AC Milan’s injury problems remain a real negative weight on their season and show no signs of making an improvement, forcing the club to reflect.
This morning’s edition of Tuttosport (via MilanNews) reports that Stefano Pioli and his staff, as well as the club, are working to understand how to resolve the situation, but at the moment there are no positive results in this regard. The front page reads: ‘Too many injuries, Cardinale furious’.
On Sunday the injuries suffered by Tommaso Pobega and Noah Okafor made a great victory for the Rossoneri over Monza a little less sweet. With their respective hip and thigh issues, Milan are now at 29 injuries for the season.
There is a worrying trend too: 21 of these were caused by non-traumatic problems. Therefore, there are 18 muscle injuries and 3 related to a tendon. A busy calendar and also bad luck play a role to some extent, but given the exorbitant numbers further investigation is needed.
To aggravate the situation, there is the fact that this situation linked to physical problems has already existed since Pioli’s first year with the Rossoneri, in the 2020-21 season. Pioli, his staff and all of Milan are of course trying to isolate the problem and solve it. For them, first of all, it is a great limitation not to have the whole team available.
The Rossoneri’s problem in this first part of the season seemed to be never having the full squad. Pioli has confirmed several times that he is working on the problem and also that he has adopted improvements: these have not yet borne fruit and it has to be only a matter of time, otherwise more serious reflections begin.
It seems most likely that there will be an inquest at the end of the current campaign. For someone like Gerry Cardinale, all the players in the squad – especially if you have invested good money on them – are a very important asset and their unavailability certainly does no good.
Although it will be difficult to imagine personnel changes during the current season, it is clear that on this point – if there is no clear reversal of course – either Pioli or some members of his staff risk leaving at the end of the season.
