In July, Juventus came to play at the San Siro without its men in the best form at the moment, Dybala and De Ligt, out due to disqualification. At that moment for the bianconeri it was like having half a team out, but they took the field, took the lead two to nil, lost four to two, took their things and went home. Without opening your mouth. They did not say “we lost but we are stronger” even to his wife while innocently asking for a goodnight kiss or to their children asking for the time. They know they are stronger, it is true that they are stronger, what need is there to say? If there is something that does not add up to you, please interrupt me as I apologize … If, on the other hand, after a defeat, between a tap in Calabria and one in Calhanoglu, the pasta is seasoned screaming even outside the balcony “Yes, but we we are stronger “… okay, patience, amen. Could it be a lack of affection, a need for certainties? Logic teaches that when something is indisputable, you don’t spend time repeating the obvious. If you do, maybe there is some problem. But that’s none of our business, so flab. We think game by game, without thinking in the least about the previous games played from mid-June to today. No since yesterday morning. We know where we come from. And we don’t repeat it left and right, to try to take back what happened on the pitch off the pitch. The pitch is the pitch and Milan is there. In the field. Not in Chiaccheropoli.
Well yes, gentlemen. Right now we are a Europa League team. We “contaminated” the natural habitat … Indeed, I do not know if it is a “contamination” but we have never had a Europa League team like this season. In recent years we had a group split in two, between players with Champions League ambitions and others who weren’t even ready for the Europa League. Going on the pitch in the UEL with the afterthought of the Champions League is the best way to put yourself in a position to be neither meat nor fish. Do you remember the effort with the Dudelange? Or the worries against Rijeka and Aek Athens? This year, however, four victories, three without Ibra and Rebic, one without Calha and Rebic. Look at some of our players on the pitch in Glasgow: Dalot, Hauge, Saelemaekers, Krunic, all perfect Europa League players, who do not snub the Europa League, who do not feel they are children of a lesser God if they play it and who fight on their own for you with a Europa League team like Celtic. It is not a diminutio and you shouldn’t wrinkle your nose. This year’s group is built to fit seasonal commitments. It is well leveled, the starting squad is wider, there is not a huge difference in height if the others placed beyond the first 16-17 play. A seamless rose, terraced with the right proportions. I’m certainly not saying that Milan can win the Europa League, but that continuing to think of being Champions and continuing to dream of the Champions without being contaminated by the Europa League, meant wanting to take a step longer than the leg after so many years of difficulty. Being in Europe means being in Europe, and if Europe is the Europa League, this is the competition that must be faced. With the right players, as Saelemaekers and Hauge’s entrants have shown. The time will come to take another step forward, but now these are the steps we need to take. With these players and with this way of taking the right steps one at a time.
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