Torino vs Milan 27/9

[am I Milan enough?]

Me too.

I don't know why I lost the motivation to protect the coach though it is still early into the season.

Maybe we were bored for too long or we expect too much from the current coach?

out of some candidates, MG was touted as Sarri's heir, playing good football at Samp where he had limited resources, I guess I expected too much based on that 'rumour'.. good football aside, short & quick passing around which I think MAYBE will take little more patience from us to see that happen, Im mad because he didnt have the spine to stick to his formation (and principles) ..

[artand]

I merely was pro him, because of his attitude towards SUSO.but whoever coaches us thinks Suso is Milana Messi. There are two options, suso making miracles in trainigs and underperforms in games or we are so fucked up that we dont have a better player than him.

[winstonwolfe]

This must be the record, in September it already looks like the season is almost over. This is a disastery of epic proportions, the worst case scenario nobody even though of. 5 games and only 6 points. We had disastrous seasons before, but this, this is something exceptional and totally unacceptable. I have been Milan fan for almost 25 years and I have seen ups and downs but there was always light at the end of tunnel. This time, I do not see how we can turn things around. Like we have been cursed or something, every single coach is making the same stupid mistakes and it makes me wonder what is wrong at Milanello? I do not think that sacking coach at this moment would change anything because more than anything we need stability and patience more than anything. Maldini selected Giampaolo and he asked for patience, and even said that this is how will it be at the begining.

Last night the first half looked promising, and I really do not care was it because Torino was shit or was it because we were good. The way we played was much faster and much more direct. Bennacer brought life into the midfield and his speedy, forward and one touch passing looked good, compared to the slow, backward boring and predictable shit Biglia played. Yes, he had errors, but he at least tried something. He showed hope for our midfield and he made other players look better, our full backs and especially Kessie. Hernandez also looks very promising and is complete opposite to Rodriguez and with Leao, our left side is very dangerous.
Suso, what to say about this guy, our most dangerous player and at the same time our biggest problem that so far no coach solved by finding him a place in a system where he will be the most efficiently with minimum of his negative effect on the rest of the team. With him on the field, we can not switch formations and tactics during the game and he made Milan look one dimensional despite having versatile players. Maybe, instead of having only one very dangerous option up front, it would be better to have more options even if they are less dangerous. Imagine Paqueta instead of Suso with all the freedom he had, or Bonaventura. Or even Calhanoglu who is constantly playing out of his position.

And also, Rebic, he is going to be the worst player of the season.

[craigAC]

We were quite good in the 1st half. I kept saying we need a 2nd. Then we know what happened in the 2nd half. Losing last night was always going to be a bad thing but losing it from a winning position makes it even worse. Action needs taking NOW so we have a chance of rescuing the season. Just not acceptable.

[honsano]

On our game play.....I think we are just playing in too long of a distance. There are very few short options on the ball and we are forced to play at 20+ meter distance. We are not drawing the opposition in, and we we are struggling to hold any kind of sustainable and dangerous possession in the opponent's half.
I love how Bennacer plays. Short range, quick exchanges, baiting players in until it's time to go a bit longer into the space that those players left behind them in chasing the ball. But nobody else plays like that on this team, and that's all Giampaolo's fault.

Good thing is that it's still early sesson, and there is no point of looking at the table. But the bad thing is that all these shit performances and dropped points will likely cost us in the end.

So from what I was seeing we played the long ball because Torino played like Inter by packing the midfield with five and using their forwards to defend. We are numerically nearly neutral to them but more importantly passing lanes are a lot more narrow. Bennacer tried to play those passes but they have to be perfect because there are so many players in the midfield. His misplaced passes led to dangerous counters. We used our forwards to skip midfield mess. What it does though is force the forwards to run to a corner for a 1v1 but also they have to be strong when they come back for the ball so he can quickly pass it to an on rushing midfielder. Piatek isn't powerful enough and dived too much. That's why Silva got the nod. With that said, Piatek was much better today. We had to pay long to stretch them out.

I am a big hakan fan, but midfield is not his role. Honestly we may benefit from Biglia and Bennacer with Pacman + Kessie/Krunic. Bennacer is not great defensively and was def caught out a lot.Also Susos need to be wide devastates our ability to play narrow. We are just outnumbered and when forwards come back for the ball there is no quick lay off.

I'm more optimistic after this game though. When our better players play, we play better. Young guys like Hernandez, Donnarums and Bennacer made mistakes but overall integrated well by adding a different dynamic. MG just needs to figure out this Suso thing. This team will struggle playing only one winger. Also super young guys playing. Expect this season to be a roller coaster.

[artand]

The first half we were ankother team with theo,bennacer and leao. Very dynamic and fluid game. The morron decided to make changes and destroyed our game. Alone for that he deserves the sack.
On long term, with the fresh blood we may have some optimism that better days sportively may come for us. Yet, this aint possible with this coach. We need someone who will give proper chance to the youngsters, develop them and promote into a new level. MG isnt the right man.

[mazen111]

as i said previously we will be playing faulty 4312 with scared feet all over the pitch under Giampaolo

[SkyEdge]

I am extremely disappointed. Not even mad. Just disappointed. I expected a lot more from Giampaolo's so called attacking and exciting system.

The only thing exciting about Milan nowadays is coming OL and seeing the raging comments.. 

I agree with the comparison btwn Benfica game and now.. im wondering what the fuck too.. i'd gladly accept these 3 losses IF we stuck to the same system we had during the Benfica/ManUtd friendlies.. hell.. i'd even believe we would turn the corner in due time and start blowing the opposition like the way Dortmund operates..

Season started and it all went to shit.. started seeing the Gattuso/Montella shit again.. hell.. the same shitty players even played better under Gattuso in the worst days of his time.. the bench almost had no quality.. now we have Paquetta.. Jack.. Bennacer.. Theo on the bench so we can have an even shittier version of last season.. this is a whole new level of shit no one saw coming..

And to top it off, we even have a way better quality squad now compared to last season.. atleast Gattuso can point to Conti being out almost 3/4 of the season.. Caldara being non-factor and Jack out till now.. M.G has no credible excuse for the shit we are watching.. none.. zero..

[millinarios]

Giampaolo being shit is not unexpected...