AC Milan came back from 2-0 down to clinch one point against Fiorentina on Saturday evening. A couple of players impressed a lot, while many struggled, and below are the ratings for the Rossoneri.
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Starting XI
Maignan (7.5): He was hung out to dry by his defensive colleagues on the goals conceded, both coming from very close range. In the second half, we saw some very good saves from the Frenchman, including two 1v1s (Kean and then Beltran) and then a low save on a cracking shot from Kean. In other words, he continued his good form.
Walker (5.5): Probably the best out of the defenders, even if that doesn’t say much today. He was booked for a silly foul in the first half and a mistake towards the end was nearly costly. There were also some positive things from him, though, so it wasn’t all bad.
Tomori (5.5): While he was caught off guard on the first goal, due to Musah’s mistake, it’s also true that he was beaten way too easily by Gudmundsson. The same ‘late reaction’ was seen on the second goal as he saw Kean but failed to pick him up. In the second half, he improved quite a lot with several interceptions high up the pitch and the (lucky) assist for Jovic.
Thiaw (5): You could definitely argue that the first goal was just unlucky, but maybe he should have tried to clear it first time? Anyway, I don’t understand why he pushed up on the second goal, leaving Kean with so much space. The second half was better but far from great still.
Hernandez (4): He looked over his shoulder just before Dodo received the ball on the second goal, and somehow still failed to intercept the pass. Incredibly poor defending. Then he stopped playing due to an argument with the full-back, which was such a bad look, and he was carded for it. In the second half, he missed a great chance (good save too in fairness) and then wasted a counter with a poor finish.
Musah (4): Conceicao decided to take him off after just 25 minutes and I think that says everything. You can make nice runs with the ball in midfield all you want, but if you can’t make an easy pass in a high-risk situation, then you shouldn’t be playing for Milan. The American has shown time and time again that he has these mistakes in him and the Rossoneri cannot afford it.
Fofana (5): The positioning wasn’t too bad from him this evening, even in defence, but he didn’t have quite as much success in possession. There were a couple of poor decisions in the final third and there was never any flow to his game.
Pulisic (6): Aside from the assist for Abraham in the first half, which was good, he was a bit anonymous. He got going more in the second half with a couple of good chances. On the first, he tried to head it back instead and on the second, he should have converted the rebound even if it was a good save. He had a good ball to Gimenez before he came off but overall, not great from him despite the assist. Revised to a 6 from the initial 5.5.
Reijnders (5.5): We must take into consideration that he hadn’t trained properly in the last few days due to illness, so seeing him in subpar condition wasn’t surprising. He definitely lacked the extra spring in his step tonight and while he took up good positions, he should have done better in the final third.
Leao (5): We can say a lot about the winger. A lot of things revolved around him today, as is often the case, but the composure was lacking (again) in the final third. He squandered a great chance in the first half, attempting a pass despite the fact that he was through. The referee failed to grant him a clear free-kick once but overall, he went down too easily. Revised to a 5 from the initial 5.5.
Abraham (7.5): The goal was absolutely wonderful, setting it up himself, as Pulisic only had to put his foot to the ball for the assist. Clearly, the Englishman has found form and the way he involves himself – which only he and Jovic have shown lately – is so important for Milan.
Substitutes
Jovic (7.5 – MOTM): The Serbian entered the pitch after just 25 minutes and helped change the game for Milan. He dropped down a lot and showcased his abilities in that phase, beating his man and opening up space for his teammates, while also finding the passes. He got the job done on the second goal, refusing to give up on the loose ball. A game-changer and not just as a supersub this time.
Gimenez (N/A): We didn’t see enough to give him a rating, as he had to leave the pitch shortly after coming on due to injury.
Bondo (N/A): We didn’t see enough to give him a rating.
Chukwueze (N/A): We didn’t see enough to give him a rating.
Joao Felix (N/A): We didn’t see enough to give him a rating.
The defense is disgraceful. Conceicao simply cannot provide a defensive structure game in and game out, and for that reason alone needs to go. Thank God for Maignan today, who returned to being his best after some inconsistency. No one wants to talk about defense, but it is the main issue.
Pulisic needs more touches and the offense needs to systematically go through him. He always makes things happen, but the lack of structured offense means they just play around with too many others having the ball. And Pulisic himself needs to get out of nice-guy mode and start controlling the offense more. He hustled his a** off today though. Tremendous short ball to Abraham at a beautiful angle and beautiful through ball to Santi on his injury. Puli rated too low here, but we know that’s typical bias.
Abraham starting over Santi is the right move. He gives you more. And Santi is a good sparkplug off the bench.
Leao can’t control the ball.
Could not agree more on both fronts. Our defense is not even Serie A level right now — poor organization and poor execution. Pulisic does need to get more touches and a “touch of meanness” would be a good addition. But he was much better than the rating today.
Looks like Isak revised Pulisic’s rating up to a 6.
“Revised to a 6 from the initial 5.5.”
Agreed. The Pulisic rating here is certainly too low. His assist to Tammy was great and not a simply ball to play at the right angle with the right weight so Tammy could hit it first time. Tammy did well too of course, and deserves lots of credit, but I’d say the assist was at least as challenging as the finish.
And then Pulisic had the beating of his man throughout the second half. He was great and could have / should have had two more assists if Tammy had put away that open header and if Santi had gone around De Gea on the breakaway.
While Pulisic was weaker than Leao in the game against Inter, today he was better and should have stayed on. Leao could have come off.
(Chukwueze was very poor, and no need whatsoever to every play Joao Felix again.)
Isaac doesn’t even try to hide his bias towards Pulisic anymore. Always gives him a lower rating than he deserves. He did so many good things in this game. His pass for Giminez that put him in on goal was all world. He also had a good cross to Abraham that forced a great save from Degea. Pulisic easily could’ve had 3 assist in this match and a goal if DeGea wasn’t making one amazing save after another. And this guy gives him a 5.5. F off Isak. You are an embarrassment.
Any chance of us winning this game was lost when our clown coach took Pulisic off and brought on Felix. We had all the momentum at that point and it all changed after that.
Leao? He is the one that makes the team move forward. And Theo as well; but when will the coach realize that he is NOT s fullback ?
Without Leao this team goes no where
You’re correct on all points. There doesn’t seem to be a structure in attack. Pulisic needs to see the ball earlier and often. Things do happen when play runs through him.
Pretty spot on. Felix useless as usual, gabbia and pav have to wonder how they’re on the bench watching this nonsense, theo lazy as ever, leao once again terrible in the final product, and surprise surprise, the guy who actually give 110% like jovic and Abraham are the ones who get it done. I won’t give any negative to reijnders cuz you could literally see the guy still looked sick, still tried to do what he could tho but can’t be mad he’s not at his best, give him rest. Do we even need to talk about musah…
Indeed… Leao should either join in the midfield, win balls or get off the pitch. Lazy striker
Puli is always underrated by this guy. He actually had a good game. 6.5 at least. Could have had 3 assists. Yes he should bury that chance but it was a bang bang play and DeGea made a great reflex save. Bringing off Pulisic for Félix was dumb too. Felix shouldn’t be playing at all.
Yes, the explanation makes it sound as though Pulisic had nothing to do with Abraham’s goal. I guess playing a perfectly weighted pass to the opposite side of the defender counts for nothing.
RYAN …. SPOT ON !!!! MOLLER FIND A NEW JOB !!!!! DO YOU EVEN WATCH THE GAMES ?????
Chill out, who cares about these ratings anyway. If you saw the game. You can decide yourself who’s good or not.
Totally agree. Three assists minimum if anybody on the team could finish.
Jovic deserves a 3 year deal with scoring bonuses. He is unappreciated for his professionalism and scoring. Secondly, this team needs Sarri. Third, this team 80% of team needs to go as the cycle is over.
And Maignon MOTM, though Jovic deserves the rating I suppose. Kean must be cursing Maignon’s existence.
In my opinion, the coach is a big disappointment and if it were fair, I would have left tonight. He managed to ruin what little was good about Fonseca. It’s not a difference, but Fonseka at least knew how to win matches with 3:0. He got Real and consolidated the midfield and defense. The management made a mistake by not staying Fonseca until the end. Sad and sad. Fiorentina deserved to win because they had better chances.
Naša obranná činnosť jr slabučka naši hráči sú ďaleko od protihráča nechajú mu loptu spracovať a rozobrať a nebránia ani priestor v pokutovom území Teo aj Tomori slabiky Leao sa pohybuje len v malom priestore a naša rozohravka je pomalá a neskora a prečo prvé polčasy sú slabé a až v druhom polčase zrazu vieme hrať aj góly dávať
No way Theo and Musah have the same rating. Theo was very active so at least a 5. Musah is 2 and even that seems too generous
Theo was shockingly bad. However…
Musah should have got a 0. He offered nothing, cost us a hilarious goal and nearly cost another.
Theo always looks uninterested to defender , have been watching him for a long while , that eagerness to defend he doesn’t close space allow cross , theo of way back wouldn’t. I hope his not betting cause after the camera man showed him and dodo talking after the card , dodo scored thank God he was offline just off
Maignan – saved the draw and the point with 4 exceptional saves; got burned by his defense in both goals conceded. 7.5
Walker – made a number of mistakes, 5
Thiaw – the own goal wasn’t really his fault. He tried to save an impossible situation and the ball got a weird bounce. If he hadn’t tried, the Fiorentina attacker just behind him would have scored anyway. Otherwise he did fairly well. I do give him a pass despite the own goal. 6
Tomori – had responsibilities for the goals suffered but also produced an assist for one of our goals and improved in second half. Overall one thing cancels one of the others but still, it’s not a pass, 5.5
Theo – terrible. Prima donna collecting a stupid yellow. Ball hog wasting attacks. The one time he could have scored, didn’t. Needs to be sold. He damaged this team multiple times this season. 4
Musah – Why did Conceição start him? He needs to be sold as he regularly costs us points. He is dumb and useless and despite multiple opportunities has never scored for Milan. I’m sick and tired of him. 2
Fofana – Not good, not bad. Gets a pass, 6
Pulisic – the only good thing he did today was the assist; otherwise very imprecise. 5
Reijnders – coming out of illness, not in ideal form, made several mistakes, lost silly balls. 4.5
Leão – almost scored once, the goalkeeper had merit in saving it. Then Rafa made several wrong last third decisions. 5
Abraham – Golazo. Lots of effort including in defense. Cried when they scored the second, showing how much he cares. In my opinion he has earned the right to stay; Milan should purchase him. 7.5
Subs
Jovic – what a game! MOTM, which was recognized by the official award. 8
Felix – When he plays, it’s like we’re playing with a man down. Completely useless. I don’t know why Conceição always has to play him, even if out of the bench. 3
Gimenez – no vote, played just a little and got injured.
Chuck – no vote, couldn’t show anything.
Bondo – Did nothing wrong but didn’t have the time to show much. No vote.
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Mister Conceição – Why did he start Musah? Why did he sub in Felix? At least he got it right when he brought Jovic in. Still, he makes lineup mistakes and the team needs to always be reactive. 5
What are you talking about? Pulisic could have had 3 assists today. His passing was dead on.
but he didn’t get 3 assist, he wasn’t that good except for the lucky assist, that goal was solely Abraham’s
LUIGI …PULISIC a 5 ????????????? OPEN YOUR EYES AND LEARN THE GAME ….DUMBO !
Yes, 5. Wait for the professional ratings from CdS, GdS, Tuttosport. The rating will be in this order of magnitude. I love Puli. He is my favorite Milan player and the one who is on my Milan jersey. But tonight he was a 5.
How a 5 though? I don’t get it. The past two games weren’t his best but tonight he played really well. His passing was on point and he should have had 3 assists. He made great runs and as normal his teammates rarely found him.
He had a good game, 5.5 is fair in my opinion. You don’t get rated on what could have happened. This game ended in a draw, he good some good passes in, but hey we need to win football games. If he got one of those assist and we won he would end with 6.5-7
Isak revised Puli’s rating up to a 6. The “professional” raters at GdS and CdS both gave Puli a 6.5.
I can understand your frustration at the team and the coach right now. But I think it might be coloring your rating of Pulisic here.
Waiting for your revision after the professional ratings. You are only 1.5 pts lower that the pro’s. You deserve a “4” for that.
Milan and the tale of the 2 halves. I guess nobody has told the players and the coach that we actually need to play BOTH halves, not just the second one. We were lucky against Lecce & Como, Fiorentina & Napoli are caught from a different cloth.
Aside from AGAIN the lack of tactics and game preparation on the mental aspect, most of Conceição subs made no sense. Abraham was having a good game, so why sub him out for Giménez who has yet to click ? Félix is atrocious, so why is he subbed in again ?
Also, if we’re gonna dive for fouls, at least make the dives look a bit convincing.
Maignan: he once again saved the draw. But that shouldn’t excuse all those games this season where he pretty much singlehandedly caused a loss or a draw.
Théo: he was always a liability defensively, but at least he used to cross well and actually shoot. Now the only thing he has for him is his speed, otherwise he is a headless chicken.
Thiaw: Vintage Thiaw 🔥🔥. An own goal and kept the Viola player onside 👏👏👏
Tomori: clumsy and unfocused, as per usual.
Walker: The good thing is: we just have him on loan and didn’t purchase him permanently.
Fofana: Aside from the lucky assist, he was a disaster. Since we’re lacking money here’s an idea: we should fine him each time he shoots.
Musah: We should focus on the future and move on from him. He has potential, just not for this sport, maybe track&field or NFL. He has the football IQ of an amoeba. Like, imagine being so bad that he was subbed TWICE during the first half and yet he is somehow still starting. And since we’re lacking money here’s another idea: each time he dribbles he should be fined.
Reijnders: another subpar performance where he mostly made poor decisions and was a liability defensively wise.
Leão: aside from that great run in the first half, he has nothing to say for himself. Maybe he should focus more on football and less on diving.
Pulišić: I feel like the last international break did him bad mentally, but tonight he at least managed to pull an assist, not the hardest one though.
Abraham: Well he did what a striker has to do.
Jović: He surprinsingly did well as an attacking midfielder. Maybe he has a chance to redeem himself.
Giménez: Invisible, again, but since we paid so much for him, he HAS to be brought in right ?
Overall, in the serie A, I feel like we’re already in summer mode where each game isn’t going to improve our standings nor make it so bad that we’re relegated. We literally have only 1 or 2 important games till the end of this season. Good job everyone.
What “lucky assist” by Fofana? The assists were by Tomori an Pulisic. I agree that Fofana should be fined each time he tries to score. He is the worst finisher I’ve ever seen at this level.
“What “lucky assist” by Fofana? The assists were by Tomori an Pulisic”
Sorry my mistake
Spot on for the rating on defense calamity
I couldn’t agree more with your take on Musah! It actually made me chuckle.
An overrated roaster. Milan should not be 9th, but the idea that with another coach this team should be comfortably top 4 is crazy.
Our center backs except Gabbia are all very poor at reading situations, especially inside the box. Our midfielders except Reinjders cannot control and distribute the ball rationally, all they can do is run forward with the ball. Fofana is one of the most overrated player I have seen in Milan shirt, he is very bad in ball distribution. He often does the wrong choice or the wrong execution. We are Europa League level at best.
I agree with you on Fofana. He doesn’t deserve a Milan shirt. Conceicao has been unable to impart a character in the team. What team plays like football is an individual game? Joao Felix is a bundle of disappointment. What is Sottil doing on the bench?
Fun game to watch. At least we don’t have watch bad Milan and a boring game.
Again they go down 0-2 and then they start playing some form of football.
Maignan, Tammy and Jovic were great, the rest were trash.
A drunk fan could have played better than Musah.
Walker looks like he plays tipsy. He was also very bad.
But, Fiorentina RB/RWB Dodo was absolutely destroying Milan’s LB Doodoo. How was that clown ever allowed to wear Milan’s captains armband? Stops mid action to argue that another player tried to dive. Imagine that, Theo being upset at someone else diving.
Jovic is the best n10 Milan has had since the last days of Seedorf at Milan. His ability to hold up the ball with the back to the goal and release runners on either side with either foot is very good. Napoli utilizes Lukaku that way, Milan should do the same with Jovic. He deserves to play more.
Same with Tammy. 10g 5a on the season on 1500 minutes while playing with zero continuity is a great return. The supposed superstar on the team has contributed only 4 more goals that him in double amount of minutes played.
Milan could have won the game but Conceição made 3 dumb subs with 10+ minutes left and killed the momentum.
Putting Felix in while keeping Leao on was a bad decision. Sottil should have been brought in for Leao, and kept Felix on the bench.
It is incomprehensible why Conceição always tries to play Felix even if from the bench, despite Felix being the most useless bum. We seem to play with 10 men when Felix is playing. Today like you said he killed the momentum, committed a bunch of fouls, and did absolutely nothing right, like it is always the case. Frankly, I think this is suspicious. Is there some secret bonus-like deal with Mendez, in which Felix always needs to play? Yes, absolutely, Sottil as a sub is ten times better than Felix. And yes, Tammy was doing great. However I think Tammy was limping when he was subbed, maybe that’s why he brought Gimenez in.
Jovic needs to play more; Milan needs to trust him more because he seems better than Gimenez (who has no ball control and is clumsy).
Of these players on loan, Tammy is the one who earned the right to stay. Felix needs to be sent back to Chelsea. Walker, mixed bag; has good games but is old and slow. Still better than Emerson Royal, though. Sottil also could stay.
The coach doesn’t know his players. Musah is Rubbish,chukwueze is not good both in country and club.
Mike certainly shut his haters tonight. He saved us from yet another embarrassment.
Jović deserves more minutes. Tonight he was the player that created the most chance (6) in 67 minutes he played.
Overall, same old pathetic display. They don’t play for the coach and they don’t play for the badge anymore. Sad what has become of this once glorious institution.
The team showed heart to fight back (again) but it’s too little too late. Everything this season has been a mess, on and off the pitch. It’s almost over and we don’t have a clear formation or starting eleven. We can’t even decide on a stable center back pairing. We have no idea what the team will look like next season or who the coach will be. Most of our signings for the past two seasons have been random and consequently flops, some of which we may not be able to offload so easily. The latest five signings are all struggling. Felix and Sottil have their bags packed, Walker is looking like a downgrade from Calabria, and Gimenez may soon be third choice to Abraham and Jovic.
Last season was bad as well, we finished second but never competed for the title and were out of the CL in the first round.
Changes need to happen at the owner/management level. This team needs a clear plan:
First of all, who will be the coach next season?
What is their pedigree and preferred system of play?
Can they realize that with minimum changes to the squad or is the management willing to overhaul the squad for the coach’s vision?
Where do our Primavera and Futuro players fit in?
I agree with most of what you said, except for the last sentence, if you are suggesting that the Primavera and Futuro players should play for the first team. Where do they fit? At Primavera and Futuro. I can’t think of a single one who is ready for the first team (and no, not even Camarda is). See, Futuro players are doing poorly in Serie C, threatened with relegation, so there is no way they would do any better in Serie A. Primavera players are too young.
Futuro are doing badly in serie C partly because of poor coaching and also because they’re essentially kids playing against grown men.
It’s one thing to have 1 or 2 kids in an adult team, but when the entire lineup is made of U21 players, they tend to be easily overwhelmed.
Now, I’m not saying that they should start with us, but saying that none of them deserves even a minute with the first team because of how poorly Futuro is doing misses some of the context IMO.
In Serie A they would still be playing against grown men; just, more skilled grown men.
None of the young players who got minutes with the first team did well. There are zero goals in the entire season by these youngsters.
They need to continue to grow with the youth teams, until the time when they will be ready for the first team. This time hasn’t arrived yet.
I meant where do they fit into the plan? Is the management selecting the senior coach with the consideration that certain players like Camarda and Libreali will be utilized in two years’ time.
With Kjaer leaving we needed someone new. Simic stepped up from the Primavera only to be sold. Bartesaghi, despite Theo’s bad form and desperate need for competition/rest, is not being used. Zeroli was bounced around between Futuro and the first team bench, only to be loaned out to Monza. Again, my main issue is that nobody seems to know what this ownership/management is doing.
Well said on both your posts
That is true.
Very penetrating analysis of our club’s decline. The only thing you failed to mention is that the troubles started precisely on 5 June 2023, with the sacking of Maldini – one of the worst own goals in recent ACM history. We’ve been paying the price for the owner’s stupidity ever since. Redbird out!
Jovic was great both in the middle and the attack. He should finished the match with one goal and one or two assistance, but his teammates missed the chances he created.
Do you know what feeling I’m have, being very sincere? That Theo is more and more forcing his way out of the club, in the most obscenely desplicable and disgusting of possible forms…
Musah is really a weak player, not Milan Material at all and yada yada yada, But theo? Come on … he can’t have simply UNlearned to play soccer, as if he had been a victim of the macabre sortilege of some evil sorcerer. There is something VERY rotten in the Kingdom of Milanello …
Isak’s anti-Pulisic bias is SCREAMING, today! First you say he didn’t really do anything other than his assist, then you list four or five accomplishments, and at that, you left out his near perfect cross that Tammy headed straight at De Gea.
That’s before we address the multiple excellent runs he made, not only clearing space for others but also breaking the defense and finding wide open space, only for his teammates to make bad (usually selfish) decisions.
Pulisic wasn’t Leo Messi out there, today, but if he was a 5.5, Leao was a 4, and the average rating would be 3-3.5.
Yep. Anyone who gives Puli a 5.5 today has a bias or wasn’t paying attention.
Agreed. Pulisic played very well today, should have had two more assists, was unlucky not to score on that rebound, and was regularly beating his man.
He should have stayed on to the end and perhaps Leao gone to the bench in favor of Sottil.
Every player should be defending and vice versa. That is total football. Conceicao Milan doesn’t do that. You see Leao and nearly every other player strolling when opponents are attacking. They play as though they have nothing at stake. Fofana is poor in passes and has little attacking sense. A 34 year old Walker brings little value up front. A good team should have beaten Fiorentina. Conceicao is too ordinary for a team like Milan
There is a lot of talent on this squad but they all play for themselves and not as a team.
Musah was well below a 4.
Theo was a real mixed bag.
Felix. I saw enough to give him a rating. It was poor.
Abraham continues to look much better than big money signing Gimenez. He should have done better on the chance he had. Couldn’t evade the keeper and comes off hurt.
Big money striker? 30m is the budget for a back up striker at best
Not in AC Milan.
We’ve rarely spent > $35 on a player in our history.
This season is so hard to watch. It would almost be better if we just sucked. Watching us overwhelm teams for stretches of time is almost more frustrating than anything. A few thoughts
1. This is clearly the end for Musah
2. Why does Fofana think 30 meter shots are a good idea? He hasn’t hit the frame this year. Today he opted not to pass to an open Gimenez and an open Pulisic to take his crappy shot.
3. Theo showed us his highs and his lows today. He definitely was a problem for Florentina making runs. But defensively weak and that dumb argument seemed like a sand lot issue.
4. I like when I see Laeo pushing people and getting chippy. I thought he played in a more engaged way today
5. Just sign Maignon. The guy is good.
6. Yes Tomori had an assist but that was a clear defensive breakdown by Florentina. All of our players in the middle of the field CBs and midfielders just can’t make line breaking passes. It’s a joke. Watching Bastoni ping balls all over the field a few days ago makes me realize this is the biggest weakness for Milan.
7. Check that. The biggest problem is a lack of leadership. Then the ability to make line breaking passes
8. Our RB situation has been so bad that we are convinced Walker is decent. He’s not. He’s washed. He can’t get forward at all and he is just so so defensively (kinda annoying that the British announcer blows Walker ever time he makes a simple play)
Agree with all this
Agreed. The British announcer is fairly good most of the time, but he’s totally biased when it comes to the English players. Abraham and Walker and Tomori all get more praise than they deserve when they do well, and less criticism than they deserve when they do poorly.
Why even bother bringing Felix on? We’re not keeping him, playing him into form isn’t out problem. Wherever in Saudi he ends up can worry about that.
Jović: 8.5
Musah: 0
I think better bring in some kind of psychiatric type coach..team’ morale really not conceileao strength. Sigh. We even struggling to qualify for friday league
The fact that not every comment on here called out the outrageous defending of Theo blows my mind. Theo should have come out with Musah! Lazy defending as always.
Theo has no situational awareness. He never knows what’s behind him. There were several passes that he was slow in receiving and ended up being stolen. His motivation seems to be lacking. Musah- 2.5 and Theo-4.
The problem is we don’t have a backup to Theo. That’s the issue. Musah and Felix are also very poor, but we can just play other players, so it’s easy to solve. But there’s really no one else to play in Theo’s position. Neither Jimenez nor Terracciano are actually left backs, so we have no depth there at all.
Why this Mudah still at Milan. Why bought him at the first place. This scouting department never scout thoroughly. They see a potential but never acknowledge the flaw.
Game after game it becomes clearer that the problem of the team is the mentality. We can have Guardiola as our coach but if the players decided to just jog or even walk during both phases of the game then nothing will change. Theo and Leao have the quality to be the best, but if they still behave like a diva then we should listen to the incoming offers. Some fans believe that Tomori is the answer to our defense but I’m afraid he isn’t, his reaction was slow today (at some occasions his speed makes up for it, but if his positioning & awareness are good, he wouldn’t need to do those sprints), he blames the others when they make a mistake leading to a shot, but it’s not like his performance gave him the right to do so. Here are the players that I personally think should stay in the team: Maignan (he should lower his salary demand for the new contract though, until he shows consistency), Thiaw, Pavlovic, Gabbia (they lack in quality but at least they are professionals, it is not realistic to buy 2 good quality CB in the one transfer window, especially considering we also need new RB and LB), Fofana, Bondo, Reijnders (one pure DMF is needed), Pulisic, Gimenez (he is lacking confidence, let’s hope next season he will start performing, because the quality is there), and one of Jovic or Tammy (as backup). The rest should either show their worth before the season ends or they can find a new team in the upcoming window.
Inter, for me, it seems, is the only team that Conceicao plays against with caution. Fiorentina game was a “must win”, and, still, we end up losing 2 points. After this game, Conceicao’s fate is certainly sealed. You can’t keep conceding goals in every game. Serie A is far superior to the Portuguese league. He’s had his chances. With Conceicao, we are no better than the likes of Parma or Lecce.
Disaster of a season from a DISASTER of a management and ownership group.
What do you expect?
Musah = TRASH. Period. I said it many many times, the only when we signed this kid for a massive 21M – was because he was American. Nobody wanted this kid and we can see why. Some idiot fans actually defend him saying “well at least he runs around a lot” LOLOLOLO. Ya, because that is how football is won – whoever runs the most. Pls send this kid to the Futuro and sell him in summer for a bag of peanuts.
Sergio is a dead man walking. Very obvious. Just pull that ban aid off and fire the guy now. It’s embarrassing.
9th place???? Thank you Gerry!!! Love the vision you have for our club! Wonderful. Can’t wait till we get relegated next season, the what will those idiot Redbird Lovers say 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
O italians across the entire team today, management, and coach. I’m sorry but if they did this and there was wild success and accomplishments even though I wouldn’t like it, I’d have to say they made good decisions. But we’ve destroyed our culture and history for this? Myself and my channel mates don’t support this and I wish other milanisti would stop supporting this as well. The sooner it happens the sooner it changes. Supporting this management is not supporting milan. In my opinion it may just be the opposite.
Well said. The owner has not only reduced ACM to a mediocre, uncompetitive force on the pitch but also stripped it of its proud historical identity. This isn’t the club I’ve supported throughout my life. I didn’t think I would ever say this, but our city rivals Inter, with their core Italian identity and far better recent record in Italy and Europe, are what ACM long was but no longer is.
If the owner’s methods had produced success on the pitch, I, too, would have reluctantly accepted the changes it has made to ACM’s identity. But what the owner has done is deliver the opposite: decline and fall. It has ruined the club.
Given its current lamentable condition, ACM may as well up sticks and move to Las Vegas and play there as the Casino City Clowns.
All of a sudden Musah remembered all the hype about his POTENTIAL and realized he will become the greatest player ever which caused him to blackout for a moment and when he recovered from it the ball was already in the net.
That’s how amazing footballer he is. And will be. Greatest ever. I think he might have broken a record – or two yesterday. It’s not always when a coach subs off someone after 20 minutes for his massive potential or when someone is a 100% turnover machine losing the ball every single time he got it. He was really decisive again yesterday. Too bad he was decisive for the wrong team. Again.
Again singing songs to that overrated overhyped average pulisic because he made an easy assist which youth team and amateur players make on daily basis but lost the ball everytime !!!!! the fool who writes these articles should go back to watch his baseball
We just have to cut a lot of this current lot loose… Leao is just way too inconsistent to be a Milan player (pretty useless in give and go situations and tight spots.. Only needs 15 open yards to function) .. Theo looks like he already has left the club.. Felix should just be scrapped.. Chukuwueze is awful.. And so is the rest of the defence.. The only upsides were the strikers, Pulisic, reijnders and fofana.. The rest seem content on making free money… Ship them out and refresh the squad… Conceicao is not a bad coach… Give him a hard working team and he will deliver…
Coach should be fired, just for using Felix. A hopeless player who wanders around the pitch, asks for the ball then gives it away and generally doesn’t know what to do.
Sitting should have played from the start against his owner club. As I’ve said countless times, Leao should only be used from the bench, without exception.
Fofana should be sold in the the summer (did we even buy the right Fofana?) – he’s supposed to be holding but had more shots than the strikers! His passing is woeful, in fact I guarantee that passing is not practiced at all in training.
Too many greedy, glory seekers in this team and the players that CAN do something on the ball are often overlooked when we have opportunities to score. Theo makes his big runs from midfield but then fails to pass it, preferring to ‘try his hand’, like Fofana..
Usual poor performance – this is a bottom half of the table side.
…,Sottil should have played from the start.. (corrective text!)
Did Theo not see a widen open Pulisic in front of the goal before he shot wide? Pulisic outran the defenders to put him tap in range. Selfish to take a shot from a wide angle when the pass was there to be made.
When you have crap for brains you only have tunnel vision and can’t see what’s around you.