Milan is the best in town now, and all of Milan is celebrating!
1. “Well ventured, half won” may be the most accurate saying when summing up the match. Healthy daring by Fonseca to change formation, one might say it was. As a rule, it is not usually considered a sign of health that the coach starts to change formations already five rounds into the series and maybe the end result would have been the same with a different line-up. Or was the formation change itself a contributing factor to the victory. Fonseca basically has to play with Morata given his status and skill, at the same time we know that Tammy Abraham is an old favorite of Fonzie’s. And when you see Abraham’s work capacity, it’s easy to understand why. Here we also have perhaps the most logical explanation for the formation change in that 4-4-2 offers the possibility of playing with two central forwards. In addition to the formation change, we got to see a high-pressing Milan that managed to stress Inter and win second balls. Compared to the derby a year ago, Milan also defended much, much better as a unit. As a team.
2. Cage. Best in the Milan defense today with several decisive breaks. In the choice between him and Pavlo, the Italian must draw the longest straw. The good Matteo doesn’t complain and has been at the club for 12 years now. Maybe we have in him some much-needed soul and heart. Tonight he also rounded off by becoming the evening’s derby king!
3. Pulisic. Last year he was the team’s best player and the only thing missing was good performances against Inter/Juventus. Tonight he started really well, after a one-man show scored a really nice goal after only ten minutes. It was also the third league goal of the season.
4. OFF it was on Fonseca’s shirt for the evening, but the coach wasn’t mostly off tonight. Rafa Leao, on the other hand, did not make an impressive effort and felt very out of place. Swings around and isolates himself completely on his left edge. Have started the season weakly and tonight the contrast against Puli on the right flank was total.
5. Emotions! Finally we got to see Milan players get fired up and pissed off. Above all, this is something that our new leader on the pitch in the form of Alvaro Morata shows with the desired clarity. When Bastoni gets fucked with Puli, Morata steps in straight away and the tackle against Hakan in the 25th minute was really great to see and a way of playing that we have been missing in the Milan shirt in recent seasons.
5.1 Inter’s misshapen match shirts. Comment redundant.
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Gustav Hjorth Tegman2024-09-22 22:44:00
