Goodfella
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Interesting to see if Milan are ahead of the trend or behind it in terms of the strong runner midfield.
I'd say Allegri does it because he doesn't have much of a choice. Aquilani is injured, Seedorf is too static and slow to be used at the same time as Aqua, we decided to wait until we can get Montolivo for free and most other above average ball-playing CMs are too expensive for us.
As for using players like Boateng and Urby at CAM, it's most likely because of Ibra, since he likes to have freedom on the pitch and act like a traditional trequartista every now and then and doesn't run much off-ball. Allegri doesn't seem to mind fielding Seedorf there, especially when Ibra isn't playing, and he's not a runner.
They are essentially now the opposite of Barcelona. Guardiola’s side is clearly a better team than Real Madrid in head-to-head matches, but look likely to lose the league based upon inferior performances against the other 18. Milan don’t have the intelligence to break down good sides, but they can easily blast past minnows. Against top clubs, Milan struggle; they haven’t beaten any of the top six in Serie A this season.
So whereas Milan’s style in the mid-2000s was good for Europe (one league title but three European Cup finals), now they’re well in the title running, but very much outsiders in the Champions League.
This guy is dropping conclusions way too early. None of Juve, Napoli, Lazio, Inter or Udinese beat us or prevented us from winning with Aquilani in his favoured position(RCM) or even a injury-free KPB at CAM(he was playing while injured against Juve) and we missed players vital for our tactics in pretty much all of them. The only time we had Aqua at RCM and Ibra up top against a Top 6 team was Roma away, and we won it with Aqua and Ibra being the two best players on the field. And it's not like we struggled against smaller teams with Aqua instead of another runner.