Official: Friendlies

Dye his hair back please

We win 4-3 at full time.

cdk wouldnt miss that

Bullshit foul

Samaldinho said:

You use friendlies to try new things, evaluate players, results are not important. It's pre-season.

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Our lack of technical players get exposed badly. This is only against hungarian farmers

Messias great work. Brahim with a good pass, using his dribbling to open space for a pass, that's new.

Giroud should have finished that, but great save from the keeper, saved it with his toe.

Rebic is doing everything right but his final ball has been poor.

Pingu said:

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4-0 Milan Bayern meme here. I'm too lazy to find it.

1/10 performance

doraemon said:

Our lack of technical players get exposed badly. This is only against hungarian farmers

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We only have 3 of our actual starters and one of our starter (Tonali) has come back only recently. Nothing to worry about.

3-10 milan full time

Come on Milan please win this in second half, don't ruin my day.

But you dont buy am rw and cm

Susan said:

Come on Milan please win this in second half, don't ruin my day.

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a bs friendly can ruin ur day?

Qaas said:

a bs friendly can ruin ur day?

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I want us to win every game, what is wrong with that. Ofc a friendly is not as important as other games, but still it sucks to lose.

patosheva said:

But you dont buy am rw and cm

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patosheva you watching the game?

My thoughts after the first half: Brescianini = +

doraemon said:

Our lack of technical players get exposed badly. This is only against hungarian farmers

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It's a friendly. I'm not about to get alarmed by pre-season games. I'm looking more for improvement in players who need to prove something.

Kalulu? Florenzi? Giroud? Rebic? Tonali? They don't have to prove shit to me.

Messias, Brahim, FBT, Gabbia? They do. Brescianini looked terrible today.

Messias - he's using his right foot way way way more than he used to. He's not cutting to his left. He's using the threat of his right foot to open space, and he looks so much more dangerous as a result.

Brahim - he's using his dribbling to open space, rather than just dribbling for the sake of it. He's letting the ball do the work, which he seldom did.

FBT - started out bad, but he's using his speed, power, and his strength. He's defending better after a shaky start. He won the penalty. He is looking better with each minute.

Gabbia - he's been mopping up, he's stepping up to grab the midfielder that is left open by our pressing system, his passing hasn't been good enough, but his defending has. He's not leading the line, which I think is his job, to tell people where to go. He needs to be telling people where to go. Kalulu doesn't seem to be the one to tell people where to go, neither is Tata, and so it falls on Gabbia, and he's not doing that.

The first goal is a breakdown of marking--he doesn't recognize that, but the fact no one picks up the guy at the top of the box? We won't know who was supposed to take that spot, probably a shorter player? They just left him.

Hitting the post was on Rebic giving up on a play, and the second and third goals were directly the result of Brescianini getting beat just physically, and being out-of-position.

Gabbia needs time, I also think he needs confidence. Kalulu is doing his job, but to get to the next level, he needs to direct players. That's a big strength of Maignan, but also Tomori, they read the game, they read where people need to go.

I think when we don't pass well, our system can be exposed, because it's a high-risk, high-reward structure, but when we go all-out to press, there will be gaps, we actually cover both ball and man, in a hybrid system that is genuinely impressive--but it's breaking down with Brescianini, alone. That's not even a joke.

I think Gabbia being on the more high-risk side of the back four, is like Romagnoli being there, I think Gabbia would do better as the RCB rather than the LCB. But he's not getting beat, that's the thing, I just think he's do better on the other side. It's this massive gap that Brescianini gives, with Tonali pressing up, Brescianini is supposed to cover the center, and he's so scared, he's sitting back, but our system is kinda like boxing, where you instinct when you get hit is to pull back, but that just makes you get hit more, you have to press forward to close up that space.

Granted, our ability to press that high is rooted in our CBs being able to cover their man, but also, with a keeper like Maignan, to sweep when things get crazy.

Rebic.... Chill

Kalulu you're better than that, come on.

Samaldinho said:

You use friendlies to try new things, evaluate players, results are not important. It's pre-season.

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especially a game like this. you can see that they are instructed to not go all out (or even anywhere close).

people, for the love of god, please don't take much from this game. combination with lack of signings with be very toxic.

FBT

I see Pioli wants to test me early this season

Adli still on the bench...

Who was the guy who tackled Kalulu from behind? he needs to be dealt with.

These tackles.
END THE MATCH NOOW!!

Rebic loves to ruin attacks doesn't he?

These guys came 8th in the Hungarian league last season.

Kalulu is a rb through and through

papaberlu said:

I see Pioli wants to test me early this season

Adli still on the bench...

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Pioli is keeping him as his secret weapon so that when the season starts he will be, *Skip Bayless voice* unleashed!

Tonali chill

Rebic is gonna be shit for another season i guess

Only thing we can take away from this game is that Rebic is absolutely useless despite opposition