The goal number 500 will have to wait for Zlatan Ibrahimovic. He will have other opportunities to place yet another "number" of his extraordinary career. Ibra did not manage to achieve his much desired goal but at least there was a positive response from him after the events of the derby.
Ibra did not score, he missed yet another penalty of the season, but he played with and for the team, fighting for every ball and keeping Milan up in the hot final minutes.
The Swede got into the Rossoneri's goal actions, sent Calabria twice to shoot for a goal and gave a big hand in defense, especially on free kicks and opponents corner kicks. There was no exasperated attitude, just work and a lot of sacrifice.
For once, writes La Gazzetta dello Sport, "Ibrahimovic was not a god, but a man of good will, equally useful to the cause, of course." He put himself at the service of his teammates, the same ones he had put in difficulty in the Coppa Italia derby by getting red carded in the second half. But that's a thing of the past now. Ibrahimovic was and remains the team man par excellence. "He is the undisputed man of the locker room, and AC Milan is on his side."
