AC Milan faced Rapid Wien in their first friendly of the pre-season yesterday and while there was a clear physical difference between the two sides, Rossoneri fans still got to see some glimpses of ‘Paulo Fonseca ball’. In particular, there was one sequence.
Fonseca fielded two eleven yesterday, one for each half, and it’s clear that the second one was superior as Milan managed to take the lead with it. The best individual performances also came in the second half, as highlighted in our player ratings.
During the second half, the Milan fans also got to see a glimpse of Fonseca’s tactics and style, with one sequence in particular catching our eyes. As you can see in the video below, they moved the ball around quickly – though not looking for the vertical pass immediately – and it led to a great counter-attack.
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Gazzetta dello Sport also highlighted a few tactical notes this morning, stating that Fonseca likes to build from the back with a 3+2 solution (right-back, both centre-backs and midfield pivot). Furthermore, he doesn’t require his players to look for the vertical pass immediately, as seen in the video as well.
Under Fonseca, Milan will try to control the play and pick their moments when breaking forward, not forcing vertical passes as that can leave the team stretched.
Kudos to Sportiello for controlling that awful Florenzi back pass and not panicking in the situation
Actually that is the young keeper Torriani and not Sportiello.
Yeah, the whole play looked more dangerous than impressing.
That’s not Sportiello
We’ve been practicing together for two weeks with our B team and put that move together. Pickford just hoofed the ball up the field literally every single time for England in the final 😂
Ummm who gonna tell them we did this during Pioli? The only difference is that the ball didn’t go out to the full back but the pivot instead (more risky btw). The reason why it “worked” is due to Rapid being a bad team..we can’t do this against a proper team..the wing play though I liked. But this.lvoe was few and far between a dismal performance
This is complete and utter garbage.
It’s ”Andrea Poli Full of Energy”-tier cringe.
It’s that painful to watch. The passing and the ball control is Serie C-tier.
Milan will never go back to being great until a proper rich owner buys it.
God I wish PIF would buy us.
Gerry is such a stingy fraud.
Here we go again. Looking for anything to blame the management. They can even be blame for the problem that Microsoft faced last week who put the world of technology on panic mode.
If you don’t want to see Gerry Cardinale to be Milan’s owner, go look for other teams to support because the fact is he’s the owner and nothing you can do about it.
If you really love Milan, just stop the all the hatred towards the American owners and support the team as a true milanista.
“If you don’t want to see Gerry Cardinale to be Milan’s owner, go look for other teams to support”
Go and tell that to United supporters. Or Arsenal supporters. Or Bayern supporters.
It’s not black or white. You can support the team but not onwership or management.
Changing owners wouldn’t matter anything, you can’t spend without bringing in. What don’t you understand about that. We are the fastest growing club financially on the planet for the 4th season in a row, in order to spend you need to bring in the revenue. Otherwise you end up like Inter and like we did when Elliott took over. Basically bankrupt and banned from European football for FFP breach. Clearly you don’t know what you’re talking about and haven’t been around for the past 15 years. Also don’t disrespect Carlo’s name like that, if you want the arabs go support PSG or City. Pirla, stunade. The only fraud here is you showing you know nothing about football at all. As a true Milanista born and bred take yourself out with the trash.
Thanks, amazing reply, people just making too much noise about the management have no idea how the finances of a club works, balancing the books and staying in the green, so your team isn’t forced to sell star players to stay in the league. It’s frustrating at times but that’s the football world today, Chelsea spent all the money in the world and still could not muster a decent league outing last season, let’s watch our team and cheer them on.
Newcastles ownership has trillions. Why aren’t they buying all the best players, why might they have to sell one of their top players. They must be cheap. just about making a profit. They aren’t going anywhere with the Saudi Arabian fund. They need a real owner with proper wealthy.
Well, I didn’t watch the game earlier but I’ve seen the first 15mins of it.
Yes. There was a lot of subpar game going on BUT, I’ve never seen Milan play more interestingly in a long time. This gives me a lot of hope.
Last season, whenever I watched the games, the only thing that kept me glued to the screen was me being a fan. I always got bored and disappointed.
What we need now is patience for the squad to gel and hope that we outplay our league competitors.
“Well, I didn’t watch the game earlier but I’ve seen the first 15mins of itThere was a lot of subpar game going on BUT, I’ve never seen Milan play more interestingly in a long time. ”
You can’t watch the first 15 minutes and think that’s the most interesting thing you’ve seen..come on bro. It was pretty my much our worst part of the game. Rapid even hit the bar while we couldn’y muster a single chance
It’s a friendly game, Dortmund lost 4:0 to a team nobody even knows, does that make Dortmund a poor team, friendlies are for coaches to try new things, new players and see how they work. The team looked like they were trying out ideas, some worked, some didn’t, they’ll strategize and try again
Yea the classic whataboutism. Study our own team and not about others. I dont care for what Dortmund does. I never said we had a poor team, we had a horrible game though. Again, I’m saying here specifically the first 15 minutes there’s no way we had anything that was interesting if you bothered to watch the game. We were pretty much penned back and couldn’t muster a proper attacking threat. But since u did watch the game please pray tell what were the ideas that worked and didn’t work? The counter attack on the goal? That’s a ….ummm.. counter attack. What else really work that was so interesting that we haven’t seen yet. 🤔
I saw the so-called Fonseca ball, it felt like an offspring of the conventional tiki taka, it didn’t work but it represented a new approach to Milan’s attack, different from the lackluster “let’s go out there and try our luck” Pattern we did last year, first let’s appreciate that, secondly the defense looked shaky, confused, no authority or leader at the back, Tomori is a good CB but not a leader at the back, that’s an area that purchases will fix, 11 by 11 rotation in the second half saw the team return to a more familiar play style, we scored and conceded. So fellow Milan Fan, U and I watched a game and left with contrasting views. I’m not interested in gloom and doom. I just want to see the team get better
U saw Tiki taka…wow. ok
Let’s leave it at that then
This isnt Fonseca ball, but its Pioli ball.. fully risk. Haha…