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CorSport: Concerns grow around Milan’s defence with Serie A opener approaching

AC Milan’s latest concern seems to be the defence with a string of poor displays during the pre-season friendlies catching the eyes of many, a report suggests.

As pointed out by Corriere dello Sport (via Milan News), Milan appear to have switched their problem areas over the summer.

The attack was where people felt the most improvement was needed and that has been addressed, with Milan scoring 10 goals in their eight friendlies this summer.

Now, though, it is the defence that is coming under fire. The defence did not impress in Sunday’s friendly against Novara, conceding twice from avoidable situations.

Fikayo Tomori has come under a lot of fire from fans for his perceived poor performances and this is partly why there is still a chance that Milan add another defender to the squad this summer.

Given Simon Kjaer’s fitness cannot always be trusted, extra cover in the centre of defence may be needed to compliment the improved attack.

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7 Comments

      1. We have 7 new starter level players. What did people expect? The squad to be a well-oiled machine in a couple of weeks? Lol. Pioli’s job will depend on getting all these guys to click in a month. It’s unfortunate we have Roma and Inter in weeks 3 and 4. We need 4-5 games of easy opponents to get a rhythm.

  1. “The attack was where people felt the most improvement was needed …” Word???!!!??
    This whole “out attack has not been producing ” is a real head scratcher imo.
    We went from the Scudetto to the non Scudetto year making 5 goals fewer but shipping 12 more goals. But we went from being the fourth best attack in the Scudetto year to being exactly that the next year..fourth best attack…which really isnt that bad to have anyways. P.just craved something that they made up in their mind or got egged on by the media.
    It’s our defending that was the problem. We went from tied best defence to the 7th best. That’s not going to work in serie A. And I don’t see indications that we worked on that area.

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