GATTUSO HITS BACK AT ITALY'S DEPUTY PM

AC Milan coach Gennaro Gattuso told Italy's Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini to focus on politics and not football after criticising his game plan in a Sunday's 1-1 draw against Lazio. "It drives me crazy, with all the issues this country has that Salvini has time to chat about AC Milan," said Gattuso. Salvini, an AC Milan supporter, was in the stands during Sunday's game. "If I had been Gattuso I would have made some substitutions, the players were tired, I don't understand why he didn't change something in the second half," Salvini told Italian television after the match. Asked about Salvini's comments, Gattuso said: "I don't talk about politics because I don't understand anything. "I tell him to think about politics because with all the problems we have in our country, if the deputy prime minister is talking about football, it means that we are in a bad way."