Rossoblù triumph at the Olimpico, decides a NDOYE network. For Italian it is the first trophy after three lost finals, the Rossoneri complete a bankruptcy season. And next year they will be out of Europe …
Half a century later, here is Bologna. Who writes a page of history conquering the Olimpico the Italian Cup that had been missing since 1974. Bologna who made the world tremble now has a heir and is Vincenzo Italiano’s team that plays a wonderful football and who lived his fairy tale in the Roman night. He decided a Dan Ndoye network at the beginning of the second half and nothing suggests that it was a victory less than deserved. Bologna did not tremble, not even at the gates of a historical result that has enjoyed an entire city and crying the Milan people.
The other side of the medal of the Italian Cup final are the disappointment tears of Milan. Beat on the level of quality and intensity, the Conceiçao team was unable to amend the mistakes of the whole season on the last evening useful to make sense of everything. It would not have been grace for shortcomings and omissions, but a sweeter way to greet by taking at least one place in the next Europa League. It did not happen and once the disappointment has been disposed of, you will have to proceed with the re -foundation without looking at anyone, including management.
Bologna enjoys and it is right to do it. And it enjoys Italian that at the Olimpico the fourth final of a career so far marked by the defeats in the games without tomorrow was played. Many times the Ko suffered in the Conference League and Italian Cup from his Fiorentina have been reproached: now the circle is closed. Italian is already a great coach, the most underestimated in the panorama of Italian football. From here on, he will no longer be able to be.
Milan-Bologna, what the Italian Cup final said
Game immediately exploded to the start shot, almost a departure of the Palio di Siena with the imbizzarritis horses left free by lowering the heips. Super work for Maignan and Skorupski, large duels in the two areas and the feeling of inevitability then betrayed by the rest of the dispute. Race played on the wire of the nerves, clashes and protests with the referee Mariani frantic in trying to keep the shots of one and the other at bay. A great leader, driver of the Rossoneri, against an apparently more organized Bologna but also less capable of going to hurt the opposing defense for a long time. Until the interval.
Then the story changed and the Ndoye network (8 minutes of the second half) came to confirm it. Milan from proactive to passive, less and less incisive enough to convince Conceiçao to put his hand to the module and structure of the team. Triple change: Walker for Walker, Joao Felix for Jimenez and Santi Gimenez for Jovic. At San Siro the decisive move, at the Olimpico no also because Vincenzo Italiano, man of the finals lost by dragging a thousand regrets, this time he protected.
Milan, another disappointment closes the bankruptcy season
The defeat lengthens the residence of the Italian Cup Rossoneri. He has not enriched the Milan Board since 2003, a life ago, and does not help Conceiçao to bring another trophy to the future on the future after the Italian Riad Super Cup. Bankruptcy season, bitter ending. Winning in Rome would not have changed the overall judgment on a year to forget the haste but at least it would have softened the summer under the umbrella: it did not happen and the only consolation is that, they remain almost certainly out of Europe, next year the project will be able to enjoy the advantage granted in recent months to Napoli to be able to focus on the reconstruction in the championship.
Everything else is to be rethought. The Milan season has collapsed on siring technical and company choices starting from Fonseca put on the bench against logic and popular will. The rest was an inclined plane that managed to straighten out: not Conceicao’s call and not even a promising market in January. Moreover, if Santi Gimenez – a man paid for almost 40 million euros – the final of the Olimpico lived it for a long time on the bench some questions will be asked.
