The Serie A champions travel to Udinese on Saturday on the back of three negative results in all competitions, having drawn with Napoli and suffered defeats to Lazio and Juventus.

"I do not think Milan are in crisis," Allegri said. "We are still in the race in every competition, although Juventus are closer to the Coppa Italia final than us.

"It is hard to make predictions, but the important thing is to collect points again. We have lost three of our last five matches, we need to improve our results."

Allegri is aware that Milan will have to work hard to pick up the three points against Udinese, who have the best home record in Serie A, with 10 victories from 11 matches.

"Tactically speaking, it will be a hard match," Allegri said.

"We will need to be patient. We will have to be careful, both in attack and defence. A moment of distraction and we will be in trouble."

The former Cagliari coach also tried to put an end to the controversy surrounding Zlatan Ibrahimovic, who will miss the game against Udinese as part of his three-match ban.

"He made a mistake and he is paying for what he did against Napoli," Allegri said. "To get on his back would be unfair, also because he has been amazing this season.

"We will wait for him. We have until February 23 to find out the result of our appeal and if he will be able to play against Juventus."