Deep crisis for Allegri’s team, humiliated by Atalanta and at risk of qualifying for the next Champions League. Fans furious with Furlani, all against all and the season is failing…
Milan remains master of its own destiny because by winning the next two matches against Genoa and Cagliari it goes straight to the Champions League, without looking at the results of the others. To win them, however, because the night at San Siro in which the Rossoneri collapsed in front of Atalanta confirmed that there is nothing left of the team that two months ago dreamed of competing for the Scudetto against Inter. The nervous reaction at the end, against an Atalanta team that pulled the plug early and risked paying the price should not be misleading.
The fans who protested Giorgio Furlani inside and outside the stadium and invited Gerry Cardinale to sell the club must be understood: they are furious and they are right because the AC Milan Titanic has crashed into the iceberg while on board the orchestra continues to play and the musicians are busy settling their accounts, regardless of the common good.
This is Milan today. Nothing. Putting the numbers of the collapse in line is almost less impressive than the counter-show offered on the pitch: 4 points in the last 6 matchdays, 7 from that famous 8th March of the second victory in the derby against Inter which was the negative watershed of the season if it is true that since then there have been far more defeats (5) than games not lost (3). The voice of the master, of Gerry Cardinale, would be needed, but instead nothing. Assuming that he has something different to say than his plenipotentiary Furlani, the one who is at the top of the list of those responsible for the AC Milan people.
Milan are still masters of their own destiny, but to win matches you need to shoot on target and possibly score a goal: before Pavlovic’s header and Nkunku’s penalty, the last one was Rabiot in Verona: after then 317 minutes without a goal plus recoveries. The light, however, had gone out first and the Frenchman’s call had been the only ring in nine hours of football played: 531 minutes without counting the recoveries from Milan-Turin to Milan-Atalanta. Now there are three. A misery. Boos for everyone, a deluge. Nobody is saved.
The only ones who always smiled, strictly in favor of the room, were the occasional players with whom San Siro is increasingly filled. All around is the rubble of a season that risks having a major impact on the future because Milan’s ownership has already shown with facts how it reacts to a failure to qualify for the Champions League: it sells everything that can be sold, cuts, recovers revenue with capital gains. Look at the accounts and not at the pitch. Legitimate, but frustrating.
What can I do Max Allegri (also guilty for his share) to reverse his team’s progression towards the abyss it is difficult to say. The team does not react to any stimulus while the others, perhaps snorting or shouldering, are alive. Morale is at zero, the newspapers are full of hypotheses with or without him on the bench, with or without Tare making the transfer (D’Amico leaving Atalanta is a concrete sign), perhaps with or without Furlani who is hated by everyone but is the symptom, not the cause of the disease.
If you want to see something good, but really make an effort, the first of the two finals to win will be at Marassi and not at San Siro, a sacred place where even showing a Paolo Maldini (History) shirt has become a reactionary gesture to be repressed. Better outside than inside, even if in Reggio Emilia Milan were only slightly better than against Atalanta. But at least away from home there will be fewer whistles, fewer protests, fewer plastic smiles while on the pitch eleven Rossoneri shirts play for everything they have left. Little, but essential.
