The four -star attack disappoints with Feyenoord, the champion seemed Paixao … the coach with Verona and on his return he will find Musah: he can deploy three midfielders (and if instead he insists, he will have to find new automatisms)
A Wednesday of passion. Igor Paixao, the external striker of the Feyenoord, put the four stars of Milan in his pocket: creative, brilliant, decisive. All that were not Pulisic, Joao Felix, Leao and Gimenez. Their talent was seen here and there: a game by Joao Felix, an acceleration of Leao, practically nothing from Pulisic and Gimenez. Conceiçao took it with Felix and Lea in the first half, he removed Pulisic early and the Lea-Gimenez couple eight minutes from the end. Mom that disappointment.
The report cards of the four
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The Fab Four were negative individually and in a group. They sought and found little, they suffered the intensity of the Feyenoord and did not even do what the isolated champions do: a play of class, style, cunning. Bozza di Pattel at the end of the first quarter (for the second, there is the return to San Siro). Christian Pulisic started well but he eclipsed soon, he did not find spaces and connections with his teammates, he was replaced quickly. Joao Felix created a couple of occasions: a shot in the first half, a right on the second post in the second. In the middle, 45 minutes of silence, to look for the ball on the trocar without scary at De Kuip. Rafa Leao quarreated with half Rotterdam in the first half for a fall in the area, wasted an opportunity for XL on the counterattack – here it is, the real regret – and in the second it rose up but did not find the door. Santiago Gimenez has seen less than the others, he did 8 passages (not one more …) and never pulled on the goal.
how it resolves
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Empoli’s enthusiasm is already over. Milan struggled to build, to start the action and reach the four in front. When he found them, he almost never did it at speed: some restarts, then a lot of attack on a closed, deployed defense. Ideas, few. Like few, very few, there are three shots in the door in four, all by Joao Felix. So what? Imagining the way for improvement would be simple – circulating the ball faster, trying new play, movements, solutions – but Milan has almost no time for training and Conceiçao is not the type of coach to be built an offensive system in three days . It can be easier to grow by improving the individual condition (Joao Felix …) and helping Gimenez to be found by his companions.
And now who plays?
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Conceiçao, at this point, is 48 hours to think about what to do with Verona and Tuesday with Feyenoord. At the press conference he replied vague but clearly has two roads. The most rational: put Musah back, disqualified here, and return to 4-3-3. A man from the Fab Four (Lea?) Would go on the bench and would become a super sub, another way of saying English dedicated to luxury reserves. The most risky and more courageous idea, however, is the other: insist with the four offensive players and give minutes to everyone, hoping that a spark will be born and the four -headed creature comes to life. But in Rotterdam it rained and who has ever seen it, a spark that comes from nothing in the rain?
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