AC Milan failed to clinch all three points against Parma on Saturday evening, following some big misses in the second half. 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.
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Starting XI
Maignan (7): He couldn’t do much about the goals, especially the first one, but he managed to make a few saves tonight still. There was a brilliant one towards the end, keeping a low effort out despite seeing the ball late. That save in itself was enough for this rating.
De Winter (5.5): The Belgian was okay when going forward, in fairness, but it wasn’t always brilliant in the defensive phase. It felt like he mistimed the ball several times and that certainly hurt him in the duels.
Gabbia (6): Another solid performance from the academy product, displaying good positioning for most of the game. He also handled the build-up pretty well, in the sense that he got it to the midfield quickly often.
Pavlovic (6): Just like Gabbia, his positioning was actually good most of the time but it looked much worse at times due to his midfield teammates, with the second goal being an example of that. Not as many runs forward today, but some good moments in attack still.
Saelemaekers (6.5): What can I say? He opened the scoring with a nice low-driven effort with his weaker foot, and then managed to win the penalty for Milan. Sadly, what everyone will be talking about is his huge miss at the end, rounding the keeper and still failing to find the back of the net. Does that miss warrant a 6, even?
Fofana (5.5): Overall, it certainly wasn’t as bad as other performances we have seen this season. He did well in the pressing and also had his moments in attack. That said, he didn’t follow Delprato’s run on Parma’s second goal and that was very costly.
Modric (7): Aside from a couple of misplaced passes, he was very good tonight and helped Milan create some very good chances. He also played with a lot of urgency towards the end, motivating his teammates to do the same.
Ricci (5.5): Covered a lot of distance, as usual, but his impact on the ball was pretty bleak. On top of that, like Fofana, he struggled in tracking back sometimes and that opened up space for Parma.
Estupinan (3.5): It’s a very low rating, I know, but I just despise the type of defending he showcased tonight. On the first goal, he should have just cleared the ball instead of going for the shoulder-to-shoulder; a duel he comically lost.
There was one good ast-ditch intervention after that, but then he got done just before Parma’s second goal. In short, it was incredibly sloppy defending from him tonight. And let’s remember that the first goal sparked everything for the home side.
Nkunku (5.5): We saw some good runs from him tonight, as well as some positive contributions in possession, but he still lacks timing. Leao got frustrated a few times as the Frenchman was never close to getting his flicks.
Leao (7 – MOTM): An easy MOTM for me, seeing as he converted the penalty brilliantly and was involved in a lot for Milan this evening. He should have had an assist for Pulisic, after a great flick, but the American missed.
Substitutes
Loftus-Cheek (6): He saw a lot of the ball during his time on the pitch and compared to Nkunku, it was certainly better. That said, nothing to brag about really.
Pulisic (5): For a player of his quality, you cannot miss such a good chance. He was through on goal and wasn’t under tremendous pressure either, but still failed to hit the target. A good pass for Saelemaekers a little later, but that miss was costly.
Bartesaghi (6): Like Loftus-Cheek, it was an improvement but at the end of the day, Milan didn’t get loads from this substitution.
Athekame (N/A): I didn’t see enough to give him a rating.
The manager
Allegri (6): I don’t have any complaints about the starting eleven, and he responded to Parma’s positive start to the second half with the RLC sub (even if it didn’t help). The feeling is that his players let him down tonight, but with a lack of concentration in defence and a lack of composure in attack.
2 points againt Cremonese, Parma and pisa.. cmon Milan😢
It was 3 actually, against cremonese
im sorry to tell you… we lost vs cremonse
That thing shocked us and give doubt clue about the coach at first
salaemakers deserves motm, Fofana wasnt bad certainly, it was the defence that all deserve under 5 , matteo gabbia pavlovich all of them . they did so poor in every shot parma had. salad contributed 2 goals as a rwb , if u want him to do more make a formation switch to get 3 attackers and 4 defenders than damn 352 with him out poistion, estupinian for me he did a decent amount to not make us concede but conded the fist goal all on his own ,a 4 , the defence clearly needs some work as these defenders are mediocre, no blame on pulisic and salad from me .
you are blind! Your impression of poor defence came from little protection from Fofana. Bartesaghi was obviously doing better than Estupinian.
fofana was tasked to go up whilst ricci and modric switched roles as the protector of the defence, if u see their counter attacks gabbia tracked back and the cross always got through him , fofana was instructed higher up the pitch , bartesaghi did well because the team all pushed higher up , not because he is 1000x better than estupinian , although he is slightly better
Thank you for stating that. Our midfield got overrun after 0-2. I seriously hope allegri drops fofana after our injured players come back. The guy offers nothing. No defense cover, not much distance coverage and can’t shoot if his life depended on it. Modric in his 40s had more distance covered than him. So did Richie while he played. At the same time modric needs a rest. Bartesagli gotta start from now on. Estonian is too clumsy.
I agree with you, Fofana serves nothing, he should be benched
Fofana has to be there as RLC is a strong but attack minded player. During games like that we desperately need a No 9 that can make space and play back to the goal and get to long passes. I don’t like Allegri as a coach bit he is right to stick to the same formation as the squad is too thin to play anything else. Both wingbacks can’t play side defence and we have no No 9. We also don’t have a pure ACM and if we move to play wingers then there is noone left in attack. One of those games to forget. We desperately need a good no 9. Defence is ok and Ricci and Jahari are only going to get good with time. If we had No 9 then it would be easier to switch tactics mid game.
Yo what game did this guy watch💀😂😂😂
How Fofana watch Delprato at the second goal, like a person is watching a train passing through the train station is unbelievable. Parma dominated at 2-1, like we were playing against Real Madrid and this is Allegri fault too. He didn’t manage to wake the player up at the half time. Calling the retreat and these side passes kills us. Against atalanta, pisa and now parma we had advantage and we screwed up. All these games are on him, but no one seems to talk about it.
Our center forward and fullback recruitment is truly the stuff of nightmares.
Yes. And this situation is the same for years and years.
We don’t have a skilled sportive director and our scouting department is horrendous.
From the guy who, for the past several weeks, has been defending Leao every game with “he’s coming back from injury,” and you give Pulisic a 5. Pulisic did more in his short time than Nkunku did in over an hour. Yes, he should score, but be consistent in your defense of players coming back from injury.
Yeah, at least he (Puli) creates opportunities as soon as he’s in, unlike the others. I knew from this guy’s history he’d give him a 5 or lower.
A player of Pulisic caliber has to score let alone not hit target injury or no injury
A player of Leao’s Caliber has to score at home …
You are so wildly biased it’s amusing.
He scored. He also should have 3 assists but…
And for a year be did not score at home yet the Mighty 0lu …
The Pulisic hate who loves Chukwueze. How’s he doing riding the bench at a Fulham? 🤣🤣🤣
Chukwueze have been injured since getting to Fulham
Got injured again with Nigeria at the last internationals.
We can judge him from now
He holds it.down with 100% efficiency.
They are as good as any other team in the Prem in the stat “bench not floating away”
Well your Super starPulisic cist Milan 4 points from draw position.
The penalty miss at Juventus and the glorious chance vs Parma.
Lets face it, just because Pulisic males some good contributions overall does not mean his faults should be overlooked.
We should never support blindly. PULISIC mistake at Juve and Parma are very costly
“Lets face it, just because Pulisic males some good contributions overall does not mean his faults should be overlooked.
We should never support blindly. PULISIC mistake at Juve and Parma are very costly”
Oh the irony!!!!!! 😀 😀 😀
Certain MVP gets a get out of jail free for everything but with Pulisic there is no mercy. The double-standards here is hilarious. 😀
“From the guy who, for the past several weeks, has been defending Leao every game with “he’s coming back from injury,” and you give Pulisic a 5. Pulisic did more in his short time than Nkunku did in over an hour. ”
AMEN!!!!
100%. A match fit Pulisic wins the game for us right there. As much as it hurts, you gotta give him a break there.
Salaemaekers has a demon work ethic, but unfortunately has horrible passing judgment. Gave Parma the ball on bad passes all day.
The offense died at the beginning of the 2nd, and as soon as Puli came in it came alive again and looked more threatening. Yes, he didn’t score, but the angle was harder than people will give him credit for. And he was moving with speed and authority. When Rabiot gets back I feel good about where we will be with him and Pulisic
I don’t know what Alegri was thinking playing Estupina from the start, not like Bartesaghi has been aweful.
I didn’t see how RCL improved the game, I thought we’d see Jashari play but the coach knows better and we end with a draw.
I’d say it for the last time, the team is compact and I don’t see why we should be doing a low block for teams that are far below us in quality, if we cannot control games with the ball on our feet, then we ain’t an elite club, and it’s this rubbish unnecessary low block that has cost us several points already this season.
This calling for Fofana to be dropped are delusional, aside Rabiot theres no one with his work rate in this team, so he gets to play all games as long as he’s fit, and RCL isn’t it.
What exactly do you call “work rate”, him, arriving at the stadium? He is a headless chicken and always ends up chasing the opponent or losing him altogether. Look at their second goal or the shot in the stands a few minutes earlier when he was hopelessly running behind the player who made the final pass.
you might want to watch the game before rating it… just saying
starting with allegri and the starting 11 – fofana and estupian have both been dire since the beginning of October and should never start – allegri is back to be a slave to his system and it will kill us – as long as those 2 are in the side we will not win
MOM – Leao? seriously? he looks more like a lazy pensioner on a stroll than one of the fastest players in the league and the penalty was pure luck
Real MOM – Maignan, AGAIN! he doesn’t save that ball on the line and we lose. end of. another captain we will lose on a free.
as long as cardinali owns this club get used to mid -table… the drop has begun
You’re telling the rather to watch the game and then you spill this nonsense like you didn’t watch the game. Leao created 3 clear goal scoring opportunities for his teammates to win the game. None of them put the ball into the net. Or else we’d be talking a whole different story.
The penalty was to his left because the goalie was slating him and playing mind games that he would go left. And he did, on purpose to show him it didn’t put him off. You can tell, if you watched the game, that Leao was about to approached the goalie after he scored to give him some few choice words for that shenanigan he pulled but his teammates held him back….But go ahead… you watched the game 🙄….
Did you watch the game?
You’re a clown.
Another 2 points lost vs relegation team. To be fair they are lucky they didn’t lose all 3 points.
Just like vs Pisa, they dominate the 1st half and then they loosen up, and next thing you know they are fighting to salvage a point. One bad thing happens and they lose all solidity.
Estupiñán, outside of getting beat on both goals was absolutely useless. Bartesaghi should be the starter.
De Winter is not a good fit for the right side of 3 men defense. He has been very poor in Tomori’s place.
Inexcusable from Pulisic and Saelemaekers to miss 1v1 chances with the GK. Saelemaekers played a great 1st half but sometimes he think that he is better than he actually is. He made a salad out of that 1v1 and then missed another chance trying to be cute.
Defensively they continue to leak goals. What a shot by Bernabe.
7 points lost vs Cremonese, Pisa and Parma. Unacceptable if you wanna contend for the scudetto. Luckily the rest of the league is also trash, but these are huge missed opportunities.
And you forgot to add that the so call lazy player is the MVP of hike the hardworking player are missing 1v1 they are not even on target.
I have said it before Saelameker will always be the saelameker that was loaned out, not Milan worthy, he did above average in the first half only to be totally useless in the 2nd.
At least the other “hardworking” player provided what should have been an assist for another hardworking player. Good riddance……
And you forgot to add that the so call lazy player is the MVP of hike the hardworking player are missing 1v1 they are not even on target.
I have said it before Saelameker will always be the saelameker that was loaned out, not Milan worthy, he did above average in the first half only to be totally useless in the 2nd.
At least the other “hardworking” player provided what should have been an assist for another hardworking player. Good riddance to bad rubbish
Zip up that man’s pants and get up of your knees.
Little bitch won’t mention Leao. That is how mentally ill you are. That is a serious issue.
Imagine being such a pathetic pus*y that you won’t mention Leao…🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Z, you’re a bi*chy bi*ch. i bet there is no wife or girlfriend in your life.
Are you SURE you are not projecting your reality?
Based on the way you react and respond to everyone who has a different opinion than yours, it SURE looks like there is no girlfriend or wife in your life.
I think Leao is already taken by Olumighty. You missed out.
Stop telling on yourself.
It’s ok loser. Keep comforting yourself. 🙂 no woman wants a bi*ch like you. And you know it.
Stop projecting your insecurities, you overgrown toddler. Hush
Ian, you’re a copy paste idiot. You can’t come up with a sentence that hasn’t already been written in one of the previous comments. It is sad to see someone with such a non-functional brain…
I would give Estupinan a 0 if possible, he just decides to be stupid for whatever reason. Certainly not a bad player but he and Fofana just don’t play like a pro should do.
Like LOTR movie, the fellowship of fofana
you are blind! Fofana is horrible. Bartesaghi was obviously doing better than Estupinian. RLC only knows passing backwards.
Pulisic a 5? What a freaking joke!
Give him an 8 and sell Leao.
You are cracking me up big time
5? Saying pulisic was the worst player on the pitch is wild.
Well he didn’t get the lowest rating. Who said he was? 🤣🤣
Pulisic has been playing in Europe for 10 years.
He completely understands that as an American,
he will never get a fair shake. McKenny has been mistreated by Juventus for several years.
I just hope the prejudice doesn’t effect their play.
Wdym, they loved pulisic, if not, he would have been leaving this summer.
Estupinan v Bartesaghi sums up everything.
If Bartesaghi puts in that performance he never players again and ends up in Serie C or somewhere.
Estupinan will start the next game.
He’s the big expensive summer signing. Bartesaghi is a player they make an easy ‘profit’ off (‘profit’ to be blown on the next Estupinan).
It’s not about ability.
Estupinan has played for Villarreal and Brighton. He’s got a lot of games under his belt.
It’s about understanding the moment.
Estupinan probably never heard of Parma. Bartesaghi has been playing against them in youth teams for years.
Milan will continue to struggle against these teams until they understand this.
These fancy new signings don’t know what it takes to beat Parma. They can beat Roma. But not Parma.
And a word about Cutrone. What’s the difference between him and the €37 million Giménez or most of the other 15 strikers the club has signed since he left the club?
All this time he could’ve been a squad player – provided a base for whatever other actual difference maker the club signed.
So much wasted money, time, energy, support, just a total waste of everything.
It’s pointless.
Just watching a bunch of strangers struggle against mid-table teams.
The lesson can be learnt. Bartesaghi is an opportunity for a fresh start.
Brilliant comment 👏👏
CUTRONE and PARMA HAM …. A match made in heaven for you. You must have been so overjoyed cheering on for the new team Cutrone is on AND Parma is still made in Parma … You must be delighted .. and check this out, unlike Como they had not just one but TWO Italians in the starting lineup. Congrats
Wasn’t he great to watch?
Love his energy.
Wish we’d had that at Milan for the last 10 years.
Realistically, Cutrone is a Serie B level player. Maybe would be good for Milan 4th or 5th choice backup.
We still dunno about that.
He was ok. Your euphoria is in the idea that he was an academy player not in his actual ability or skill. He had an eye for goal but was super slow and deficient in many areas. Don’t believe me? Then why your new favorite team, Como, sent him away to Parma when their ambitions this year was to try to make Europe?
“Wish we’d had that at Milan for the last 10 years.” Thank goodness you are not in management
These are his stats after he left us compared to our striker at the time (this doesn’t include wingers who were even more prolific than him)
2018-19: Piatek 11, Cutrone 9
2019-20: Ibra 11, Cutrone 8
2020-21: Ibra 16, Cutrone big fat ZERO
2021-22: Giroud 14, Cutrone 3
2022-23: Giroud 18, Cutrone 9
2023-24: Giroud 17, Cutrone 14 (second Division)
2024-25: Abraham 10, Cutrone 8
We made a good call. Hard luck for your boyfriend
Well, I can honestly say that Cutrone would have been far more useful for Milan Gimenez this season. Much cheaper too and an academy player. Checks all the right boxes. Except being Italian which is a NO!!! for Milan management and Growth Decree.
Hardly, Gimenez is way better than him. Even without goals. That is the reality.
Might be another gambling but for low fee, it’s okay
Yep – leaving Bartesaghi out was the biggest error of the night as it happens
De Winter, Fofana, Estupinan X3, Nkunku seriously irritated me today but Allegri is given a far too high rating as well as he should have subbed off Estupidian earlier even if he should have started him to begin with.
Unacceptable to throw that match away after leading 2-0 despite individual errors the coach will have to take part of the blame so I’ll give him a 4.
Pretty damn furious at the moment so I’ll leave it at this comment.
If we are frustrated, maybe the players are more than double having pressure. So it is up yo coach to settle things up
How the hell does Milan sit deep and allow pressure continuously from a team with the worst attack in Europe top 5 leagues? Allegri can’t even have his team take control of the game to remove any steam from Parma, making Parma looks like PSG. Is like he said to the players, keep defending deep as far as you are on the lead, once Parma scores, you can come out to play. Milan looks so frustrating tonight and very boring. It wasn’t like this from the first 4 games, but all of a sudden Allegri real colour shows forth. No drive, no zeal, no passion to fight and win games. Despite Juve playing UCL football this week, they look sharper and physically fit than AC Milan. It’s just pathetic to say the least
a 5 for Puli? You are an absolute joke. That was his first touch of the game. Yes, he should have finished that. He came on and immediately made a difference for 25 minutes. You give him a 5. Brilliant
He deserves less than 5, at 2 all you can’t miss that
You drunk from Leao’s cum
The match was a sad one. I think we should stop trying to support one player while the team is losing and also not be had on our efficient player. I won’t blame pulisic for anything but I have noticed since rabbiot has been injured Milan have struggled against this smaller teams. Can’t wait for him to be back
What an ass you are. Puli comes in and revitalizes the offense and you give him a 5 for a missed shot? And Lazy Lao MOTM? Your ratings are a joke!
4.5
I have nothing bad to say about Pulisic. only judging him today for costing us the game and robbing Leao of a lovely assist. I don’t care why he blew it, but he did.
Costing us the game?? you clearly didnt watch the first 70 minutes (when he was not in the game) nor did you see Saleamakers much much worse miss.
But he did cost us the game, he missed the opportunity to put us ahead didn’t he?
Yes dunno why salad missed that finishing. Maybe he’s under heavy pressure. He should be like kessie’s nothing to lose when playing the game.
he’s been out for a month… some grace would be nice. You rank Nkunku higher than him and did nothing.
So Puli cost Milan the game? He also could have saved the game with his pass to Alexis but Saelemakers didn’t convert. Stop blaming the guy who played 20 minutes. Yes he should score but it’s not his fault Milan lost. He just didn’t save them this time like he normally does.
Like he did against Juve and Cremonese
Look over the previous seasons since he arrived. He’s bailed out Milan many times. Why blame him when the 11 players who started gave up a 2 goal lead? He should have scored admittedly but he also should have had the winning assist to Saelemaekers. Do you just not like Pulisic?
Hahahaha. “ Look over the previous seasons since he arrived. He’s bailed out Milan many times.”
So that should influence his rating in this match? Maybe an 8 for the previous good games? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is his fault he didn’t convert a 1 on 1 situation, he can get maybe 5.5 for this game.
“robbing Leao of a lovely assist”
The Leao-fanbois are getting more ridiculous day by day! 😀 😀 😀 😀
And what happened, can you tell us? I’d love to hear the low iq explanation, always funny to hear.
Never said it should influence his rating. Just saying it’s stupid to blame him for the loss.
Ok. In that case I 100% agree with you.
I’ll say I was wrong when I said that Estupinan is better than Bartesaghi. Sure, he’s coming back from injury but the two points we dropped are on him, and their first goal was due to his bad judgement rather than poor fitness. Just awful. Bartesaghi was not that good last game either, but at least that was against a much better team. Maybe, had Bartesaghi started, Parma wouldn’t have scored twice given that both goals were Estupinan’s fault.
Estupinan should be theo’s heir. Dunno what makes foolani bought him.
Not sure how Allegri gets a pass having chosen to start Estupinan over Bartesaghi.
Not sure how Pulisic doesn’t play for 4 weeks then gets a 5 after a big miss.
How is Saelemakers 6.5 with a big miss and numerous idiotic giveaways. I am a big fan of his from his time even before the Scudetto but today his head was way to big way to fast. It was an immaturity we should no longer see.
RLC haters make me laugh. Good motion, made himself available so Modric could stop flapping his arms in frustration. Got his head on the ball as a striker a couple of times.
What were we doing at the end of the game stuck in the left cycling and recycling. No switch of play to Bartesaghi who’d had time to line up a golf shot.
Ricci had a solid game covering ground, cutting out passes, winning balls, etc.
It’s like the rater wasn’t fully watching the game. I get how much a great meatball can be a distraction, but wait until the game is over!
Ha ha. Love your analysis.
Saelemakers seems to have some serious ego thing going on.
He’s always been a bit of a nutter and overdid the dribbling a bit but this season he seems to have got worse.
I don’t know what happened at Roma (and he seems to hate his former teammates).
He was both man of the match and cost us the game. Make of that what you wish.
Yeah. Some great and some horrendous.
Well stated on the dichotomy there. Yeah dude is bipolar. Hell he was even the right and the left QB today 🙂
That’s why he isn’t world class yet. Until he can control his ego and composure
Guys i always knew we won’t win this match, reason being that Max 100 win for Milan will came against Inter. We are joint top Let’s enjoy it for now
Love your positivity.
I’d rather have Allegri’s 100th win against Merda and certainly would rather have Pulisic scoring the winner against them than Parma yesterday.
I’ve never heard a Milan fan say he’d rather have a win next game than the one we just didn’t win. What a pathetic thing to write.
Sure sure sure. You sure whine a lot. Your life must be really boring in the dungeon you’re living in as you just have to keep pushing your bs to every comment I make. Oh well, if it makes you happy, be my guest.
Of course. Let’s ignore the pathetic comment you made how you’d rather Milan not win this game but the next one. And say I’m whining. Ok loser. Let’s recap. You wrote that you’d rather Milan didn’t win this game.
Doesn’t matter. What matters is we have to win scudetto
Giving rafa motm has to be cap
It gave value to player so we can sell to highes bidder
Those of us with intelligence had been calling for Bartesaghi over Estupinan all week. Allegri has less intelligence than us, apparently. Let’s see how he responds next game.
I notice this page does its calculations in reverse for Leao compared to everyone else. For everyone else, the writer subjects their mistakes from their overall performance,which drops them low. For Leao, the writer adds his good moments to his overall performance which gives him an unwarranted high score. This page is ridiculous 😄
Subtracts*
He should have had 3 assists. Now you want to blame him for others not finishing what he created? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 I’m sure you wanted Pulisic to have a higher rating than him, deserved 🤣
Make sure you zip his pants up when youre done, fangirl
Ian. Isn’t it embarrassing to be such a mo*on? Once again, you couldn’t even come up with your own remark, but you copy pasted what someone else wrote up there. The low IQ in you is visible even in these short comments online. Why do you keep trying mo*on? 😀
saladmaker hahahahahahahahaha
Estupinan should not see the pitch again until Bartesaghi breaks both legs and a hip.
Tell that to coach
The author of this article is actually on Leao’s payroll! If his penalties where all taken by anyone one who wins them, we will.not hear his fans screaming his praises.
Alexis scored his type of goal from his last game – on his weaker foot!
We all know the author does not like pulisic, so his score is expected. He will give any stupid excuse for his fan boy instead of scolding him for a lacklustre approach to the game. Remove pace and space to run from Leao and his game ends. He has no playmaking skills. He is either recovering from an injury, playing injured or “will display his potential” soon. Forgetting that Lamine Yamal is already showing his potential while Leao is still germinating his
Hate Alexis for all you want, we DO NOT have his replacement. None at all. When he does not play Milan have no one who is willing to beat his man. When he plays he still has the chance to frustrate you. Someone should tell Alexis to stop dropping like a fly, screaming for a foul and STAYING ON THE FLOOR while we’re being attacked with a counter. Pavlovic should also be told to STOP SHOVING strikers, when not in any proximity to the ball! he’s making it a nasty habit.
Maignan should be MOM, without him, the game would have been lost for sure. Allegri deserves a 4 for telling his boys to waste time early in the first half instead of applying more pressure. If that is the players idea and they are disobeying his “instructions” then there should be swift punishment.
Thank you for the Pavlovic observation. I was thinking the same thing. You can’t continually shove players in the back with two hands extended. That is going to cause a major problem at a horrible time.
Actually… The refs allow him to keep pushing with two hands on the back so he should continue doing so. If it’s allowed, it’s allowed. No need to change.
You obviously didn’t watch the game with a normal brain. Maybe you’re mentally ill so you see things? Pulisic was a 5 or 5.5. If you think otherwise refer to the previous question…
No he did, you just cant see past your favorites as usual, kiddo. Pulisic applied more pressure to the opponents in 30 seconds then keao did the entire 90min. But you dont even try to gide your bias, so nobody takes the time to even bother with you
Of course. Ian the low iq id*ot is again “explaining” things. First you need some actual brain. Great, he pressed, the problem is his job is to score. And he didn’t do it in a 100% chance he had. Which bias? You mean actually paying attention to what happened and not who did it? If Leao missed that chance we all know that you, the biggest bi*ch here along with bb would write how bad he is. You’re a loser, obviously. I know you’re mad because I was right about Rabiot and I am right about you but that is your problem, not mine. 🙂 Enjoy re*ard.
I feel tired of everyone but you having a low IQ.
It is impossible .to miss a 100% chance. That is math. You cant fight the maths.
I am sure you will insult you way to “figure of speech” or some other shite but you again have lost credibility by leading with an insult nearly every time.
At least you seem to have stopped replying to yourself so it appears you can be taught.
MilanMatter, we SURE need an ignore/block-function on this comment section. I don’t think there’s anyone who has the energy to read that kiddo’s teen angst every single day.
My God, you really are a sad human, incapable of proving a point without insulting someone. Tiny pee pee energy, sad to see someone throwing his frustrations on everyone like he is some genius.
Remember you are just a simple man, if you were that smart you would be a Milan director or in the Milan management, or in any football team at that.
MilanMatters – It is a figure of speech used in some languages. For this specific situation. Thank you for telling me that you can’t miss a 100% chance. Which crediblity? This is a comments section where anyone can make up their “nickname” and even write comments to themselves using 20 nicknames. You think you have credibility? You are delusional..
bb – no need to reply., you are proven low iq, waste of time.
Dante – Yes Dante, “tiny pee pee energy” is not insulting someone but really constructive and the way to go. It is always the mo*ons that go on to explain something while doing the same thing. You’re a mo*on and you’ve just proven it.
btw clowns I’ve replied to 3 people on this whole topic saying they are low IQ? Ian, bb and МИЛАН. BB came with his brilliant input about me “kiddo’s teen angst”. Is it my fault he is stupid? No, his parents are to blame…
Now tell me, what do you mean by “I feel tired of everyone but you having a low IQ.”. Did I say that to you? When? Who else? Who is everyone? Can you try and be specific because you seem to accuse me of something that didn’t happen so you could be right? You know what is that a sign of? I’m sure you know where I’m aiming at, not hard to guess.
Leao FC fanboys don’t care that Milan lost 2 points, they are celebrating Leao getting an undeserved MOTM rating from SempreMilan.
Even though Saelemaekers missed that chance he was absolutely the best Milan player today. Responsible for both Milan goals and running like crazy all game long.
Saleamakers was our best player in the first half and among our worst after the break. He has a few issues. At least three. If you beg me I will list them for you.
Salad maker wasn’t decisive, his negative performance in the second half overshadowed his good performance in the first half, that goal was a fluke, poor goalkeeping and we all saw how awful he became in the second half, he was utterly useless I will give him a 5.5, if he had score that 1v1, he would have been the mvp for the majority. Not worthy of Milan
Not fanboys. Just fans.
Support the players or get a new hobby.
You are a Cutrone fanboy.
We haven’t forgotten that you gave up on Milan and was rooting for Como. That one guy keeps reminding you to that.
Not a fanboy. Just a fan.
What kind of hobby? Sail lake Como or dine out on Parma ham? 🤣
Sounds awesome.
Ok re*ard. You are fixated on Leao. You mention him every time, more than Milan. Something wrong up there?
And you blindly suck him off whilst criticizing guys like pulisic and Ricci, who do 9 times the work. Sit down, toddler
When did I do that? Can you show me? You’re an id*ot that can’t read with understanding. I’ve actually never really criticized these 2 players. Not a single time. Wrote good things about them every time. Even up there (what you missundestood with your low IQ) I was just laughing at the guy expecting Pulisic to get a top rating for this game. But you don’t care about facts as you’re a bi*ch and a stupid one. You also never reply, and it is because you always gets stomped by anyone with any intelligence. A dog can win an argument against you.
Ian, I’ve re read what you wrote in the comments and I seriously think you have some sort of mental illness. Writing things that didn’t happen to sound right is a sign of delusion. You’ve done this a lot.
Literally need number 9 asap, someone who knows how to score not just mumbo jumbo on the field of football
So frustrating. Leao had at least 3 game winning potential assists, not to mention other plays during the game. The one miss that hurt was Salad (even though he had a good game otherwise), clean on goal and then took too many dribbles. RLC same thing, fancy flicks for no reason or direction. Puli I could forgive a little as he’s not match sharp and the GK did well to close down the space.
I didn’t like the defending this game. It was too frantic, we didn’t control the game as we have in other games. Sorry but Estupinan is not miles better than Bartesaghi. I’d play Barts from now on tbh. At least with him we can understand he’s young, Estu should be in his prime and he’s commiting rookie mistakes.
I like Ricci in front of the D and Modric further up. We looked much better in that shape. Fofana should be benched, was happy to see everyone avoid passing to him during the last phases of the game. It would have been a waste of time.
Let’s hope the others drop some points. That top 6/7 is tight …and yes SIX SEVEN 😅
I was horrified to see both Estupinan and Fofana starting tonight. Allegri is to be blamed for that
I think a lot of people here are forgetting that Milan is a team in transition still and there are plenty of kinks to still run out. Allegri is working on it. Milan looks a lot better than last season, when we lost against Parma. And in this game with this team in this situation again we would have lost.
Yea the dropped points are annoying but I’m sure Allegri will beat it out of this team eventually. This is year one of Milan actually playing as a team since the scudetto. But people here are acting like we have been world beaters for years and are dropping points to low level teams. It will happen. Milan team of mid 2000’s also dropped points to bottom dwellers.
All you have to do is check the points at the same stage last season and stay grounded with how far this team has come along.
After 11 games last season Milan had 17 points, they have 22 right now.
Last season they scored 18 goals and gave up 13 after 11 games, they have scored 17 this season and given up 9 goals.
Considering that they only play one competition once a week this season without the champions league, unlike last season, no, they do not look a lot better than last season, and no, this team have not gotten that far along.
I see you’re taking on the mantle of top whiner from Ted. This is a spot on and measured assessment and consistent with what Allegri has been saying all season. ACM 1899 and I don’t always share an opinion but unlike you they clearly understand process football and team building. Milan aren’t fixed in a day, they are better but it’s going to take a couple windows to get the squad to where we want them to be. It’s not gonna be instant gratification like in Naples. There are 6/7 players we can say helped blow this game, not one of the named Leao (who could have easily had three assists btw). It should have been a 5-1 win but mental errors from the players changed the game
Interesting how people understand process football and team building when its Allegri but when it was Fonseca people didn’t care about process football and team building. They expected him from week one to play like Pep’s Barca.
He didn’t have most of his players last season because of the Euro and he was coaching serie A and UCL. Now all of a sudden we wanna talk about process and team building.
Fonseca lost to Parma in week 2, this is week 11.
They have scored 1 less goals and given up 4 less goals, thats the difference, but again, one competition vs 2.
There was no progress under Fonseca. There was a derby win and Madrid win. That’s it. Not much better under Conceicao. The team was disjointed under both coaches.
Allegri has clearly stabilized this team and is improving it game in and game out. They won’t play mistake free and I don’t expect them too. But I am optimistic based on what I am seeing.
I don’t know what kind of indicators of improvement you are looking for that you are not seeing thus far…
Milan is not improving game in and game out, maybe you didn’t watch the first 3-4 matches. They are declining in their performance. Yes Allegri did well from the start, but the team is regressing right now. I will put the majority of the blame on him on today’s game. How can Milan not control the game and keep possession like the way they did in the last 5 minutes when they were looking for a winning goal. Allegri has to stop this mentality of pack the bus when you are on the lead.
Fonseca fanboy. Incredible. The worst manager Milan had in the past 10 years. Gattuso is a professor for him.
We can only wait for the club’s development at the end of half season and decide what to do in winter mercato.
So insecure:)
Cool stats bro.
By your own admission, they are playing better. You can split atoms about “a lot” but to me it is a lot simply because they play as a team more. They would have lost this game last season, and they did.
Small progress is a lot better than no progress, no matter how hard of a critic you may be.
Yes they look better. Not playing in another competition doesn’t change anything. How can you be this stupid? I am tired of your lack if any reason.
Agree with everything except Milan weren’t a team in Pioli’s last two seasons.
It was only last season they weren’t a team.
Teams don’t consistently finish in the top 4 and make runs in the champions league if they’re not, erm, teams…..
You are saying i don’t see indicators of improvement that you see from last season.
Lets see.
Milan last season played well vs the big teams and played poorly vs the small teams. Sound very familiar with this season.
The defense looked good to start the season, not so much as of late. As i point out only 4 goals less conceded even though he plays with more defensive players and more defensive style of footbal. They are actually regressing game in game out.
Offensively based on the numbers they are worse than last season.
And again, Fonseca was also a new coach, who unlike Allegri had to prepare the team for a game every 3 days in 2 major competitions.
And he left the club at the end of December, 8th position and 14 points behind the leader. Great manager!!!
It’s games like this where allegris tactics fail and why he can compete against the big teams. You can’t sit back and defend Parma going two goals up and then completely just sit back when it’s 2-1. Take the game to them. I think this was our worst performance this year and yes there were some bad players and missed chances but allegris tactics is what made us drop points today and against pisa and cremonese too.
Estupinan was awful today. Maybe I’ll blame it from being away for a long time because before his injury he seemed to be getting better and better. Saelemaekers was weird today. Fantastic first half, and I truly think he was the worst player in the field in the second. Whether he thought that all of a sudden he was messi and can do it all on his own if he kept things a lot more simple we probably could have scored the third goal, this is including his chance he tried to make look pretty when he could have left it for pulisic.
I disagree with your evaluation of Estupinan. He was not improving before his injury. Do you not remember the Napoli game? He was getting torched by Politano in the first half and then he got a red card on a stupid play in the box. Nothing about his play today indicated that he learned anything from his last game.
Sure, his tactics fail when we’ve had more chances against every team we’ve played, including Napoli, Roma and Atalanta.
Good observation, I wonder how people don’t see Allegri as the main culprit here to the drop points. although there were individual errors, but how can you sit deep and invite so much pressure like that from a team with the worst offense, you can’t keep sitting deep when you know a goal will cancel out your win, I could excuse Napoli’s case because we were 1 man down. But Allegri keeps doing that even when playing at home.
Main culprit is Igli Tare and Giorgio Furlani. Milan created so many chances in every single game that a proper striker would have 10 goals already. And easy.
People: Why saele? Why did you shoot into thin air?
Saele: Well mate, don’t ask me, i’m just a saladmaker.
Loser…f..off ..
Bartesaghi and RLC needs to start as Lwb and striker every match.
We are basically starting as a weaker team without these two.
RLC striker? Good idea mate. 🤷♂️
No dramas. The direction is good and he is sticking to it. If this was Mou he would have won it 1:0. Obviously everything better than top 4 is a bonus. with playing like that with old Modric deep and 3 CBs there is no other way to defend than high press and attack and attack with don’t have. All we need is Rebiot fit and a healthy No 9. You can’t defend high if there is nobody to play back to the goal or take over a high pass.
Where are the Pervis fan boys? I said he would get injured and that he wouldn’t be a good option and fanboys told me he was the best rb in the premier. 🤣
Estupido is Disgustingly terrible
I know the dragonball meme dude was his fan, but lately disappear for a moment. He might comes around again
What is it with all of these references to ‘fanboys’?
They all play for Milan. So you respect all of them. And at 27 he didn’t become a bad footballer overnight.
That’s the key question everyone should be asking.
Why can’t Milan beat Parma (or Pisa or Cremonese)?
It’s not because Estupinan is not more than capable of playing against those teams. He’d walk into those teams.
So WHY?
Calling random people ‘fanboys’ for expressing positive views of a particular player in the team they support is not exactly going to get anyone closer to the answer.
And I suppose that’s the issue.
The answer is hard so we just throw insults around.
But it’s getting us nowhere.
Most of them are in Ecuador, try writing in Spanish.
” Estupido (3.5): On the first goal, he should have just cleared the ball instead of going for the shoulder-to-shoulder; a duel he comically lost. ”
a duel he comically lost. haha I was watching it. such a bad player. completely useless.
Can someone remind how much he costed in transfer? 😀
Another meme in shorts
We paid this piece of shіt 18mln🤡
Puli and Leao up top looks promising. Start Bart from now on. Get Rabiot back. Win the derby. Things will be looking up.
We will continue to play like this, if ALLEGRI isn’t aware that the best position he could play leao is from the wing. Playing leao upfront gives the opportunity to mark him out. Leoa feels lazy backing an opponent thereby going to the ground easily but if he plays from the wing and face any player on one on his good day, the opponent will have a whole lot of work to do. ALLEGRI also believes in deciding a game with just a goal, he loves defending. I wonder why we will have to fall back after 3 goals up against a team like parma, believe me inter can make such mistakes. Instead they will force parma to defend more due to the 2 goals lead. The players too plays like a school children who needed their coach to instruct them when to mark, shoot and dribble, 85% of our players don’t actually feel like a champion who is worthy of lifting the scudetto.
We will continue to play like this, if ALLEGRI isn’t aware that the best position he could play leao is from the wing. Playing leao upfront gives the opponents the opportunity to mark him out. Leoa feels lazy backing an opponent thereby going to the ground easily even when the body contact us mild but if he plays from the wing and face any player one on one, on his good day, the opponent will have a whole lot of work to do. ALLEGRI also believes in deciding a game with just a goal, he loves defending. I wonder why we will have to fall back after 2 goals up against a team like parma, believe me inter can make such mistakes. Instead they will force parma to defend more due to the 2 goals lead. The players too plays like a school children who needed their coach to instruct them when to mark, shoot and dribble, 85% of our players don’t actually feel like a champion who is worthy of lifting the scudetto.
Yeah, mentality factor must be strongly taken into account, not taken for granted for smaller team like that.
Nkunku + El Bidone = 70 mln 🤡 perfect)))
Estupinian… Tare, how the hell did you pick this piece if shіt ???
Almost 115m if we add estupido and fofucknah, they should be Theo’s dan Tonali’s upgrade not downgrade. What will foolani and allergic say this time. They only compete in the league and Coppa.
Almost 115m if we add estupido and forfu*knah, they should be Theo’s dan Tonali’s upgrade not downgrade. What will foolani and allergic say this time. They only compete in the league and Coppa.
If as a coach you are stuck with players who have no attitude and play lackadaisically, your coaching skills come into play. Will you pamper them or enforce discipline? Did he do his research and study the team well to know which player he is to give special emphasis to?
Why does the whole team stay back and invite attacks because we are leading 2-0? Is that Allegri:s interpretation of gane management?
Pavlovic pushing players seems to have started under conceicao, he has kept the habit or was told it’s good.
Alexis whines on the field a lot, drama everytime he falls demanding cards etc. he may have been told to rile up the opponents each and every time.
The games against lower placed teams could easily have been won if allegri had made the proper tactics and given proper instructions after we scored.
Those hands were 100% winnable
The coach talked to the players during half time; and the players came on the pitch half asleep.
Sometimes the players also not fit and injured, also mentality of player is taken into account the most.
Madness to think we spent 70M on Nkuku and Gimenez.
With the current system: Leao & Pulisic are the starters, and very strong if both fit. Then we could have had 2 out of Camarda/Avraham/Jovic as backup. And still have the money left to buy a guy like Tonali. Also why we didnt get Honest Ahanor, who I think has an Italian passport, is another mystical question of missmanagement. They rather spent 20+ M on some PL player, which contradicts their capital gain strategy. But yeah, an Excel brain has limitations.
But yeah, football management isnt an easy job it seems, if your brain is made up of an Excel sheet.
There’s no capital gain strategy, stop making things up.
Ratings are about right. In the end it came down to Milan players not finishing their chances in the last 10 minutes. Not sure how did the defenders get a 6. I’ve just rewatched highlights and they were lost for 35 minutes. Every single chance Parma had Pavlovic wasn’t close to the action. How are you spectating every time?????? Pavlovic 6? Gabbia 6? It is a rating based on previous games as well, give Pulisic 6 in that case as well?
Common milan nw we cannot continue dropping points against teams at the bottom of the table,haa Milan.
Nkunku, Fofana , Estonian, Gumenez just rubbish
No difference between Pobega and Fofana
we paid for these pieces of shіt =115 mln🤡🤡🤡
Bernabe said after the match, no other team in Serie A gave us so much space. And that’s what happenes when you give other team freedom.
Thats what happens when you have fofana and leao in your team. No effort is put in
Hahahahahahahahahahahahah. You are mentally ill.
“Pulisic (5): For a player of his quality, you cannot miss such a good chance. He was through on goal and wasn’t under tremendous pressure either, but still failed to hit the target. A good pass for Saelemaekers a little later, but that miss was costly.”
What? No mercy for being off the pitch for several weeks? Double-standards again. He did everything well in the chance but was extremely unlucky to miss that by 20cm.
And what’s with Nkunku? He looks like a 12-year old playing with 18-year-olds. No impact whatsoever. Absolutely useless. Even Cutrone was 100x better.
How much should he get? 9 or a 10? I suggest an 11, over the standard ratings.
Double standards where? When Leao came back and had a bad first game where he missed a sitter, everyone was calling for his head.
LOL. Half of the people were defending him for being out injured. Check the posts.
Yeah if you are on the field, you should be 95%-100% fit. If not, you should see what van basten took to get on the field back then.
Take leao out… Milan back to championship winning team
How fofana continues to start is one of the great wonders of the world. At least 3 times now this season, he had watched his mark run past him to score a goal. Its utterly ridiculous how lazy he is, it’s like he’s trying to take the title from leao.
We desperately need a competent striker up top. Like NOW. Because pulisic and nkunku work best with a real target man to play off of. Gimenez simply doesn’t cut it and leao will never be an effective striker in his life. We need to go for a #9 in January. Bartesaghi has also done enough to warrant starting over estupinan at this point, especially after today. Jashari cant get fit fast enough because having to pick between fofana and rlc is depressing
Nkunku. Hahahaha. I love laughing at how re*arded you are. Nkunku is probably already history at Milan. The most useless player on the field by far.
I pray they sell that crappy leao and ship fofana to neverland come January.
We need fighters in the team.
I miss pulisic and rabiot in this squad, I am happy that he is back.
I say this with all confidence, leao will not survive the premier league with his lackadaisical attitude and lazy ass mentality. best he’s gonna get is bundesliga or Saudi league.
We need a proper striker that can terrorise defenders, Gimenez is not that guy.
With this current midfield, even Tammy would have been close to double digits in goals by now
What do you mean? Allegri has Leao as his main man, stop being delusional. Everyone at Milan sees him like that besides maybe 15% of re*arded “fans”.
We could have won this, but, unfortunately, we didn’t. We had a good first half. The ref and assistant overlooked what was clearly a foul on Estupinian, and, that gave Parma a lifeline. I watched Liverpool vs Real Madrid; it took the VAR and ref ages to decide that the handball against Tchouameni, was not a penalty. Just because you gave a penalty to Milan doesn’t mean that you overlook a foul in the buildup to a goal against Milan. I can’t blame Estupinian for the second goal; any defender can get beaten from the wings. Where were the other defenders and midfielders when the cross came? We don’t have a full squad yet, even with Pulisic. Rabiot’s role in the team is clearly missing. He does a lot of covering for the team, aside Fofana. He holds the ball well, and, with Modrić, can virtually dictate the flow of the game. Also, we don’t have a quality No.9. We’ve been drawling since because of that. The management has a lot to do in January. We also need quality backup defenders, and, a good replacement for Fofana. Lastly, we shouldn’t rest on our oars in games, no matter which team we play. We’ve done that so many times in the past, and ended up dropping two points. As they say in football, “it’s not over until it is all over”. This saying is forever true. If you have the chance to beat your opponent silly, do it. I like the way the old German teams went about that.
I think Milan needs a starting quality CB. Gabbia could do well in a 4 man defense but there isn’t a partner for him. Also, that isn’t a foul. Not in women’s football even….
Come on guys, make it record of 200 comments, 20+ comments to go
That Ndrunku was rated higher than Puli tells you all you need to know. Was Ndrunku involved in any big chances on the day?? ?
Positive one from this match is we’re going to see more Bartesaghi than estupido from now on lol
No 9, no party guys.
Strange game. Strange games against all of these relegation sides. This one was a game of episodes. The Estupinan fail on the first goal. You just can’t lose the ball like that in that position. Either see that ball out of touch or boot it up field, there should be no other outcome. If this goal doesn’t happen we go into the half at 2-0 and I bet we win the game.
Then the two big misses. Pulisic can be excused for having been out for a bit. Any other time he finishes that. Then there was Saelemaekers. What was he thinking? Why did he cut it back across to the right of the GK? All he had to do was keep moving to the GK’s left, open the angle and take the shot with his better left foot, the same left foot that he’d already used to score a more difficult goal. Either the decision making of a defender in a goal scoring situation, or someone trying to be way too cute in a critical moment when he should have stuck to the most basic option.
He should see the defender coming and fake shot once again, it needs composure ofc, he didn’t do it on time. A lot of practice to do and that’s what differs player from world class quality.
Milan fans complained that Hernandez was bad and actually defended his sale 😂
I dunno if it’s a record or not, but we have reached 200 plus comments guys at last !! Just some amusing thing after the game result today.
Gabia and Pavlovian might be the worst defenders to ever play for Milan along with Bonera !!!! Defenders who don’t know how to snatch the ball out of ANYONE !!! Defenders who don’t know how to mark anyone inside that penalty area !!!! But u bums still turn a blind eye! The last defender Milan had was Thiago Silva u bums
Four points I’d like to make:
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1) About Pulisic, his miss was terrible but people forget that often, when you’re inactive for weeks, the first time you come back you’re uncalibrated and your aim is a bit off. Whoever has played the sport knows that. It is atypical for Puli to miss this kind of shot, and he normally would have scored if he weren’t coming back from injury, Some people say that when we talk about injury, we’re finding excuses. Again, this is likely to come from people who haven’t played the game. Those who have, know that an injury can and does derail you for a while. Doctors know a scientific term for that: lack of proprioception. It means you don’t control your muscles the exact same way because being inactive throws out the subconscious perceptions you get from your nerve receptors in your legs and feet, affecting balance, strength, and aim. This is no excuse. It’s a scientific fact.
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2) Also, I’m sick and tired of this label “fanboy.” There is absolutely no shame and nothing wrong with supporting players who play for your club. That doesn’t stop most people from criticizing a player when that player does something wrong. But when the person applauds a player who does something right, it doesn’t mean the person is a “fanboy” but rather, just a fan. It’s OK to be a fan of your club and of the players who play for it. Jesus! Also, I suspect that whoever uses this word “fanboy” is a young kid posing at appearing smart in an anonymous forum. It feels like an elementary school-kind of insult. Grow up!
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3) As for Estupiñan, the reason I didn’t give him the benefit of making a mistake because he is back from injury, is because the most damaging mistake he made yesterday was out of bad judgment, not out of muscle control or anything. He decided to go to battle with their forward when he should have just isolated that ball away, like Allegri himself said. That bad decision directly impacted on the game and was determinant to dropping two points because it empowered Parma. Probably we’d have won the game if Estupiñan hadn’t make that error of judgment, and this is hard to forgive. Not to forget, he failed in their second goal too, although that could have been more related to coming back from injury as he was slow and was beaten by their forward. However, again, it’s not that Estupiñan is speedy when he is healthy. He is a slow player anyway (was just even slower yesterday). I’m starting to feel that the managers made a bad decision when they hired him. Certainly we’ve had problems at left back/left wingback for a big while, and I’m not certain that I trust Bartesaghi either, so I hope Tare will do something about it in the winter window. It’s about time. We haven’t addressed the position adequately for years, like even when Theo was at his prime, he didn’t have a suitable deputy, which may have contributed to Theo’s decline (although as we all know, there were other factors that derail him, too, some of them being his own fault). If I were Tare, I’d seek to sell Estupiñan in January and hire a better player for that position. I’d keep Bartesaghi because he is young and has more potential to learn, but Estupiñan is an experienced player, so if he hasn’t improved (and is actually regressing given that he had a good season in the EPL some seasons back), then it’s unlikely that he will improve. We should get rid of him and upgrade the position with someone better.
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4) I’ve been generally positive about Allegri but what has happened against Pisa and Parma is what many of us feared, that “Allegri Ball” is based on winning by a small advantage. In both games, we lost intensity and fell back in defense once we were leading these bottom-dwellers, when we should have kept intensity and should have killed them, and I do suspect that this is something that Allegri is ordering his players to do: fall back to defending when we are leading, and this might be a good think when facing very strong and dangerous teams but is not ideal when facing the relegation-bound teams and newly-promoted teams. These, we should be killing. It’s paradoxical that we are generally doing well against the top teams but we are doing terribly against the bottom teams, collecting only 2 points out of 9 when facing three of those teams. This is how you lose the Scudetto race and potentially even lose the race for the top 4 Champions League spots: when you keep dropping points in games you should be comfortably winning. This is something that Inter rarely do. They usually do kill the bottom teams. They are not as good against the likes of us, but at least they usually take care of business when facing the teams they should be beating and do beat. They are more consistent this way, and this is a big part of the reason why they’ve been collecting more domestic points than we have in the last few seasons. Allegri must learn from his mistakes in case he’s been directing the team to fall back into a low block when we are leading against lesser teams.
Wow, who’s responsible for writing these garbage ratings. Saelemaekers was fantastic in the first half and awful in the second, the missed shot was just a missed shot, it was his other horrible giveaways that really mattered in the second. The entire Milan defense crumble for the majority of the second half. Parma could have scored at least three on us during that collapse. Leao was fantastic as always, but why are you dumping on Pulisic, he looked fantastic, great positioning and great movement for a man that missed a month of soccer. In think you can forgive the missed shot due to the circumstances, not insult his quality.