Don't think Bacca and Lapadula are ideal strike partners, too similar, both poachers who rely on service.

Also not sure about such a soft centre in that midfield, would prefer to drop Monto and play Kucka instead

Probable Xl vs. Udinese (4-4-2):
Donnarumma; Abate, Paletta, Romagnoli, De Sciglio; Suso, Sosa, Montolivo, Bonaventura; Bacca, Lapadula.
#GdS

Poli has recovered for this... Not that it makes much of a difference.

Milan are unbeaten in their last nine meetings against Udinese at the San Siro (W6 D3). #FourFourTwo

The Rossoneri have found the net in each of their last 18 home games against the Friulani in Serie A (an average of 2.8 per game). #FourFourTwo

Milan have conceded six goals after two matchdays, equalling their worst tally in Serie A (like in 1946/47 and 1983/84). All of these six goals have been from inside the penalty box. #FourFourTwo

Milan and Udinese are the two teams with the fewest ball recoveries so far in this Serie A campaign (both have 92). However, Giacomo Bonaventura is the player with the most recoveries this season (21). #FourFourTwo

Montolivo has played 20 times against Udinese, more than against any other Serie A opponent (W10 D2 L8). #FourFourTwo

Udinese have failed to win their last 11 away matches (Serie A). #WhoScored

Not exactly. Lapadula runs channels like a mad man and has a great work rate. I think he'd work out well for Bacca if their roles are clearly defined. I'm guessing it is a 4-4-2 when defending and a 4-2-4 when attacking.

Looks like we might stick to 4-3-3:

Donnarumma; Abate, Paletta, Romagnoli, De Sciglio; Sosa, Montolivo, Poli; Suso, Bacca, Bonaventura.

/Mediaset

I'd rather make it a 4-2-3-1:

Glad to see that Montella is looking to pick MDS consistently, but I really can't stand Poli as a starter. I appreciate the guys effort, he is always working off the ball, but he usually has nothing to show for it. He doesn't win the ball back with any consistency, he is a below average passer and dribbler and has really no sense for goal. I doubt this midfield will work, but I'd assume that Bona will be up and down the sidelines all day, he will have to drop in to that midfield so we can crowd the center of the field.

I hope we get a win here, every game is vital at this point, and 3 points here will give this team short on quality some confidence to build off of.

I agree about Poli. I'd rather see Kucka start who might not be all that good either but at least he gets involved, Poli just runs around aimlessly until he completely loses steam. He simply adds nothing to the team and it usually feels like we're playing with a man less when he's on the pitch

Kucka is banned for two weeks. Poli is the only DM available right now.

Ah, you're right, totally forgot about his idiocy against Napoli...

So we're considering Poli a DM now?

http://milanfan.better-than.tv:8001/1:0:19...3:EB0000:0:0:0:

can someone test this stream in vlc please ?

Works perfectly well for me Nova

Do you plan to stream games again?

What else is he?

If I have the time , yes

I think of Poli as strictly a cm, guy has no defensive ability thus he can't be a dm.

A ghost?


Agreed. I think of him as a midfielder but honestly, he has no single quality which jumps at you when you think of him, certainly not defensive abilities

Official line-up:
(4-3-3): Donnarumma; Abate, Paletta, Romagnoli, Antonelli; Poli, Montolivo, Sosa; Suso, Bacca, Bonaventura.

Bench:
Luiz Adriano, De Sciglio, Lapadula, Gomez, Calabria, Pasalic, Locatelli, Vangioni, Honda, Gabriel, Plizarri

Hoping for a better showing in defence than we've seen so far. We can't keep conceding goals at the rate we've been so far

Will be interested to see what Sosa offers.

Good ball by Suso for Bacca there. He was very slow.

Poli and Sosa doing a good job thus far.

Sosa doing very well so far, adds another dimension to our midfield, definitely better than Bona in that position

I second that.

I think we should have played with 4-4-2 here. Bonaventura doesnt look convincing where he is playing. And I would like to see Lapadula play.

What a shot by Sosa.

We just seem to lack that killer ball in the final third. Everything else we seem to be doing okay.

They players also look quite tired. Especially Bacca.

Suso being selfish there.

I quite agree. Remove Montolivo's corpse and play Lapadula.

Bacca seems to have lost that little change of pace he had

And that's his main problem. He's not showing the intelligence and versatility one would expect him to have. All he does is mostly shoot.

Agreed. Hopefully it's one off game.

Abate is also looking very out of form. He's not giving Suso the kind of offensive support you'd expect. Plus he seems to be caught out of position a lot and is scrambling back.

Paletta playing quite good today.

I don't understand why they put the ball out when someone is fake rolling around on the floor. Just ridiculous

We're playing like crap.

Well..not doing anything offensively. And they've packed up deep, like 6 people in the box to combat two forwards

The commentator called Montolivo..Montoliva..righfully so..

We need subs...and fresh legs. Pasalic and Lapadula? Or Adriano?

WTF is Montella doing?? Make some changes FFS!

Honda for Sosa.

.......

Losing points here, to one of the worst teams in league...

Look..they've set out to earn a point and that's what they're doing. Our lack of quality is showing up for sure.

We're just so static. No movement at all so it's obvious that we can't find a way to get through their defensive lines.

Suso and Bona are just one trick ponies, who continually try the same thing over and over again.

Bacca is invisible, this is what I meant about him being a 1 dimensional striker, he offers nothing else to the team aside from scoring the obvious chance goals

Montolivo seems to continually move in slow motion, just so slow and lethargic.

Sosa imo was one of our few good players and he's been taken off. Poli as well has been doing well and he's also been taken off... I think Montella feels obligated to leave Monto in there because he's captain most of the time

Lol, and we lose

I knew it.

Not our bloody day is it? Stroke of luck for Udinese. The cross bar and the lucky deflection for the goal.

Totally deserved. Go home you bunch of losers.

Pathetic, Abate has been awful so far in every game this season. I think it's time to give Calabria a proper chance