A Sunday night in Naples is a tough proposition for any team, but especially an AC Milan side that come into the game having lost their last two and at risk of having a nightmare week.
La Gazzetta dello Sport (seen below) write that Milan will board the plane tomorrow at 10am with the tension of someone who has made mistakes twice. Closing the Juve-PSG-Napoli trio of games without points would open the doors to a week of criticism.
Stefano Pioli will ask his starters to help reverse the current struggles. Compared to the PSG-Milan lineup, there is only one guaranteed change: Thiaw is disqualified, Kalulu is expected in his place, favoured over Kjaer, with Calabria on the right
First, however, the big theme of the week: the tactical approach. Calabria caused some discussion for his post-PSG statements and, even if there was a lot of talk about the phrases on commitment (which Pioli didn’t like), the considerations that remain in mind are those on Pioli’s choices.
“We were perhaps so unbalanced, we accepted a match of one-on-ones,” he said. Pioli did an initial part of tactical preparation with the team yesterday, but he will decide today on the specific instructions.
Will he ask for more caution? He will certainly try to keep the team closer, more compact, perhaps attacking less and easy double teaming Kvara, because committing the same errors for the third time in a week would cause uproar.
With the inclusion of krunic, nothing has change except for the same slow and backward movement.
Yes I think we have to be more compact ..can’t fault the team for effort but sometimes it’s frantic ,rather than gradual buildup from defence to midfield then finding the forwards ..We are too rushed on the ball , and that is why I believe we are making too many errors…. I believe we have one of the best managers in the leauge…Yes pioli does look to change things depending upon whom we play …I have got a feeling that Olivier Giroud will be decisive and that we will beat napoli ..just as Loftus check was starting to have a positive influence on the midfield,,he is injured yet again….never ever doubted his ability,,but like many others were concerned about this ..
I still think we will win the scuddeto this season ..
This must now surely be our top priority.
Pioli will anyways play the same game no matter the situation or the opponents. He will always substitute at 70 mins. Never understood the logic behind that