Week 4: Inter - Milan 17/10/2020 18:00 CET

Pingu · Oct 5, 2020

The derby!

In-form Milan take on Conte's OAPs. Who will come out ahead?

As we know, a 2 goal lead isn't enough so let's get 4 this time.

PS: can mod edit title? It's week 4 not 3 I jinxed it again sorry friends....

Mr. Milanista · Oct 5, 2020

This is the real test for this team. We play much better football while they play like shit, but they seem to have found a way to come out on top always anyways... lets just try to maintain the first 45 minutes we had against them last time over the course of 90 minutes.

Big question is if Romagnoli gets back, do we play him or Gabbia? Gabbia has been phenomenal, although played only against smaller teams. Or do we play Romagnoli who we know we can trust, but still he's coming back from a 3 months long injury?

Vms · Oct 5, 2020

Any updates on Zlatan?

Il grande Milan · Oct 5, 2020

Vms said:
Any updates on Zlatan?

It's been more than two weeks that corona was infected by zlatan and the game is in two weeks from now. I assume he will be ready for next game

doraemon · Oct 5, 2020

Shit. Not another typo on thread title, now we are probably already jinxed

I hope players don't bring no corona from international travelling

joyrider · Oct 5, 2020

1st biggest match of the season, we can not lose

Jivara · Oct 5, 2020

Kill them!

General · Oct 5, 2020

joyrider said:
1st biggest match of the season, we can not lose

+1

We need this one.

We win and we make a very big statement that Milan is further along towards a true rebuilding

Pingu · Oct 5, 2020

joyrider said:
1st biggest match of the season, we can not lose

Pls change title to Week 4 I made a doo-doo.

And yes, win this and we can steamroll mentality-wise I think over anyone. Inter are the one team we cannot seem to beat these last years (bar the Coppa game).

VooDooDoll · Oct 5, 2020

Pingu said:
Pls change title to Week 4 I made a doo-doo.

And yes, win this and we can steamroll mentality-wise I think over anyone. Inter are the one team we cannot seem to beat these last years (bar the Coppa game).

cant you do it by yourself??

yonggoh · Oct 5, 2020

It’s early days so the result might not change the grand scale of maths right now but may set the tone for the coming games.

Containing lukaku will be important... it’s not often our CB’s have to deal with such a physical specimen of a centre forward

Stitches · Oct 5, 2020

back to back to back to back

fray · Oct 5, 2020

First Derby without anyone in attendance since god knows when. Albeit it's been a benefitting factor for us.

We're heading into this game on a high note. Zlatan, Rebic and Romagnoli all recovered. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic here.

Pingu · Oct 5, 2020

VooDooDoll said:
cant you do it by yourself??

I would've if I could've friend

yonggoh · Oct 5, 2020

fray said:
First Derby without anyone in attendance since god knows when. Albeit it's been a benefitting factor for us.

We're heading into this game on a high note. Zlatan, Rebic and Romagnoli all recovered. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic here.

Roma might not have enough minutes in his legs to be a starter tho

Hitchens · Oct 6, 2020

General said:
+1

We need this one.

We win and we make a very big statement that Milan is further along towards a true rebuilding

Goodfella · Oct 6, 2020

Pingu said:
I would've if I could've friend

Click "Edit" on the first post, "Go Advanced" and then change the title.

Goodfella · Oct 6, 2020

fray said:
We're heading into this game on a high note. Zlatan, Rebic and Romagnoli all recovered. I'm feeling cautiously optimistic here.

You sure about that?
I'm pessimistic for this exact reason.
Romagnoli might be available, but we don't know if he'll be ready. I don't think the back-four with Calabria and Gabbia have been defending well lately and I definitely don't trust them against Inter.
We had the great big game run with Conti, who is solid defensively compared to Calabria.

Rebic is still in pain apparently.

Ibra may not show symptoms, but it could take more than two weeks to get negative results, like Dybala.

Pingu · Oct 6, 2020

Goodfella said:
Click "Edit" on the first post, "Go Advanced" and then change the title.

Oh. I didn't know I could to that. Graize :heart:

I never use "Advanced"

Milan10 · Oct 6, 2020

Well, at least we know we can blame Pingu if this whole season goes sideways against Inter

MilanMB · Oct 6, 2020

Mr. Milanista said:
Gabbia has been phenomenal, although played only against smaller teams.

Gabbia have NOT been phenomenal. Please chose your words :lol:

He's been good, but have been caught out of position many times and can be blamed for some goals. But he's young and will continue to develop, I hope he stays.

Mr. Milanista · Oct 6, 2020

MilanMB said:
Gabbia have NOT been phenomenal. Please chose your words

He's been good, but have been caught out of position many times and can be blamed for some goals. But he's young and will continue to develop, I hope he stays.

What goals bruh, we have zero conceded

If you put him into the context that he actually is only 20 years old, doesn't even have 15 (?) games in the highest Italian league of Serie A AND playing as calmly as he does for a 20 year old CB, I'd say there is a legitimate reason to say he's been phenomenal these games. Afterall, he is only 20 with next to none experience of professional football, you'd expect him to be alot more nervous and be running around like a headless chicken.

Ash · Oct 6, 2020

Mr. Milanista said:
What goals bruh, we have zero conceded

If you put him into the context that he actually is only 20 years old, doesn't even have 15 (?) games in the highest Italian league of Serie A AND playing as calmly as he does for a 20 year old CB, I'd say there is a legitimate reason to say he's been phenomenal these games. Afterall, he is only 20 with next to none experience of professional football, you'd expect him to be alot more nervous and be running around like a headless chicken.

We have also conceded 5 in 3 EL games.

Stop overrating Gabbia. He has been decent at best.

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Mr. Milanista · Oct 6, 2020

How many of them Gabbias fault? 4 goals conceded btw not 5

Nevermind I forgot the "grass is greener on the other side" mentality on this forum. Underrating our own players while overrating others. Had he been playing for St Etienne or Strasbourg you guys would be prepared to pay 30 millions for him

MilanMB · Oct 6, 2020

I'm happy with Gabbia and curious about his progress in the future. The word phenomenal just sat wrong with me. He haven't bossed any games and you can see the holes in his game (lack of speed and positioning mostly).

Mr. Milanista · Oct 6, 2020

It'd be unfair to call him decent as well. That'd sit wrong with me. Decent is something you'd expect from Musacchio, an experienced defender who keeps his calm and plays decent with a mistake here and there. Not from a 20 year old CB with barely any professional games under his belt. You'd expect chaos from him
Not playing like an experienced defender

DeNiro · Oct 6, 2020

Gabbia has been decent at best, needs to grow

Romagnoli must start vs inter

Plus with rebic and ibra back im sure we can win

Pingu · Oct 6, 2020

Milan10 said:
Well, at least we know we can blame Pingu if this whole season goes sideways against Inter

Wasn't me... I swear.

Pingu · Oct 6, 2020

MilanMB said:
I'm happy with Gabbia and curious about his progress in the future. The word phenomenal just sat wrong with me. He haven't bossed any games and you can see the holes in his game (lack of speed and positioning mostly).

Agree. Phenomenal would be him producing performances that are winning us the defence every game.

He has been solid, and above expectation, which is great but he does make novice mistakes that could have led to goals. Playing beside Kjaer surely helps and I'm glad he's doing well with plenty of growth. The one issue is can he handle the pressure of a bigger game like vs Inter?

Romagnoli coming back has to start that, he is used to it by now.

brk · Oct 6, 2020

Mr. Milanista said:
It'd be unfair to call him decent as well. That'd sit wrong with me. Decent is something you'd expect from Musacchio, an experienced defender who keeps his calm and plays decent with a mistake here and there. Not from a 20 year old CB with barely any professional games under his belt. You'd expect chaos from him
Not playing like an experienced defender

You're calling Gabbia phenomenal because we had very low expectations for him and he played better than expected. As a starting CB for a Milan aiming for top 4 he's just decent, maybe a bit below that for me.

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