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ANCELOTTI UNIMPRESSED
Chelsea were too good for AC Milan.
AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti blasted his side's attitude following their 5-0 hammering by Chelsea in the pre-season Railways Cup.
France striker Nicolas Anelka scored four times for Luiz Felipe Scolari's side to add to Frank Lampard's opener in Moscow.
Milan were without strike duo Kaka and Alexandre Pato but that cut no ice with Ancelotti, who told club website, www.acmilan.com: "We had the wrong attitude for this friendly, it was an important game.
"The match was already difficult, but after going 3-0 down in 15 minutes things got even more complicated.
"It is a bad blow, but now let's hope the holiday season is over.
"There was nothing to take from the game but we must look forward.
"We certainly have to work on our defending. Even if we are getting back an important player like (Alessandro) Nesta, I don't think he alone can solve every problem."
Chelsea coach Luiz Felipe Scolari believes Anelka finally showed he can be his lethal weapon.
"This game was important for Anelka but more important for us - the fans, the coach and the other players who will have more confidence in him," Scolari told Chelsea's official website.
"Today was good not because he scored four goals but because he played more free and with more quality than in other games.
"He was playing against a big club and to get four goals against Milan, for his confidence it is fantastic and Anelka today and in the last game played more inside the penalty area than before.
"That is where I asked him to play and where I need him, not right and left as before, because we have one striker and that is Anelka."
With Didier Drogba getting ever closer to returning to training after a knee injury, Scolari admits he has some tough decisions to make before meaningful action kicks off against Portsmouth on August 17.
"Maybe I will receive good news about Drogba and we have 12 days to train and maybe we will have something I don't expect," he said.
"I have quality, competitive players and they fight for places on the pitch. I have 22 here, five at home. I have a good team."
