Total defeat. Milan lost on all fronts yesterday.
THE MATCH OF A LIFETIME
Yesterday's was definitely the most important match of the season, at that moment, with a win Milan would be back to raise its voice to fight for the Serie A victory, with a defeat, however, it would sink.
So it was. Milan sank. Alatanta showed a great team spirit especially with the offensive changes, while Fonseca defended with many defensive midfielders, having Loftus, Musah and Fofana on the field at the same time means defending and being afraid of the opponent. Atalanta won with merit.
MILAN'S FAILED GOALS
By now it is a habit. The Rossoneri team has accustomed us to failing many mid-season goals. After yesterday's defeat the Rossoneri go to minus 12 points from the lead, it is useless to hide: this team will not fight to win the championship as someone said at the beginning of the season, maybe it will not even fight for the Champions League. The teams in front are too far ahead
MILAN'S FAILURE IN THE TRANSFER MARKET
The team has also failed resoundingly in the transfer market. Yet another backlash came yesterday where CDK practically steered the win in Atalanta's favor: already 5 goals and 9 assists for him this year, winning numbers.
Also proving useless is the purchase of Abraham, who has so far given nothing: Saelemaekers, for Fonseca's way of playing, would have been more useful. Kalulu and Adli, starters at their clubs, could certainly have been useful as well.
The former Bordeaux midfielder has six more points with one less game and definitely could have been useful in a team with few midfielders. The 20 million spent on Pavlovic is proving to be superfluous: Thiaw and Gabbia are the starting defenders, in the Scudetto year they were the fourth and fifth defenders, respectively, after Tomori, Kjaer and Kalulu.
MILAN MANAGEMENT
There is no clear, authoritative voice to respond or speak after games or in times of trouble.
Yesterday no one justified the only 6 wins in 14 games, no one justified the failure of many goals.
We could only witness the coach blaming the referee and later one of the most important players, Morata, who, perhaps rightly, downplayed the referee error to make MEA CULPA - "We cannot look at the referees or these things because we did not deserve the victory today"- said the Spanish striker. Any reference is purely coincidental. Strong words.
What so many should do.
Because let's face it, to err is human. It would be important to pick up where we left off to become great again. And it was succeeding...
