Yacine Adli probably started just 1 game this season, the one against Hellas Verona
he played for 60 minutes then was benched for a very long time with no minutes at all, like a punishment
Yacine was playing behind Giroud, yet he kept dropping down to Milan's box to help build up
he is a very smart player who makes himself available to his team mates to get them out of pressure, same role Hakan used to do
Pioli didn't like that, he asks the player to run forward waiting for a long ball to Giroud's head probably to go to the opponent and then apply high pressure
Milan suffered first leg against Inter with Krunic and Tonali trying to build up, so in the second leg instead of using a third he asked Tonali to get forward too so it was just Krunic
Yacine has no future with Pioli because it seems like they had a problem, he doesn't believe in Pioli's system and that is probably why he iced him
what doesn't make sense is that he gave him a few minutes against Fiorentina and Spezia two games apart and Milan was losing and he did good and then nothing
did he want to show that he is bad and when he showed promise Pioli benched him again? or was it Pioli didn't even notice the promise shown by Yacine?