Yacine Adli is the man of the moment at AC Milan, and he looks set to get another start tomorrow against Lazio at San Siro as per a report.
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La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) writes how everyone is talking about Adli and everyone compliments him after his performance against Cagliari, which came after a period of patient waiting.
Adli will also start on Saturday evening against Lazio. Against Borussia Dortmund, however, in front of the defence Pioli might go for Yunus Musah, who tested as a deeper-lying midfielder against Cagliari.
The Franco-Algerian played between Ruben Loftus-Cheek and Tijjani Reijnders on Wednesday, completing 71 out of 73 passes. What’s more, he took poetic license: a couple of non-trivial long balls and more than one vertical pass through the thirds.
He played loosely, looked ahead, took his time, without fear of slowing down the pace of the match. Adli is very different from Rade Krunic: with him the central midfield acquires the classic role of playmaker, keeps the ball at his feet, tries to build and perhaps defensively gets distracted.
Zito Luvumbo’s goal two nights ago came from him losing the ball, which shows he will have to work to round out his game get more and more minutes, to find some playing time even when Krunic returns.
Yesterday, however, Yacine enjoyed a special day, with compliments arriving from Milan, Cagliari and France. Antoine Makoumbou, who grew up in Paris like him and was his opponent on Wednesday, posted their photo together with swapped shirts.
Ismael Bennacer dedicated a story to him on Instagram and it is clear that he remains his best friend in the locker room. From here you can understand a lot: Adli can be liked or disliked on the pitch, it can obviously be discussed, but off the pitch less so.
In recent months Yacine has remained positive, cheered for his teammates and is now enjoying his sudden fame as the pianist of the moment. At the next concert, tomorrow, there will be more than 70 thousand people.
