Week 10: Milan vs Spal 31/10/19 21:00 CET

Nevermore · Oct 31, 2019

Ronin said:
Stop hating out of inertia. He was actually good this game and our only CB capable of long passes from the back.

1. The point of my post was to find out why he was subbed.
2. He is bad defender in general, not in particular game. He is weak, slow, bad in the air, awful 1 on 1. So, I'm hopeful that Duarte will start from now on

rossonero1 · Oct 31, 2019

Pingu said:
A win is a win!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111!!

Room for improvement but 3pts ))))))

Forget style. 3 points is 3 points with this team lol

Hitchens · Oct 31, 2019

I like Duarte. Let's start this man at CB.

ACMILANMKD · Oct 31, 2019

What a bust Paquetta is.

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LocalHero80 · Oct 31, 2019

this felt like Gattuso win, okay defense, goal from outside or FK.. dejavu :proud:

LocalHero80 · Oct 31, 2019

Ronin said:
Stop hating out of inertia. He was actually good this game and our only CB capable of long passes from the back.

isnt that what rnb is about

leaf · Oct 31, 2019

Thanks for the 3pts guys :heart:

jon · Oct 31, 2019

disgusted with performance

pleased with result

milanator · Oct 31, 2019

What I took from this match:

Duarte is a good player but not a RB, Piolis system needs more positive play from the RB than expected. However I liked the combination of Bennacer and Duarte in the center, Bennacer is not that physical for a DM so the physicality Duarte adds is very welcome.

Piatek is in far worse form than Suso or Calabria.

Suso is our best RW, Calabria our best RB. Deal with it.

Theo needs to get a little smarter, feels like clubs start to adapt to his frantic attacking.

Kaka92 · Oct 31, 2019

This game won't make you optimistic about our future and this season but 3 points are important now.

Btw, I really liked Ben. :thumbsup:

Sometimes very risky but way better, faster and more agile than Biglia.

Samaldinho · Oct 31, 2019

The more I watch Bennacer the more I think he'd be better suited to a CM role rather than a regista. I hope he grows into it.

LocalHero80 · Oct 31, 2019

Samaldinho said:
The more I watch Bennacer the more I think he'd be better suited to a CM role rather than a regista. I hope he grows into it.

get Tonali, play Ben as CM.

Goodfella · Nov 1, 2019

Blegh, this was certainly not the 5-1 fantasia Samu hat-trick I was hoping to see. But hey, 3 points.
It hopefully brings back some calmness and confidence to this team.
I think Pioli learned a lot from this game. He knew he had an extreme, but his search for balance lead him to an extreme opposite. It will be much easier to find solutions now that he has found the boundaries.

necromancer said:
I don’t have a problem with the RB positioning. He has brought Theo back as well. We are playing a proper 4 man defense here, not the 3 + Theo free. Not a good idea to pull back your only offensive threat.

I'm pretty sure that was not what Pioli had in mind, hence the early Musacchio-Calabria sub. The whole team, not just Theo, was pushed back by Spal. Duarte's positioning made it much harder to take the game to the opponent's half. It's bad enough that Bennacer, Kessie and co can't string a few passes together. They need all the help they can get from the fullbacks. I've mentioned it a few times, but (sadly) Calabria is like an engine to this team.
He showed what was missing when he came on.

Qaas · Nov 1, 2019

Week 10: Milan vs SPAL 31/10/19 21:00 CET

Goodfella said:
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I think Pioli learned a lot from this game. He knew he had an extreme, but his search for balance lead him to an extreme opposite. It will be much easier to find solutions now that he has found the boundaries.
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Lool

doraemon · Nov 1, 2019

Lazio, @juve, napoli. If offered 1 point, i'll take it right now. No hesitation

Thenebra · Nov 1, 2019

3 points but what a game this was...

necromancer · Nov 1, 2019

Goodfella said:
Blegh, this was certainly not the 5-1 fantasia Samu hat-trick I was hoping to see. But hey, 3 points.
It hopefully brings back some calmness and confidence to this team.
I think Pioli learned a lot from this game. He knew he had an extreme, but his search for balance lead him to an extreme opposite. It will be much easier to find solutions now that he has found the boundaries.

I'm pretty sure that was not what Pioli had in mind, hence the early Musacchio-Calabria sub. The whole team, not just Theo, was pushed back by Spal. Duarte's positioning made it much harder to take the game to the opponent's half. It's bad enough that Bennacer, Kessie and co can't string a few passes together. They need all the help they can get from the fullbacks. I've mentioned it a few times, but (sadly) Calabria is like an engine to this team.
He showed what was missing when he came on.

Hmm, I can agree with the latter - although Hakan's role was to take that defender off Theo which had happened in the Lecce game. But I don't have the confidence you seem to have in Pioli. Bennacer and Kessie looked like proper shit. What will he do now? Bring back Biglia and play Krunic? The midfield needs an immense amount of work.

forward · Nov 1, 2019

doraemon said:
Lazio, @juve, napoli. If offered 1 point, i'll take it right now. No hesitation

Lazio are our bitches bruh.
Napoli - we can draw if we have a good game.

VooDooDoll · Nov 1, 2019

so spal players were aggressive against us and it was enough - piatek, hakan, samuel had 'disappointing' game.
hakan after good games turn into usual hakan, piatek isolated, bla bla bla, same old story
leao needs to play because he brings way too much for this limited attack, just give him free role somewhere around piatek...
maybe hakan performance depend also on leao doing more in attack than our other players.
duarte with ok game but limiting us when he is rb...

leaf · Nov 1, 2019

Once again Suso is our savior

I said it once and I will say it again.
NOBODY can do what he does

(except Leao)

helloAgain · Nov 2, 2019

necromancer said:
Hmm, I can agree with the latter - although Hakan's role was to take that defender off Theo which had happened in the Lecce game. But I don't have the confidence you seem to have in Pioli. Bennacer and Kessie looked like proper shit. What will he do now? Bring back Biglia and play Krunic? The midfield needs an immense amount of work.

bennacer had a good game. he was tightly marked in the first half but still was able to do his thing. in second half, he was good. hakan was bad in first half but ok in second half. kessie was disappointing. he was asked to make those passes which he is clearly not suited to. he should just stick to simple passing combinations.

Milan2012 · Nov 2, 2019

Cldnt watch the game but on paper we had more clear cut chances and possession

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Goodfella · Nov 3, 2019

necromancer said:
Hmm, I can agree with the latter - although Hakan's role was to take that defender off Theo which had happened in the Lecce game. But I don't have the confidence you seem to have in Pioli. Bennacer and Kessie looked like proper shit. What will he do now? Bring back Biglia and play Krunic? The midfield needs an immense amount of work.

I think the most important thing right now is to give a coach, who at least meets the minimum requirements, the time he needs to create something for the long-term out of this very flawed group. Pioli meets my minimum requirements, unlike Giampaolo, hence my support for him. He has the personality to lead, he shows good judgment, he doesn't overcomplicate things and the route he's taking, tactically, is in the right direction in my opinion.

Biglia should be a starter since he's the only remotely good anchor we have. Bennacer looks like a lost kid in what is a grown man's role.
Kessie is having a hard time trying to adapt to LCM. What looks like a small modification seems to be have confused and shackled him more than Giampaolo's never-ending instructions. Normally there's a lot of good and bad about his performances, but it was pretty much all bad against SPAL.

I know I've always complained about how disjointed this "team" looks, but the first half against SPAL was something else. It's like randomly picked incompatible individuals from all over the world were meeting for the first time. I'm not sure there was any understanding whatsoever between the midfielders.

I'd go back to the Paq-Biglia-Kessie midfield against Lazio.
They looked cohesive in comparison.
Krunic?
Paq-Biglia-Krunic, flanked by Calabria & Theo, seems too risky against Lazio.
But if Kessie continues to fuck around, then sure why not.

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