That's no penalty! Verdi hits Tonali's leg. Clearly.

VAR reversed it (not surprised)

Yes!! Good decision.

Great, more injuries.

Tonali injury. Hopefully nothing serious. Calabria back to playing as a CM.

Chala on for Diaz

Man, Pioli really doesn't like Brahim, does he? Hauge has been p!ss poor, yet Brahim is subbed.

Toro dangerous again. Hopefully bringing Chala in will not back-fire on us.

Dalot is awful. Should have played Conti.

I still hold hope for Hauge, he has potential but has yet to adjust to our style of playing. Diaz looked good at times, but he struggles when under pressure. Also, not sure we will be willing to pay what RM wants for him, so we are better off getting Hauge to develop.

Not impressed by Dalot either.

We need to regain control of the game. I thought that is why we risked bringing Cala in. Toro still dominating, though.

Samu also disappointing.

Thank you, Donna !

We've barely played this 2nd half

Zlatan warming up

Samu :-(

Dangerous free kick. We are taking too many risks.

Anyone can explain the YC to Leao?

Looks like Maldini is coming on

Zlatan on !!! (And Maldini.)

Samu slows play down so much for no reason

Dive apparently

This ref has been flashing the cards like it's christmas

Did not look like a dive to me. Even the ESPN (anti-Milan bias) felt it was not justified.

Close call there. Again, thanks to Donna.

3 more minutes. Forza !!!

3 points !!! I guess the "sorpasso" ain't gonna happen this week either.

I think Leao was looking for it, but this just puts is in further binds as he's suspended for the next game


Meh. Only real shot they have, even though we mentally checked out for the 2nd half

Inter have Roma tomorrow, so this could be crucial

I guess I get to be a Sassuolo fan tomorrow.

Not sure if I want to be a Roma fan or just hope for the tie. Hard to be a Roma fan (my mom is a Lazio fan), but I would rather they win than Merda.

We really don't like winning easy, do we? Always switching off at random times and letting Torino play their game when in the first half they had done jackshit.

Oh well, 3 points. I'm happy.

Great to see Ibra back. Can't wait to have Bennacer and Rebic back as well.

PS 1: Calabria > Tonali. By leaps and bounds.

PS 2: I know I always speak sh*t of Castillejo, but holy crap how much has he ran today? Great work rate. But as Han pointed out, he really slows play down when in possession.

That's what I said to myself after he booked Calabria as well. Terrible calls for yellows all around.

This guy may as well be the worst coach ever.

Diaz was incredible. I agree, he should be a priority signing.

I just think he sees Diaz as the backup player for Calhanoglu.

Because he has nothing to create.

Yeah, but why risk Calhanoglu when we were comfortably winning 2-0. At least give Brahim a boost in confidence and let him play the whole match. Especially since he was having a great game.

For how long can we dismiss Leao when he's scoring almost every game he's played?

It's me who is pressing this issue on and on. Maybe I'm overreacting. But y'all don't convince me that much either. Sure "give him time" is the regular excuse. And yes, Kessie and Bennacer have raised the bar, yet I'm not judging him according to them. I'm just saying - I don't see anything special in him so far.

Apparently Brahim was subbed due to some injury, I read.

Meh, we switched off for sure but they still didn't create much of anything

Can we just save Belotti from that hellhole next summer?

Yeah, I'm especially anxious to get Bennacer back. He's been a big miss

And I disagree re Calabria in midfield. First off, Dalot is a big question mark defensively and you could see that we lost control in midfield when Calabria was moved there. No doubt he's been amazing, and is even pulling it off in the midfield as well, but I would still be far more comfortable with Tonali in the midfield.

Agreed re Samu. He works his @ss off, win back the ball and then just f@cks everything up. I can't count the amount of times that Calabria made an inside run in the first half which would have opened up the Toro defence and instead of passing to him. Samu holds the ball and passes back or crosses. Gave me terrible flashbacks of Suso today


Can we appeal these cards?

He's already cost us leao for the next game, but now we also have to worry about Calabria and Romagnoli being a card away from suspension


I read somewhere that he had a knock. But I think Pioli decided to take him off before then

That being said, I agree that he fits more naturally as a sub to Hakan. He's never really impressed me on the wing

We don't like to win easily at all. This has become almost characteristic of us. But yet again, we had a solid game.

Our centerbacks (Specially Kjaer) with Donnaruma were outstanding. Specially, at certain times when they had to cover the fullback's asses. Theo, again had a bad game. He can be really be frustrating in the defensive phase sometimes.

Kessie was solid as always, and well for me Tonali did okay. Brahim has to be the man of the match, he disrupted the Torino players quite well. Castillejo, surely showed a lot of effort, Hauge too..But really nothing dangerous and quite sterile to be honest. I expect more from wingers, but oh well.

All in all 3 more points and I'm very happy!

Wasn't that obvious to you? He limped off the field...

And I'm not disputing that. But I don't see the benefits of turning on him just yet.

Yeah, I missed it.

I think Pioli had already made the decision to take him off even before he got that knock



Anywhoos, so happy to see us bounce back after that loss against Juve. I want to see us use it as a springboard for the rest of the season. And with a lot of players coming back within the next 10 days, this should be a perfect opportunity for us to really get our hooks into the top spot. Both Inter and Juve have some difficult fixtures coming up

We have Atalanta in a few weeks, which will be very tricky considering that they seems to have found their feet again

I'm not saying we should move him in midfield. Of course he's our starting RB and he should always play there. But's far better than Tonali when played as CM and I think that's blatantly obvious.

And I don't agree that we lost control because of Calabria's move. It was due to that "switching off" I mentioned earlier. If anything, Calabria was more involved than Kessie, who wasn't particularly stellar tonight. Lost way too many balls.

You have the right to have these concerns. Specially with the fee we paid.

I think confidence and adaptation, especially for youngsters, can make a very promising player look outright "normal", let's say. Maybe there will be nothing better from Tonali, the truth is we don't know. For sure, we were kind of sold the idea that we were getting the most promising Italian youngster at the moment. And, I totally understand if you don't see that at the moment.

Let's hope for the best, I guess.

Both Diaz and Tonali have suffered contusions to the ankle and calf respectively.

Let's hope they recover for Cagliari

This means we could be missing Leao, Saelemakers, Rebic and Diaz all in one go against Cagliari

Hopefully Pioli plays it safe in the Coppa. I'd personally rather see us bow out than risk someone important there

Have we managed to put our best 11 on the pitch just once this season??

Our current standing is even more amazing when considering this big factor. Especially when we were written off by everyone at the start