Ex-Fiorentina coach Rossi: There's a reason big clubs haven't signed Milenkovic

Former Fiorentina coach Delio Rossi is critical of defender Nikola Milenkovic.

Rossi wasn't surprised seeing Milenkovic struggle in defeat to Lazio.

He told Rai Radio 1 Sport: "Today's defender must above all know how to defend, then if he also knows how to set up well from behind, the better.

"But the main quality of a defender is attention. There is a reason why the great teams ultimately didn't sign Milenkovic: he has undoubted qualities, but he can't maintain high attention in decisive moments.

"As a coach I would have been angry even if that mistake had been made by a child from the youth sector, let alone at these levels. Plausible, then it was a baptized ball, what he did wasn't logical."