Nah, it's because of their 10 losses and 9 draws. If 2 or 3 of those 19 games were wins, it would be a completely different conversation.
Turn 2 draws into wins and 2 losses into draws and they're 4th, just 2 points off Atalanta in third. A game of fine margins and all that
Hmmmm, actually that would be the opposite of a fine margin. By being an abrasive pedant, you’ve given support to someone else’s point. You do that a lot you know.
If my math's correct, you actually don't even need to overturn that many points/results. You could do it with just 2 results, 3 extra points, and a 3 goal swing. If Milan don't give up a penalty in the 98th minute of their March encounter against Lazio (which would turn their loss into a draw), and if Milan score two goals against Juventus in their November matchup against them (which would turn a scoreless draw into a 2-0 win), Milan would have an extra 3 points, Lazio would have 2 fewer points, and Juventus would have 1 less point. Milan would then be sitting level with Juventus and Roma, tied on points for the last CL spot. But they'd be ahead of Juventus on tiebreakers (though that's why it wouldn't be enough to change their scoreless draw into a 1-0 win, because they'd need the extra goal to cancel out Juve's subsequent 2-0 win), and they still have a game remaining against Roma to settle the head-to-head tiebreaker if they each win all of their other remaining matches.
To everything, turn, turn, turn* There is a season, turn, turn, turn A loss, a draw, a draw, a win A margin fine, a margin thin A time for love, a time for hate A time for Bruce, I swear it's not too late ++++++++++++ * At Juventus they say Turin, Turin, Turin
When you think it about it, it is really pretty amazing how an entire season of 38 games can boil down to a concentration lapse here or a misplaced path there, and the whole future of the club is dramatically affected. Aside from league play it was the same thing in CL. Theo dumbassery, Yunus doing Yunus stuff, and millions in revenue vanished.
At Juventus they probably say "Torino, Torino, Torino," at the risk of being an abrasive pedant and/or ruining the joke. Thank you for your punderful effort.
Been teaching a group of Italians this week, one of whom is a mad Milanista. His reaction when I asked him about Christian was something to behold: "he does not belong with Milan! He belongs with Milan with Baresi, Maldini, Gullitt and Van Basten!!! Then Milan played !!!" He is massively respected among the fans on the message boards, who seem to think that his big problem is that he's thinking too clearly as well as too quickly for the rest of the squad.
I've only really seen him at Chelsea, when he was always either carrying an injury, getting injured or coming back from one and at Dortmund. Even to my untutored eye he stood out for the anxiety he caused on the ball, especially at Dortmund. I'd love to see him at a properly-managed club.
This is fair. I know I’m biased in this take I’m about to post, but keep in mind I’ve given CP plenty of criticism over his career when deserved. one of my biggest frustrations over his career, not with him, but with teammates, is his intention and willingness to play quick 1-2s, and move quickly with the ball and make incisive runs - things he learned at Dortmund 2015-2017 - and teammates either don’t notice, don’t have the ability or speed of thought to play it back, or choose not to. His first year or two at Dortmund you can see their style and the way he would compliment teammates. He tried to carry that over to Chelsea and still occasionally shows it in Milan. Teammates are not on the same page, and often I think Christian’s page is the correct one. I think he’s at the right spot it Milan, but it would’ve been fun to see him at one of the “tiki taka” clubs
His deal is up in 2027. If they go back to playing that kind of football, he should consider going to Dortmund
He learned how to play that amazing Klopp ball that Dortmund was playing when he got there. they were like Barcelona at fast forward. Maybe the most fun team I ever watched. Only was at it's peak a year or two and then they started losing the really good players and then the coach. Too bad Pulisic didn't go to Liverpool when Klopp was there. I guess he had all the good offensive attackers he needed so Pulisic went to the manager / FO carousel of Chelsea instead where every player seemed to play for themself and the team was constantly being remodeled and ripped apart with ill fitting expensive parts.
" If you exclude genuine forwards (first or second strikers) Pulisic is the first Milan player to score more than 10 goals in each of his first two Serie A seasons with the Rossoneri since the days of Luciano Chiarugi (1972-73 and 1973-74), with 12 goals last season and 11 in this." @falvo
If he wins us the coppa why not??? Imaging trashing bologna in the league only to lose days later. Lol
I thought Marco Van Basten will have scored at least that amount of goals but I then I remembered he was injured early on when he arrived at Milan.