Youssouf Fofana has improved massively over the last few weeks, turning his usual final-third struggles into contributions. However, as Massimiliano Allegri highlighted today, there is still an important part missing.
If you look at the season as a whole, it wouldn’t be wrong to say that it has been a frustrating one for Fofana. The Frenchman has been given a lot of trust by Allegri, who has often fielded him from start given the stamina and ability to win back possession.
In the final third, however, the former Monaco man has often struggled to make a meaningful impact in the games. Even if he gets into the right positions, in fact he almost always does, the final touch has simply been too poor most of the time.
I say most of the time because in the last few weeks, a switch has seemingly been flicked. After the game against Cremonese, in which he should have had two assists and was denied a goal by a great save, he got the game-winning assist with a lovely pass against Inter.
Now goals are needed
When asked about this evident improvement in meaningful contributions during today’s press conference, Allegri highlighted that there is still one thing missing: “He’s provided the assists, now we are just missing the goals. I think they will come,” Fofana.
The midfielder is expected to start against Lazio tomorrow and with Adrien Rabiot suspended, there is definitely room for him to take on important responsibilities.
Fofana is great getting into scoring positions. His finishing has been terrible though. He probably realizes it and is passing more often than shooting these days. I don’t think he has ever been a goal scoring midfielder though, 6 goals in 143 matches for Monaco…I think Milan will be lucky if he gets 5 in any one season. His value imo is all the other aspects of his game.
Fofana is not Milan starting caliber. Period. We don’t need goals from him, we need to move on and upgrade on him.
Not starting quality? Milan has defeated all of the top teams this season and are comfortably in second place and chasing Inter to the finish…all while Fofana has been…Starting!?!? Your comment doesn’t even make sense against those results/performances. Thankfully, Allegri disagrees with you 100%.
I always feel when Modric has the ball, he needs to come close and receive the ball. He tends to rather move up the pitch which I don’t think is his best role. Though I don’t like him, his biggest strength is disrupting opposition play which he is so good at. No pressure should be put on him to be scoring goals ( which if he did would be nice). If he can be that consistent as a disrupter, he would be very good than always been in the opposition area only to fall, shoot to the sky or slip
I wish I had this level of faith lol.
You don’t need to have faith. Allegri trusts him 100%. Who should start in Fofana’s place then?