QUOTE (Fillipo Simone @ Feb 11 2018, 06:29 PM)
We might have won but we really play ugly and unstable football. We scored instantly and then gave a semi-amateur team like SPAL the space to attack. Milan IMO has simply too many problems to deal with (simultaneously) to rely on Gattuso. Don't get me wrong, I really adore Rino but I don't think he is what we need now.
Rino aside (because I feel like we've exhausted this topic to ne end), the problem is very obviously the too relaxed mentality of our players. An experienced coach would definitely help in that regard, but one has to assess deeper than that, this has plagued us for years now, we rarely ever go in for the kill. You would think that someone like Rino with his fiery spirit would at least beat it a bit out of the players but we see this inability to kill games off repeatedly. Last week against Udine we shouldn't have let it get that far. Calabria getting the second yellow was a direct result of the continuous invitation tour opposition to attack us when we should have been able to control the game better.
Yesterday as well, the score is flattering no doubt, and yes, it is ugly football. We continuously see the same movements and build up, which has become so predictable it's painful to watch. The only games I've seen any sort of free-flowing play this season were the games against Inter and Lazio. So I feel like we can achieve that but I don't understand why it cannot be done on a consistent basis and why the players so easily fall back to the flat and slow game which we have become so accustomed to since the Allegri years