AC Milan hoped that the appointment of Sergio Conceicao would better their chances of saving the season, but the side’s form has not picked up. In fact, it has gone the other way.
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Paulo Fonseca’s football was not working, and so Milan took the decision to part ways with the head coach, a decision which was heavily criticised in itself. Then, Conceicao was brought in, hoping to save things.
Winning the Supercoppa Italiana was a fantastic start, but the rest has been anything but that, with the Rossoneri bidding farewell to the Champions League this season and next. Unfortunately, this could even stretch to European football next season.
As Sky Sport covered today, via Milan Press, the club continue to struggle on counter-attacks, and showed the demographic (seen below) during coverage.
It shows that 27% of the goals conceded come on counter-attacks, a figure much higher than the 15% during Fonseca’s management. Furthermore, the xG conceded per game has increased from 0.15 to 0.29. A real worry, but it gets worse.
Overall, the Diavolo are 18th for goals conceded after counters, and 19th for shots conceded, which is a tremendously worry sign of the problems within the club.
Reports have already suggested that Conceicao’s ‘mission’ is to win the Coppa Italia, but perhaps there are other things to worry about before another piece of silverware is possible.