Crisis. Milan, who returned after the last international break in October, are the worst copy of themselves: a disturbing re-edition of what stuttered for a long time in the past tormented season, soon losing contact with the top of the table and literally collapsing first in the infernal month between January and February and also dying out at the end, thanks to the hardships of the Champions League. An easy team to hit with the usual script: defense and counterattacks, adding a sprinkling of inactive balls. A team above all incapable of finding the decisive play from its attackers and, if Giroud cannot be asked to literally pull the cart at the age of 37, from Leao (dry in 6 consecutive matches and still stuck in the Champions League last year) to Pulisic (the only bright spot at the moment, he was missing tonight due to injury ), passing through Okafor (last center with Lazio) and the mysterious Chukwueze, Romero and Jovic, the offensive production is rediscovered bleak once we reach the beginning of November.
WITHOUT SOLUTIONS – After the French center forward’s brace against Napoli, breaking a two-month fast, the Rossoneri have collected a paltry 2 goals in the last four official matches. Even in the last match before the break, it was a last-gasp effort from Pulisic that resolved a complicated match like the one against Genoa, which came just a few days after the silent scene in Dortmund: be it sensational waste, as against Newcastle and in other events at the beginning of the season or in theinability to develop an alternative match plan to “put the ball to Leao and he’ll take care of it”, Milan continues to encounter atavistic difficulties against opponents who play with a lot of density and who defend with a low block. But without giving up on starting again. Pioli has not yet found the key and not even the addition of players of higher quality and theoretically with more goals under his belt than those who left (Brahim Diaz, Saelemaekers, Messias) has brought benefits. Is it just a problem of men or of tactical solutions which today are seriously lacking?
WHAT IS JOVIC? – That the new Rossoneri management who took the place of Maldini and Massara took a very big risk in not diverting part of the treasure available to a great number 9 is proven by the facts. It appears equally clear that the frantic search for Giroud’s deputy in the last days, if not in the last hours, of the summer transfer market had hidden the legitimate concern of having underestimated the issue. In this sense, it is increasingly incomprehensible that the choice fell on a player like Luka Jovic, returning from a series of seasons that to define subdued would be an understatement and overwhelmed on several occasions by the whistles at San Siro, before and after the change with Okafor. A footballer who arrived with very few expectations and who is performing even less than expected.
DAVID IN CRISIS – And what does the future hold? The January window has always been treacherous and slothful, because opportunities at reasonable prices are rarely seized and even more rarely are the ideal corrective measures to one’s limitations identified. Furlani and Moncada’s Milan don’t want to be caught unprepared in January and an attempt will be made, perhaps for Jonathan David who has long been the number one target for the attack. A player in total crisis, as Milan are today: he hasn’t scored in Ligue 1 since August 27th and is stuck just two goals away from the start of the championship. Just 18 minutes were allowed by Lille coach Paulo Fonseca against Monaco, just one in the last match against Gattuso’s Marseille. A superficial analysis, of course, but that the Canadian center forward could be the only panacea for all the Rossoneri’s ills is an unrealistic exercise. Milan’s offensive crisis comes from much further away, the numbers say so.
2023-11-04 22:20:00
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