Genoa 1-0 Milan: Poor Loss

Riccardo Montolivo got his first start of the season after being a sub last game. The defense featured Daniele Boneera again and as feared he had a hand in Genoa’s first goal. A corner wasn’t well marked and Luca Antonelli headed into the corner of the net. The first half was otherwise uneventful with the final ball missing and not much in terms of execution. The second was no different, tactics and purpose seemed to be missing. Andrea Poli and Giampaolo Pazzini replaced Montolivo and Keisuke Honda and that didn’t make much of a difference. Later M’Baye Niang was a somewhat surprise sub for Stephan El Shaarawy. It seemed that Pippo Inzaghi ran out of options both literally and figuratively and just decided to throw the unused Niang. A poor game with all players underperforming … more about the game in its forum thread