Winning the Coppa Italia was particularly important for Milan, as it would’ve given them direct access to the Europa League group stage.
Now fifth, sixth and seventh in Serie A enter the Europa League, although seventh must go through the preliminary rounds starting in July.
Milan still have to earn that qualification with two big games against Atalanta and Fiorentina.
“I think it hurts more that we took 40,000 fans here and gave them a result like this. It hurts, we’ll now have two games against sides who are in better shape than us and must try to get into the Europa League with better performances than this.”