Sandro Tonali has firmly established himself as one of the leaders of this AC Milan team, a sort of captain without wearing the armband.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport reports, Tonali has put himself in front of the cameras in the most delicate situations such as on the eve of the second leg of the Euroderby as an example, and numerous times during the Scudetto-winning campaign.
When an important press conference or interview awaits for the club it is advisable to send someone with particularly clear ideas and intelligent concepts, and that is where Tonali excels.
He is direct and constructive at the same time, speaking from the perspective of a player with great responsibility, but also a Milan fan who can convey emotion too.
Scrolling through the Rossoneri squad, he is the excellence (along with Maignan). Leao is the aspiring champion, Giroud solves problems, Theo Hernandez creates masterpieces coast to coast, but Sandro has a quality that the others don’t possess: consistency of performance at high levels.
While his team-mates sometimes show their quality and then go flat, Tonali has been pretty much a constant throughout a difficult 2023. He protects the defence and supports the attacking phase, depending on what the coach asks of him and depending on the games.
Even against Sampdoria, with Krunic watching his back, Tonali participated effectively in the attacking actions. The opponent was not the best given Sampdoria’s state of mind, but Milan needed a big win for goal difference and the Italian squared to Brahim expertly to make it 4-1.
It was an assist – his seventh this season – which among other things allows him to equal his personal record in Serie A (with Brescia 2019-20), rising to nine across all competitions.
He is number one for playing time in the squad with 3,804 total minutes spread over 46 appearances (out of the 50 games played so far by the Rossoneri), with 33 games played from the first to the last minute.
