Luka Jovic played from start in AC Milan’s game against Udinese yesterday evening but failed to impress the fans at San Siro. In fact, he was named the worst player on the pitch but the major Italian outlets.
The Serbian got the chance from the first minute thanks to Stefano Pioli’s formation change to the 4-4-2, feeling him alongside Olivier Giroud. Unfortunately, it wasn’t a successful evening for the former Fiorentina man with many lost balls.
In our player ratings, he got a 4.5/10 and was named the worst player on the pitch. The story was the same in Gazzetta dello Sport (4), Corriere dello Sport (4) and Tuttosport (4.5). In short, the media didn’t go easy on Jovic and it’s clear that he needs to improve.
Gazzetta dello Sport even stated that Jovic isn’t ‘Milan-worthy’, which is about as harsh as you can be. In the meantime, Milan loanee Lorenzo Colombo is now on four goals for Monza, scoring yet another screamer in the game against Hellas Verona earlier today (see here).
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Thuram: 5 goals and 7 assists in 14 games.
Scamacca: 5 goals and 1 assist in 10 games.
Retegui: 5 goals and 2 assists in 9 games.
Colombo: 3 goals and 1 assist in 9 games.
Then there is Jovic with nothing in 6 games. What a relief that the ownership got rid of the previous lousy management.
While you are at it why don’t you put down the numbers of Origi and CDK from last season.
You know the 2 forwards that were signed by the previous management you have been crying after since the got canned.
One of the 2 was the highest paid player on the team and the other the most expensive signing.
What were their numbers for the entirety of last season.
Jovic still has 25 or so games to beat their contributions combined
Obviously the previous management was wrong with Origi and De Ketelaere. But at least they both had a tempting profile at the time. Anyway I was just saying that we got rid of the previous management for their poor job and it is worse now. No other club in Europe tried to recruit Jovic. He would be playing video games at home in Firenze if we didn’t get him.
Thuram, Scamacca, Retegui and a fortiori Colombo were better and reachable options.
Is jovic the new scapegoat now?
The problem is the system not the players.
If Colombo stayed at Milan he would have had the same amount of goals as Jovic has, and people would be saying the same things about Colombo as they are about Jovic.
If you swap Colombo and Jovic on Milan and Monza, jovic will have 4 goals and Colombo will have zero
Milan could sign Haaland and he will have hard time scoring with Pioli as a coach.
How many times did Milan strikers touch the ball in the penalty box yesterday?
Milan doesn’t create any chances, so how are you blaming the strikers for not scoring.
What did Giroud do yesterday? Nothing
Colombo has 4 goals for Monza because Monza plays better football than Milan and actually creates chances.
The genius Pioli literally played Giroud as a right winger yesterday.
Get rid of the coach and you will solve the problems
He’s not a scapegoat, he’s one of the guys that have nothing to do at Milan. I agree that yesterday all the long balls from wingers or backs arrived in defenders’ feet, and the forwards were thus invisible. Also, I think we all concede, Pioli’s advocates as well, that the coach was wrong yesterday with his scheme and tactics.
But don’t refer to Haaland and Jovic in the same sentence, there is absolutely no comparison. Or even Colombo, who is young and clearly involved in the game. Jovic had his chance while at Real, with Zidane being the coach at the time, and he struggled. He played for Fiorentina, which is playing a fine game at least as much as Monza, and he struggled. He played 212 minutes for Milan and did absolutely nothing. Not a glimpse of anything. He arrived only because our front staff had an erratic mercato. Nobody was expecting him to be a starter. And it shows.
Blaming a striker with no service is like blaming Maignan for our lack of goals 🤡 No striker on the planet would’ve done well yesterday, because our coach threw the game before the first kick. No creativity, no quality passes, midfield overrun from moment 1. Pioli ensured we would lose with his own stubborn antics
How was jovic performing in fiorentina and real madrid?
This is why football in Italy is in decline, this is why the azzuri can’t even qualify for completions now, the press never seem to address the truth, they always look for a scapegoat, how many games has Jovic played. How many chances has the coach given him ?
How many chances has the midfield created, even for the first 45 minutes, he played better than Giroud, why are they not complaining about Giroud, who can’t even control the ball properly, the real problem of this team is Pioli, he is too set in his ways. And he lacks the confidence to use other players, why did he not use Bertashagi, instead he used Florenzi, he looked out of place, lacks pace, and was always out of position…
Bertasaghi is injured. I don’t think you’re a Milan fan
Did u bother to follow the team progress during the week..?
Did you bother to check the players selected for the match…?
Pls try and know your facts before you make comments..
He didn’t have an effect yesterday but scapegoating him is brain dead. We literally had no potency in front of goal yesterday from absolutely anywhere. Reminder, we scored 0. And we played like we wanted 0. No creativity, horrible balls in. The first good cross came in the 88th minute. The man could do a job if he wasn’t dealing with less than scraps. Giroud is obviously still the better target man, but even he barely managed a half chance. Blame the management and non existent tactics. The strikers were doomed the second pioli put two mids against 5…
45min of jovic is more responsible for the loss than Pioli, Leao, Giroud ?????
Good luck….
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Giroud had a header that would have gone in. Jovic was terrible, when okafor got in, he set up Reijnders for a one on one that Reijnders missed
Time will answer how will gonna miss a charismatic and leadership of Paolo Maldini.
Since the begining i disagreed with the decision of the owner to sack a person like maldini, whom put all his heart to the club.
When someone like maldini being kicked out…question??? Whom do you prefer prefer for replacement??
The answer is the more experience in his roles…furlani and moncada need to prove his worth than maldini
The wierd thing is that Pulisic is the most creative of the Milan offensive players, but he is stuck as right wing.
From there he basically plays like a right sided attacking midfielder.
He really should be a central attacking midfielder, a CAM, with two other midfielders behing him
And to think we could have easily had one of Lukaku, Thuram or Taremi….and instead management chose to sign Jovic for the most important position on the pitch LOLOLOLO. Brilliant!
Please take Lukaku out of that list. He’s the type of player that wants all the attention. Plus he has High wages