This is my problem with criticisms of Gattuso:
First, people said that he only plays "GRINTA!" But, now you are criticizing him for playing fancy, by playing it out of the back?
But here is the response: why not play Reina? Because Reina has 1-2 years left in him, Donna is the future, and that means you need to improve him, either to sell him, or to keep him and rely upon him. Remember: he's NINETEEN. Yes, he gets paid 6m. Plus the 1m for his brother, but that's not changing, so either we improve him or we sell him before we can get some real good money from him. I'd rather him do better and we sell him for 70m next summer.
The other issue is just practical. Montolivo is hurt. Our new players have just come in, like Bakayoko, Laxalt, etc so acting like Gattuso should've just thrown them on, is crazy.
We grew dependent on Hakan in the second half of last year, that is clear. Borini worked hard, and got an assist, he ran himself into the ground. But what did Laxalt do? Honestly, he got one good pull-back to Higuain (which was a little bit behind him, to be fair) but otherwise, what did he do? Nothing.
Bakayoko's clearance wasn't the problem with the second goal, it was Donna's poor positioning. Baka needs to up his effort and dial back his desire to try and be a trequartista. I think he can do well here, or at least, I hope so.
I can keep going, but, acting like ALL IS LOST because we played Napoli first--not having the ability to bring back our most influential player last year on the pitch, and also, not having an easier match to figure out our team and get players to get used to each other, you're just ignoring reality.
Do you know why? Because Milan played better than you negative people thought. I didn't see your comments when we were winning 2-0. No happiness. No joy. So you can understand why I'm skeptical when I only see you posting when things go bad.
I'm not satisfied with a "good performance" against Napoli. But that's all we can do now, we have to learn, and like Leo said, we cannot be surprised we're up 2-0. The players have taken this on themselves, like they should, and again, we were playing passing, not GRINTA, so stop pretending like you hate Gattuso's style, when he's trying to make the team play attacking and passing play, but he either doesn't have the players for it, or, that many of the players aren't ready to do that yet, especially when Samu and Hakan weren't on the pitch.
