After rubbing my eyes for ninety minutes I recover the mobility of my fingertips just to share the pleasure of this evening with you.
A stellar, cynical, bad, technical, fast, spectacular Milan (add your favorite adjectives) wins by arrogance in Bergamo and reaffirms, if there is still a need, to be an authoritative candidate for the victory of the tricolor.
The beginning is in some ways reminiscent of last year’s Sassuolo, ready to go and with three vertical passes Milan are already ahead … it is true that Musso puts his part in it, but this does not detract from the merits of the boys, able to catalyze anger for the wrongs suffered in the Champions League transforming it into positive energy aimed at the result. The arrogant departure silenced the masons in the stands and the Nerazzurri wrestlers on the pitch, who gradually began to put their heads back out and hit back, enhancing the qualities of our central defensive players and Magic Mike in goal.
However, at the end of the first half, a great Sandrino Tonali thinks about definitively breaking the balance of the game, who brutalizes Freuler on the trocar and rushes at full speed towards Musso, displacing him with great coldness at the near post.
The recovery is without history, the team controls the Nerazzurri attempts without too much effort and around half an hour scores a fulminating restart scoring one of the most beautiful goals seen in recent years, with the ball traveling very fast from an area to the other between revs, heels, veils to then die in the Nerazzurri seven with the finalization of Rafa Leao.
The two final games of the Atalantines are of little value, if not to turn on a light bulb on certain so to speak questionable arbitrages on which in society they would do well to reflect in time, much of what had to be done in the construction phase of this team was done, now it will be good to work up to the “political” management of the affair.
One last recommendation, I would almost say a warning to sailors: enough calculations on the fifth or speeches related to the Champions placement, it’s time to understand that we have entered a different dimension of our path, and let me finally add.
Maignan: 7,5 In just over a minute he retains the advantage with two different feats but equally decisive on Zappacosta and Zapata, an impressive ground-to-air missile that traveling ten centimeters from the ground for 70 meters puts Rebic in a position to hit the net, purchase from a thousand and one night
Calabria: 7+ The captain takes less than half a minute to cut the Nerazzurri defense into slices, for the rest of the ninety minutes he manages the two phases with authority with the air of a veteran
Kjaer: 7 Zapata escapes him only once in the initial stages, then while struggling with all his physicality he always ends up bumping into the Danish wall, which blocks him from the foot and head, by hook or by crook.
Tomori: 7.5 A little central, a little third on the left but wherever you put it, a force of nature remains, at this rate we will have to inconvenience almost unthinkable comparisons
Theo Hernandez: 7,5 He opens up a highway in Calabria at the opening and then runs through it in excess of speed to put Leao in front of the closing door, Pioli invents for him a hybrid position full-back-left midfielder that could perhaps lead him to definitive consecration
Ballo-Touré: SV
Tonals: 8.5 A rescue in the opening minutes that is worth a goal, a real goal at the end of the first half at the end of a fantastic action for timing, nastiness and clarity in concluding, in the middle a capital performance for technique and personality that rightly earned him the call-up in the Senior National
Bennacer: SV
Kessie: 7 First signs of awakening of the late President, he places himself in the middle and takes almost all of them, a real breakwater dam on which the Nerazzurri waves break
Saelemaekers: 6.5 Usual test of substance of the Belgian, able to give balance to a right track that now works that is a marvel, Musso strangles the scream of the goal in his throat with a parade of pure instinct on a sure-hit header
Brahim Diaz: 7 Literally impregnable for the woody middlemen from Bergamo, with his rapidity in the short time he overturns the attack front in an amen and offers game solutions that the depressed Turk could not even imagine, one of the keystones of this early season
Messiah: 6+ Despite himself he enters the scoresheet of both Nerazzurri goals, but there more than his responsibilities are to be ascribed to the Di Bello-Abisso couple, generally positive in the management of several hot balls and appreciable in the veil that opens the corridor for the third to Leao goals
Leao: 7,5 The leap in quality of our team passes through its growth together with that of the other two millennials of the trocar, every now and then it takes your breath away but by now it has learned to suffer and to stay with its feet firmly planted inside the game, and when it lights up it is almost always impregnable for those who try to try to stem it, the diagonal in seven that actually closes the game is beautiful
Pellegri: SV
Rebic: 6,5 He does an exhausting job on the whole offensive front by repeatedly attacking the depth and dirtying the first Atalantine construction with insistent pressing, some smudges dictated by fatigue but a very generous performance at the full service of the team
Pegs: 9 (the best) Few balls, it’s time to give Cesare what belongs to Cesare and recognize the great merits of the coach in the growth of this team, he took in hand a gang of inexperienced kids apparently without art or part and gradually transformed them (with the initial help of Ibra) in a pack hungry for victory, I do not know where this path we have taken will lead us but Pioli fully deserves to walk it with us
Max
