Donnarumma clearly was our best player there, he had nothing more to do.

As for Gomez, he did decently considering he debuted against Napoli, but I could see he didnt handle pressure very well.

Romagnoli, what to say, I think he thinks he is better than he actually is, he is behaving like he is Silva while he is still a baby. He has lots of potential, but he didnt show it tonight, also I saw that he was very prone to discussing with the referee and other players.

As for Abate and De Sciglio, quite similar, nothing much noted, they failed to penetrate Napolis full backs, while they were ***** by Mertens, especially Abate.

Montolivo for me is a finished player, I started counting his mistakes in the first quarter of the game and when I counted 3 i stopped watching him play anymore. Once upon a time, he at least provided some good passes for the front players, while now he is not doing even that.

Kucka is a stupid player with a great heart, he could have become a good soldier but not a football player. If he continues to make such foolish mistakes, I dont know if we should depend on him.

Bonaventura is nothing comparing to his 2 previous seasons. It is maybe because of his new position in the field, but he is failing to provide what we were expecting from him.

As for Niang and Suso, they were really good, scoring two great goals. But while the childish Niang was to busy trying to get a red card Suso wasted his stamina quite early in the game and became unoticable.

Bacca is a player that cant turn a game on his own, if he doesnt have asissts he wont deliver, that is quite undertandable. His performance today summarizes teams performance.

While Sosa and Lapadula didnt contribute as much to the game due to the lack of time for them, Calabria even though went in together with Sosa was quite active and delivered a nice cross for Niang and also ran quite much in defence.

He sleepwalked all over first half with one horrible shot and nothing else. Then he scored that stunner (don't know about the assist, the first goal was all Niang without any help IMO), but soon he switched off again. Two very different halftimes.

If you ask me, inadequate.

Hmm, but is that because it was a big game he was pushed into, playing for the first time next to Romagnoli and in a new league at that. Did he at least show some promise that he could work his way into the team or was it a complete let down?

It's hard to tell. He seemed solid but maid those typically southamerican defender errors; details like corner defending, closing down attacking wings, handling his position vis a vis the attacking players, etc. He wasn't terrible or something like that, but rather shy and still very much unadapted I'd say.

Oh, and btw. De Sciglio switched back to Milan mode. Anonymous in attack, awful in defense.

He wasnt that bad if you ask me. I think that debuting vs Napoli had a lot to do with his performance. I think that we should give him time, and with a little more self confidence, he could turn into a decent defender. Even though judging basing only on 1 game is impossible.

Watching those highlights, the defending on Milik's and Callejon's goals was seriously bad. Abate seemed to be getting skinned by Mertens on each confrontation. The midfield simply provided zero cover for the defense so it was way to easy for Napoli's players to create one on one situations and curl the ball around them, both goals came from those type of situations and both times they got the rebound.

I think pushing him into this particular game was always going to be tough for him considering. I'd really like to see him though so I'm hoping Montella gives him a bit of chance and sticks with him instead of the rusty old Paletta, at least Gomez could surprise us given time, with Paletta it's the same old, samle old


I honeslty do not understand this. Is it the environment at Milan that throws him off? Does he only perform well when his team mates are also doing well? Does he not want to be here? Because this is just baffling to me, I don't understand how he can play so well for Italy one moment and be terrible for us the next


Yeah, definitely hard to judge, especially in such a difficult match as Napoli away. I'm going to try to find the torrent for the match and download it. I'm very curious to see how he played

So trying to look at the bright side a bit. I guess we can say that we handled Napoli a smidge better than that hiding we got last season from them early in the season not to mention that we played away today and not at home like last season.

Apart from that, International break is coming up so Montella will have a bit more time to regroup, maybe integrate some of the new additions better and try to find a way to eliminate Monto from that midfield without completely throwing off the balance in the side (saying this because the majority of our mids are more attack minded so playing them could impose more problems than it solves, but Monto simply seems physically shot at this point)

It was a bad defeat because we equalized and fought back. But it is clear that we are missing a leadership in this team on the field. Montolivo is not that. And Abate is a hot head.

It was a decent game, of course there was work to be done - but we're facing the second best team in Italy with a team of kids. It's alright. There are definitely a lot more chances being made, and we do look for once like we can hurt the opposition.

Can't deny the lack of quality in midfield and the lack of cohesion in the defence. But this sort of thing will take time I guess. But yes, the midfield needs a massive overhaul.

Montella: "Maybe the Chinese sent the transfers to the wrong address (Inter)."

Montella: "I won't accept my players to keep protesting against referees. I don't tolerate."

Montella: "I do think that Milan could have done better in the mercato and I am not fully satisfied with the outcome of negotiations."

Montella: "Milan gifted Napoli the win. It's not fair that you play a game like that, and finish with 0 points."

Do you want to get fired? Cos that is how you get fired. He is right though (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Silvio might fire him, but Silvio isn't the boss anymore. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

By the way yesterday's line-up had 6 players starting who were under 23. If you'd told me this 5 years ago I'd have laughed in your face. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Perhaps we jumped to conclusions. Because MDS looked good with perhaps the best defense in the world at his side (Buffon, Barzagli, Chiellini, Bonucci). Or we have to be more patient. I don't know.


The sooner Montella realizes that Monto is finished, the better. He's a sad excuse for a captain, while as a player he brings little to nothing. At this point, we have to part ways ASAP.


Jack, I have to disagree. Time isn't the answer IMO. This was practically the same team we had last year, they had plenty of time to feel themselves and unite.

I think many things went wrong yesterday. Firstly, I'm really troubled by our mentality. We seem to drag the same old problem from season to season: we're rarely able to play a full game concentrated and in the same pace. Just look at the Torino game. We easily lose rhythm, we rarely take initiative and usually wait for things to happen. On top of it, yesterday I've witnessed things that should be way beneath our level: may it be the behavior of Kucka, Niang and a few others, or the conduct Romagnoli did in the last minutes of the game which is nothing but embarrassing. I think time will only make things worse unless we inject ASAP some fresh blood in the team. And I don't mean players like Pašalić who'll blend right away in this mess, I mean leader characters, winners who can pick up a different kind of vibe and mentality at Milan.


If you told me 5 years ago that a 4-2 defeat at Naples was expected, I'd laughed even harder. I don't see much positivness here to be quite frank. Napoli is a solid squad, nothing more or less. We should have done better.

Napoli vs Milan players' rating. Suso MOTM, Kucka FOTM.


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