Powerless and unrecognizable, AC Milan logically lost against Inter Milan (0-1) on Sunday in Serie A, thus securing a 7th meeting without a win in all competitions. A bad derby and risky choices from the rossonero coach Stefano Pioli.
Stefano Pioli didn’t make the right choices against Inter.
Silence, AC Milan is sinking! Still deprived of his titular goalkeeper Mike Maignan or veteran Zlatan Ibrahimovic, the reigning Italian champion no longer responds. Catastrophic in 2023, the Lombard club missed a great opportunity to revive on Sunday, with a derby logically lost against Inter Milan (0-1) in Serie A.
Uninspired and largely dominated, the Rossoneri have confirmed their largesse of the moment, and find themselves more than ever in crisis.
Pioli’s rat choices…
And inevitably, the choices made by Stefano Pioli challenge. While he swapped his usual 4-2-3-1 system for a three defense made up of Pierre Kalulu, Simon Kjaer and Matteo Gabbia, or chose to place his striker Rafael Leo on the bench, the coach Italian got it wrong. Rather than giving confidence to his team, which now remains on a series of 7 games without the slightest success in all competitions, the technician even facilitated the task of the opponent who played with 66% possession and made 15 strikes , when the Rossoneri only attempted 4.
Pioli flouted his principles of play and his players, increasingly unrecognizable, failed. Milan, at the moment, are a team of weaklings on all levels: in terms of intensity and on the physical level. It is a team that realizes that it is in great difficulty, it lacks the same courage that allowed it to reach the title last year. (…) Against Sassuolo, I had seen a defense that fled, whereas last year, it was offensive. The team does not move without the ball, there are players who refuse itcriticized the former Milan doorman, Giovanni Galli, for Radio Rai.
… who has no regrets
Logically, the critics fall on the current 6th in Serie A. This Milan derby was marked from the start by the manifest inferiority of a Milan who gave up playing. A completely incomprehensible attitudedenounced the Italian journalist Giga Garanzini.Milan doesn’t exist anymore, it was a horrible matchwrote LeCorriere dello Sport, while La Repubblica speaks of a black crisis this Monday. However, Pioli does not regret any of his choices. If we had played our usual football, we would have had difficulties too. We lost that solidity that we had before. We have to do a lot better, yes, but at least I saw a team with more density.
Should he have launched Leo before the 55th minute? Leo has a potential standard. But my choice to play with two more central attackers was intended to put the Inter defense in difficulty. (…) My choices seemed to me to be the best compared to what I saw during the week. It didn’t have the characteristics to suit the way I wanted to play, defended the Milanese coach again at a press conference. As you will have understood, the 57-year-old coach therefore keeps his convictions in this delicate situation, in particular by planning to maintain his defense at 3 for the next matches…
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