It has been an up-and-down season for AC Milan, which has opened many questions about the future. One of the biggest ones to emerge has been about what team the Rossoneri are, and the Inter game showed some signs.
For far too long, Milan have been a team of contrasts. There have been a number of impressive performances in big games in recent seasons, especially this year, but they have often been overshadowed by poor results in other big games, or worse yet, in smaller games.
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This has led to questions about several things in the team, with the biggest question being about the mentalities of the squad. Unfortunately, more often than not, it has been a case of them having a poor mindset.
However, there are games where we can see this not being true. As Gazzetta dello Sport write, the club have won in big moments against Real Madrid, Juventus and Inter this season, but they have almost always been sidelined by poor results immediately after.
In the first leg against the Nerazzurri on Wednesday night, they once again proved that they are more than capable of pulling off the big results. However, it now falls back on the issue of continuity; this weekend against Fiorentina, there is a chance to prove themselves, and if European football is to be achieved, it must be taken.
The performance against calicopoli last night was just yet more proof as if was needed, that this team lives in its own head…
A team takes on the mentality of its leaders.
To figure out why this Milan team is the way it is, all you have to do is check who the leaders in the team are. Players who show up once every 5 games.
The players who the club and a lot of the fans have on the top of the pecking order are a much bigger problem than the players who are the low hanging fruit and are getting blamed for everything.
No leader in the locker room and no one with the quality to grown into that leader. So Milan will have to sign a leader.
What are you saying?! such nonsense…
the players have everything they need. the club and the leadership lack a lot. the guys need a coach who can deal with them and who can mentally adjust them properly.
Your first sentenced explains that you are confused and don’t understand what you are reading which explained why you followed it with writing nonsense.
The locker room is policed by the players, the players who are leaders, not by the coach, a director or an owner.
The team that won the scudetto was policed by leaders like Zlatan, Kjaer, Giroud, not by Pioli or any director.
Things at Milan started looking up when Zlatan and Kjaer was signed, not when Pioli was hired.
The leaders at Milan today are Theo, Leao and Maignan. That’s the difference.
“The team that won the scudetto was policed by leaders like Zlatan, Kjaer, Giroud, not by Pioli or any director.
Things at Milan started looking up when Zlatan and Kjaer was signed, not when Pioli was hired.”
100% facts.
“The leaders at Milan today are Theo, Leao and Maignan. That’s the difference.”
Well… The difference is that they are the SUPPOSED leaders but none of them are capable of leading the others. Good leaders make others play better and improve. Basically everyone is in decline and good performances are more like flukes than continuation.
Reading is one thing, understanding is another. You clearly have the ability to do the former but lack the basic skills for the latter.
We have no leaders. That’s the problem. Our senior players aren’t leaders. The o ly leader we had plays at Newcastle.
Ha ha ha.
When was Tonali a leader of anything?
Oh right, he led the betting ring among the players when he was called up for international duties. At least that’s what Fagioli said.
It’s embarrassing to even think a player who was suspended for something like that be a leader at Milan.