AC Milan midfielder Yunus Musah believes that the team looked ‘dangerous’ against Parma but it was undone by the bad work on the defensive end.
Milan were hoping to right the wrongs from Saturday night’s draw against Torino at San Siro, but instead they ended up conceding twice again and both times they were left wide open in transition.
Paulo Fonseca’s side found themselves behind inside two minutes as Valeri outpaced Davide Calabria and provided a perfect low ball across the box to Dennis Man, and the Romanian applied a powerful finish having beaten Theo to the ball.
Parma re-took the lead with 13 minutes left and it came after a sloppy giveaway from Leao. A ball out to the left found Almqvist who simply had to roll a ball past Tomori and Pavlovic to Cancellieri, and the first-time finish got the better of Maignan. They would hang on to win the game 2-1.
Musah spoke to Milan TV to try and assess what was a difficult night for the team and one that they have to quickly put behind them, with his comments relayed by MilanNews.
How do you think the performance went?
“I think we were a dangerous team, but we have to correct things defensively and it’s a collective job we have to do.”
Are you confident about a reaction from the next few games?
“I’m confident, many of us have been here since last year and we have the right experience for this season. There are some details to correct, going forward we will improve.”
Pavlovic was a positive note…
“I’m happy with his performance today, he helped me a lot, he was aggressive and recovered a lot of balls.”
Musah spoke to DAZN after the game as well, with his comments again relayed by MilanNews.
It was a complicated first half trying to find the balance between pressing and covering…
“Sometimes I was in doubt whether to press or stay back. Then I went aggressive and let the central defenders take on those behind me and we managed to be more aggressive and recover more balls.”
What difficulties did you encounter?
“We were dangerous with the ball, we were in good shape. When we lost the ball we were immediately exposed defensively and we have to improve this. We can’t have so much control and then when the others recover the ball make them be so dangerous.”
Do the same defensive difficulties as last season exist?
“With the ball we felt good, defensively at times we felt exposed. We have to improve this, we can’t be so exposed in the counterattack”.
“Then I went aggressive and let the central defenders take on those behind me.”
Spoken like a true useless midfielder.
No he is not useless, he left to do the job RLC suppose to do without the ball when parma were attacking it was RLC that was useless upfront and have Musah do double work
Musah was playing pivot and as such he cannot say I left those behind me to our central defenders. No, you go and help your central defenders.
I don’t think you get what Musah is saying. In pressing you’ve a set of layers to press. The first layer is the opposition goalkeeper then their defenders followed by their midfielders which is often divided into two with lower – DM(s) and advanced-CM/AM(s) then their forwards. There’s usually a clear instruction from the coach as to which layer each of his players should be pressing at when pressing. Maybe Fonseca has done his job in that regard and it was just Musah getting confused on his own I don’t know. But lets say our pivots are pressing at the opponent’s advanced midfielders ,that will leave their lower midfielder(s) to RLC and if there are more lower Parma midfielders, Milan’s pressing is bound to be easily beaten given RLC won’t be able to effectively press at a layer of two players. What I believe Musah is saying is that he went aggressive pressing further forward closing down that free Parma midfielder at RLCs layer of press and letting our central defenders to take on those behind him (his initial pressing layer)
Thats your position and your duty to know what you need to do and thats whats called ‘READING THE GAME- but your IQ is so low that you cant read a low lvl Parma Game and thats why you leave your position for no reason.
“ Sometimes I was in doubt whether to press or stay back. Then I went aggressive and let the central defenders take on those behind me and we managed to be more aggressive and recover more balls.”
LOL. No $h*t. I have been saying this all
Last year and this season – he is RAW and needs to LEARN how to play the game. But the Redbird Lovers say I’m a hater – when even Musah himself admits it LMAO
So many FIFA playing idiots on this chat
I am not sure you are reading wrong…
I think he means thT hes suppose to have those pkays where he runs FW, but hes unsure because the teams is so fck up defensively.
What does RAW even mean when you’re referring over 100 matches under his belt at Valencia???
He’s not RAW, he’s just not very good. If he was a youth product he’d have been written off long ago.
That’s on the coach!!!
If he’s confused during the game, how did the coach prepare him during the week?
Not only that.
What is the manager’s role during the game if not giving instructions and making sure the team is obeying his plan
Where were Fonseca’s instructions to Musah from the line and during the cooling breaks.
Shore up the defence
This is serie a
Torino & Parma could have scored 5 goals each against us in transition
Same thing every time mwe need to
Go old school defensively and shore things up ,
Get these pricks watching Milan baresi maldini costacurta &tassoti
Calabria & theo 1st half diabolical defending g on that 1st goal , to stand off ish and not marking up & ball watching
I wish we could have got de zerbi
Musah terrible game. he can go with his skills to MLS. Okafor and Loftus very bad game, but still better than Musah.
I don’t think it is one or two or even three bad players issue.
Musah’s comment make it seems like the team didn’t get Fonseca’s plan and what every player’s role in attack and defense.
And it makes it obvious that when a player is not doing what he is supposed to do Fonseca is not giving them instructions during the game.
I think he means he didn’t give a backup plan. But there is no backup plan to give. If the front line doesn’t press. the team is not in position to defend against a player who has time to pick out a pass. Leao not pressing the first goal and then trying to switch field a and underhitting it to a fullback run (at least overhit it) put them in that exact position twice. All you can do is sprint back.
Man City who play in this positional style can do so because they do two things well. 1 They do not allow players to take on defenders and lose the ball in specific areas. 2 they have wingers and AMs who react very fast and aggressively when the ball is lost.
Musah’s doubt was that whether he is a footballer or just a ranfom guy from the street playing football ocasionally. RLC, Musah are all useless.. Mocanda the shit magician.
Musah the great talent.😆😅😆😅😆😆😆.. What a joke..
We sold Tonali and bought this joke who doesn’t know how to defense and attack.
And now the management wants to sell Benna, who pretty much our smartest midfield who can defense + attack.
God save us 🙏
Milan’s biggest mistake was selling Tonali to invest but this should have been leao who act as if he doesn’t even care whether he loses a game or win and that’s why whenever he loses the ball he will be strolling anyhow together with loftus cheek. I think is high time the gaffer start to pinpoint those are responsible for all these flaws and stop being vague when bemoaning just as kompany does with the Bayern Munich players. This lackadaisical attitude from some of the players is irritating. Inter Milan are not bigger than us but their difference with Milan is that: for them losing is like a funeral that’s why they always do anything to avoid it but for us, losing is normal and that’s why we don’t care. So long as leao’s attitude remains like this, Milan will never reach where it aspire. He is a bad influence to the squad because he is not serious. We have some good players who will do wanders when they join teams like inter Milan or man city
That comment is disastrous, our pivot wasn’t sure what to do in a high press plan and apparently didn’t press initially then changed his mind and started pressing without any instructions from Fonseca.
That’s throws a big shade on Fonseca’s pre match preparations and his ability to correct anything going against his plan during the game.
Fonseca should see how Gattuso used to yell at his players from the line to understand that he can do something other than clapping for his miserable players.
I am not sure you are reading wrong…
I think he means thT hes suppose to have those pkays where he runs FW, but hes unsure because the teams is so fck up defensively.
MANY FAIL TO UNDERSTAND HE COZ THEY HATE HE,HIS OUR PLAYER ENCURAGE HE TO DO MORE
Musah is not a player good enough to play for Milan. I know he’s young but I don’t see talent and tactical intelligence in him. Jerry “Bozzo” Clowndinale …you should give up AI algorithm based transfers 😆😆. I hope sooner of posible you will sell this glorious club to a rich passionate new owner , someone who can run this club with football principles not with woke Hollywood and fake media influencers promoters for mindless , headless ,”progressive” woke leftists idiots new “fans” drive in their sad lifes by promoters and fake media…
how is everyone interpreting this as musah’s fault or the coach’s fault. The coach has a pressing system. When someone in the front line doesn’t press. Then the midfield can’t press. Then the defenders can’t press. Either everyone presses or no one. So when Leao decides not to press and leave the defense time to pick openings. Musah (and Bennacer in the last game) are stuck to figure out if its better to try starting a press in the midfield or just get back…Musah is a young player; he is not going to say…”some of the players are being lazy, and it’s incompatible with the system in place”…
sorry this was not meant as a response here but a separate post…
Take Theo Hernandez out of Milan 11,then we will have a solid team.This is because we can’t have two players in a team and on the same wing (Leap + Theo)not defending.
Everyone seem to blame the players for everything. Folks 70% of our problems right now is the system, the setup, the formation.
Playing an ultra attacking style of football, somewhat a 4-2-4 while also asking your Fullbacks to join the attack is a system automatically setup for failure. The midfield will always be outrun. Torino and Parma created tons and tons of overloads on our midfield. Coincidence??
I have said this before, we need an extra midfielder or else we are going nowhere. 4-3-3 is the most ideal formation we can deploy right now. Pioli saw this problem, hence he switched to a 4-3-3 formation, but he lacked the implementation and patience to understand the functionality.
Playing Bennacer as DM and Fofana and whoever alongside him brings more stability at this time.
Liverpool bamboozled the world playing this kind of ultra attacking football, however they had the base for it, they played it with a 4-3-3 system with 3 combative midfielders, Fabinho, Wijnaldum and Henderson, with this setup they allowed Robertson and Alexander Arnold to push up to join the attack, because the midfield 3 was strong enough to cover the defense, and they also had Mane who can initiate a press. No surprise they feel apart when Mane, Fabinho and Wijnaldum left.
We ain’t going nowhere without a proper no. 6, no way. It’s football 101 especially when we play ultra attacking wing football, they just focus to play centrally against us and we’re gone.