Milan from Champions League with Modric, Market and Allegri

This time San Luka betrayed Bologna and enhanced Milan who, after the initial false step against Cremonese, continues his march and takes a (small) revenge on the team that had torn the Italian Cup and the possibility of medicating, at least in part, the balance of last season. Max Allegri’s jacket has started to rotate again and if taking a red is never a good thing (it must be said that the arbitration decision not to give the penalty for Lucumi’s foul on Nkunku was somewhat surprising, even more so because validated by the Var), it is the sign that the old habits are hard to die. Almost as much as the wins of short muzzle.

ATTENTION: short muzzle does not mean by chance. And if, after the first good twenty minutes of Milan, for long stretches the maneuver was a little contracted and quite boring, and Bologna tried to manage the ball (without ever being too dangerous, it must be said), after Modric’s goal the team unrelated, played much better, had occasions (in all there will be four poles), undoubtedly ending up deserving. Moral is that quality is never a bad idea. AC Milan wins thanks to its midfield of the stars and thus solves what is likely to be a problem that will reappear at San Siro because this is a team that must be low, regain ball and start again. But if St. Luka intervenes, everything is easier. If someone still had doubts about how Modric could give (but we also add Adrien Rabiot) after yesterday evening he will have hunted him.

Modric, 40 years old and not wanting to hear them (in the sense that he is tired of questions about age, but if he goes on, we will continue to amaze and underline it) is already the absolute leader: of the team and of San Siro, conductor, teacher in the recovery of balls, in the filtering passages and in the conclusions, such as that, beautiful, with whom he decided the game. Rabiot had an excellent impact: man everywhere, first to press, a great desire, able to alternate with Loftus-Cheek as a second striker and therefore vary the game by disoriented the opponents. Not bad as a debut.

If Inter, and also Juventus, also used little, or very little, on Saturday evening, the new purchases (the Nerazzurri only Akanji from the beginning, moreover without great results), Milan has made the most of the summer market. In fact, the contribution to the race during Ricci and Nkunku also appeared good, who, as mentioned, a penalty was also conquered. With these premises, the goal of the Champions League appears to be realistic, also because the absence of the cups will help Allegri and will allow Modric to always present himself at most by playing once a week. Speaking of saints, the negative note remains Gimenez, who appears precisely in mystical crisis: the pole that strikes is a sensational wrong goal. The Mexican cannot unlock and Allegri’s next mission will be recovering his attacker.

Among the leaders, he does not keep the step of Naples and Juventus La Roma, who deservedly falls against a solid Turin, showing all his deficits in front. Gasperini takes a step back: he focuses on Dybala false nine, but perhaps he ends up confusing his, for sure his attack is not up to a team that aims at the Champions League. Baroni, on the other hand, begins to show his hand, presenting a solid, concentrated, never frenetic team, to which Asllani gives order, with a Simeone in extra luxury version, and who reacted well to the initial defeat with Inter and has been able to cope with a not easy calendar.