{"id":687,"date":"2025-02-28T05:05:40","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=687"},"modified":"2025-02-28T05:05:40","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T05:05:40","slug":"exclusive-former-milan-player-mark-hateley-on-rafael-leao-you-need-to-have-supporting-players-to-help-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/?p=687","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive | Former Milan player Mark Hateley on Rafael Leao: &#8220;You need to have supporting players to help him&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"penci-post-entry-inner\">\n<p>Former Milan striker Mark Hateley has spoken about Rossoneri star Rafael Leao, stating that he needs more supporting players around him to play at his best.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_page_title - under_page_title --><\/p>\n<p>Hateley spoke exclusively to <strong>Get Italian Football News<\/strong>, via NewBettingSites and we was asked about a range of things around the Rossoneri, who were knocked out of the Champions League last week and also lost to Torino at the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>Sergio Conceicao has not quite made the desired impact at the San Siro, despite having won the Supercoppa Italiana some weeks ago. Question marks have been raised around several players and one such player is Leao, who has five goals and five assists in the Serie A.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_first_paragraph - under_first_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>When asked about Leao, Hateley stated that the Portuguese\u2019s inconsistency is likely down to not having enough players of a high quality around him.<\/p>\n<p>He told Get Italian Football News: <em>\u201cH<span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:02\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"541530\" data-end=\"546330\">e\u2019s a great player <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:08\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"548410\" data-end=\"555250\">but not with great consistency. The great players play at a great level<\/span><\/span><span class=\"opacity-80 text-sm\" data-timestamp=\"\">\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:15\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"555250\" data-end=\"560130\">all the time.<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:21\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5 bg-primary\/25 transition-all duration-200\" data-start=\"560690\" data-end=\"566710\" data-active=\"\">\u201cIt\u2019s very, very good or very poor. There\u2019s no<\/span><\/span><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:27\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"566710\" data-end=\"573890\"> middle ground with that.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:27\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"566710\" data-end=\"573890\">And to keep that high <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:34\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"573970\" data-end=\"579750\">you need to have supporting players to help him and support that. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:34\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"573970\" data-end=\"579750\">And I don\u2019t think<\/span><\/span> <span class=\"cursor-pointer group\" title=\"Play starting at 9:40\"><span class=\"group-hover:bg-base-200 rounded p-0.5 -m-0.5\" data-start=\"579750\" data-end=\"584870\">Milan have those sort of players around at the moment.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_under_second_paragraph - under_second_paragraph --><\/p>\n<p>The Portugal international has scored two goals in the last 12 games in the league and that is an underwhelming return, which calls into question Leao\u2019s consistency. But it is also clear that when he is on song, he is a match-winner for the Rossoneri.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Milan have been an unstable club for about 12 months now and the real problems are much bigger ones.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_mid_content - mid_content --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_mid_content - mid_content --><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- Ezoic - wp_long_content - long_content --><!-- End Ezoic - wp_long_content - long_content --><\/p>\n<p>Kaustubh Pandey I GIFN<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.getfootballnewsitaly.com\/2025\/exclusive-former-milan-player-mark-hateley-on-rafael-leao-you-need-to-have-supporting-players-to-help-him\/\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former Milan striker Mark Hateley has spoken about Rossoneri star Rafael Leao, stating that he needs more supporting players around him to play at his best. Hateley spoke exclusively to Get Italian Football News, via NewBettingSites and we was asked about a range of things around the Rossoneri, who were knocked out of the Champions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":688,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-687","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-giocatori-italiani-allestero"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/688"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.matteocoachperformance.it\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}