AC Milan’s winning run in the league came to an end on Sunday evening as Fiorentina prevailed 2-1 at Stadio Artemio Franchi. Several players could have done a lot better, with a couple of fatal mistakes, and below are the player ratings for the Rossoneri.
If you haven’t already, make sure to check out how we decide the player ratings. From the scale to what affects the rating, we have compiled everything there.
Starting XI
Maignan (7): He did his job tonight, saving a penalty and distributing the ball well with his feet. He could do nothing about the goal and certainly has the right to give his teammates a scolding.
Emerson Royal (5.5): Some misplaced passes and struggles in the duels, but it wasn’t completely terrible from him, at least not compared to some of his teammates. Not enough for a pass here, but he wasn’t the main player to blame.
Gabbia (6): The academy product won the penalty that Abraham missed and put up a good fight in the duels with Kean. He was hung out to dry by Tomori on the second goal and was clearly the better of the two tonight.
Tomori (4.5): It was a fatal mistake by the Englishman, completely misjudging De Gea’s long ball, and Fiorentina made the most of it. He was also rather shaky in the other duels and thus didn’t impress tonight.
Hernandez (4.5): He may have got the assist for Pulisic, but the latter did 90% of the work. Before that, he caused a penalty (very cheap, I know) and missed one as well. His strike wasn’t terrible but also not fantastic, not to mention that he got lucky not to cause another penalty later on. The worst part, however, was getting a red card after the game for shouting at the referee. It remains to be seen how long he will be suspended, probably two games (Udinese and Bologna next). A horrible birthday for him.
Pulisic (7 – MOTM): He was almost always available on the right flank and combined well with his teammates. The finish on the goal was just fantastic and he deserves a lot of praise for that. Not sure why Fonseca thought it was good to sub him off.
Fofana (6): It wasn’t always spectacular, but he won several 50-50 duels in the centre of the park and made life difficult for Gudmundsson on several occasions. He can still improve with his passing in attack, but there is no doubting what he brings to the team defensively.
Reijnders (5.5): The Dutchman won the penalty after a run into the box, but honestly we expect to see a lot more from him. He struggled a bit at the start of the game and while he grew into it, he never really had that x-factor that we often see him have.
Leao (5.5): He had two good runs, one which led to a powerful shot and another that nearly set up Pulisic for 2-1, but aside from that he struggled to make a difference for Milan. Still, given those two chances, it’s a bit strange that he was subbed off.
Abraham (5): If you are going to take the second penalty, after the first was missed, you better make sure you score. Especially when another player wants to take it (Pulisic). Abraham failed and also missed two other good chances in that second half, so it’s not good enough.
Morata (5.5): He had to drop down far more than he was comfortable with, it was quite clear, and he was never really 100% in the combination play with his teammates.
Substitutes
Okafor (5.5): The substitution may have been strange, but the Swiss international got past his man a couple of times. That being said, no real impact.
Chukwueze (5.5): One good shot after coming on, and then a great run which was finished with a horrendous shot. Such a mixed bag, as is usually the case for him.
Fonseca out. Enough of this loser mentality.
Great game tonight! Let’s keep this up and we win Scudetto!
Pulisic backstabbed by team, et tu theo
I thought that this was one of those days where the team completely failed Pulisic.
Six minutes in, he puts a perfect free kick in and Gabbia heads it over.
He scored a Golazo!
His PERFECT lead pass to Reijnders led to a PK.
His run, early in the 2nd half, was near perfect, only surpassed by an unbelievable slide tackle to deny him a goal.
He put a 2nd perfect cross in, from open play, but again his teammate managed to NOT score when scoring was the path of least resistance.
All that and we were awarded TWO PKs, and yet Fonseca didn’t allow the player who is 10-for-10, for club and country, take either one!
If there was any justice in football (and the fact that there isn’t is part of what makes it so beautiful!), Pulisic would have had four goals and two assists.
BTW, Theo was a complete mockery of the Captain’s armband, today. I’m only saying TODAY, but conceding a STUPID PK, taking and missing a PK trying to compensate, and getting sent off for whinging to the referee are all stupid mistakes usually seen from rookies under the age of 20, and not World Cup winning team captains!
As long as this fraud jerry is here no one gives a fk about yankees here you pos,with all the repsect for Pulisic that clearly has other roots since he can actually play this sport…so sht the fk up gringo …you are clueless when is about “soccer”…you being once the waterboy doesnt count…so fo with all your americans
And let’s add a 3.5 for the coach who clearly has no clue what subs are used for.. pathetic!
The reason why Pulisic was taken off was that except for the goal he didn’t do much. The coach wanted someone who will cut inside and create chances like Chuk did. (Not the best tho).
As for the penalties give it a rest people. Anyone can miss. Both penalties were taken good, both Tammy and Teo shot in the lower corners but De Gea is that good.
PS. Ps the coach should have brought Jovic on.
I guess you missed the two passes to Tammy opening him up and the one to Reijnders for the penalty.
O pls, you mean from the scuffle were he pushed the ball a bit from the ground? Rejndiers was going no where with that ball. Thats more tnx to the ref for giving easy penalties. But if you want to go like that Pulisic got spin by Adli and was responsible for the first goal too. Everyone had some moments here and there, but in general all of our attacks were coming from the left, while on the right they were just passing back and forward most of the time and Royal sometimes sending usles crosses. That’s why Chuk got in, to do something more direct. Which he did, but De Gea saved that too. So it is what it is.
Youre missing the point.
Pulisic didnt do much cause they werent passing to him, thats bad play, He was always open.
Anyone can miss penalties,
-Yes. but why didnt Theo take the 2nd one after missing, if he is the PK taker.
And Pulisic was also the culprit for Adli’s goal, if you must track back and defend do it well
I’ll let Aldi hit that shot 19 more times and he’ll miss them all.
100% also cant blame the subs who play 10-15 mins at a time. No plan B for this 442 hybrid nonsense
Jovic is injured and the pks wasn’t taken well. Imao a good pk goes in the top corner. Gotta have ballz for that tho
Fair enough, i didn’t knew he was injured. Top corner would be a superb penalty, but yea those are harder and not everyone can pull it off so they usually go for the bottom corner.
Funny enough, the last PK Theo missed he tried to put in the same corner …
REPLY to ROSSI…. YOU ARE FULL OF SH,,TTTTT CONCERNING PULISIC !
I share the same sentiment with you but you can’t really fault puli for that. His rb is no theo who can attack along side him and he does more tracking back to help his rb. He barely gets the ball on the RW but still positions himself well to get a goal when we need one. For chuk, he drops back like morata to get the ball before heading to cut in like you said.
What match were you watching?
Six minutes in he sent a perfect cross in from a free kick, but Gabbia skied it when it was easier to score.
The goal was a Golazo of the highest order.
The first PK was earned by Reijnders, but only because Pulisic sent him in on goal with a perfect lead pass, as he was falling to the ground after being fouled.
He also sent in another PERFECT cross which was skied over, and he was only denied a second goal by an unbelievable slide tackle.
On top of that, WTF was Fonseca thinking, letting Theo and Tammy take PKs when Pulisic has NEVER missed, for club or country (10 for 10)?
No one gives a fk about your country gringo!I will fk all of you gringos over at the stadium…just because of that morron jerry ,no one gives about your f country…you’re a fuking disgrace for your real roots
Big keyboard warrior. You wouldn’t talk to my wife, let alone me, like that, in person.
You run your mouth A LOT!
Google “MARSOC,”and then let me know when you want to meet up to have this discussion in person, little girl. I’ll pay $3,000 for the flight just to see the look in your pathetic beady eyes.
Says the boy behind the other keybord…you’re a muppet just like your daddy Jerry you fukin wank…you aint got 30 and you’re talking about 3000 just like Jerry..google “banging Marsoc ‘s wife” and tell me if you still want to meet me and the other boys that did that slt,yanke that identifies as a pussy
Save yourself some typing and just say “I don’t like Pulisic”. Everything else you type is hilarious
Well thats some strong projection there. Just cause your brain is baised that doesn’t mean everyone else is like you. Ask yourself how many times Pulisic cut towards goal like Chuk and you get a reasonable conclusion why they changed him.
Thank you Gerry.
Says the boy behind the other keybord…you’re a muppet just like your daddy Jerry you fukin wank…you aint got 30 and you’re talking about 3000 just like Jerry..google “banging Marsoc ‘s wife” and tell me if you still want to meet me and the other boys that did that slt,yanke that identifies as a pussy…
Maybe Pulisic should leave and go to Liverpool instead of playing with these selfish idiots on this team. The guy is our best scorer, he’s never missed a penalty fro club or country and every jackass on this team is stepping ups and taking the ball away from him. Too many egos that are thinking about themselves rather than the team. Theo at the top of the list. Hoe do we not have a designated penalty taker? Is it whoever grabs the ball first?
Defense was terrible again. Second goal was mostly Tomori but Gabbia and Theo too share some blame. How can we blame this on RLC…I’m sure someone here will figure out a way.
Why can Pavlovic not play? He was arguably our best defender to start the season, has one bad game against Liverpool and now he can never play again?
Many to blame here but the truth is if Pulisic takes those penalties we win this game. Tired of all these players only thinking about themselves.
Not sure why Tammy thought he had to take that PK. Doesn’t help that DeGea decided to play lights out tonight.
Pavlo’s problem is that he’s just as impulsive as Tomori on challenges. But Tomori looks mentally fatigued and inattentive.
Team needs rotating. These guys don’t look in peak form as was evident from Theo. He only plays like that when he’s mentally drained.
Now we’re probably looking at two games without him without a natural back up. It’s gonna be fun.
Emerson was terrible- 4.5 at best. Poor decisions all game. I feel bad the Pulisic has to play with him on that side. Morata work his butt off, deserves a 6. Leao worked harder today off the ball. Can our midfielders split players to make a pass out of the back? Tammy had two missed open shots on goal and the penalty miss- 4.5. Chuck looked decent but 5.5 seemed about right.
Whoever thought that beating Inter will somehow magically erase the fact that we have a mediocre coach, some incredibly overrated players and the worst management in Serie A, may feel welcome back to earth. I hope your journey has been pleasant a one.
For once, we are in agreement.
Are you sucking your boss’s balls you fkin sht?!
Got 2 penalties, but still lost against a mid-table team.
I’m starting to wonder if yesterday’s derby win was just luck.
But all is well, as long as the club reports profits two years in a row
Where are all the ass lickers of this jerry imbecile?!You mf c*ck suckers,I would rip your fkin legs at the stadium only to know wich ones are you!You fkin animals!Every mf gringo with american accent I will knock out at the stadium from now on!
What a complete unhinged mental case you are. Yes it’s Gery’s fault Theo and Abraham missed penalties. The American is the best player on this team by a mile, and the only reason we lost is because these idiots didn’t let the American take the penalty. You ain’t doing s!@* Rino.
Im not doing sht.Lets see the next home game!I swear to god I will break your fkin heads you american trash.Its this imbecile jerry that killed Maldini’s ambitions to make a great team because “winning is boring”…too bad too many idiots are buying tickets and support the sells when this management is full of imbeciles…lets met at the stadium you trash and lets see how it ends for you ,you mf american c*ck sucker
🤣🤣🤣 You’re next level, man. Get help.
I am getting help from your mom…just now…thats one good american slut
americans have guns fyi
Yeah chill dude,this is not a movie…they all have pussies…cause they identify like pussies
And what exactly is a Garry problem ? Wrong penalty from Theo or the lazy kick from Abraham ? This is clear failure from management… I love Zlatan and think our starting 11 is one of the best in seria A… but this summer they Killed our project what runs last 3 years….. only missing piece was Great coach with experiences…. even with Royal this team is good , but Fonsy’s style and motivation experiences are worse than Piolis… and I hope Zlatan now can see it what is different between Conte and Fonseca… 5m€ + bonuses vs 2m€ + bonuses
This one needs to be treated.
He is by your mommy!wink wink
I’d bend you over in front of the entire Curva Sud, you whinging Rat ba$+@rd!
Theo conceded an idiotic PK, wasted a PK and took a STUPID red card, but the guy who scored a Golazo, sent in two wasted perfect crosses and Fed Reijnders the lead pass that earned the first PK is the problem?
Il commento piu stupido su Internet!
You are brave you trash…Lets meet the next match at the stadium you f sht and see who’s gone bend who…bring your mommy too,you might not be enough for me you lil american cnt!
Who said anything about pulisic you imbecile?My problem is with this imbecile fraud jerry and this clueless management!If your handicaped and can’t read well its on you…still,lets met at the stadium for that date,I want to see how brave you are yankee sht
Where is that english pos supporting this cluelless imbecile that is Tomori?Where are you trash?!
Are your still sucking your boss’s balls your f gringo?!
What is wrong with you ? Are you mentally unhinged … ?
All good…just to break some gringos heads …don’t you want to meet at the stadium next homegame?!
Sure, I’ll meet you there. I’m assuming you’ll be the one with the shaved head, shirtless, drooling on yourself.
Says the boy that never been there…ill be the one that breaks your gringo head
Also, what more does Tomori have to do in order to be benched? He is completely reckless and inadequate, not a single game passes without him contributing to either a goal or a clear chance for the opponent? Why did we even buy Pavlovic if not to replace the weak link in our defense? What he did in that 2-1 situation was literally a copy of the mistake against Inter for the Supercoppa, and that’s amateurish.
Put Tomori on the bench he isn’t in from.
Too lazy and casual from Theo most of the time, he is just harming his career. Let’s not even start with Leao. I don’t know if Fonseca has a problem with making substitution early.
Sell Theo and Leao and invest the money these guys have checked out mentally unless a good coach can somehow bring them back to default.
Labeled as doom and gloom squad. And I’m not allowed to be here. If I shout about losing or critisizing the management, someone here will advice me to support PSG.
So what?!You tell that american trash to go fk off and lick jerrys balls
Deserved loss. When you miss 2 penalties in a game, you don’t deserve anything but a loss.
That’s 2nd time in 9 months that Milan missed 2 penalties in the same game, and even though Pulisic was in the game in both situations, he shot none of those penalties. Theo missed 2 of them, Giroud and Abraham, the other 2. From now on, no one should even think of shooting a penalty but Pulisic. I don’t understand why someone else is shooting penalties when you have Pulisic who has never missed one in his career.
“Captain” Theo, as usual, when things go bad, always finds a way to make them worse. The worst player on the pitch 4.5 is way too high. He earned himself extra couple weeks off to celebrate his birthday.
The rest, outside of Pulisic and Maignan, were not much better.
Great goal and game by Adli.
Kaen played like a man possessed.
De Gea was great as well.
This is completely scandalous. Fonseca said after the match that Pulisic is the designated penalty taker, yet both Theo and Abraham took it from him. They should both be benched. Get control of your team Fonseca, before our best player Pulisic leaves for somewhere else.
The problem is the lack of leadership, or everyone wanting to be a leader on the pitch.
The coach can designate a penalty taker but if the captain grabs the ball because he wants to shoot a penalty on his birthday, there is not much the coach can do at that point. Even vs Venezia, Leao told Pulisic to let Abraham shoot the penalty. The last 3 penalties were shot by Abraham 2 and Theo, while Pulisic was in the game.
Pulisic will have to grab the ball and tell everyone to f*ck off. He needs to stop taking back seat to anyone on the team. He is the best player and it isn’t even close.
Agree.
Theo just wanted to break Maldini’s record on his birthday.
Then completes the performance with an abuse red card after the final whistle.
He should not be captain again for a long time.
Please leave all the f yankees you useless c*ock suckers…
I’d bend you over in front of the entire Curva Sud, you whinging Rat ba$+@rd!
Theo conceded an idiotic PK, wasted a PK and took a STUPID red card, but the guy who scored a Golazo, sent in two wasted perfect crosses and Fed Reijnders the lead pass that earned the first PK is the problem?
Il commento piu stupido su Internet!
This is clearly Milan’s worst game. After the performance against Leverkusen, they kept waiting for a lowly Fiorentina to come at them b4 waking up. Emerson is a complete waste of money. Leao was lost, Theo was reckless, while Fofana and Reijnders didn’t know their jobs until it was 2-1. The coach fumbled by allowing Theo and Abraham to take the penalties, when we have Pulisic and Morata.
I thought we were going to win. I felt with what was at stake, we just had to win. Fiorentina have not been good. But, whether they are or not, it shouldn’t matter in this game. Napoli and Inter have won. They didn’t play with the seriousness the game deserved – seems like a leaderless bunch. Gabbia needs the balls in the air, where he direct it down, not so low. I wonder what they do at trainings. I’m more than disappointed. This one hurts more than all the games we’ve played. I really wish they had done this at San Siro;the fans would stone them.
Six minutes in, Pulisic sent in a perfect cross from a free kick on the left side, and Gabbia got under it and headed it into Row Z!
I love Gabbia, and think that he should be a regular starter, but he blew that chance!
Every mf of this idiots that are playing like trash and still have the guts to shush fans should get their legs broken by the curva…but the curva is a curva that takes her benefits from jerry and shut up like some bunch of pussies
Stfu child
Child is what i have with your wife in secret…ask her…
According to Fonseca, Pulisic should haven taken the penalty and he (Fonseca) doesn’t know why the players decided otherwise.
This is probably the third time an actual official statement confirms the bad atmosphere in the locker room. Shocking.
Pulisic needs to stand up for himself. And Fonseca should have made it clear, especially after Theo took the first one. It’s totally ridiculous that it’s basically whoever runs up and grabs the ball first. I’ve seen enough of Theo. Dimarco is twice the player he is. Too many egos on this team, and apparently they are directly disobeying the coach’s orders. Sit them down!
Milan finally look good enough to win the Scudetto, so that’s a relief. They must get the results now.
Lol good one
Just sell the club. This isn’t baseball, this isn’t MLS. You don’t know what you’re doing, you have people that are as clueless as you are running the club. Just sell the damn club.
This idiot is not going to sell untill people won’t stop buying his crap…this imbecile is just as imbecile like the one from man utd,at least that one has money to spend,this idiot is just a fraud like berlusca told
Worst part is, he is too dumb and too arrogant to actually realize that what he is doing is wrong and that he is actively ruining the club.
This morron is all about making some money..read his lastninterview..the lunatic is talking about himself like he just came from the future and all the rest ate imbeciles and have to help him,not only the other clubs but the gov too…the idiot is targeting gov money…that fraud he is…he is a bum placed there to launder some money and make some more…nothing more…just like berlusconi told not just once
“Milan don’t need a top level coach right now.”
– The management during the summer
This is just depressing at this point
It was a defeat that happens.
Tomori’s mistake from the long ball was critical but it happens. It’s not like we’re conceding goals like that every week.
Theo’s missed penalty was a great save.
The penalty he conceded was harsh.
Reijnders, who I’ve been critical of, did better pulling out wide to make himself available for passes and making that great run into the box to win the penalty. He was also right to try that pass in the inside to Leao.
Leao did his usual 3-4 moments any of which could’ve lead to a goal. His pass to Pulisic in particular was near perfection.
Emerson didn’t do too badly.
Fofana did ok.
Pulisic got his goal.
In short, it wasn’t that bad.
For Milan to become a great side we have to recognise that we can lose to teams like Fiorentina or any team in Serie A.
And the reason that’s necessary is we need to start recognising the quality of our opponents, and stop thinking that there’s this gulf in difference. We need to treat every team with respect and approach every match like a cup final.
When fans express outrage that we lost to Fiorentina away they show how much they take for granted.
This is a(nother) new project. We’re 5 points off Napoli. We can’t afford many more slip up’s. We need to remain calm and keep carrying on.
“It’s not like we’re conceding goals like that every week.”
Yeah, we are NOT know for conceding ridiculous goals every week.
Players look tired. Sloppy decision making. Misplaced passes. Mental fog. Lazy tracking back. You name it.
Fonseca doesn’t help things not rotating players. Tomori shouldn’t be starting every game as was evident today.
Our attack is too slow. Possession based football negates our dangerous traits which is pace on the counters. Instead we’re holding the ball too much without any clear penetration.
We looked better against Leverkusen after conceding than tonight …
PS Of course Adli scored….and did quite well overall! Why didn’t he do this last season!
We have acknowledge reality:
1. This team is nowhere near the quality of the Maldini and Massara team so it will take time, consistency, a clear plan, and two or more good transfer markets to get back to where we were.
2. Pulisic is the only signing under this management that has proven so far to be Milan material. Reijnders, Loftus Cheek, Musah, Chukwueze, Okafor, Emerson are not and it looks like most of them won’t be at Milan next season.
3. The work rate of Abraham and Morata is impressive but we need to see more in the final third. They have three goals between them. Vlahovic has seven goals so far in all competitions and is being criticized. Lautaro has had a terrible start and has three goals in all competitions.
4. Our struggles all come down to our poor midfield play. We don’t have the personnel. Fofana was a step in the right direction but we need a lot more. We don’t even have a clear capable cover for Fofana.
It’s frustrating to see Leao so useless tbh. He hasn’t been this bad for this long. It’s very frustrating and this has to be the coaches fault.
I see a hyper involved Pulisic and a non existent Leao.
Disappointing night.
Fonseca went from benching him against Lazio to treating him like a prince, he even made him captain against Lecce. Of course he’s gonna feel above the team and of course that will only lead to sporting regression. He managed to be a better player with the help of Maldini, obviously a certain approach is needed and we no longer have the people at Milanello who Leao will look up to and listen.
Leao and Hernandez don’t play becaise they were promised by Maldini to make a competitve team,thats why they chose to stay…and this imbecile jerry came and ruined everything bringing his clowns to fk this team completely..thank you for chukumuku and other uselss tools like terraciano,okafor,jovic and so on
Leao chose to stay cause Milan helped him with Sporting. Tbh whatever the reason – as a fan I only want winners to play for my team. Our supporting cast is so bad that I never want to see Chuk put on a Milan jersey again.
This is not the kind of player I want at my team lol. I think being a winner is doing everything possible even when you’re under unfamiliar situations.
I m not a fan either for his trash character…him or leao…but they have the quality that none of our players have…and with a good approach like Maldini had the team was growing…Maldini was fired because he went in public and asked real investments for 2,3 class players to help the team making the next step to go for Champions league and titles…and than this imbecile showed up,he has no clue what kind of sport this team is playing …When you are the “owner” and you say public that winning is boring,how the fk you grow the determination for players like hernandez and leao?!How morron you should be?! This team is build with strong characters,we used to be a team,a family ,that is why we were so strong..we used to have players with strong characters and morality,atachement for the club…that was Maldini doing at this club,cayse he used to grow in that environment…and now the fkin gringos showed up and ruined everything with their imbecility…ibrahimovic is just a mut for this fraud of a owner,he is clueless of anything,just a muppet placed there to bark…
Every game. Leao looks so lost on the pitch. Pulisic who is a less gifted but far more intelligent player uses his space well; but Leao just looks so out of place where he is playing so deep at times. Almost 0 defensive contribution, 0 passing contribution because he consistently loses the ball, and no attacking presence. What is he doing there. I want to honestly see us move to a 3-5-2 setup with Theo as a LWB and bring back Luca Toni to play RWB. Still better than that disaster Emerson Royal
Fonseca thought he unlocked the game with playing 4-4-2 only to realize it worked only against Inter simply because he caught Inzaghi off guard. Whoever thought that was going to be a “turning point” in this season was given a great reality check today. This team with this coach and this phenomenally incompetent management would be lucky to finish the league in top 6 – never mind winning any sort of trophy.
How exactly is the coach to blame when the team missed 2 penalties and had 4 big chances? The loss is on Theo and Abraham.
The so call defensive leaders were as poor as f***, A forward should be very offensive and not kill attacking play, Morata and Abraham were just poor, IMO they are overrated especially Abraham, he should be a bench player. Fonseca is obviously not the coach, why was Leao substituted? He should have substituted Morata who was just obstructing flow with his “defensive quality”. If not for the goal, Pulisic should have done better against Adli, of what use is tracking back when you can’t defend?
“Winning is boring!”, Jerry the Gringo Fraud
i hate this tedious style of play. Its so painful to watch, the “lets pass side to side” and hope to god a moment a mistake comes” mentality of play. We are a counter attacking side, just look at our qualities, this is not a team who should build up and hold possession. Our players e.g., Leao keep losing the ball every 2nd pass.
Fonseca has managed to somehow kill the effectiveness of our one of our 2 goal scoring outlets in Leao by letting him play as a quasi-left wing back or whatever the hell Leao is doing Theo’s position 80% of the time. and please sell chukuweze already for gods sake
Let’s not have our only in from player shoot a penalty. What a disgraceful performance. Pulisic was not signed to be our top performer but he has.
You guys have to realise that we don’t have a team yet. We simply have a bunch of individually good players and a bag of pride in that team.
Now you guys see that what happened to Pulisic is what happens to Chuks everytime he plays. He is open and they don’t pass to him and they only pass to him when he is marked with two to three players on him.
Theo is selfish and Leao is prideful, our midfield is nothing, we play our best players from the go. Why is Tammy and Morata playing together? They should come in for each other. Why is Morata playing 10?
I’m sure if Chuks played more than 10 minutes tonight, some of you would have blamed him for the loss.
We don’t deserve good players. Adli and De Kealatre is showing us that and look at what Kalulu is playing at Juve. We cannot be another Manchester United. Players leaving and playing better else where.
That’s going to happen to Chuks, Okafor and all the good players we have but we keep playing tits like Leao and Theo who think they are leaders but are nothing.
Well, terrible terrible day for Theo; horrible display, especially in the first half. But most other scores above are off imo.
Mike (maybe a 6) saved a penalty but his weird deflection was what caused it in the first place. Other than that, didn’t make much of a difference. All the defensive line was at most a 5.5 today, including Fofana. We simply allowed Fiorentina way too much. Reijnders was actually the only player who was quite good, perhaps apart from Pulisic for his wonderful goal, and Leao wasn’t bad either. Our two strikers were non existent at best, and disruptive to our attack at worst.
Anyways, weak display by the team, and a very bad look on Fonseca. Let’s hope for better times
Arguably the only four players who did well tonight were Mike (saved a PK; was burned by his teammates in both Fiorentina goals; not his fault), Fofana (not as good as last game, but still, decent), Gabbia (not great but not bad unlike most of his companions) and Pulisic (always a class act). The latter did get beat by Adli when Adli scored the first goal for Fiorentina; but he was trying to help the defense; it’s not his primary function so I forgive him. He also could have scored when Rafa set him up. But OK, he scored our only goal, so, he gets a pass.
I don’t understand why Pulisic didn’t take both PKs. I believe that he has never missed one in his entire career. I mean, we could have won 3-2 if Puli had taken them and converted them as he always did in his career.
Even Morata played poorly tonight (it’s the first time he doesn’t play well), and frankly, Abraham was a disaster. Not only he didn’t convert the PK, but he also missed several other opportunities. Theo, another disaster except for the assist. And now he has been expelled, and we know that we have absolutely nobody who can play left back well, so we are in trouble again. Why is Theo the captain if he can’t control his temper and he keeps antagonizing the refs???
I don’t know if Leão and Puli were tired. If they weren’t, they represented a bigger chance at creating something in the last few minutes than Okafor and Chuk, so I blame Fonseca too. Also, Tomori was visibly struggling; he should have subbed him out for Pavlovic. If he did, maybe we’d have avoided their second goal.
This was our worst game this season. It was even worse than the Parma game.
After what we showed tonight, any hope of winning the Scudetto seems kind of over-optimistic.