Di Canio: "Leao’s had it! Allegri’s absolutely livid. Pulisic’s working his socks off, whilst he’s just strolling along"

"You can’t have a player just standing around for 70 minutes while the others are working their socks off. It’s not as if a player is there just to receive a couple of passes because he makes a couple of runs and then doesn’t put in the effort. Pulisic was substituted in Cremona and was angry because he was running himself ragged and wasn’t feeling well, but the other player wasted four counter-attacks. Allegri is trying to strike a balance between giving one or the other a greater opportunity."

"He put in the same performance – if not worse – against Cremonese and chose to keep Leao on the pitch. And he wasn’t even in contention for a possible revival in the Scudetto race. Today Max is absolutely livid because – even though he says, ‘No, we must stay focused on the Champions League’ – that’s just how a manager is."

"Today, you see there’s this row with Pulisic, but when we don’t have the ball, he puts in the effort, comes over to link up play, and he doesn’t do that... so I say, ‘Enough, you’ve had it’"

"I would have taken him off. If I see space, I might leave him on, but if I have to play two strikers, I can’t just make a mess of things. We’re 25 minutes from the end and the plan was to at least get a draw."