Against Cremonese another flop: out of shape and out of schemes, he will have to struggle to earn space
Giroud and then a large area void: greeted Olivier bomber, Milan has not found other center forward capable of filling the gap. The scoring pain seemed finally resolved with the purchase of Santi Gimenez, the thirty million bomber and more. Santi was not only the ruthless striker in Eredivisie, the highest Dutch championship. With Feyenoord, Goleador had also been in the Champions League: nine games and seven goals. Last January, when the Rossoneri already struggled in attack and were looking for alternative solutions to Morata and Abaraham, here the shots of Gimenez looked like a distant dream. And instead: here it is at Milan for 28.5 million plus a bonus package.
Saints immediately
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The great illusion is fueled by the beginning of the attacker: assist against Roma, goal to the debut from taken from Empoli, goal at the first at San Siro al Verona. “Saints immediately”. But then nothing more until last April, Network to Venice, and to the match of May at Bologna. The adventure in the Champions League with Milan closes against the former Feyenoord companions, despite Gimenez’s network in San Siro. The doubts that play them remain more: the summer indiscretions on an immediate transfer take altitude before Saints himself reports everything to reality. “The only truth is that the championship is about to start. And it will be an incredible season,” he wrote on social media before the match against Cremonese. The debut tells a very different story. Santi wasted the first opportunity, a starting shirt at the beginning of the new series a offered by Leao’s injury. Other chances will arrive: despite the first flop, the club and the coach are willing to grant him a second possibility. The alibi of delayed preparation due to the July commitments with the Mexican national team still holds. Gimenez had arrived in Milanello in early August and twenty days later he was the owner in the championship: the form cannot be optimal, as well as the knowledge of Max’s schemes. Which still encouraged and defended him publicly, underlining professionalism and dedication. His first race, however, ends with only seven positive steps (given that he demonstrates the estrangement of team play), eight lost balls – with one starts the doubling of the Cremonese – and a total of just twenty balls played. A first impression is that it is out of shape and out of schemes: the time to work is in condition and integration.
space
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The arrival of a very young tip does not necessarily put it in the shade. It would have been different with the purchase of a cumbersome attacker. There are spaces to re -emerge: however, it must be better understood with the rest of the group, which also tries to support it. And dedicate yourself to the rapid recovery of form: certain wrong hooks and other inaccuracies can also be connected to a physical brilliance to be found. It could try again in Lecce, considering that the championship calendar proposes the advance on Friday: if even the Harder deal will end in a short time it is not said to be available for the first trip to the season (on the field it would find the baby Camarda as a distance, Milan property on loan to the Giallorossi …). Leao is to be evaluated day by day: if available he will return to the new role of center forward alongside Pulisic. Otherwise it would still be up to Gimenez: it takes little, just a goal, to rewrite the story.
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