit crazy. Sacchi would work you hard, then work your mind. He would make you repeat the same things over and over, especially defenders. Every day we’d do the same thing. But if me, Baresi, Costacurta and Tassotti meet each other now, we can still play as we did in the 1990s. It is stuck in your mind. That was one of the secrets of our success. It helped the Milan legend to continue. That team played at that level (raises hand in air) for so long. I won my first Champions League in 1989 and I won my last one 18 years later.”

On the 2007 final against Liverpool: “In that final, we had everything to lose. Another defeat by Liverpool would have been a real tragedy. But you cannot choose your opponents. I hadn’t played for three months before. And it is funny – I don’t remember too much about that game. All I remember is lifting the cup.”

More from Maldini: “Van Basten? Right foot. Left foot. Heading, so strong, fast. He could score, he could pass the ball. He was the best. The way he played was timeless. He had to quit when he was 28. Surgery. Stupid surgery to the ankle. It was such a pity.”