IThe collapse of Milan arrived on the midline of the pitch, such as a wound in the abdomen. The void in between built up the defensive confusion and the feeling of helplessness that quickly became a reality. Spezia is as if he had played pinball, where the ball was Milan. A game at high speed, with spaces covered by heart, like a real team. A kind of Zeman land with less quality and identical attention.
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There have been moments in which Milan have been put under in a pounding way. There was no distraction from the leaders, there was pure tactical inferiority. Out of the competition Bennacer, never really felt on the field Kessie, never touched Calhanoglu, also wrong Saelemaekers, unable to think by the rhythm of Batons and Saponara in his tunnel (HERE the report cards of Spezia-Milan). This collapse made the whole defense fly away, not even Donnarumma was the usual leader. This does not throw away Milan’s championship, but reopens it to everyone. It clears after a year the indefinite growth of the team and the feeling that had become the new reference. The slowness of everyone frees the league from its obligations, there is no longer a dominant thought.
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The defeat of Juventus confirms this, the data underline it. To find a team in the lead with fewer points than AC Milan we need to go back to 2012: a year ago, to say, Juve had 54 points, two years ago even 60. It is Milan’s third defeat in seven games, but also Juve’s third in nine. Nobody can have the ambition to represent a school anymore, everything is fragile, you have to live for the day and be content with hoping to win. This also says the defeat of a Juve that seemed to me rather shaken by the variations of themes of the last Pirlo. I like Pirlo, he is a free but complex man. He locked Ronaldo in an iron cage to follow his temptations. The less useful like Danilo, Chiesa and Rabiot become good, the essentials like Ronaldo, Morata and Kulusevski lose color, not to mention Dybala. Ronaldo scored 2 goals in 6 games. It had never happened in the last two seasons. To put the Church at ease, Pirlo has closed him in the midst of his opponents and is losing him as a phenomenon. Perhaps Juve did not deserve defeat, but they have always remained a soft group, from a trip to the countryside on a luxury car, never really invasive. Inter-Lazio tonight becomes so fundamental to understand the new importance of the others. If I were Inter I would hurry to win, because Lazio are the leanest in the group.
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February 14, 2021 (change February 14, 2021 | 07:10)
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