After their 1-2 victory against Inter, AC Milan now top the table in terms of goals scored in Serie A, a place where they should remain for at least the rest of this gameweek.
Coming away from last night’s derby win, several positives can be taken. Of course, the list is topped by several other things, such as performance, effort, tactics, and the result itself. However, Milan now are the top goalscorers in the league so far.
After the two goals scored by Christian Pulisic and Matteo Gabbia, the Rossoneri have now notched up 11 goals in five Serie A games, averaging a little over two goals per game, and the Nerazzurri sit in second with 10 scored, as Milan News reports.
Of course, this gap could have been much larger if Milan made more of their chances during Sunday’s game, however, the fact that as many chances were created bodes well.
Another more significant table to take excitement from is the Serie A league table, where the Diavolo sit just three points away from the top. The game now provides the Rossoneri with a chance to build from, and perhaps, they can push towards hitting their goals powered by the success in the derby as Massimo Ambrosini suggested.
Also in xG, which proves it’s not just fluke. Although credit to Pulisic for doing a lot of the actual conversion! If Leao can find his finishing boots we’re well set going forward.
But main focus needs to be on reducing the number of chances we’re giving away at the other end, where we’re quite mid table.
..if Leao can find any boot at all …
Despite a more limited number of minutes for being benched by the coach and coming in late in the second half, and one fewer game played (he played only 5), Leão has had 3 goal participations this season; second only to Pulisic’s 6 (with the latter having had more minutes and more games). With one more in the Nations League, Leão had 4 in seasonal total, so far.
All competitions, all games, per season, scores + assists for Rafa in the last 3 seasons and the start of this one:
2024-25 so far, 4
2023-24 = 29
2022-23 = 30
2021-22 = 28
Career stats for Rafael Leão:
85 goals, 53 assists
So, despite the horrible and exaggerated criticism, yes, Leão can find a boot.
Buy Frattesi from inter, he should gladly accept Milan’s offer and Inter can’t stop if player insist.
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Bro used players’ initials in formation. Legendary stuff
Who tf is MB at CB ? Combination of Gabbia and Thiaw ?
BTW what are people’s thoughts on pairing Gabbia and Pavlovic as starters? I’m not convinced Tomori is our long term CB and could see him + RLC sold back to EPL next summer
“BTW what are people’s thoughts on pairing Gabbia and Pavlovic as starters?”
If Pavlovic starts to learn to pass to his teammates rather than the opposition’s forwards we might start considering it.
might
Due to time difference and other commitments, I’ve only watched one game this season. The Liverpool game and Pavlovic was bloody awful on the ball. I lost track of the amount of times he passed straight to a Liverpool player. Shocking stuff.
Also number 2 in big chances missed.
There’s work to be done on both ends. Convert chances created and stop leaking goals…100% for effort during the derby, now we need to maintain the momentum. Forza Milan.
The truth is Milan has the best attack in Serie a presently – Pulisic, Okafor, Leao, Morata, Abraham. The only problem is finishing. We are not converting most of our chances. Even against Parma, we failed to do so. The players have to improve on their scoring, while supporting the defense to reduce the number of goals conceded
No they don’t lol.
who’s ML?
The offense is not the problem. We have multiple players capable of scoring, and they have been scoring.
Last season the offense was not the problem either. We had 99 goals scored, all competitions.
The problem last season and this season is the goals conceded. We had several, mostly from the right side of our defense.
We urgently need better solutions there. Even though Emerson in the Derby wasn’t as disastrous as in the previous games, he was still at fault in Inter’s goal. Calabria has been doing poorly too. With Florenzi injured and Kalulu gone, we are very thin at RB.
And we don’t have any good deputy for Theo. The moment Theo gets injured or gets suspended for yellow card accumulation or red card, we are in trouble because Terracciano is clueless, and Bartesaghi and Jimenez are too young and not that good at defending.
Still, I’d give Jimenez an opportunity to play RB against a lesser team, to see how he does there. He might do better than the current Calabria (whose performances are in decline) and than Emerson.