DS and coach have defined the guidelines of the new devil between tactics and characteristics of the players who will come. With 4-3-3 farewell (or almost) to the midfielder
When Igli Tare spoke of a team that “must be compact, dominate the matches, have players of great dribble”, inevitably a little bit all of them went back twelve months with the calendar. It was the time in which, within those same walls -via Aldo Rossi number 8 -, on the day of his presentation Fonseca said: “I want to build a courageous, offensive, dominant, reactive team that does not let the opponents think, with a strong identity. The quality of the game is important for me”. We know how it went: the idea in Paulo’s head was all right, but a sufficient number of players was missing capable of guaranteeing it. Milan ’24 -25, even after the winter market, remained mostly a transition team, from restarting, and not given possession.
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It will therefore be necessary to see who will arrive in Milan in the coming weeks. For now we are proceeding with the sales – never seen, in recent times, such a density of farewells – then we will move on to the new faces. The first, even if the signature in the strict sense is still missing, is that of Modric. And Okay, here it is clear to anyone who in terms of technique and dribble properties, starts in the carriage. Tare also said that “the midfield will be the department where we will intervene more, we believe it is important to increase the game quality of this team”. On the management notebook, not by chance, there are the names of Xhaka, Jashari and Javi Guerra. The great challenge is to be able to make up for the absence of Reijnders, who was one of the very few truly level drivers in the squad. But bringing people with refined feet to the house, able to truly raise the technical rate of a department, is expensive exercise. Everyone will not be able to arrive.
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Meanwhile, however, it is clear that the game system, at least initially, will be the 4-3-3. There were moments along last season in which it was practiced, more than anything else with spurious modes. It depended on the Pulisic position. With Allegri, coach who likes the breadth, the system should be more evident. Above all, the three “real” median should guarantee that balance in the defensive phase that last vintage the 4-2-3-1 did not have. The pin of everything, according to the Rossoneri DS, will be the midfielder in front of the defense, who will act rather low. Obviously it must be said that, at the form of the form, there are no more fundamentalist technicians. It starts with a basic concept, then the game evolves in other ways: the same four Rossoneri defense last year actually changed in a three -way line in the possession phase. But the 4-3-3 effectively sanctions the disappearance – or in any case an evident downsizing – of the midfielder. And here Pulisic returns, which alternated with Reijnders behind the center forward. However, it will be easy to predict that the captain uses often and willingly to the center.
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Another delicate area is the one in the center of the attack. Because if on the Pulisic and Leao sides they are two columns, it is all to be evaluated how Gimenez’s second season will be in Rossoneri. The first experienced more shadows than lights. Started with pyrotechnic games and then trivialized by the passing of the weeks, without however that the team managed to help him in any way. Even in the center forward, Tare was clear: with Saints, who by nature tends to move a lot, retreating and then looking for the depth, the other number 9 will have to be a area striker. One at the Giroud: less movement, more reference point, useful characteristics also to stimulate external assistance.
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