AC Milan striker Santiago Gimenez finds himself in the middle of a difficult period, however, after joining midway through the season, the path was never going to be easy.
In an ideal world, Milan signed Gimenez from Feyenoord, causing the Rossoneri to progress through the Champions League against a striker-less Dutch outfit, and start driving up the Serie A table. However, that has not been the case.
Instead, the club have hit a rough patch, and as much as Gimenez would like to be the answer, he has not been able to contribute regularly so far.
Whilst this is not to say the signs are there, the Mexican certainly has not hit the ground running as the club would like. However, this is not a bad thing at all, and is certainly not something to panic about, as Sergio Conceicao stated.
After the game last night, Conceicao spoke to the press about the patch which Gimenez finds himself in, and he was quite open about his struggles adapting to Serie A.
Gimenez hasn’t scored for nearly a month, how is he?
“He’s working hard, during the week I see him very focused on all the things we do with him and the other forwards. It’s not an easy period here in Italy, with teams organised on a defensive level: a normal period is needed to adapt. It will be very important for the rest of the season, I’m sure of it.”
You bought a close range finisher. A box poacher. And you have refused to even slightly play to that style. Why are you surprised he isn’t scoring? He isn’t an Olivier Giroud replacement, he’s a mich different #9. Maybe open your eyes and actually play to your players strengths instead of forcing play that hasn’t worked and will continue not to work… but since when does our management have a realistic plan?
But to be fair we’re not going to totally change our tactics to make Santi the reference point of our attack overnight right?
He’s fine, he’s played well enough given the state of the squad. He should be playing closer to goal and less in the build up but he’s not been damaging to the team. last he nearly scored twice on good efforts. Give the guy a break
Our strikers aren’t to blame, it’s the tactics which aren’t suitable to their strengths.
There’s no service to Gimenez. You could put it Haaland in there and it wouldn’t make a difference. Because the people who were in charge of constructing this team did a poor job.
Piatek 2.0
to be fair… he need good pass. but no one has offer that to him. Tijji play as AMF is good for him