MN: Pioli’s selections deserve scrutiny as tense climate develops at Milan due to results crisis

Some of Stefano Pioli’s decisions during last night’s loss against Napoli have come under criticism in the latest column on MilanNews.

Pietro Mazzara writes that it is virtually impossible to find anything positive from the result and the performance last night. There are question marks too about why in the 4-2-3-1 he continues to play a player like Krunic at the expense of a pure winger like Saelemaekers, and why the Bosnian did not play as the central attacking midfielder in place of Brahim Diaz, who has been poor recently.

There is ‘a tense climate that is evident’ as per Mazzara, because the dropping of so many points in recent weeks, the rise of Inter in the standings and the injury problem are all contributing to quite a difficult atmosphere.

The end product is a ‘crisis of results’ which coincided with the loss of many players, almost all of which were decisive, and now the reset button must be hit on Wednesday night against Empoli.


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