AC Milan kept yet another clean sheet yesterday evening despite having to play with Olivier Giroud in goal for the final minutes. It was the Rossoneri’s third consecutive clean sheet, which is a testament to their recent defensive stability.
Fikayo Tomori and Malick Thiaw have been brilliant at the back ever since the derby, which the Englishman didn’t feature in, and together on the pitch they have conceded just two goals this season.
Out of the two, Tomori has been the standout in the last few weeks, covering a lot of ground on the pitch and always finding a way to break up the attacks. Of course, the two complement each other very well but the former Chelsea man deserves extra praise.
This new-found defensive stability has been incredibly important for Milan as they have struggled to find the back of the net in attack. Stefano Pioli will thus be looking to get the attack underway fully after the break, as that would be a real recipe for success.
Against Juventus, however, he will have to make do without Theo Hernandez and Mike Maignan who are suspended. The defensive response will be very interesting to see, but now they have the confidence to do well.
Good to see him back to his best. But still we lack proper DM, we give too much space between the lines in midfield.
We still suffer from counterattacks, like yesterday, it’s just we don’t always play against teams we can capitalize on our mistakes.
Yesterday Genoa really looked like a team with identity when in reality they were counter attacking and easily conquered space in between our lines we left open.
Milan were lucky to survive against a Genoa team that had all week to prepare for the match.
Milan had only 1 training section to prepare for the match after playing on Wednesday night, the lads were a little tired, perhaps Genoa won against Roma and Lazio, also got a point against Napoli this season.
True but this pattern (leaking space between the lines) is repeating game in game out. It’s a general problem of our system.
Did not see this coming from his preseason games. Keep it up ❤️🖤
When i whine about Fik is because he is not playing like this. He is in top form atm, hope he rides it until the end of the season and beyond
i saw Fik was little bit demotivated after Milan became serie a champion. but now he’s back to his “usual” form.
I am not too worry for Theo’s absence. We have Florenzi. Sportiello is not too bad either. Besides RLC and Krunic are available.
That red card served him well. He’s much calmer now. His confidence looks improved every single game. And his duo with Malick is much more complementing and comparable than the one with Pierre.
Disagree. Need Pierre’s speed to press up high with all CBs.
Let’s see how he does then
Too bad for England fans, Southgate will still playing his boyfriend Maguire. But lucky for us Fik will get rest