Milan Management

[DrDejan]

Having an attacker who receives the ball with his back to goal isn't something that's always in the control of a coach, it's a natural feature of play given attackers play the highest position in a team. Regardless of how you play and who with, there will always be instances where the attacker will have to play back to goal and it's become required skill in the game to allow the attacker to bring in others into the attack.

Montella in this respect doesn't demand anything that other coaches don't. Take a look at yesterday's goals, 4 out of the 5 goals were goals scored where the ball was put in front of the scorer facing the goal. The other one was a 30 yard shot from Suso. There's nothing abnormal from Montella in this regard.

My only gripe with Montella yesterday was not including Locatelli on the bench. I find his decisions with Locatelli extremely frustrating, as there's no apparent reason for them.

I agree it's a skill an attacker should have, and it's used during the game with success. I have a problem when it's one of your main team features. Put it together with the famous Montolivo's lateral passes and you have a debilitating play. 
I appreciate when the play is built from the back, but when we have an attacker faced backwards and lateral passes in the midfield, I don't see a successful future.
Btw, yesterday game was won because the opponent played like with one player less, not because we showed appropriated level of the game. It was better than the game vs Lazio, but let's wait until we face better opponents. 
I hope that Montella's style was influenced by the ability of his players, instead of his philosophy, and that we'll see a change very quickly.