In the first three matchdays, AC Milan collected all possible points. However, their short winning streak was cut short after losing 5-1 yesterday against Inter.
As La Gazzetta dello Sport writes this morning, the new Rossoneri faces, so bright and shining in the initial matches of the championship, turned grey in yesterday's disastrous afternoon for Milan: Ruben Loftus-Cheek, Christian Pulisic, and Tijjani Reijnders, and the other substitutes, immediately fell in line with the tradition of losing the derby, quite literally a constant in 2023.
Tijjani was suffocated by the Inter players, unable to find the right space to unleash the verticality he had shown against Bologna, Torino, and Roma. Ruben, perhaps one of the less worse on the field yesterday, still struggled against the Nerazzurri midfield and only managed to recover three balls throughout the entire match. Christian was almost a ghost: out of play and never dangerous in the rare occasions the ball passed his feet.
Little could be done by AC Milan yesterday at the San Siro
If those who made an impact in the first three matches were already nullified on the field, very little could be done by those who entered the game later. Samuel Chukwueze made his entrance in the 56th minute, but compared to Pulisic, the script didn't change a comma: never dangerous in the offensive phase.
For Noah Okafor and debutant Luka Jovic, on the other hand, there was very little to do: they entered alongside Florenzi, and Milan conceded the fourth goal. From that moment on, the Rossoneri officially retreated into the locker room, and the Swiss and the Serb saw very little of the ball. Of course, it's not fair to blame the new acquisitions for a defeat of this magnitude: they've only played their fourth match with Milan (some their second or even first) and have been engulfed by the harsh verdict of the 2023 edition of the Milan derby.
An AC Milan that tactically is incapable of responding to Inter's proposal for nine months now. This last aspect, of course, depends only in part on the players, let alone those who arrived just two months ago...
