Abate: 'Milan must act like men'
By Football Italia staff
Ignazio Abate has urged Milan to “emerge from this difficult moment like men” after a fifth defeat in eight games.
The Rossoneri were beaten 3-2 at Lazio last night, leaving them at risk of being sucked into the relegation zone.
“We didn’t have a great first half, but Lazio found themselves 3-0 up without doing that much,” the full-back told Milan Channel.
“In any case, we didn’t do enough and have to roll our sleeves up, as we cannot slide into certain areas of the table. We mustn’t get involved in these battles, seeing as we are unaccustomed to fighting for certain objectives.
“We have to get unified again and try to play simple football, playing on the counter and taking a provincial approach until we can get a few positive results under our belts.
“There was a fightback from our pride towards the end when we went from 3-0 down to 3-2, but we shouldn’t have to concede three in order to get that reaction. We must emerge from this difficult moment like men.”
Abate: 'Milan must act like men'
acerвιc wιт;1528798 said:We concede goals in transition – notably from when we have to switch from attacking to defending. Players need to focus more both in possession and off the ball. The space between the midfield and the defense is far too large. Allegri needs to get the team playing more compact between the lines.
I do like abate, but last night really was bad. He looked so uncomfortable on the ball, and has only one move, which is try and burst past someone.
Abate needs to do much better, I almost think he has gotten worse.
He always looks like that
Maybe It was my abate blinders, but I never really noticed him being that bad before.......
Might be due to mattia playing and showing me what an actual footballer does on the ball.
abate is a modern full back who's better at going foreward than defending like a lot of other RB.
he has been pretty good lately and has gotten a lot of unneeded hate. He has put at least 2 crosses directly onto Prince's head, and one to Pazzini and they failed to score. He has been playing fine overall.
Since his crossing isnt a strong point, I wonder how he would take the shift to LB, he could still defend pretty well and would be cutting in to his stronger foot, while freeing up DS to play as RB where he is stronger going forward
Sad to see him flip the ball forward and try to cross, coz everytime that "special" move is foreseen by the defenders. Terribly lacking creativity and improvisation, I very much doubt he will improve any more in the future. Verdict: sell, while he's still regarded as an International player.
Abate is absolute trash.
Get rid of the limited piece of crap.
He's regressed so much from those solid defensive heights of 2010... now he's a liability and a one-track mind... highest crossing percentage? true... good at crossing at Milan? Nope... in fact, most definitely the worst crosser we have.
Yes. Abate has managed to plummet to such depths that he is quite easily the worst crosser of the ball we have on our team... and he plays RB..