ONE MORE STIMULUS – It will be necessary – as Pioli correctly pointed out – that Giroud and Ibrahimovic are both in 100% physical condition and it will probably also depend on the type of opponent, but this Milan, which several times during the past season and also at the beginning of this one has proved to know how to interpret the games in many ways, nothing is precluded. The arrival of the French former Chelsea has gifted the Devil an extra arrow of great quality and, if needed, it will give the Swedish team mate further incentives to keep the starting shirt tight. If Ibra’s last year and a half has been decidedly without competition – Leao and Rebic as center-forward were more solutions, but still emergency ones, Mandzukic has never been a “threat” – the arrival of a great football player experience, intact and still full of stimuli as Giroud changes the hierarchies of the advanced line.
DOLCE DILEMMA – The last championship has shown how the physical strength of the giant from Malmoe is no longer that of the best days: of the more than 50 seasonal matches of Milan 2020/2021, Ibrahimovic has practically skipped half, a situation that the Rossoneri could not afford to suffer passively even in a year, this one, in which the ambitions for the championship are renewed and in which the Champions League returns after 7 years. With Giroud, Pioli certainly has the most covered shoulders and will now have the sweet dilemma of deciding from time to time who to use as a reference point. Assuming that, at least initially, the game system will still be 4-2-31, as soon as the Frenchman has recovered from Covid, the time for choices and ballots will come. Giroud with Ibra, you can. And maybe you have to, so as not to upset anyone.–
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