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Originally Posted by Kui
What you've wrote was constructive Jeff. Yet I will respectfully disagree with you. We only need Tuesday's performance minus the awful mistakes and we can beat not only Bayern but any team out there.
Perhaps we shall try to find some consensus between us?
It is apparent by many that Milan has played not even 1 decent game all season. The question is "when?". Are all games this season going to not be satisfactory to any here in this forum? You see I'll take those odds against the many who are pessimistic about our chances to get by Bayern and to go further than that. If we are at rock bottom as so much have come to agree on, and with a "so-so" game against Bayern. We can do no worse but go back up... no???
This is my two cents and I'll back it up 100%. IMO it is gold!
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I have been thinking about this, too, about this 'regression to the mean' hypothesis. But is it likely that it'll happen next game, with Gila out and the pressure mounting on Milan, who needs to produce a win AWAY?
All Milan teams in the past year (i.e., since 2002 to 2006), I will say, HELL YES. But this year? No. I didn't see the winning mentality that the team has demonstrated in the past. For example, they have been awful in terms of defending a lead. It was not like this before. Milan, despite being 'dominated' for the last 15 minutes usually in the game (when they were leading) continued to defend well. It's a matter of confidence. But I don't see ANY confidence in this team right now, when two not-so-difficult-to-defend high ball resulted in TWO goals, with fingers pointing at each other why the goals were conceded... this Milan is simply not the same Milan that I have seen, and I am not the kind of person who says this easily, (as you know since you are around long enough).
Even if Milan go through Bayern, I don't see them as a champion team this year. Roma, Chelsea, Liverpool, and Man U do. I'm referring to the 'mentality', the hunger to win. Milan has the hunger, for the first 45 minutes, then somehow it just dies away, fearing that 1) if it's 0-0, they won't score in the second half; 2) if it's 1-0 or 2-1, they'll concede another goal. This, of course, turns out to be a self-fulfilling prophecy.
We'll see how Milan played against Empoli this week; I haven't seen any consistency this year at Milan, and you BUILD consistency. It doesn't come to you all of a sudden.
And this is why I'm not optimistic, this time round.