Throughout this season, AC Milan have been a more defensive team than an offensive outfit. However, it feels more like they have been forced into this than by choice.
Put simply, Milan are not a goalscoring team currently. Since the start of the season, their output infront of goal has slowed dramatically and now they are more prone to games with one or two goals scored.
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It is a pretty worrying trend, especially with the defence coming under more scrutiny in recent times. Yet, it feels like the Rossoneri do not have a solution.
At the weekend, they changed to a 4-3-3, seeking a more balanced game. Yet, they lost 3-0, without ever really threatening to a major degree.
Ambrosini’s brutally honest review
After that heavy loss, Massimo Ambrosini has spoken to Cronache di Spogliatoio rather critically of the Diavolo and what is required from them moving forward, as Milan Press has relayed this afternoon.
“Milan, at this time, but throughout the year, has not shown that it has a series of options, ideas that could favour its players in the offensive phase. This was the main problem.
“Compared to other teams, Milan has fewer options, fewer solutions, so the theme of the form for Milan can leave the time it finds. You can also put 6000 attackers, but if you don’t have ideas and solutions to make them play, they don’t shoot much in goal.”
https://sempremilan.com/milan-misfiring-attack-bleak-comparison-rivals
….and? Any solutions?
Easy to be a critic in the cheap seats.
hard to solve what appears to be an intractable problem.
Personally, I want to see Modric further up the pitch. he’s wasted playing so deep when the issue is service to the forwards. Solve the build up problem in the midfield (although it would help if we could finish….).
Even as bad as Leao if he get 5 big chances he’d finish at least 2 of them. Problem is we ain’t creating enough chances, you need to create chances to have any hope of scoring, we ain’t creating much, and half chances are 50/50.
“La Gazzetta dello Sport have the numbers to hand which demonstrate just how bad the crisis is. Milan’s forwards in 2026 have needed on average three shots to hit the goal (register a shot on target) and 13.5 shots to score.
Christian Pulisic, Rafael Leao, Christopher Nkunku, Niclas Fullkrug and Santiago Gimenez have scored eight goals since New Year’s Eve, despite 34 shots on target and 93 total shots. That’s too many, and it perhaps partially explains the struggles in terms of results too, because goals win games.”
“Inter just 5.7.”.
It has to be service, not finishing, even though the numbers prove that is false. If Milan scored at the same rate but had fewer shots on goal so that was the discrepancy what you wrote would make sense. But no.
How can stats of only three months be used as a conversation for a season long objective?
If you want to know our actual conversion rate, here’s the link below:
https://www.transfermarkt.com/serie-a/chancenverwertung/wettbewerb/IT1/saison_id/2025
Even in the season when we won the Scudetto, we were never up the chat, so it has always been an issue with Milan for donkey years and not just a three months statistics.