AC Milan beats Napoli in a game that has shown the strengths and weaknesses of Allegri and Conte’s teams. What does it leave to the championship? That the Neapolitans can do better while the Rossoneri (perhaps) are not by Scudetto
Reflection at the end of the first half of the San Siro challenge, which handed over to the championship a summit of the ranking shared by the two contenders with the addition of Rome: Allegri has wrapped Conte, advantage of clear Milan and well deserved even beyond the accounting of the ball possession, favorable to Napoli. Summary of the recovery: raising rhythm and center of gravity immediately the champions of Italy are scary and a lot. The madness of Estupinian (penalty caused and red card) who condemned the Rossoneri to numerical inferiority for over half an hour has done the rest.
But in the end he won Milan and certainly did not demerit. The statistics of the challenge really photograph the game only in part: 64% possession of the ball Naples, 19 shots towards the Maignan gate (against 6) of which 7 in the mirror (3) and dangerous situations in profusion. After the stigliata of the interval, which must have been seen that the Napoli of the first half seemed to be a bourgeois and slow while that of the recovery had his eyes injected with blood.
Milan-Napoli, what the San Siro challenge said
What remains of the almost one hundred minutes of San Siro? The feeling that Allegri’s Milan is a team with square balls and a ability to already defend metabolized while Napoli is still halfway through the ford. The Rossoneri are not by Scudetto because there is a difference in quality at the moment between the owners (not all) and the reserves: just think about the moment they found themselves on the pitch with Bartesaghi and the terrified Athekame on the outside.
Conte, on the other hand, guides a battleship that has potential certainly superior to what has been seen so far. The fall in Milan can only be episodic to a superficial reading and was anticipated by the creaking against Cagliari and Pisa. The approach to Milan, the first big match played with the shield sewn on the chest, has not been up to par and on this the technician will have to work very quickly.
Milan-Napoli, the doubts of Allegri and Conte
The two technicians, however, are united to take away from San Siro more than a reflection to be explored. Do Milan, for example, now wears the dress of the new form perfectly even if the return of Leao – already owner in Turin with Juventus? – It will oblige painful sacrifices in the offensive department. And then the exteriors who go at too different speeds compared to the rest of the team removed Saelemaekers who are confirming the most useful little opener for the Livorno coach.
For Conte, the moment of the choices approaches. He showed up at San Siro in a defensive emergency but certainly cannot complain about the alternatives among which he was able to fish during the work. From the bench, Elmas, Lucca, Neres, Lang and Gilmour with Beukema left to look at the others, came out of the bench: a widespread wealth that few have in Italy. The choices, however, mainly concern the magnificent four of the midfield, the Linus blanket of this first phase of the season: sooner or later the rotations will push towards the return to 4-3-3 with which to make the most of the quality on the outsiders.
