Paolo Condò, in the pages of Repubblica, spoke about Milan's victory against Udinese:
"If the leaders and favourites advance without getting caught up in chatter, the challengers have not gained greater merits in their gameplay. It must be acknowledged, however, that two promising matches, while the teams were even in numbers—Milan-Udinese and Juve-Lazio—quickly deteriorated due to avoidable expulsions. Let’s be clear: the man running solo towards the goal is correctly stopped by the recovering defender one time out of ten, if we’re being generous. In the other nine instances, a red card is issued. It’s fine to have competitive intensity, but experienced players like Reijnders and Romagnoli should also think under pressure: with the whole match ahead (and Milan was even in the lead), it’s better to rely on the goalkeeper and stay at eleven players, rather than being launched towards the goal where it wasn’t Haaland and Mbappé, but Lovric (one goal in the last two years) and Kalulu (zero). Come on."
The journalist continued to talk about Milan:
"The Rossoneri maintained three very important points by closing themselves off with commendable cohesion and a stroke of luck with Ekkelenkamp's offside discovered by VAR. The new episode of the Leao dilemma is inextricable: would the besieged team have benefited from his forays, catching their breath for a few seconds, or would they have sunk further because the Portuguese would have added his invincible laziness to the numerical disadvantage? By leaving him out, Fonseca has checked the second box.'"
