Okay. Very bad match overall, I think everyone will agree.
We slowly got into the game better and started to have more and more posses ion, but thus created to little. All offensive options either got blocked or pressured to pass backwards.
Loosing Ambrosini (and to an extent Abbiati) was a game-changer. This is why I pick Ambro as MOM; apart from the shots (which also illustrate you how Milan's attack was in fact toothless) he made a great match. More and more he begins looking like one of these typical sport-movies characters, the old captain plagued with injuries but still able to pull out a master performance if needed.
Who was our flop? Obviously, Abate. Amelia also proved to me what I already knew - he isn't first team material, so if Abbiati will go, we should find a new keeper as No. 1.
Kevin Constant is another problem. He seems to be useless in fact. He's a winger/left midfielder turned into a fullback, but unlike Zambrotta or Serginho he simply can't make a good cross or a defense-cutting pass. He can't shoot either. Therefore he's a complete waste; either you get yourself a fullback that is strong defensively, or you take the risk and convert a more technically versatile player. Constant apparently is mediocre at best on both accounts.
Riccardo Montolivo once again proved he's not our solution. Yes, he can perform highly, and he's been one of our best players this season. But in big matches (bar the first Barcelona encounter), he seems to fall under the radar. Again, he's not Pirlo. He has much more limited creative capacity. With Pirlo you have a constant menace that makes you sweat. With Montolivo you have occasional tries, but - like most of Milan yesterday - he seemed toothless as well.
And even bigger problem is El Sharaawy. He should be played as a really SS; it's painful to watch him track back Juve's fullbacks and defending. It's a complete and utter waste, especially when you have a true prima punta in Pazzo, who wasn't exactly mobile yesterday. All the working obligations made our flanks totally inefficient yesterday. Robinho wasn't the problem - yes, he has deteriorated and is useless per se - yet our tactics simply couldn't hold ground. Krkić came in later and tried to make a more active approach - always by going deeper and deeper for the ball, leaving the wing and playing almost beside Montolivo. That tells you everything. We have a 3 striker team with only one functional prima punta and two completely inefficient wings.