AC Milan failed to celebrate their 125th anniversary in style as Genoa held them to a 0-0 draw at San Siro. With more composure in front of goal, the Rossoneri would have clinched all of the points and below are the player ratings.
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Starting XI
Maignan (6): He didn’t have much to do today, in fact Genoa had zero shots on target, but based on his passing and assertiveness on set pieces he gets a pass.
Emerson Royal (6): The Brazilian was very unlucky not to open the scoring for Milan as the goalkeeper made a brilliant save to deny his header. His crossing wasn’t always the best tonight, but defensively he was sound and he was certainly not the problem in this game.
Gabbia (6): Solid defending all-round, as showcased by the blocks at the end (even if the referee awarded a harsh free-kick against him). It was another clean sheet for the Rossoneri, so he’s doing something right along with his colleagues.
Thiaw (6): The German had a scare at the end of the game with a backpass for Maignan, but aside from that he was good as usual and won many duels against the attackers. Passing was mostly good too.
Jimenez (6.5 – MOTM): Without a doubt, he was the best on the pitch for Milan with contributions in both phases of the game, clever passing and tremendous acceleration to beat his man. We didn’t miss Theo at all, not even when comparing to the latter in good form, and that says a lot about how well he did.
Fofana (5.5): It wasn’t his best game for Milan in terms of unlocking stalemates and finding the right spaces, as also shown at the end of the game with some very poor awareness. We can demand much more from him, and he knows it.
Reijnders (6): He didn’t always have success with the final touch, but it would have been a much tougher game for Milan without him. The way he can run with the ball past opponents, like Jimenez, is very impressive and helped massively even if it didn’t result in a goal. He also should have had an assist for Morata.
Chukwueze (5.5): Aside from some good moments here and there, it was another subpar performance from the Nigerian. The set-piece delivery was okay, but he had several 1v1s tonight and opportunities to cross, but just couldn’t seem to get the end product right.
Liberali (6): Before we go any further, we must remember that he’s just 17. It has also been a relatively tough season so far for him between the Primavera and Milan Futuro, so the start was indeed a bit surprising. Having said that, he linked up well enough with his teammates and showed promising signs, so we’ll give him a pass here.
Leao (6): A lot of Milan’s attack still revolves around him, and he often did well to beat his man and open up space for his teammates. The crosses and shots, however, were not the best so that is still something that needs to be improved.
Abraham (5.5): He had a very good chance in the first half that he squandered and we didn’t really see that much else from him. It was right to take him off at half-time, at least that was the initial thought – but perhaps it’s not correct given how Morata performed.
Substitutes
Morata (4): For a player with his experience, you have to put away at least one of those three great chances. First he opted to square it, then he fired wide with a curling effort, and finally he hit the bar from close range. Not good enough, simply put.
Camarda (6): He added energy to the attack and also a presence inside the box, which was needed given how low Genoa kept their defence.
Okafor (4): Just like Morata, an absolutely awful cameo off the bench. Sluggish and with zero timing. The cross at the end was comical.
Sell Okafor now, overhaul this team, I can say the coach isn’t the problem yet, the team lacks attitude and belief. The senior players let us down today. I don’t know about that rating for Reindjers but I feel he was very poor, and we can’t expect Fofana to carry the whole midfield, dude is trying his best.
Reijnders is the player wearing n 14 who is carrying Milan midfield ny himself, and trying his best.
Fofana is the player wearing 29 that was poor and couldn’t make the simplest of passes to wide open teammates.
In the 87 th minute Reijnders ran 3/4 of the length of the pitch tracking Genoa’s right winger while the were on the counter, recovers the ball and runs 3/4 the length of the pitch the other way, carrying the ball and in combination with Leao creating a chance that Morata squandered.
The hell are you talking about. That’s about as intelligent as anything I’ve seen coming out of Frank Lampard’s mouth. Reijnders has been out best player this season by far.
At most he’s tied with Pulisic but I’d agree they have been by far the 2 best.
some people just dont know how to watch futbol
The season is over after 15 games. Even a CL spot next season seems difficult (only a slim chance if Italy get 5 spots again).
So sad to see that we will start at year Zero again next year.
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Lay off the coke man.
lol
Fonseca out !
I said few weeks ago when were 7th that he had 3 serie A games to get us closer to the top 4 position or else he has to go alongside who brought him and now we’re 8th…. 8 points from 4th place. “bUt We HaVe A gAmE In HaNd!!!” yeah.. and it’s against the current 7th, good luck beating them.
He had the backing of the administration, he got to do what he wanted. Some of the players he wanted were brought to him. Each player who didn’t follow his instructions got benched and tonight he started without the “troublemakers”, only for us to get further and further from fourth place. This season is over, we won’t win the serie A, we wont play in the UCL next season, so what’s the point exactly in keeping him? So we can hear him complain in each post-game conference? There is really no difference between 7th and 17th, so might as well try a new coach.
Maignan: Wasn’t tested tonight, so I can’t give him a grade
Gabbia & Thiaw: They’re defenders and they’re function is to defend, and that was well done. Genoa barely had if at all a shot, so good job.
Jimenez: He honestly did look better than Theo these last few games, but he honestly kept trying too much to shoot from outside the box.
Emerson: was defensively correct, but offensively brought nothing (what a shocker !)
Fofana: same remark as Gabbia and Theo, Genoa didn’t win the midfield but his offensive contribution was very lacking.
Reijnders: did some good runs throughout the middle, but didn’t have the commanding presence he showed a couple of times. If anything, he looked more like the shy Reijnders of last season.
Leao: Sloppy and lacked precision
Chukwueze: Sloppy and lacked precision
Abraham: Does he even try to aim?
Morata: I think he tried to break a record for how many sitters a player can miss.
Okafor: Did he even play ?
Camarda& Liberalli: They’re too young so I can’t be harsh on them, I can just say keep working and hopefully they can have a nice future.
Giga totally biased again. How can you say Emerson offered nothing offensively? He forced two tough saves from the keeper and the second one was a brilliant save. Sadly he may have been Milan’s best offensive player today.
And Fonseca is not to blame for this game. Milan dominated possession, didn’t allow a single shot on target and really should have scored at least once or twice. It’s not his fault Morata couldn’t finish his chances.
As far as the young players
Jiminez looked very solid, better than Theo has looked this season.
Liberali is not ready for the big time. His rating of 6 is a joke. I don’t care about his age, if he’s playing with the big boys he needs to be rated like everyone else and he was pretty bad today.
Pulisic in his absence has made it even more clear that he is our most valuable player. The offense does not look good when he is out.
So we waited 20 games for him to shot ? Great. And aside from the 2 shots wich were saved, no great passes or crosses whatsoever.
The coach shares the blame with the players. 2 out of 3 of his subs (Morata and Okafor) did actually worse than the players they were replacing. Genoa wasn’t a threat but we showed no cohesion in the attack and no sense of urgency or a true desire to win. We had many shots but most of them were very saveable and most of the game we didn’t really do anything worthy.
I did give credit to Jimenez and the defenders overall so I don’t know why you bringing this up again.
And reminder we’re now 8th, the season is reallistically over, so I don’t really understand what more to you want so see from Fonseca before acknowledging that he wasn’t qualified for this job.
The point was you were supposedly grading on this game and Emerson was actually one of our best players. Saying he offered nothing offensively when he is a RB and had as many shots on target as the rest of the team combined just shows your bias and you just want to trash him no matter what he does , and you can’t be taken seriously.
As far as Fonseca goes, what would you have him do, run out on the pitch and kick the ball in the goal for Morata. The team played well, didn’t give up a single shot on goal and had a number of chance to score. The player’s didn’t finish. That’s not on the coach. As far as the subs, Tammy had a physical problem, and Chuku was doing absolutely nothing all game.
The best comment by far.
So Okafor, Chukwueze, RLC, Calabria, Tomori really be packing those bags… at least one good thing came from this game being that Jimenez can be depended on while Theo gets his head sorted.
Liberalli and Camarda moment would have made this game all the different but I guess we have to wait a big longer.
Gnoto/Dan Ndoye/Zhergova for RW upgrade, while for LW Noa Lang/Fofana (Lyon)/Pepe (Porto) would give fresh pace and energy.
Chukwueze might be given time until summer since Zhergova has contract until 2026… or maybe Gnoto since Leeds are still in lower league plus the Italian passport helps…
RLC should give us a CDM – Frendrup maybe?! Lyon and Genoa are in crisis so that’s our 20M price range right there…
Calabria, Tomori will be given time until the end of the season, I guess…
Jovic, Florenzi, Origi, Ballo-Toure would also be nice to remove from wages… I don’t know how we can fix all these issues in 1 month…
Scout master… We’ll done sir
Tomori needs to be sold, the man is another English idiot that knows very little about football like the rest of them, all they know is kick and run.
Agreed but you can’t replace him that fast. Midfield and at least one winger should be priority.
Bennacer won’t be enough and Liberali + Zeroli are way too young atm. While Okafor and Chukwueze are just dreadful, during Puli absence our right wing just collapsed.
Tomori sale might make sense if we can swap him for Tonali and get Kiwior from Arsenal.
Acmilan did well but Acmilan should improve more on the pressing the opponent with the ball in their half that’s where we are lacking and I assure you Fonseca is far better than Pioli. To be honest but Acmilan needs to buy Berardi to replace chukwueze and we need to sign all the players we need to sign in January as fast as possible.
These rating are not based in reality. I will also add everyone wanted Pioli out last year- a second place finish is looking pretty good right now.
Tbf, the fans wanted to move on and progress to the next step, and it was pretty clear pioli was at his ceiling. They didn’t ask for this worthless ownership to bring in a bad manager below his level on the cheap, literally the exact opposite of what was demanded. Now the owners have to deal with the consequences of making quick lazy choices
Last year the competition was much easier. Look now even Fiorentina and Lazio are fighting for top 4. It was obvious even last year that we are going in the wrong direction.
Zero connection between the players, everything is 1v1 and they all hold on to the ball for too long instead of passing to a wide open teammate.
Jimenez and Liberali did great, Reijnders put Abraham and Morata in 4 scoring positions and only 1 put it on goal, with Morata hitting the upright.
Fofana wasn’t good, but by far the worst player was Okafor. Once he came in the game from 11v11 it went to 10v12 advantage Genoa. He didn’t take 1 step, didn’t make 1 move that benefited Milan.
Fonseca should have subbed in Theo for Chuk and move Jimenez to the right wing, at least the kid would have sent a cross or 2.
Milan needs to immediately sign Frendrup. That dude Is a menace. He was everywhere.
All those ex Milan players came back to sit and watch in the cold weather a bad game.
For how long do we have to bear this pain of watching Milan play We are now 8th place in the standing while Florentina,our rivals inter& Juventus etc play out their heart for the team What an absolute disgrace for a team like Milan I just wish the team start from scratch from the management down to the player coz this Milan is becoming unbearable to watch
Lol, these score are ridiculous. For me, Emerson Royal was our best player on the pitch. The defensive line was solid in total, including Jimenez, and Fofana had a decent 75 minutes until he run out of steam. Everyone else was subpar. Leao, Reijnders, Tammy, Chukweze, all below average. And Libareli looked like a kid playing with adults. The kid might have talent, but he’s nowhere near ready. Camadra as well tbh.
Just say you know nothing about the sport buddy. Emerson was a 5 at best as per usual
Ratings here are a bad joke. Liberali was abysmal and if you give Morata 4, how Chucky cam have a 5.5???
Abysmal?
He is 17 and played well. He looked way more physical than Morata.
Liberali isn’t ready for first team football. Suspect decisions and but really any influence on the game.
Jimenez isn’t a bad option for Theo until his form improves.
Putuco… True. People see what they want to see. Liberali was lucky not to have a pk called against him.
You are right, you see what you want to see.
Liberali was unlucky not to have a PK called for him
Just say you don’t know anything about football. Emerson is the worst player I’ve seen in Milan colours for a long time. So slow always out of position because he is relying on the right winger to cover his right back position. Never passes forward always sideways or backwards. Slows the game down too much. And then points and tells his teammates where to be when he isn’t even in the right place. Worst player ever! Can’t believe we spent so much on him. Absolute joke.
I don’t remember a year passing when you don’t read the comments on every club’s message boards “X is the worst player to ever play for us”.
If that’s the case with Emerson, I think you have a pretty short memory.
To my eyes, both full backs were the highlights yesterday, they both covered a lot of ground, got into good positions and didn’t look massively troubled at the back (Genoa’s most dangerous move came down their right, our left).
Our problem yesterday, as it has been for a while, is complete lack of cutting edge and clinical finishing, the inability to hit the target with a banjo was apparent yesterday. And then we lacked the ability and movement to trouble Genoa in the second half once out of ideas.
A 19 year old was better than all the grown men. Also, where’s the press? If we pressed we could of done so much better. Fonseca should just steal from Klopp and play heavy metal football.
I said Morata wasn’t good enough..I said Abraham wasn’t good enough. At this level you have to take chances.
Gabbia and Thiaw were good as usual, Jimenez had a great debut…
Jimenez played great but it wasn’t his debut as he played something like 3-4 matches last season.
Yeah not sure why I said that 😂😂
😀 That’s fair enough and I also came to think afterwards that maybe you was referring to Liberali instead.
I think my brain was frazzled after watching that tripe 😂
I’d love to see him play in his natural RB position. What an upgrade from Emerson
You were right, both Morata and Abraham are not good enough. They are both very poor finishers. Morata might work like AM/SS tho.
same here… link-up play seems to be his strength
basically sub for both N10 and N9, just in front of both Liberali and Camarda to give them space to grow. While this also raises who should be starters in those 2 roles for the summer.
Puli on RW makes more sense and maybe moving Reijnders there would be better than making our 7 goal scorer into a regista. But that would need a good partner for Fofana, which Bennacer will need time to become after his injury.
Musah’s role is also unknown to any coach, has so much stamina, grit and strength, but dreams of being an attacker which he’s just not.
I think Jimenez is a good choice for motm as he did a great job throughout the match. Liberali had a fairly decent match as well so in the end I think Fonseca did the right choice in giving them a chance and Jimenez certainly played better than Theo has done recently but unfortunately Madrid can buy him back both in the summer of 25 and 26 which clearly will happen if the player wants to return to Spain.
Huge disapointment though that we couldn’t win the match and Even I is now starting to get worried if we actually will be able to qualify for cl next year,
I guess the most positive I’ll take from this current disaray of the club is that we at least yet isn’t in as bad form as a superior equipped Man city. Starting to enjoy their matches losing week in week out more than watching Milans matches currently 😀
“starting to get worried if we actually will be able to qualify for cl next year”
Fck, I admire your optimism. Starting to? LOL. If we can’t score against Genoa, what chance do we really have? I mean honestly, yesterday’s match showed were we are. Take away Pulisic from the roster and we’re not even a midtable team who cannot score at home against fng GENOA! Anyone who thinks we can qualify for UCL next season is insane. Unless there will be big changes. Starting from the top. Moncada & Zlatan.
😀 Well I might be insane and truth be told I’m generally optimistic in regard of Milan, I dont have religion I have AC Milan so I tend to look at that with a positive approach.
Mathematically its far from over but it might take a tour de force performance of form in the 2nd half of the season.
Personally I will be hoping that we bring in either Ricci or Frendrup and acquire Beradi as my patience with Chukwueze is now at an all time low.
If we can get these deals done then we would have a far better chance to progress.
In the end if Fonseca were to be sacked then the management should follow him out of the door as well, no question there.
Sure, if we could get a 10 match long winning-streak like Atalanta are doing, our stocks would rise quickly. But we have had … what, 2 good matches this season and 10-15 “not that good” ones so the odds of turning the fortune around are pretty low.
We need SOMETHING major and we need it NOW. Berardi & Frendrup in the January could be that. But there’s still 6 points to be flushed down the drain before that. FFS, Verona & Roma. How hard can it be to get the 6 points there? I mean, even Como could do it with their eyes closed.
Well I’m not so positive either after yesterdays match and I absolutely agree it looks increasingly likely that we might not qualify for cl next year.
Well we should be able to win those matches but same goes for a bunch of already played games that didn’t go our way so we’ll just have to see how it pans out.
Disappointing result but nice to see the youngsters getting chances. Like I keep saying, the transfers these past two seasons were done haphazardly, with no clear plan in mind, and we are currently paying the price for that. We have a kind run of fixtures coming up, Bennacer’s return, and the possibility to strengthen in January so hopefully we can qualify for the CL, keep our stars, and rebuild, again.
Mediocrity breeds mediocrity. Fire Fonseca now and bring in some experienced coach with charisma and a proven track record. Fonseca has a charisma of a dirty Persian rug.
You don’t have much of a choice…
Sarri, Allegri are too rigid in their playstyle. Allegri-ball is even less ambitious than Fonseca’s. Sarri never gives young talent chance, so your entire Futuro and Primavera projects would be useless (well Bonera should have been axed long time ago and Abate treatment was unprofessional like Maldini’s).
Xavi is 50-50 and our midfield is unusable by him. Ten Haag was let go for a reason, basically dutch version of Fonseca.
You then have Sergio Conceicao who is really the only good option. Otherwise, our management will never pay for an actual coach.
You saw whom they hired when they had a year to decide. Now you would trust the same people to bring you another coach? LOL!!!
I don’t.
This. 100%. The fix must be made higher. After that we can dream about better coaches and/or players.
All and all, the lineup to this game seems to me like a smokescreen to the shtshow that is Fonseca. Let’s play the entire f’ing, serie c failing, Milan futuro lineup next time. And the substitutions were the cherry on the cake.
Ever since he got separated from his wife, Morata is not the same player. Apparently something similar is happening with Theo. I know it’s human and all that, but come on, you’re trained professionals, you can’t allow such massive downgrade, especially when you’re experienced quality footballers.
The positives – clean sheet and good performance from Jimenez and Liberali. The negative is a pretty big one – we witnessed the unofficial goodbye to Champions League football this season. This team lacks chemistry and we will not compensate all these absurd mistakes with derby triumphs and winning streaks. The cups are the only thing that still brings meaning to a disastrous season. As long as RedBird are in charge, we might as well give up home anything is going to change. A bunch of souless amateurs who are somehow incompetent in anything they do.
* I meant “Champions League football NEXT season”.
Very frustrating game. We had 21 shots against 5 from Genoa but couldn’t score. Arguably two PKs not given, one on LIberali, and the other one on Leão, but we shouldn’t need to get PKs (if the ref were any better) to beat a team like Genoa so that’s not an excuse. Several missed sitters including a post hit. The Gods of Football seem to be mad at Milan and didn’t want to allow the ball to go in, in this very special day of 125th anniversary. Pity. Or actually, shame, because sloppy finishing and missed passes were the rule rather than the exception, despite the players actually trying hard.
Maignan, a spectator, nothing for him to do, so, an automatic pass. 6
Emerson, one of his best games so far. Pretty good, actually. 6.5
Gabbia, solid as usual, 6.5
Thiaw, solid except for an almost own goal. 6
Jimenez, frankly better than Theo. Yes, MOTM, our best player on the pitch. 7.5. If Theo’s attitude doesn’t improve and he doesn’t recover his form and is sold, I guess we have the answer regarding who should replace him.
Fofana, mixed bag. Had some good actions but also faded and started making more and more mistakes. 5.5; would have had a pass if not for the decline and missed passes in the last quarter of the game, so, no pass for him.
Reijnders, decent but not brilliant. 6
Chuk, a disaster. The worst player. Should have been subbed out even sooner. However his substitute barely did any better. In any case, a 4 for Chuk.
Liberali, very young, his inexperience shows, but also his quality. A pass, 6
Leão, tried super hard. Had some interesting moves to put his companions in scoring opportunities but they didn’t help. However, also had some poor finishing and crossing, problems he used to have and had improved on, but they showed up again. A pass, 6
Abraham, again missed a sitter. 5
Substitutes
Morata, oh my God, you’re a striker, how do you miss three golden opportunities to unlock the game? You had to bury at least one of them! 4.5
Okafor, barely less bad than Chuk. 4.25
Camarda, didn’t have an impact today. 5.5
Fonseca, 5. Obviously attitude, his latest excuse, is not it given that the players actually did try hard but still, they couldn’t perform. The defense though, was rather impeccable today, but that’s against Genoa’s underpowered offense. With many players missing due to injury, the subs were appropriate attempts to get things going, and he did have the merit of bringing in JImenez who was excellent, and Liberali who was decent. But I can’t give a pass to a coach that doesn’t help his team with beating such a weak team as Genoa. It’s been a constant that we struggle against limited teams, and while the players are also at fault, we can’t exempt the head coach of responsibility, either.
Fonseca out… youth players should be introduced to competitive first team matches gradually just like jimenez, camarda and bartesaghi. It helps build up confidence. Throwing Liberali from the start when the team is going through a rough patch doesn’t help.
I thought this was points in the bag. One of the worst teams in the league defensively and offensively yet we can’t score against them and they found threats to our goal. Smh.
And this is how we honour our 125 celebrations ?? hahaha. Jokes on us because Cardinale knew what would have happened I suppose (yes I know he was there so he won’t hear the boos they’d give him).
Reinjders for me MOTM but I understand the Jiminez shout….its been a while since we’ve seen a different player at left back so the freshness is there. Buts it’s Genoa though. A capable back up should be able to play against that level of team especially when they didn’t have a right back start for them.
Anyways, Deer boy created alot and tbh he’s such a step above all his midfield peers. I think we’re disappointing him this season with the lack of quality in our team.
Performance was so trash! Where’s K? Can we worry now or it’s still not enough games? Just let me know when we can worry. Thanks. Bologna has now legitimately leapfrogged us to 7th btw
As an aside….man the amount of legends in Milan. Just seeing them gives me shivers. Was so beautiful to see them 🤩🤩🤩 I’m always starstruck
The problem today was that Genoa were so compact you have to try to pull players out of the box.
That relies on Chukwueze and Leao. One was awful and one has never been anywhere near good enough.
Wasn’t Fonseca brought in to play quick, physical football? Everything either takes too long or, if we do try to play quickly, lacks quality.
Liberali. 17 years old making his debut from the start, looks decent but does nothing special…outside of Pulisic, still the best performance we’ve seen in that role all season 😄😄😄. You couldn’t make it up. He should stay with the first team in my opinion. Some very intelligent runs and once he’d settled down his composure was great.
Jimenez. From the first minute he looked like he’s started every game this year. Fantastic.
Overall, an awful watch again!
Funny how the 17-year-old rookie gave far better, faster and more accurate passes constantly than the “pros”. He did misplace a couple but in general his passing level was way higher than 7-8 others on the pitch.
Yeah my thoughts. Chukwueze is a terrible player (sell in January) and Leao’s precision was way off (as usual)! Based on last night I would have Liberali on the right as playing him in the centre blunts Reijnders effectiveness. He had to run from deep in the second half to give us what we lacked. Jiminex at RB/WB even though Emerson played better than most last night. Morata doesn’t know which position he is supposed to be in. Totally confuses the midfield and therefore a loss up front. Would rather Camarda came on for Tammy so that we have a target man.
It was a shocking watch but one we have come to expect in the league this season…
I hope players like Okafor are done after tonight. Unacceptable attitude.
100% – looks out of shape and demotivated. Sell
Guys Fonseca just needs more time
Christmas come early!
I just watched the replay, but I can see we have so many shots on goal, and it happen with 3 players from futuro.
I think it was good. Give it try again for next match, I believe good result will come.
But maybe, I always want that Fonseca always play with 2 strikers. 4132 maybe can be better.
2 strikers will make us more sharp in front. Camarda with Morata/Abraham. And for no. 10, Reijnders or Liberali.
Morata and Abraham are well known for missing sitters and being generally poor or mediocre at best at scoring from their chances in front of goal.
So, what a shocker that they have missed so many chances!
A lot of things Milan have done just don’t make any sense, and seem to have all been driven at their root from Ibrahimovic.
Jovic and Okafor did GREAT last season, coming off the bench and scoring goals, some that were crucial to getting points for Milan that put the team into second place.
Abate, the Primavera coach got outstanding results.
So what does the Clown Prince Ibrahimovich do? He sanctions the hiring of Fonseca, gets Abate fired for stupid nepo baby reasons with his son, and all that diarrhea of brown stuff flowing downhill has led to this – Fonseca the Clown Coach freezes out the two best super subs from last season, brings two nearly useless re-treads Abraham and Morata who don’t score, have never scored, will never ever score to take their place. He
Yes, blaming Fonseca for his amateur level coaching is correct. But the problem goes deeper than that. Cardinale for reasons known only to him put Ibrahimovich in charge, essentially as the Sporting Director, even though the guy has demonstrated ZERO ABILITY at picking talent in the past.
So the line of blame goes back uphill, tracking that flow of diarrhea to the top – to Ibrahimovich most of all, and then to Cardinale for putting Ibra in charge.
That chance when Morata cut back onto his left foot and curled it over the bar… the whole move reminded me of the legends sitting in the stand – except Gullit Van Basten Ibra etc would’ve buried it and we’d all be sitting here talking about how we just ground out a 1-0 win. Instead we’re turning into… well, Genoa.
I’m sure you said to me recently our problem is not scoring goals!
Our strikers are utter garbage
That was hard to watch.
Genoa showed almost no threat. Yet we had very little cohesion in attack. Liberali looked far to young to me.
Morata should have come on for Liberali at half time instead of for Abraham.
Chuk was pretty disappointing.
Leao looked dangerous but lacked help.
Emerson still inspires no confidence in me when he goes forward. He is also constantly play acting for free kicks whenever he has the ball.
Milan will not qualify for CL next season. Games like this one today you have to win and collect points. I don’t see them be in the first 5 teams at the end of the season.
They all just look lost on the field. Then Leao comes out and in his interview says that just now they are starting to understand what football Fonseca is trying to get them to play?
It’s just not working. Period. We can’t blame Fonseca though. We have to blame the Einsteins who took a year and decided that he was the next manager… Then game in and game out they just sit and observe mediocrity without any response…
Sad.
Because once Maldini left and Gerry came in we had nothing. Pioli was the last piece of the puzzle that had built something. Now everything has derailed. Gerry buying this club was the worst thing that could have happened, he’s a fraud and he will probably lose ownership to Elliott yet again. All the good work we’ve done in the last 5 years seems to be for nothing.
True,every word.
From the beginning I said, Fonseca is a mediocre loser and the worst possible choice of all the coaches that were being considered.
I kept hearing here that Fonseca needed more time.
Well, he’s had almost half a season already, and we’re in 8th place. How much more time does he need?
Hire someone mediocre, get mediocre results.
I doubt that Fonseca will be fired; I doubt that even if he were, our amateur management would hire someone better. It would be another lateral move or a downgrade.
But at this point, why keep Fonseca at all? The players don’t like him; he is confusing and he’s making the players play even worse. We actually do have a number of talented players… but Fonseca has made the whole smaller than the sum of the parts.
We won’t win the Scudetto, we won’t even qualify for the Champions League even if Serie A gets 5 spots again. Likely not even 6th for the Europa League.
7th through 17th is the same thing. So, why not just dump the loser and try someone new? It can’t get any worse than our current situation, except if we fall to 18th and get relegated. That, I don’t believe we risk.
But 7th through 17th? Same failure. Might as well do something, get someone new, even if the mid-season move might make we play even worse.
At this point we have nothing else to lose, so there is absolutely no reason to keep Fonseca.
This Red Cock don’t want to spend much to sign better coach, and better players.
I don’t agree with you Luigi, but this time you read through my mind.
I was against hiring Fonseca but decided to support him since he was the coach, I even wanted to keep Saelemakers and Colombo because he asked for them.
I sided with him when he decided to bench Leao and Theo.
I sided with him when Theo, Tomori and Abraham pulled the penalties incident against Fiorentina.
I gave him full credit when we won the derby and thought at that time that our season finally started (we were only 3 points from first place).
But at some point he had to show results.
He is disciplined and has guts ? So did Ten Hag who didn’t hesitate to forbade Ronaldo from entering the training ground when they had a different. So in the end Fonseca is just another Ten Hag.
Our season is over, so might as well get a new coach and allow him to work with the team as soon as possible.
I don’t always agree with you*
Those senior players(especially the strikers) wanted to punish fonseca because he criticised them for not playing well last time.Fans and management should support this coach.He is doing well.
I’d rather see cardinale lose the club to elliot than to watch another season like this and with the same clowns in managment.
Just when you start believing the reports that MM16 & Reijnders are close to signing the extension this happens. Why the f*** would the stay when we won’t even make it to the Confererence League. UCL? Utopia.
Gabbia – 6? He stopped everything and made 0 mistakes and fought to the end to drive us to a victory. Individually he was perfect so doesn’t deserve a 6 because we tied. Easy 7+ or 8, same with Jimenez. Jimenez should start over Royal 100% of the time.
Even though I think he played well as always it could easily have gone the other way as well as he almost scored an own goal with his backpass but was bailed out by Maignan in the last second.
If Gerry wants Champions League money he has to find a manager that has the respect of the players. Once a new manager is hired, give him a chance to motivate the players and get rid of the dead wood next summer. Hire some quality players and qualify for the Champions League in 2026/2027.
Its probably too late to qualify this year for 2025/2026.