so while i was doing my last final test and our teacher went all like "fuck it u n00bs since none of u studied we're gonna talk serious shit now" (fuck it i was the nerd that was about to finish that test and leave to get drunk)...i started thinking about reasons behind allegri's decision to start some of the regulars, in particular silva. so it hit me, truth is nesta is the most fragile of the pair plus the older one that needs more rest, so yeah there's logic in not fielding him.
But why thiago? well considering nesta's injury history it was a good moment to use the silva yepes partnership to get some game chemistry between them against a good forward line. Yeah it could've also been good to give sokratis-yepes a try in that sense, but coaches usually prefer to try to see chemistry in a defensive line with a starter and a bench player not 2 bench players (those are reserved to early coppa italia games), specially when the rest of the defensive line isn't part of the starting lineup plus you want to have one guarantee in ur defense when ur starting pirlo-seedorf-dinho
(oh why he started those guys together? Oh well pirlo is in need of match fitness, to be able to give zlatan a rest-thus fielding dinho, remember we only have 2 forwards available- and cause clarance had been rested the game vs brescia and well i assume allegri wanted to give this trio a chance in a game were the usage of it would've not caused much damage)
Eitherway blaming allegri for an injury well actually let me rephrase it giving allegri the f word for an injury is just down right ridiculous. yes to try to avoid the possibility of the injury happen he could've not field him; he took a risk and decided to give thiago a go considering what i just said and also considering that milan migght've played a lower intensity game that wouldn't put players into much risk. Shit happens, this might've been something that could've happen next game or the game before, it happened now,, shitty, but it is football.you can't based all ur decisions in an "omg id i put him he might get injured" (we basically just do it with nesta cause he is a very special case and he has a certain age) else ur gonna end up pretty squadless.
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