With the attack becoming even worse than it was previously, AC Milan needed the defence to carry them to the finish line and they aren’t.
It is simple, Milan needed the backline to offer a bit of assertion in the final weeks of the campaign. Continue what they had been doing all season and help the team finish in the Champions League positions.
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However, they have faded. Five goals conceded in their last two games paint a picture which no one wants to see finished. Unfortunately, it appears that the damage may already be done and the masterpiece may not be salvageable.
Milan’s defence disappears
Gazzetta dello Sport’s criticism is heavy, stating that the defence was the ‘only real certainty’ within the Rossoneri’s season. Now, it is gone, though. Indeed, it has collapsed at the worst possible moment and now there is not a piece to rely on in this team.
Before the past two games, Massimiliano Allegri’s team boasted the second best defence in Europe. That is not done by chance. However, old habits have been highlighted once again and Massimiliano Allegri’s work has been undone. Basic errors, lapses in concentration, everything which had seemingly been erased.
The foundations of the Champions League return have capitulated and with that, their hopes of a return to Europe this season may have gone too.
