A quick passage to Tuesday evening’s round of the Champions League: Psg and Borussia have landed in the semi-finals, the two twins of the initial group from which Milan exited last December. Reminder for the forgetful ones: Donnarumma and his associates qualified for the round of 16 thanks to a highly questionable penalty called at the end of the last match against Borussia, reported by the varista who was then suspended by the European referees commission! Power of true super alloy!
And now let’s move on to current events that mean Roma-Milan. Here, for once, I put myself out there by confessing what my favorite game plan would be but recommending Stefano Pioli to keep well away from my writing. Having reviewed the match of the first leg and the forces available, I would try to face De Rossi with a classic three-man midfield (Loftus Cheek in short) to make the midfield barrier more solid and in attack I would try with a new trident, the son of a reasoning. And that is: Giroud out (I don’t see him lucid in front of the goal) and in the lively Chukwueze on the right, with Pulisic as a new player and Leao on the left. The “ratio” is the following: to disrupt Roma’s defensive plans a bit and make Leao and Pulisic interchangeable between left and center so as not to limit the Portuguese to his track where doubling Roma’s scoring will become a given. I already know the basic objection: in the most important match of the season the lineup cannot be improvised. Right: but precisely because it is the most important match we need to invent something new. Luckily I’m not a coach!
PEGS FOR ONE YEAR– Daniele De Rossi also claims that Thursday night is “the last resort for Pioli’s Milan”. I believe that no one at this moment, neither at Milan nor in New York, has prepared the future in advance. And I am equally convinced that the only one who will bear the responsibility of the final choice will be Ibra. Who, let it be known among the readers of the site, does not speak to anyone, does not “blow” previews to friendly reporters because he has never done it in his career and is not willing to do it now. In the meantime he continues to read about very extravagant candidacies, including that of Lopetegui, a Spaniard, former goalkeeper, from Jorge Mendes’ team. This profile doesn’t convince me at all, it’s worth saying that straight away. Indeed, I repeat my position on the subject: you can change Pioli only to improve (alias Antonio Conte), otherwise you can have Pioli conclude the contract (who knows where to put his hands to complete last year’s transfer market) and then proceed to recruit some other technician, perhaps foreign, who has become available in the meantime.
PASILLO DE HONOR– Massimo Mauro during the last episode of Pressing launched the proposal in view of the derby on Monday 22 April: that is, to organize, on the part of Milan, a “pasillo de honor” towards Inter. And in this sense he recalled the precedent, with reversed teams, of December 2007 sponsored by Roberto Mancini, the Nerazzurri coach at the time. On that occasion, Milan returned to San Siro for the first time since the trip to Japan where they had become world champions by beating Boca Juniors and therefore already had the title on their trophy cabinet, and what a title. The suggestion, should Inter then arithmetically win the scudetto, should be addressed to the next rival of the neroazzurri, expected at San Siro.
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