A great football match. With two open teams, who want to play, fight, win. This is what Milan-Genoa wasa pirouetting match, at times exciting, which reconciled people with football, the real one.
Credit goes to Milan but above all thanks to Gilardino which, fresh from confirmation and with 5 crucial players absent (Malinovskiy, Messias, Bani, Gudmundsson and Vitinha) he forces Milan to defend themselves with “his” Grifone, often with difficulty.
Genoa seen at the Scala del Calcio Italiano showed great things. All the the actual rossoblu went well beyond sufficiency, apart DeWinter author of a good performance but also the creator of two sensational errors in the defensive phase.
Spencer towered over everyone – to his best race in the rossoblu jersey – Thorsby (splendid assist in the 3-3 goal), Retegui, Vogliacco and Badelj. But how can we not mention the all-round scooter Frendrup and the willing and author of a goal with a powerful header Ekuban?
In short, who thought of a disarmed Genoasatisfied with the peaceful salvation achieved he was terribly wrong: this is not the creed, the philosophy of Alberto Gilardino!
Speaking of Retegui, with the two goals against Milan (the 3-3 can also be attributed to him) he rises to 8, remembering that he played half the championship due to the well-known injury. Gudmundsson scored 14 goals, but took 4 penalties. Here, if the Argentine bomber beat the penalties, he would now be at 12, while Albert he would be relegated to 10. But that’s fine, just to highlight the merits of Retegui, who is unfortunately underestimated by many.
Next home match on Sunday 12 May against Sassuolo, fresh from the incredible victory over Inter. All the more reason to beat him at Luigi Ferrariswhere the sporting hostilities will open at 3.00 pm sharp.
THE SCORESHEET, MILAN-GENOA 3-3
Networks: 5′ Retegui (r), 45′ Florenzi, 48′ Ekuban, 72′ Gabbia, 76′ Giroud, 87′ Retegui.
THE FORMATIONS:
MILAN (4-2-3-1): Door 6; Florenzi 6 (from 80′ Kalulu sv), Gabbia 6.5, Tomori 5.5, Theo Hernández 6; Bennacer 5.5 (from 80′ Adli sv), Reijnders 5.5; Chukwueze 6 (from 8′ Thiaw 5.5), Pulisic 7, Leão 6.5 (from 68′ Okafor 5), Giroud 6.5. (Available.: Nava, Torriani; Bartesaghi, Caldara, Terracciano, Pobega, Zeroli, Sia. All.: Pegs).
GENOA (3-5-2): Martinez 7; Vogliacco 7.5 (from 86′ Cittadini sv), De Winter 5.5, Vásquez 6.5; Spence 7.5, Thorsby 7, Badelj 7 (from 74′ Strootman 6.5), Frendrup 7, Martin 6.5 (from 74′ Haps 6.5); Ekuban 6.5 (from 86′ Papadopoulos sv), Retegui 7. (TO avail.: Leali, Sommariva, Sabelli; Bohinen, Ankeye. All.: Gilardino).
Referee: Prontera of Bologna 7.
by FRANCO RICCIARDI
