Week 15: Milan – Torino, Gazidis and Moncada

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A still injury ravaged team managed another solid outing and three points courtesy of Cutrone and Kessie.  Beating Parma 2-1 after falling behind early in the second had this team surpass expectations. How long can this continue? It will interesting to see how the team copes with the continuous injury situation. Having said that Romagnoli could be back as early as week 17 vs Fiorentina and Musacchio not long after.

Bakayoko has been steadily growing in the team and filling Biglia’s shoes better and better. Higuain has now served his two game ban after seeing red vs Juventus and this likely means that Milan will play a 4-4-2 again. The Argentine should line up with Cutrone in front of Bakayoko, and Kessie. The midfield will be flanked by Suso and Calhanoglu.

Parma didn’t pose much of an attacking threat last weekend but Abate was solid at the more central defensive role and he is set to keep that spot along side Zapata. Calabria and Rodriguez will be the full backs. Donnarumma has been less mistake prone too, which has helped the team but the goals allowed (18) is still high for 14 matches. At the end of it all Milan sit in 4th place and aided by lackluster forms of Lazio and Roma can solidify that position further and climb to within 1 point of third place Inter.

Torino are led by Andrea Belotti, the once 100 million man, and sit in 7th spot. The Turin team have yet to lose away in seven matches. The away unbeaten run is only matched by their neighbours, Juventus.

The more big picture news of the week was the official appointment of Ivan Gazidis as CEO, the ex- Arsenal man bring with him a costs control reputation. Heeding that the appointment of Geoffrey Moncada as chief of scouting is important. The ex-Monaco man is widely credited for finding players like Kylian Mbappe and will be tasked with finding future stars before they command multi-million dollar transfer fees.