Empoli vs Milan 27/9

[AC_Troy]

I rather throw Laxalt on the right than having Abate. Hakan or Suso must be rotated, I would not play Suso.

I agree

[reza]

Higuain is doubtful for the Empoli match due to a physical issue. Cutrone was tested in his place

What does 'tested' mean exactly? He is our only other CF. If Cutrone is healthy he is the automatic choice, if he is still injured there is no testing

[Siregar]

I don't know why, but i think most of our goals conceded were because of either 1 player on the frontline doing a mis-pass/ lost in dribble duel, so the enemies can somehow have a very effective counter attacks.

And we're getting pushed hard, couldn't even send the ball forward. It's like accident waiting to happen

Exactly. The opponent made goal due to our erro. If we play our game, we should win the game. We should just let same error happens again and again and not let opponent dictate our game, we are the one who control the game. The key is the midfield. 

Our source of attack are the flanks (Hakan and Suso). If both played poor game, we would struggle hard to make goal. One of them plays well, the goal is not a hard job, like when Suso did well against Atalanta, it was not that extremely hard to score. Suso started to lose his stamina, a goal was like impossible. Unfortunately, when Suso was still fit, our midfield was just terrible. This was source of the problem against Atalanta IMO. They could not defend and playing the game in midfield properly. We had big hole in the midfield in the last game. When the ball was already on the forward-wing especially on the right side, the task was quite easy.

We have to find out how we could control the game starting from owning the midfield, playing possesion there and do not let missed pass occur.

[Siregar]

We have Borini, why Gattuso did not choose him? Abate offers nothing, I would play that primavera fullback there than Abate.

[artand]

Higuain and Caldara not called up for the game.

[Jay Crisp]

Borini will start at CF , now I'm predicting a loss.2-0 after ye the being down 1-0 for a large chunk of the game we'll conceeded a 2nd and we'll act shocked.Thats is the new Milan.It always gets worse before it gets back to normal.

[AC_Troy]

What does 'tested' mean exactly? He is our only other CF. If Cutrone is healthy he is the automatic choice, if he is still injured there is no testing  

because he may not be 100%

[AC_Troy]

Borini will score

[devoted_dm]

On milannews.it Furio Fedele makes the point that in Reina we have a leader on the pitch that we're not using. I think that's a fair point. I don't think Donnarumma is to blame for our poor start to the season, but in spite of how talented is, I also get the feeling that he does not transmit any kind of confidence to our defenders and the rest of the team - sometimes rather the opposite. I at least never feel entirely safe with him in goal.
Fedele also said that Reina is good at talking to the defenders, telling them how to position themselves and so on, which would be a great thing for our goalkeeper to do right now, I think. Considering how many goals we've conceded so far it might be worth giving Reina a go in goal, but somehow I doubt Gattuso will make that choice.

[AC_Troy]

On milannews.it Furio Fedele makes the point that in Reina we have a leader on the pitch that we're not using. I think that's a fair point. I don't think Donnarumma is to blame for our poor start to the season, but in spite of how talented is, I also get the feeling that he does not transmit any kind of confidence to our defenders and the rest of the team - sometimes rather the opposite. I at least never feel entirely safe with him in goal.
Fedele also said that Reina is good at talking to the defenders, telling them how to position themselves and so on, which would be a great thing for our goalkeeper to do right now, I think. Considering how many goals we've conceded so far it might be worth giving Reina a go in goal, but somehow I doubt Gattuso will make that choice.

Spot on