Haven't won two in a row since October last year. Have only won away twice. Can't see us doing it again tomorrow. Might be below us in the table but we haven't managed a single away win other than the almost equally disgusting Parma & HV. The latter was, btw, the last time we won away. October 19th.

'Embarrassing' doesn't cover it.

Honda is out for two weeks. Essien also unavailable, on top of the usual SES, Monto etc.

Interesting case: Muntari has asked to be left at home because apparently he's not part of the club's future plans.

Link

Yay!

Mediaset line-up: D. Lopez; Abate, Paletta, Mexes, Antonelli; Van Ginkel, De Jong, Bonaventura; Cerci, Destro, Menez

Would love to see Suso come on at some point.

Yes, it's been confirmed. Muntari is exiting to QPR, West Ham or MLS next season.

The Berlusconi sale story is also confirmed, it looks like Chinese billionaires are taking us over but unfortunately Silvio will remain 'honourary president'.

Last but not least Carlo has confirmed if he leaves Real, he won't go back into club management for anyone other than us.

Whatevert translation you read, they were lying. Here's the full interview in Italian and he makes no such claim. He only says that Milan is the only club he'd like to return one day.

tbh I read it in a rush and may easily have misinterpreted it. Yes, if he was ever to return to a Club he's already managed at, the only one he would go to would be us.

Given he's getting sacked this summer it's not even that outlandish a concept.

Apparently Emery is being tied down to a new deal at Valencia.

My God those facts are shameful...


Time to PAAARTAY!!!

Mediaset update: D. Lopez; Abate, Paletta, Mexes, Antonelli; Van Ginkel, De Jong, Poli; Cerci, Menez, Bonaventura

Yes, let's ruin things by playing Bona as winger and adding more muscle and less brains in midfield. Oh, and Menez as false 9... Brilliant Pippo, just brilliant.

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I see Destro is already black listed even after managing 2 goals in this idealess team that leaves him stranded 99% of the time

A couple of changes and this could actually look half decent, but no, let's just ruin it for the sake of sh!ts and giggles

There's a reason Pippo is officially and statistically the worst manager we've ever had.

And that's only one of them.

Boom boom.

Sky says Bona will play in midfield. Let's hope so.

God, the team is so disjointed.

WTF are they doing?

What they've been doing all season.

Cerci!!!!

CERCI!!!

Lucky.

Bona and MvG have been terrible in midfield. Poli should come in.

From what little I've managed to make out on my disgusting stream, we started hopelessly but did grow into it, and while Cerci's goal was maybe the worst I've ever seen, it was just about deserved.

It's not been a bad match really, and if we win today it will give us a huge boost.

Also occurs that there's quite a lot of players out there good enough for 'Milan class' - IMHO guys like Menez, Destro, De Jong, Abate, Lopez and maybe Antonelli are genuinely good enough to build around. As long as a glut of top-class players come in as well, of course.

It won't be Maldini, Kaka, and Sheva of old, but that Milan is gone and this is a new age.

And we DESPERATELY need a manager who has some idea what he's doing.

Really?

Thought Palermo were the much better team, Dybala was making our entire midfield and defence look like utter idiots

Palermo are a far better team than us

Yeah, I thought Palermo were the better side, too.

It wasn't offside, was it?

The Destro goal?

Can't tell... They haven't shown it from a decent angle

Penalty to Palermo

1-1

Paletta is trash.

MENEZZZZZ

YAY!!! Thought he was gonna miss.

Finally 2 wins on the bounce

Who do we have next week?

Samp at home.

I don't agree. That was the only error he made in 90 minutes.

Menez bailed him out with a wunder goal, and overall I felt it was a deserved win.

Our most significant victory of this season, for sure. We've beaten a very decent team away from home.

I don't like him.



Meh, Palermo are from decent. They're Empoli level. But yeah, very important win. Fifth place currently is only 6 points away.

You almost sound like you have a bib on

fwiw I'm nowhere near the fan of him I was pre-signing. He's been far from terrific for us, but today's defence looked pretty good and limited Palermo in shots and chances.



Is this what we do now? If we lose we insult Milan and use our opponents' level against us, and if we win we insult Milan and claim our opponent was rubbish?!

Wait wait wait, are you seriously throwing this at me after what you said when we won against Cagliari? And where I praised our performance.

Difference between Cagliari and Palermo is Cagliari ARE rubbish

Palermo might not be Juve but Cagliari at home v Palermo away are two very different opponents.

Palermo have lost 3 matches at homes all season. To Juve, Lazio, and us.

Just think dismissing the result and performance today holds a lot less water than that of dismissing beating the second bottom team. Which I didn't completely do, just didn't really feel joy at it. I feel a lot more satisfaction from today's result.

But two wins in a row, it's literally the best run we've had all season. Although Pippo did his best to ruin it by taking off Menez and putting on Poli.

I don't consider Palermo a worthy opponent, though, that's the point. Sure, they are better than Cagliari, but still, prior to this game they had accumulated only two points in the last five games. They are in a terrible form, and us beating them at home isn't really something extraordinary. We didn't even play that well, to be honest.

That's how I genuinely feel. And really, I don't use the opponent's level against us when we lose. We lost to Fiorentina three weeks ago despite them playing like crap. I even mentioned it during the game:

Looking at Serie A this year, I would struggle to identify "worth opponents" (other than Juve and possibly the two Roman teams). The problem is we have lost or tied far too many games against "unworthy opponents". Had we won just a handful of these, we would be competing for a CL spot now.

In any case, it is good to have won two in a row, but I seriously doubt this is a "trend". Feels more like chance than an actual improvement.

Won't lie, I've sort of lost track of what we're actually arguing about now. It almost looks like we agree...on whatever the subject actually is now.

Okay, you guys agree but don't know on what topic exactly. Let's move on

I haven't see the game yet, only highlights. Can anyone tell me how on earth there was a chance for Palermo with 3 players completely left alone infront of Lopez? Where was our defense? How did this happen?

One of their players cut our defense like butter, then there was a rebound and it just happened. We get caught like this very often. Remember how Cagliari scored?

Yes, I do. Terrible thing.