I agree about Kessie and Romagnoli

At least Romagnoli picked it up later on. Kessie is just not himself right now, and at this point I don't want to see him starting anymore if that contract is not signed

He can f@ck right off if he wants to leave for free.

The problem with the first half aside from a lack of concentration was that disjointed formation Pioli put out. Why he decided to play Tomori at RB is beyond me. Why oh why play the 2 slow CBs in the middle. Both Romagnoli and Kjaer play much better next to Tomori. We've known this for months now, so why change things up against Juve? We had the perfect opportunity to scalp them tonight and did not take it.

Theo's switching off is really starting to p!ss me off as well. He needs to stop riding the hype train and concentrate more. Another player that has drank the coolaid a bit too much over these last few months.

If we had a decent CF aside from Rebic we would have walked this in the second half. Leao is so inappropriate, Alexis is mediocre, Florenzi shouldn't even be there.

I liked our second half, more in terms of mentality than in terms of overall play. We squashed them in their own half, and should have won if their GK hadn't made the save of his life.

We need to recover our strikers, and Messias. Our attacking game is laughable.

Agreed, the tomori experiment was not the good one. We all know Kalulu is dependable in the defensive phase. He should have been starting.

I don't know what it is about Theo, but it's like he's playing at 10 percent capacity. He used to burst with so much pace going forward.

And again with the injuries, we're in deep trouble...

Aside from switching up the setup which was good. Pioli is seriously disappointing with his subs

Florenzi?? WTF for?? He was never going to change anything. Why not try out Pellegri? Kalulu was good, but his final ball is consistently disappointing.

All things considered injury semi-crisis, fatigue from Liverpool, and playing away from home at Juve... It was a good result.

Yes, agreed about Pioli's formation. It made no sense. It was awful, the team looked so clueless and disoriented. Why switch to a 3-man defence when we've never played so, in such a difficult game nonetheless? Stupid, stupid, stupid.

And his infatuation with Florenzi RW has got to stop!

We need to play Ballo-Toure and Bennacer in the place of Theo and Kessie against Venezia. These two mofos have to wake the f*ck up!

But given the second half it leaves a bad taste in the mouth. Not signing a proper attacking player who's a proper goal threat, whether that's a RW or an AM, is really going to hurt us. Especially with the injury situation not being sorted at all

Kjaer seemed to have pulled with a muscle issue. So that's 2 players now already with muscle problems. Giroud and Ibra both out at the same time is the dreaded scenario as well

WE have Venezia and Spezia in the league now before Atalanta. We have to make sure we get the 6 points in those games going into Atalanta.

I expect Kjaer to be out for a month. Tomori and Romagnoli will have to play all games.

I really hope we recover one between Giroud and Zlatan for the next game. And I can't wait to have Rebic as LW again. He's being wasted as CF cos nobody helps him.

Leao tonight was rubbish. Same, old Leao. Lowest mark from Mediaset (5) alongside Kessie.

Alexis is also disappointing me a lot. I thought this year he would improve, but his last couple of games have been terrible.

Once again super performances from Tonali and Tomori.

What worries me much is that bar Rebić, Calabria, Tonali, Maignan and Diaz (occasionally) we lack in-form players.

All our top players are out of form. Kessie is painful to watch. Bennacer is mostly horrible as well. Same goes for Hernandez and a bunch of other players.

Secondly, I really wouldn't stretch Ibra for Spezia and Venezia. Let's try this Pellegri guy and maybe Maldini as well (I don't think it was a conspiracy tbh, just that Pioli was satisfied with a draw like all other players seemed to be as well).

Thirdly, once more Milan does not have a plan B and shows little to none flexibility tactical-wise. It's either we play our game or we stop existing and wait for a fluke goal or to be eliminated. We also look disjointed and confused, completely lost from time to time. That makes me worry even more.

Not addressing the main problems of last season: bringing in a quality RW and a additional AM is hurting us already at season start. These will be our top proprieties in January I suppose then.

We need more people involved in the attacking midfield (the LW-AM-RW line). That's the key. Only Diaz is the one who's always inspired. Leao is just there jogging and occasionally doing a trick or two. He's very detached. The work Rebic does as LW is incomparable. And on the other side Saelemaekers/Florenzi are too mediocre. Heck, maybe we should give another chance to Castillejo at this point.

Not signing that Faivre kid in the last day really screwed us. I reckon he would have proven to be a very valid RW alternative. Hopefully Messias doesn't disappoint, whenever the hell he's going to be available. What did this guy do the entire summer to be so out of shape? Play video games? Jeez...

I want to see Bennacer-Tonali against Venezia, and Ballo-Toure for Theo. And maybe Pellegri as CF if Giroud or Zlatan are not available. Rebic on the left, please.

None of which will happen. Ballo-Toure is horrible and won't play for sure, only if Theo gets injured or super tired. Pioli won't start Benna-Tonali because he wants and muscle man and will always prefer one of Kessie, Bakayoko and Krunić. Rebić will once again start as CF.

Oh, and I'd really keep Ibra fresh for bigger fish to come.

How do you know Ballo-Toure is horrible? He impressed me a lot in pre-season. Theo also has to rest.

And Bennacer-Tonali is very doable, especially against sides like Venezia or Spezia. Let's not forget that both are very aggressive players. In fact, as of right now I'd give as many minutes as possible to Bennacer so he can get back in form. Kessie can warm the bench.

Impressive stat: from 95 minutes of game time, only 48 minutes were effective play. The rest were all pauses and interruptions. Goes to show how little the intensity in Serie A is. I doubt in England it would be anything below 70.

Yeah, I'm not surprised, the game was so frustrating to watch. To think the ref barely gave 5 minutes of extratime in total.

This post has been edited by William405: Sep 20 2021, 06:22 AM