[han2503]

Who: A.C. Milan vs. Atalanta B.C.



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Where: Stadio San Siro



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When:
18th January 2015 @ 3:00pm CET


Head-to-Head Record



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[X-Offender]

Just re-watched the goal. It's clearly De Jong's fault for leaving Denis run into the box. Mexes also should have been more aware at the moment of the pass.

[Danny]

Just re-watched the goal. It's clearly De Jong's fault for leaving Denis run into the box. Mexes also should have been more aware at the moment of the pass.

Like I said in my post, De Jong at least did track back but pegged the danger too late - where was Monto? Half way line doing absolutely nothing.

And the goal itself was a collaboration of about 5 or 6 failings in truth - all defensive. But the gap between Mexes and Bonera was just comical.

[han2503]

Like I said in my post, De Jong at least did track back but pegged the danger too late - where was Monto? Half way line doing absolutely nothing.

And the goal itself was a collaboration of about 5 or 6 failings in truth - all defensive. But the gap between Mexes and Bonera was just comical.

I think in this case it's easy to place blame on an individual, or even multiple ones, but the problem is that Menez lost possession when we were pressing forward. So most players were caught off guard, as soon as the ball was turned over by Menez who back healed it to an opponent, the players tried to get back but because they were all seemingly in "relaxed" mode because we were in possession and had it not been for Menez's showboating we would have kept that possession they were caught off guard

I'm not saying it's right that they were in that relaxed mode, but the goal came about because of Menez's mistake. When you lose the ball in that area of the pitch you're always at risk.

And we tend to do this a lot. Muntari, Essien, Poli have all been major culprits in this. They're spaced out and send the ball to no one in the most dangerous areas. And usually for some reason we get out of jail, but at some point you're bound to get punished for it. And it's not just those 3. There's an air of indifference, lack of concentration, just being plain old spaced out at times from all our players

Most chances that our opponents create come about because of mistakes on the part of our own players, mistakes that at this level should not be made