[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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[Danny]

I'm going to give some ratings for the hell of it:

Lopez: 7 Stopped it being worse. Had no chance with the goal.

Abate: 7 Can hold his head high. No lack of fight and kept trying to create up front, while doing a decent job at the back.

Mexes: 6 Reasonable overall.

Rami: 5 Mediocrity at its finest.

Bonera: 5 Did as well as a natural CB can at LB.

De Jong: 6 Not bad, been better, but some good moments of play breaking.

Monto: 2 Just...terrible. After a bright period of good form on his return, he's become worse than last season's Monto now. Since Sassuolo...just diabolical. Van Ginkel deserves a chance.

Bona: 8 By miles our best player. Showed skill, fight, willingness to get forward and defend. Really good.

Menez: 2 Back to old Menez.

SES: 6 He put everything he had in, but for all the effort up front, there is just rarely end product with him. But he's played worse than this.

Cerci: 3 Horrendous. Showed no attacking flair, and rightly subbed off.

Subs:

Armero: 6 To give him his dues he had a decent match - best he's played for us.

Pazzo: 4 Back to normal Pazzo. Effort but lack of quality.

Niang: 6 tbh he showed more attacking quality in his cameo than Menez & Cerci combined.

I don't actually blame any individual vfor the goal - it was just an all round poorly organised Milan conceding again. Oddly enough I noticed De Jong peg the danger but knew he couldn't get there in time. Pity he hadn't tracked the runner.

Pippo: 0 His time is up. Can't manage, can't motivate, hasn't the first clue about tactics, or altering a system, and consistently rotates the team no matter who is playing about how they're doing.

He needs to go.

[X-Offender]

Monto: 2 Just...terrible. After a bright period of good form on his return, he's become worse than last season's Monto now. Since Sassuolo...just diabolical. Van Ginkel deserves a chance.

As I said in my previous post, he's the embodiment of this Milan. Mediocre player. I was closely observing him, whenever we had the ball in midfield, he was just lazily walking instead of freeing himself to receive the pass. This is something most of our players do, and one of our main issues that need to be addressed, but Montolivo is the captain. He's supposed to be the leader and brains of our midfield. To expect such behavior from him is unacceptable. He's a very small player, and to have him tarnish the legendary Milan armband perfectly demonstrates how low we have fallen.

[Danny]

As I said in my previous post, he's the embodiment of this Milan. Mediocre player. I was closely observing him, whenever we had the ball in midfield, he was just lazily walking instead of freeing himself to receive the pass. This is something most of our players do, and one of our main issues that need to be addressed, but Montolivo is the captain. He's supposed to be the leader and brains of our midfield. To expect such behavior from him is unacceptable. He's a very small player, and to have him tarnish the legendary Milan armband perfectly demonstrates how low we have fallen.

Can't disagree on current form. But I will say that without the captaincy he was MUCH better in 2012/2013. The guy just never was captain material, and I'm even wondering how he got it at Fiorentina as there isn't a leading bone in his body.

[X-Offender]

I think the last 3 matches we played before the break Monto did look very good and he improved our play. He's not an assist man, but when he's doing his job right he helps to ensure the ball keeps moving and he controls tempo better than anyone we have.

No offense, but that's horseshit. Keeps the ball moving? Controls the tempo? He does no such things. He's a useless dud, as useless as Muntari. He's never been anything impressive with this shirt. Only one decent season doesn't make you a good, reliable player. At best he can be a DM that breaks play and makes the simple pass, but even at that I wouldn't put much faith him. The fact that he's considered the "playmaker" of our team makes me shudder in disgust.