After overtaking last Sunday, Inter also won the derby and made their first break of the season, with Milan now four points away in the standings. A bad blow for the Rossoneri who suffer the fourth knockout in the league in 2021.
After months as an absolute protagonist, the performance of Pioli's team is clearly decreasing and now he must look back as the other contenders for a place in the Champions League are getting closer and closer in the standings.
Il Corriere della Sera explains that that AC Milan are no longer the perfect war machines that they were in 2020. The Rossoneri's start of the game was rather negative, so much so that they went down after just five minutes: this goal undoubtedly changed the match immediately and, despite the agressive start of the second half in which Milan went close to scoring several times, what made the difference was the Nerazzurri's sharpness that ended the game with Lautaro and Lukaku.
Yesterday's defeat of the AC Milan team resembles a very hard slap: the drop in performance in the new year is under everyone's eyes, now Pioli will have to be good at compacting the group and getting out of this crisis of results that risks ruining the good things done in the previous months.
On Sunday, the Rossoneri are expected to have another crucial match away against Roma, but first there is the return of the round of 32 in the Europa League against Red Star, a challenge that Il Diavolo cannot possibly miss.
