They only talk about the problems with attitude and mentality, but Milan also has big gaps in their game that don’t help
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Bad first leg. Milan lost the first leg match of the play-off with Feyenoord in Rotterdam: it was 1-0 to the Dutch, a result largely overturnable at the return leg in a week’s time at the San Siro. The truth, however, is that Milan was pardoned because, considering the performance of the Rossoneri, the opponents could have easily scored more goals. So instead Conceicao’s team can still make it: and what makes the passage of the round even more possible is precisely this unpredictability of Milan’s performance.
Indeed, the team is able to alternate between high-level performances, like the one in the derby a few weeks ago, and disastrous performances, like the one in Zagreb yesterday and not so far from the one offered a few days ago in the league. From Empoli to Rotterdam, Milan was not so different; it was the quality of the opponent, the episodes and the context that made the difference. A clear sign that no, the Rossoneri do not just have an attitude problem.
Non è solo un problema di mentalità ma anche di gioco
From the post Feyenoord-Milan we read nor hear anything else: Milan approached the match badly with the usual wrong attitude and so on. And it is all true: this team has a very serious mental fragility and this is there for all to see. Fonseca talked about it and Conceicao also talked about it, and it was also this that led the club to change a lot in the market and make a small revolution, but the problem has much deeper roots. And on top of that there are also technical and tactical problems.
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We have repeated many times and we will do it again now: since he arrived, Conceicao has never had a week off from commitments to work properly on the field. And that is what Milan would need to solve some big gaps, in both phases. Of time, however, there is none, partly through his own fault (if you win in Zagreb you go to the round of 16 and save two more games), and working on some concepts is difficult.
This leads Milan to lack a solid foundation of play on which to rely in the most difficult moments. Any great team can always rely on its game structure in complicated match situations. Milan cannot do this because it does not have these solid foundations and has not yet managed to build them. And it probably will not be able to do so between now and June. After that, Conceicao will have no more alibis. If he stays.
The article With Feyenoord as with Empoli: Milan’s problem is not only attitude was written and published in its original version on Milanlive.it.
