Yeah, we're playing like sh*t, but no wonder considering our attacking line is Saelemaekers-Castillejo-Maldini, i.e. non-existent. Underwhelming performances by Theo, Hakan and Bennacer thus far.

We need to bring in Leao and Brahim ASAP.

OMFG DSFASDFASF!!!

What did I just watch???!!!!

Man wtf juat happened. Livescore showed leao missed and thought we lost then.. But ultimately won... Wow

What a drag. Terrible game, terrible streams, then the frigging penalties that would never end.

I'd like to go into detail re the game, but my mind is mush atm.

I was literally laughing throughout that shootout

Our players though...

It was a really rough game. We looked zonked by minute 30, Rio's fitness seemed to be 10 notches above ours. If we can somehow make it through that Spezia game and get all 3 points I'd be really happy because we are struggling a lot.

It's been a brutal start to the season, add to that the misfortune with injuries/covid and it's no surprise we're struggling. But I'm still happy to see the resilience in this team.

Diaz is an absolute gem. Pioli better play him instead of that waste of space Samu. What a terrible run he's on. I've never seen him play a worse few games since he's been with us. Salemakers was also good. We sh!t on him a lot, but the kid is working hard and showing improvement with each game he plays.

Tonali with a brilliant few minutes as well. Should have come on earlier, their second goal happened due to Kessie's heavy legs

We crawled our way through, no doubt. But I'm all the more happy for it to see how this team just doesn't give up. A few months ago our head would have dropped and we'd be done as soon as we conceded the first goal

This was a huge step back for us. I feared this would be a difficult game, but it went much for worse than I thought. I honestly stopped watching after the first AET due to bad streaming so I missed the last 15 minutes. But we honestly were terrible.

First half was unwatchable, then we looked like we composed ourselves with Brahim's entrance. Their goal came out of nowhere, and from then onwards it was a downward spiral.

I understand we were missing some key players, but nevertheless such a shitty performance is inexcusable. Hakan was inexistent the whole night, Hernandez was awful, Bennacer didn't do much, Calabria looked liked his former self, Leao looked half-arsed. Only Brahim and Saelemaekers were redeemable tonight.

Let's get those 3 points vs Spezia and compose ourselves with the NT break. And hopefully recover Romagnoli, Zlatan and Rebic for the derby.

Totally agreed. He's won me over. And I was probably his fiercest critic only a few weeks ago. Nothing to write home about, mind you, but he does his job very well, and is extremely versatile and hard-working. Kudos, really.

What a game!!! I was lucky enough to be able to watch the game on the Milan app, but I had meetings, had to focus on what was going on, and eventually turned off the game because it was too distracting. Did try to follow what was happening.

Clearly we are not going to get far in either EL or Serie A unless we get some decent last minute additions to the team. I understand we were missing key players, but some of our starters are crap, some of our bench plyers are even worse, we have a lot of games to play, and we do not know who will get sidelined due to injuries / COVID / whatever.

Samu is crap (that was obvious even in the few minutes I watched). From what I read, Leao was a disappointment, and Diaz is too "selfish", and our youth players need time to mature (assuming they can get better - not sure about Maldini).

EL group for us:

Celtic Glasgow
Sparta Praga
Milan
Lille

Rather tough if you ask me.

Celtic are sh*t these days. Lille are strong, Prague could be a test.

This post has been edited by Danny: Oct 2 2020, 01:10 PM

I think aside from all the missing players we simply have to look at the fatigue that's playing a huge part.

The players we have on the pitch are not being rotated because Pioli doesn't have much of an option. Kessie, Bennacer, Theo, Hakan, etc are simply running on empty at this point.

I still think this is a good group of players and we can do things this season, but we simply have to regroup and we need a couple of signings more. A few injuries plus the added factor of Covid and we could easily spiral.

My worry with the international break is players like Hakan for example, who has 3 games to play with Turkey. He needs rest right now, not to be playing 3 more games within a week and a half


Samu is god awful right now. He was the only player that really p!ssed me off yesterday. Pioli needs to stop playing him.

I don't think Diaz was selfish at all, he was trying to make things happen when his teammates were barely running

That reminds me! Leao also p!ssed me off. Sure he's barely had a few days of training after coming back from Covid, but he's just so frustrating.


It's a nice group really. If we can get back to the levels we saw last season we'll get through


Last time we faced both Celtic and Lille in the same CL season we won the trophy

I was thinking the same. Maybe Pioli can let him rest against Spezia and play Brahim instead.



I thought Brahim was a bit selfish. There were a couple of times when I was "screaming" at the screen for him to pass.

And yeah, Leao also pissed me, too. He thinks too much of himself sometimes, when in reality ends up looking awkward and sloppy. Kinda reminds of Niang. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif)

Don't think he will rest him. Hakan is too essential to the team to leave out. Plus, Diaz should really play instead of Samu

Yes, Diaz can over dribble at times, but he has that electric quality to him. Will be interesting to see how he develops as the season goes on. I'm sure he'll cut out the ball hogging as we go along.

Yeah, especially that chance he had when he came on. He was clean through after a really good run and beat 2 players, and for some reason decided to dribble a third player when he already had a clear sight of goal.

A goal there would have finished it and saved us the agony we went through

And yes, he does remind me of Niang. A slightly more talented Niang but still a Niang, which is a shame considering all the money we spent on him. He needs to grow up