AC Milan decided to make a video of yesterday’s training session in the United States available to the public on their YouTube channel, and some of Paulo Fonseca’s prompts could be seen.
As Radio Rossonera write, we have already clearly seen two of the key concepts Fonseca has been preaching during the first two friendlies of the summer, because Milan are pressing high (at the right moments) and are building out from the back.
In a video published on the club’s official YouTube channel, part of one of the latest training sessions in the United States is shown. It features an exercise explained by Fonseca and his staff and then carried out by the players.
The objective is easy to see: the new head coach wants the squad to improve the speed and quality of their pressing when not in possession and to clean up the way that they play out of the press, something we saw against Rapid Wien and Manchester City.
The game starts with the goalkeeper in possession, who looks for the best solution to begin building out from the back. The goal of the one who has the ball is to get it to the goalkeeper positioned in the opposite goal without losing control.
If the ball is recovered by the opponents, then they tried to go up the other end and score a ‘goal’ themselves (by finding the keeper who is in the opposite net).
The mission is to get the players to think before passing the ball but to do so quickly, to improve their decision making, to minimise the touches before moving the ball and of course to press more effectively.
During the video you can clearly hear Fonseca’s message addressed to the Milan players: “Attract pressure, we always have the solution.”
I get the need to make articles, but can we stop exposing every little single detail about how we play ?
We famously blocked out all view of Milanello training pitch. The video is showing only what they want to be shown….
Lol guys, seriously?
I doubt the opposition comes here for information on how we play. They have their analysts who … no disrespect to @Oli, are probably more equipped and more experienced in doing team analysis.
While that is probably true, how many times do we see potential starting lineups and tactics articles here in the past that turn out to be true waay more often than not. It’s begs a question as to what exactly is going on with information on our methods
Ridiculous comment. The club made the video available for all to see on YouTube, hardly our fault, and we thought we would provide an interesting angle on it.
Not sure why you felt like you have to reply to that, Oli. hahaha
Stop exposing Milan secrets! LOL!!!
LMAO!!! you think SM is exposing Milan’s secrets? hahaha
I swear this club doesn’t learn jack. Why don’t we just give other teams our training manuals then, sheesh 🤦♂️.
Also, poor Adli. No wonder why he hasn’t played much yet if that’s what he’s doing in training. Dwell as usual on the ball, took too long to decide, pass to no mans land, his mistake led to goal against smh 🤦♂️.
Also those passes across midfield to get out of the press is risky to say the least
You think this is what gives it away? Not the fact that teams analyze opponents’ past games looking for trends and tendencies?
Like after Milan plays so many games in the league, other teams won’t catch on to what Milan is doing?
Like when inzaghi didn’t even have to spy on Milan’s training videos to neutralize anything Pioli would do?
You’re right, I blame YouTube training videos 🙂
You didn’t read the other comment properly. Ofc other teams have to do their own research. But we have had articles here talking about specific tactics before the game only to see same said tactics being employed as well as projected starting lineups including specific player personnel switches. We don’t protect our information enough. You think they boarded up milanello training ground because they were bored?