Davy & Chin Talk A.C Milan Weekly
Davy & Chin Talk A.C Milan Weekly
Is Pioli Still The Man For the Job? An Intense Debate and In-Depth Analysis of AC Milan's Season After 11 Games
Do you have a burning curiosity about the intricacies of football? We delve into AC Milan's performance this season. We've got you covered in this analysis-packed episode with our guest star, Leo. We scrutinize the team's encounters with Juventus, PSG, and Napoli, along with probing the club's coach Stefano Pioli and the hurdles they have to jump over, such as the impact of player fatigue, injuries and deep in form.
We unpack the team's structure, the impact of their new signings, and the guidance of seasoned players like Giroud, Maignan, Theo Hernandez and Leao. We dissect how these factors has sculpted the team's success this season. We plunge into the critical role substitutions can play in transforming a game's fate, offering a comprehensive analysis of Milan's season performance.
Our conversation wraps up with a preview of the upcoming Champion League game against PSG. Take a deep dive with us into Pioli's game plan and how he manages Leao, one of the team's star players. We scrutinize Milan's strategies against PSG in Paris and the potential repercussions of the team selection in the next game on Tuesday. Our scorching debate over Stefano Pioli's inconsistency and the team's future under the current management is an episode you cannot afford to miss. Join us for an engaging conversation that promises to quench your thirst for insightful football analysis!
The Rossoneri Renaissance is complete After 11 years. Once again, Milan are the champions of Italy. It's they who wear the crown for the 2021-2012 season. Hello everyone, this is David and Chin. Talk, Milan, we are back again. Chin, how you doing.
Speaker 3:Milan lost to PSG. Milan lost to Milan. Threw away two goals against Napoli. Milan lost to Udinese at home.
Speaker 2:Anyways, we have Leo on board again tonight, as well as a special guest, leo, how you doing bro, I'm good.
Speaker 1:Milan has been my major because of headache. It's a period of otherwise.
Speaker 2:At least you're being honest, you're not mentioning purely as the major because of your headache.
Speaker 3:It's too early to start to suffice, let's just.
Speaker 1:You know very well what I'm not mentioning purely. I will say Milan, because I said was it after the PSG game that I said, if Milan does not fire purely, I will stop complaining about purely. He's no longer purely. Purely is not the issue. Now I'm blaming Milan Like it's the management, it's the club, because it's just that they don't have the.
Speaker 2:You said it's Leo, it's good to do what needs to be done Before you actually start throwing your shots at me first. Let's first of all welcome our podcast Time Listeners on board. It's been a challenge since the first period. It's been just to be able to come together and make this podcast. It's not been easy for us at all, with family, personal commitments, family commitment and job too, and work too. It's been crazy all around, and also transitioning of weather, I guess, also add to people's Me, for example, a couple of weeks ago I had flu. It's been crazy, chin. How has been the break for you, though?
Speaker 3:The break. Yeah, just like you said, it's been a lot of misalignment of our schedule as well, as it will time illnesses for both of us, I think, because last week I had the flu or the cold, whichever one, I was sneezing, so it's most definitely a cold and I'm just coming out of that, and I think you had that the previous week. So it's been an interesting couple of weeks and I don't know if it's purely adding to my sickness. Of course purely.
Speaker 2:What do you think? Anyways, and the last time we had our podcast was, I think it was before the Juventus game, so you went to the game that Milan lost. Yeah, yeah, milan lost Juventus at 0. After, or before, I think it was.
Speaker 3:After no, we talked about the game because that was a clear red card, right.
Speaker 2:Exactly, yeah, yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3:So then you blamed the poor kid for everything that went wrong in that game.
Speaker 2:Then it was PSG. After we lost to PSG as well. Then we drew Napoli, then we lost to Denizze. Today, to be honest, it's been a very rocky start of the season for Milan and before we go into the in-depth of this analysis of the entire team as a whole, in terms of the quality of the team and all the stuff, we also quickly want to touch up on a couple of the games that we missed and stuff like that, I think. The PSG game do you want us to talk about the PSG game a little bit?
Speaker 3:The one that we lost to you. I think we can talk about the PSG game in the context of the fact that we're playing PSG next. Okay, then okay.
Speaker 2:Let's do that, okay, yeah, and if that's the case, then let's talk about the Napoli game, because I think that one is the one that raised a lot of conversation and some heated moments in this Milan dressing room and stuff like that Going into the game. Leo, I'll start with you. What were your expectations in Napoli's game? What were you thinking Milan was going to bring out of that game, considering the entire run of form since the international break? Because we shouldn't forget that Milan were top of the table a couple of weeks ago, so we also need to put into contests, as in everybody were against Inter about the whole game and we almost forgot the derby loss to Inter. And then we came back from international break with most of the players probably being fatigued, some came with injuries and a whole bunch of stuff. There was a lot of form and stuff like that.
Speaker 2:But, however, though I know I was standing in Serie A and I was standing in the Champions League at two different competitions and I feel like it's better for us to talk about them separately because of the two different tournaments. Going into Napoli game, napoli hasn't been playing well, but they recently picked up form recently and it's obvious for us to understand that they have a what to change of coach here and there. There's some little changes here and there as well. But going into Napoli game, I know it's a big game and it's one of those games that usually Milan either come out with good game and good victories and stuff. What were your expectations from this game, leo?
Speaker 1:Yeah, thank you, dave. My expectations to the game. Before the game even started, I messaged you guys on the group and I was like, hey, I feel like this game is either going to be we win very convincingly or we just go and lose badly, as usual. And our form coming into the game, I expected it because, looking at Peolis team, sometimes he always has these bounce back games. Right, he will have some poor games and then you have that one game where he will just bounce back from, and that's what he was looking like until the end of the first half and then, all of a sudden, it was like a dream. Before the dream turned into a nightmare, we considered two very cheap, very silly goals in space of 15 minutes and we almost lost that game, if not for some brilliant save by Mike Yan right at the end.
Speaker 1:The game just left us all like what just happened? How can you trade with two new leads just like that? We just didn't understand and it's kind of intensified this whole conversation about like he's purely the right person. How do you trade with a game like that? And this is Milan we're talking about. So, yeah, it was a mixed feeling. So at the end of the day I felt like I called it correctly, like it's either we win convincingly or we have an whole show of a game, like a very bad game, that 2-2 draw, even though we got one point out of it. It was a very, very bad feeling. It left a very bitter taste in everybody's mouth after the end of the game because that was three points. We lost three away.
Speaker 2:I thought no reason To be honest before the game, right, it's also good for us to put into consideration that both managers actually on that lifeline Just trust me, napoli's coach as well was also like under intense pressure, like if they lost that game, we'll have been fired, we'll have gone. We'll have been gone by now. So we also need to put into that perspective as well. And also, napoli is playing home, so going into the game chain, do you think, like the second Because I know like we, obviously convincingly we lost the entire four-star fight and we could have one score more than two goals. We lost a couple of goals in the first half as well Like we'll have been able to put the game to bed in the first half. But the question is, what do you think really happened in half time that really changed Napoli's mentality and what really happened to Milan in? Why didn't they respond?
Speaker 3:Because your idol is not a very good in-game manager, like he isn't. Because after the game, jiru came out and he said we were confused, we didn't know what to do, whether to attack and get the second or third goal or to defend. You said, well, why would Jiru say that he's an experienced guy? But that's the truth, purely, and I'm not saying this is do you know? This is the second time Milan has thrown away two goal leads late or second half in games. Remember the one that was against Roma that put them into that spiral where they went like six games collecting three, four goals from everybody. It's the same thing, purely, in my own opinion, he's a good coach. He motivates people Great. But when, if you watch the game right, milan had this thing that was working for them in the first half, napoli goes into the second half, they come out, their coach makes an adjustment. All of a sudden, they basically react and they are looking good. What is your coach supposed to do? Your coach is supposed to react.
Speaker 2:What the same question, though Are you putting the shape of both teams into consideration? Because, if you look at the first goal, to start with, the Pulitanos goal was an individual error from an apprentice, literally Pellegrini. That was a schoolboy error from Pellegrini. That was what they were supposed to go. Okay, but Dave second goal as well was an error from Romeo. Literally, that was a chip for him to give at the edge of the box.
Speaker 3:Yeah, and then it's the reason why I respiratory shot the ball and scored now. So let me explain. In football, you can score in two ways. You can score by someone making a mistake, the other team, or you can have some brilliant play and score Right. So either, or that's how you consider goal, right, that's how you get a goal, no, am I wrong? So the attacking team does something brilliant for you to lead to a goal, or you do something stupid for you to lead to the considered goal.
Speaker 3:Not Romero, what's his name? Pellegrini. Pellegrini is on the pitch. Partly. That was his first minutes ever for Milan, right? Because, oh yeah, the guy has been on the bench not even a single minute. I broke into two to come in and even try anything. And guess what, when the coach is pressured in the last minute, he has no other option. He has to play him Right. So, technically speaking, you can't blame the boy, because it's a high intensity situation. He was thrown into the fire. He's young, he made the error, whatever. Antonio Hernandez also didn't cover himself in glory with the whole play, right, but that's beside the case. It's about the mentality of the players, it's about the state of their mind. This is the second time in like three weeks. The world, confused, has been used, has been used with Milan.
Speaker 2:That's what I want to reference on, that's my. I want to ask you a question on that world confused. So can I ask you just a plain question here, because I've seen Milan, you know, gone up two, three nil in first half and come back in second half to manage the game properly. They managed the game, they don't go, they don't go all out. So what, what? What you were saying? I have no idea. What you were saying is. To me it looks way more confused than anybody else because, as a leader of a team, if your team is struggling no, not for real, I'm a big fan of you, but if you was clear enough, what you said was that they were confused.
Speaker 1:They didn't know whether to defend or to keep attacking. And this, like you use the word, the right word is game management. Each time we play in turn, the bitter silly it's always because the both things will start strong. We have our scores first. Those times Inter will score first one or two in the first half and then we sit back. That is game management. That's called changing. When we start coming at them to equalize, they will counter us and keep scoring. It's game management. So that's what Dury was very to like.
Speaker 2:They didn't know, like no, there wasn't any instruction from the gaffer to say and you and you and you, and come on, leo, like, literally you saying you, you saying this, like you say you don't know why it's like.
Speaker 1:It's like let's not represent it. He was clear. He was clear. He said you do not play enough.
Speaker 2:You and to start to start you.
Speaker 1:This is an indictment of purely no, no, no no no, no, no, no no.
Speaker 3:And now, now, now, all of a sudden, he said I give you a break.
Speaker 2:I'm a big fan of the game. Hold on now. Hold on, I'll give you your time to talk. Don't worry, this is it here. When you lead to nil in nipples against Napoli, you don't come in second half and tell me you don't know what you're doing as a leader of a team. That shows how weak you are as a leader All through the time that's Latin was at Milan. I don't think Leah will ever dare I'm saying dare ever to ever react with Puyolitics' amount. You're talking about Puyolin not being able to do the standard or whatever, whatever, whatever. You're talking about a bigger personality than Ibrahim. The world of football. This guy, played two, three seasons with purely. Never had a single issue with him, not even one single issue. So why are you here with purely?
Speaker 1:I don't understand, he's 40 years old, he gets the minutes he wants to get. No, that's not the problem, why would he flatten have?
Speaker 2:an issue with purely, leo, I like when you make a point and you make your point based on facts that are really like I can really relate to. To be honest, though, like all the things you see right now is the fact that you feel like purely is wrong and always, and if you look at it from this perspective, we're in just game 10. This is just 10 games. You, you. So you gave this guy seven or eight new players and, out of all these layers, the only two players that I haven't familiar with Syria, which is Romero and Jovic, I like flops from other table. Last. I never even knew Romero was from large until actually saw the transfer. Jovic has never been, ever, has never been successful in the last three, four seasons. It's been flop. The rest of the players are from a different league. This is game 10, not game 20, not game 25 or 30. This is just game 10. Give this guy time, give the team together.
Speaker 1:And the the main fact, the main fact that this is even game 10,. That's why it's a crisis. Why is it a crisis If I get 10,? If I get 10, crash out. What is the gap between?
Speaker 2:Milan and Milan.
Speaker 1:I'm telling you that before December, you will crash out of the Champions League.
Speaker 2:What is the gap?
Speaker 1:between.
Speaker 2:Inter and Milan. What is the gap between them? Six points, it's not 12, it's not 14. Milan is totally leg table. These guys are new, all the players that they brought to Milan so far. The luck we had is that Moussa and TJ are like completely strong players. The other players you can see like they're not really adapting to the league yet Fully. They're not fully adapted to the league yet. That's why they're having injuries. That's why you have policies sitting on the sideline. The main issue to me that I see here is that purely and I'm not, I'll give you guys time, I'll give you guys time, room to express yourself. Purely. To me, the three best players that he has, which is Theron, anders, raphael, leal and Jude, have been so far this season and that's why he's in there for policy to be putting in the amount of weight that Leal was putting in at this stage of the season. Come on, guys, this is just game 10. Give this guy time to build his players up. How come Fuzo even said to you to quit?
Speaker 1:We'll complain about you in the preview. Are you saying Are you saying, if I hear you correctly, purely is not the issue, it is the players. Is that what you're saying?
Speaker 2:These players are new to the team. They need time. These players need time.
Speaker 3:Can I ask you one question? Did they need this time? Like a few games into the season when Milan was top of the league, until like three minutes ago?
Speaker 1:Honestly, like they've been doing. Well, they won this series of games.
Speaker 3:No, reinders and all those guys. Now they were not settling in well until like three weeks ago. Let me tell you. That's what I don't understand. What you don't understand is that I'll tell you my own simple summary of purely. Okay, purely is a coach that basically depends on his player's ability for him to get results. Is that not what you should do as a coach? Wait Now, let me land.
Speaker 3:So, when you have most coaches, see, for you to actually have a good team, two things you have to have structure within the team. Then you have to have good players to execute such structure. So you know why you have to need structure, so that when all else fails, your structure will carry you through your bad patches. So you can see teams like, say, manchester City I forget, I'm calling them or even like Liverpool, for instance, when they are in bad form, they are a structure that they have. Even when the players look like they're not doing well, within that structure, they can still perform to a minimal level to beat most of the teams.
Speaker 3:Now, when you play very, very good teams wait now, when you play very, very good teams, exceptional teams then you need the combination of both to be at the peak. You need your players to be in top form as well as your structure to be perfect, purely, purely in his head. And this is why, if you notice, milan's forms always goes with the form of the players. Think of it and the players are all hitting form. Everybody's smiling. I feel like I really have the team Milan is doing well.
Speaker 3:All of a sudden, giroud goes on one of those stupid eight games without a goal. Rafael Leal starts, you know, struggling. He showed that Theo Hernandez gets lazy. Then, all of a sudden, milan is so bad. And then Dave would now say oh my God, like the players, the players because the same. You believe that all these players are great because they are doing well and the purely has developed them. How do you develop players that becoming consistent, and then yet you're telling me he's doing such a good job? Part of consistency in coaching is getting your players to perform week in, week out, regardless of how they feel, regardless of their form. They have to give you very minimal Udinese that Milan played the other day. Milan should need everybody to be in peak form to beat Udinese. All we need is to show up there. We all know what we're doing. We just put in a professional performance, because we have a big game coming up against PSG and we'll get out of there.
Speaker 2:Do you know that Udinese just fired the coach and this is their new coach?
Speaker 3:How does that have to do with anything that's even better for Milan? I don't get it, so I use a new coach.
Speaker 2:No, no. That makes it worse for Milan. Actually, that makes it worse for any team. If you're facing a team that's going through a turbulent moment and they just fired a coach and a new coach comes in the goal of those players to play the Okay.
Speaker 3:You know what the commentator said. Can I ask you a question?
Speaker 2:The commentator said, as a promise, this is probably the best game I've ever played in Syria. That's what he said.
Speaker 3:So what you're saying, is that okay, dave? Can I ask you a question what is Milan's, when you say purely what is his P footballing philosophy? Just tell me in one word or two Attacking, you can use attacking, yeah, it's for attacking football.
Speaker 2:How does he want to attack. Go and read about it, Actually.
Speaker 3:Pote is actually one of those coaches?
Speaker 2:He's actually one of those coaches that have actually brought this new philosophy of which is, if you're attacking and you pass your half, if you go back to your half, like beyond the center line, it should be a foul. Do you know that? How does that have to?
Speaker 3:do with anything at this point. Because Milan does that stuff. I see Lea pass the ball back sometimes, so what are you talking about?
Speaker 2:I'm just saying that. Let me tell you. Let me tell you what you see. This is what you don't understand, Chien.
Speaker 3:How is attacking football? Yes, it's a big one. On Ovex, you guys are Dave the ball we watched yesterday, the ball we've been watching the ball we watched Milan play. Right, there are days when these guys are on fire because Milan has good players. I know, somehow you think that Milan has players that are better than at least 85 to 90% of most teams in the world. Right, that is. I'm telling you the truth. You said that's all right. Milan has good players, rafael Lea. Milan has players that are better than 85 to 90% of the teams in the world. Are you sure? 85 to 90%?
Speaker 1:Yeah, he's currently at least 85 in the world. I've managed to do leagues in.
Speaker 3:Oh, you know what Leo forget? The world in Europe. Okay, let's say Europe. So if you go through each league right, you count maybe one, two, three, one two, three top five leagues in the world.
Speaker 2:So I'm guessing now tomorrow is the day to start top five defendants in Europe. So you need to have to criticize purely Milan. Players have better hands.
Speaker 3:I never said that. You need to remember this. How many players play for Real Madrid? How many players play for Barcelona? How many players play for man City and so on?
Speaker 3:If you put all of that, what I'm trying to get at is Milan's players are literally among the 80 to 85th percentile of players in world football in terms of their ability. They are not to the Nazi players. They are not whatever players. What I'm getting at is you make it. Sometimes it sounds like, oh my God, these players are so shitty. They are not. They may be inconsistent, but they are very good players, right.
Speaker 3:Why am I saying this, dave? It's the fact that when you go to a team like Brighton okay, let's use Brighton, for instance a coach can come in, take a bunch of mediocre players that are maybe a little bit below the level of the Milan players, right and somehow consistently get them to perform above their expected levels, right. And the point that other teams will not look at them and say, ah, I can buy this guy, he's very expensive. Meanwhile, according to you purely does the same thing with Milan players. And then here we are. Now you're criticizing the same players for being bad. Like I don't get it. You're telling me how they are not consistent they are this. Isn't that the coach? Do you think that anybody talks about my Toma and say my Toma is not?
Speaker 2:consistent, okay so you're contradicting my comment here. Hold on, hold on how I never say these guys are not good. They are doing between quality players and elite quality players, just at two different levels.
Speaker 3:You can't compare. For example, you cannot compare the two players with Mo Salah.
Speaker 2:They're not in the same level. Yeah, but this is your deal.
Speaker 3:Hold on. Let me finish. Those are the top 10% of the players in the world. Let me finish. Milan doesn't have those guys.
Speaker 2:If you look at the look, one thing about me is I'm going to be real when it's time for me to be real.
Speaker 3:When you look at the record, of the same league every year, Milan, which is between fantasy and reality.
Speaker 2:But that one. Let's clear that one aside, I'm talking about these players. Now, when you look at all these players that I was talking about Chicoise Okafo Dhjovic, these guys that I'm, yeah, the name by look exciting, the name is my look exciting. But the question is look at these guys, look at this players record how many of them are actually callednya? This is called twenty goals per season. Last week. What am I?
Speaker 3:doing here and kidding me. You're the person that every week, I have to remind you that Milan does not have very good players, and you'll be telling me that. Wait now.
Speaker 2:Wait, wait, let me finish my conversation. Let me finish my conversation, let me finish my point.
Speaker 3:Let me finish my point.
Speaker 2:What I'm trying to make you understand is these set of players that came into Milan this season are young, good players with high potentials. But the question is, can you get them running as soon as possible, like within the next 10 games of getting to a new team? No, it doesn't work for everybody. Not everybody is Musa, not everybody is TJ. That's why you see Chukwiz are struggling. Chukwiz had his own fair chance in the Champions League and in the league Before I even got injured. He hasn't settled yet. He's still adapting. Same thing with Okafou. So if you want to criticize Peole, if you want to criticize Peole, you have to look at all these players.
Speaker 3:He clearly started a game on Saturday with Okafou on the bench and Jovic to play, and somehow you found a way to defend it and your line was. Your line was what has.
Speaker 2:Okafou come on. When Okafou came on and he had his big chance, what did he do with it, Bro?
Speaker 3:bro, bro, let's back up that chance. I know in your head you think, oh, shoot it one time. If you watch the video again, you see that if he has shot this, is happening bro if he has shot, they will blow up that shot. So the guy wanted to wait. You can kill him.
Speaker 2:Are you kidding me as a striker? Okay, you guys admit, that's fine as a striker if you Time out, time out, time out. As a striker, if you find a ball in your feet in that position in the 18, I don't care if it's blocked by 100 people. Your responsibility is to take the shot.
Speaker 3:Well, can I tell you something, dave? Yeah, when he has two goals for Milan right, two goals, I think. Yeah, do you remember the first goal? Do you remember the first goal? It's exactly the same scenario. He waited for a split second and then moved the ball and then took a better shot.
Speaker 2:From which angle? Yes, from which angle are you talking about? Was it not the ball that the goalkeeper fumbled? That he scored? Yes, that he rolled it.
Speaker 3:The company that wanted to do the easy chance. Oh God, I am trying to tell you that the guy, what he wanted to do was basically give it, give that, give it to the ball what he did was wrong.
Speaker 2:As a striker, as a top striker, you cannot keep slicing that position it's wrong.
Speaker 3:You see, this is what's happening.
Speaker 2:You guys are being biased when it comes up Like this, is it here. Okafor blew that chance.
Speaker 3:Simple as it is. You know what, dave? You know what. He blew the chance. Great Jovic did not get the chance to blow right, so at least he was in a plane. Good, so you cannot blame.
Speaker 2:So before you blame Pudy right, yeah, you can ask him one question.
Speaker 3:What did Jovic do? What has he done in all the time he has been at Milan to warrant him to get minutes ahead of Okafor? Just answer me that simple question. No, let's assume that. Forget that. Okafor gave me an unbelievable chance. Tell me exactly what Jovic has shown to you and to purely that makes him believe that. Oh my God, let him play ahead of Okafor. I'm wondering that he decided to take him more 45 minutes into the game. Ok, I'm just asking you this question. I know the question is a little bit left field, but tell me no, no, it's not, it's not, it's straightforward.
Speaker 2:Milan has a game against PSG on Tuesday. Okafor is in the picture. Hold on, let me finish. Okafor is there. Okafor just came back from injury. He's not fully fit here itself. He shouldn't be playing. He wasn't supposed to play that game yesterday. And Jovic is fully fit. I'm talking about injury recovery. I'm talking about someone fit. Okafor is injured. He just came back from injury. Love to check what's supposed to play that game yesterday. They have to force them on it. The expected sorry, a returning time was against PSG.
Speaker 1:That's why the thing is, you see, but, dave, you would agree that Milan is currently not playing well.
Speaker 2:I agree, 100% I agree.
Speaker 1:We are playing. It's sort of football that is very difficult to watch, like the past three, four games. Even the way PSG beat us in the Champions League, it was difficult to watch but. Leo, let me ask you.
Speaker 2:Do you?
Speaker 3:know, that, even like the likes of Alan Dave. I beg you, leo, one quick correction. You're wrong with your assessment of Okafor's return dates because you played against Napoli. That's one. Secondly, secondly, leo, go ahead, I beg you.
Speaker 1:The point I was trying to make, dave, is that we are playing badly and you are trying to reduce it to players, players, only players. Everything else, but the very obvious what makes the game? What wins the game? Who is the common factor after all these things? Players come and go, those two just getting job, leo. What's the common factor? The common?
Speaker 2:factor is pure Hold on for us. But, Leo, let's be sincere. What wins the game?
Speaker 3:The goals of a performance. Good, let me tell you A combination of coaching and players, exactly.
Speaker 2:That's, I like that, no, no, no, you answer my question.
Speaker 1:Don't be dumb.
Speaker 2:you forget that I'm just asking from a former what takes?
Speaker 1:players to elite status. You said purely doesn't have elite status players. What takes players to elite status? It's elite management. Leo, exactly, thank you, right. So this is what I want to ask you Every player that has hit elite status will call.
Speaker 2:And I'm asking you both this question. I help them. I'm going to ask you both this question when Milan played against PSG, when Milan played Napoli, I think the only game that I think was very difficult for them was probably like Juventus, so I put that aside. But Napoli, PSG and yesterday's game it didn't say Did Milan create chances? Ok.
Speaker 1:Sure Against PSG. I think in the first half they created a couple of chances which they didn't take, and then that was it.
Speaker 2:No, we created chances. As soon as they started, we created good chances. In fact, actually the second half was the big game.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the second half. Yeah, I remember the foolish chance. But what I'm trying to make you understand is the point is, when your team they are playing so badly that the players don't even have confidence to take chances anymore, then you know there's a problem, right? And Goals that come in games Wait, goals that come in games are a function of how many chances you create, right, thank you. There's something called XG In games. The more chances you create, the more chances you get to score goals.
Speaker 3:The top team that score lots of goals. Wait, the top teams. You see that score lots of goals.
Speaker 1:They also miss a lot of goals. But what about?
Speaker 3:the members, I have like 12 missed chances. Sorry to support you. Against PSG, milan had 0.58XG. It gets what they had against Napoli Over 2 and they scored 2 goals. So, bogor, hezza, your point is carried, carry on, carry on. You create more chances to score goals.
Speaker 1:So the truth is that if you are not creating enough chances, you're not going to win games. So you keep having a lot of players that are missing chances. So they are missing chances on 0.58XG. It's not the same as they are missing chances on a 3XG or a 2XG.
Speaker 2:Okay, fine, Let me ask you. Okay, I'm going to ask you this question then. So it's okay, You're saying that Milan players missing glorious chances in either like high level elite games that you don't get a lot of chances and also losing a whole bunch of chances in the league when, like you have glaring goals, where, like players like, for example, in the second half against Napoli Rangers glaring chance like Leruli Sita the blue. So you feel like that's also purely this problem, right?
Speaker 3:Can I add something? Yeah, can I add something? What, when you talk about taking missing chances and not taking chances and blah, blah, blah chances, do you know? Chance conversion is a factor of what kind of level of chance right, difficulty of chance you have right Versus your technical ability. If you have increasing, if you have high technical ability, you can score incredible. You can make a 0.01XG chance into, convert it into a 1XG a goal. If you go, even if you are me, put me there, even if you give me MTNet or Darwin Nunes, you see MTNet, I was talking about MTNet. What am I getting at? That is exactly what the point is. So good coaches find a way to convert mediocre players or players that are not Darwin Nunes' to look incredible by giving them so many easy chances that are almost impossible for them to miss. Now, I'm not saying that this is what's called 100% a police. For that part, it's about the players. But you already said it, milan does not have very good players.
Speaker 2:So if you want the coach to work on a player. You expect the coach to make that quick leap within the first 10 games of the season, right, no, no, but it's good. What are the players that we're talking about? And what are these players? We don't have players.
Speaker 1:Which people won the Scudetto for Milan?
Speaker 3:Was it Goose and.
Speaker 1:Was it Goose? So it wasn't the same players.
Speaker 3:No, it's not your boy. Oh, I see. It's not the same player, so the same team.
Speaker 2:Milan is no longer Lester City. Milan has changed. No, but when you keep playing, this is our last competition. You were saying Milan winning the Scudetto was a luck. It was a fair deal.
Speaker 3:Right. Can I ask you a question? I never answered my question which is what is Milan's style? You say attacking football and attacking football. You know people that play for 4-2 and cross the ball a lot.
Speaker 2:No, it's how intense they are attacking football. We know how Milan plays.
Speaker 3:You're asking me a question that I honestly don't know how Milan plays. You know what I don't know? Because if I know how Milan plays, I will tell you. The way that Milan plays is typical to Remember. When Pio Li first took over, we played this game against Juventus and it was like 4-1 or 4-2, I can't remember. That's exactly how it used to be. It used to be in what's it called high-pressed you get everybody high up, win the ball back in the middle of the park and then attack with your attacking midfielder. Exactly that was the Scudetto Milan win Good.
Speaker 1:But that's what he's doing too.
Speaker 2:That's what he's doing right now, but these players are new. He's just doing it with a different mission.
Speaker 1:Right now. That's what he's doing. I know how Milan plays. The way we play is pass the ball around, pass to the out. Let him do something magical.
Speaker 2:No, that is how we play now. No, no, don't say that.
Speaker 1:What are you guys saying? You play against Napoli you have a ball?
Speaker 2:Hold on now.
Speaker 1:Hold on. Why is Milan struggling now?
Speaker 2:It's simply because that Do you know how many goals came from the right side, a lot of goals. The contribution from the right side is as simple as the left side. They will win more than the left side. What are you guys saying the reason why Milan is struggling, I will say it again and again the reason Milan is struggling is because of the injured players and the new players that injured the goal. Give this guy time to get these guys back. Implement his style on them.
Speaker 3:And get the ball rolling with them. Sorry, give the ball to Leal. If Leal doesn't do anything, if Pulisic is playing, give it to Pulisic to try his own luck. If Pulisic is not doing it, then bring it back to Leal to try his own luck. Then, if he's not doing it, put it back to See. Let me tell you something. When Piolli first came to Milan, you say there's never chances.
Speaker 2:that came to the midfield right. Or Tijani Reign has never had his chance. Or Lufthus Chigden's call and he goes from the midfield this season. Or Moussa is not taking shots from outside that keepers are saving. Why are you guys doing this? You guys are making Milan look like they're doing this in a talk. That is your chance. The biggest problem that Milan is having this season is Number one. Pio Hernandez is not doing enough. We both know it. If you like know it or not, he's just a reality. He's not doing enough. Good and until.
Speaker 2:Pio Hernandez starts doing enough to support Leal up front Leal will be up.
Speaker 3:All is best soleted Another player. So all you are talking about here is the players. We're still naming the players. Can I give you an example?
Speaker 2:No, Calabria and Pulisic as bad as you guys always talk about. Calabria and Pulisic have done way more than the left side this season. So how is Piolli now depending on the left side when they're attacking side? The right attacking side are contributing way more than the left side.
Speaker 1:This statement you just made now is a true investment on the manager, your left side. You had a strong left side last season and the management consulted you. I want to bring where is your deficiency. You say it's the right side. They've given you a Pulisic right To beef up your right side. You have a chukwizi on the bench right and all of a sudden, even though your left side is not performing anymore again Because this is not the first time and you're still trying to say that this is not the and you know your position to the left side.
Speaker 2:This is not the first time that Leal and Theo have been out of form. This is not the first time of them going out of form like this, but don't forget, if Pulisic is fit and is not injured and loves to keep.
Speaker 1:Are you telling me that Milan should be okay any time Theo and Leal are out of form? We should just pack the bus and go. Okay, this is what I'm going to say.
Speaker 3:The fact that we sat here, and all you've named to me is the fact that Milan has players that are out of form. As a result, milan no bad.
Speaker 2:Players that are injured, not out of form Okay, players that are injured.
Speaker 3:But Leal has been playing.
Speaker 2:They are not injured that day, so because Leal and Giroud are now in good form, then the entire team. That means that Milan cannot function.
Speaker 3:No Good, can I tell you something? Let me tell you something. Let me tell you something, my friend. See, a good team with good structure can beat most teams without their stars.
Speaker 2:I said this earlier, you did not listen to them Then wait for the team to be properly built. It's not fully built yet, it's a work in progress. So, to be honest, I know we can sit down here tonight and just keep arguing about Puyoli and stuff, like they will like us to move on, because I have more interesting topics that I would like to talk about here Our reference, I think I will just ask a couple of questions again on the PSG game for the next topic, now that there's been some weird results in the PSG game and everything like that with the other teams and stuff, how do you think this will shape Milan's mentality, like going forward after losing that huge amount I mean losing 3-0 to PSG in Paris? Do you think that will add more? They know it's right now. It's do or die Technically. We can't afford to lose any game or drop any points against them. To even start with Leo, my question to you is we have Lea, which is Lea, and Policicic are basically our main, our main goal-providers basically, and Policicic is doing like he's doing good. If Policicic is fit and happy, he plays very well.
Speaker 2:Mleow, let's talk about Liao. Liao has been struggling with form this season and this is not something that just happened, like you know, like all of a sudden, he had a very good start of the season. He scored wonderful goals, like I could remember the goal against Roma, which is to me, I think, should be nominated as one of the best goal of the season for Serie A. After that Newcastle game, I think that's where everything changed. He lost a bunch of chances, like what do you think Puyoli can do as a coach to get Liao back in form? Liao and Thio and Annesco those are his two best players and that's why I keep playing them. Even though they are the best players, they know they are not in good form. What do you think Puyoli should do at this point?
Speaker 1:Yeah, thanks, dave, for that question. So if I was Puyoli, I don't think the solution is to bench Liao. Many people will say, oh, bench Liao, bench Liao. I don't think that's the solution. Like Liao is talented, he's our best player. I think he's struggling with some kind of like the weight of the pressure. Like there's been a lot of pressure on him and I wouldn't blame him. I don't want to say I would blame Puyoli, but for the past two, three seasons he has been the fulcrum of our team. Like Puyoli's game plan kept asking him what's Puyoli's style of Liao, or whatever Puyoli's style has been passed the board to Liao. So Liao has been quite instrumental to Puyoli's game.
Speaker 1:I think that with these new players coming in and all sort of criticisms left, right and centre the one from Saiki people are saying a lot of things about him and how he doesn't really help the team. I think that's playing on his psyche, that's getting into his head. So if I were Puyoli, I would just find a way to calm him down. First of all, remind him that he's a professional, right, he just needs to work on his game, like he doesn't need to. Just let him know that hey, you can't have bad games too, like it's okay, it's fine. This is where you expect a manager to come in, like I expected, when the likes of Saiki and people were talking and saying stop about Liao Puyoli to outwardly come out and back the guy up and say that's not, it Defend the guy. But then, inwardly, he would actually reiterate all those criticisms Because there were bad criticisms and tell the guy hey, this is where I think you need to improve your game. Why would you make that flick against a new castle? What were you doing? Call it out, right, and say, like, call it out and let your body language, let the tone show that you're disgusted by that, right. But then you go out there and defend him, you know, before the press. So that's going to like give the guy that message that, oh, this guy's got my back. So I need to also work on my game. I need to do my part, right.
Speaker 1:So I think for Afair Liao, let him play, but you also need to let him know that he's not the weight of the team should not necessarily rest on the shoulders. Maybe that would give him the freedom to start, you know, having that confidence to do what he needs to do. And if I were Puyoli as well. Like come on, you need to have a strategy to approach games. Shouldn't always be like oh, everybody, pass the ball to Liao. But there needs to be a strategy to approach the games, which includes like how do you adapt to difficult games? Like how do you adapt to games where you're playing, like you, dinesi, for example, and you know these guys are going to come pack the boss? Why are you playing cronage in?
Speaker 2:such games. They don't pack the, but they started the pack.
Speaker 1:They pack the boss. That's, that's their game, that's their game plan, like as soon as they scored that goal they will pack the boss.
Speaker 2:Dinesi is one of the most dangerous teams that Milan always play against and, to be honest, this is not this I'm talking about even right to the days off. Don't forget that it was the latest game that actually transformed Milan. I could remember that night when we beat Dinesi, dinesi 3-2. They are the team that comes out of Milan and attack Milan the tennis that game. To be honest, though, like I understand what your point, I know there's some movement that you feel like couldn't shoot, shouldn't be playing, and at least you be exactly like.
Speaker 1:He puts faith in players like he shouldn't be putting faith in and then he benches players that I feel like should be getting more game time Right, like Okafor, like Chiquizzi. I keep hearing a lot of criticisms from Milan Twitter about Chiquizzi. Like I don't think it's fair on the guy, to be honest.
Speaker 2:But how many games are?
Speaker 1:that played. That's what I'm saying. Compared to Reynars, reynars has seen way more game time. If you are criticizing Reynars today, you are in your right. I won't say anything, but telling me that Chiquizzi is a flop, telling me that, like I don't believe that, because they haven't actually played. You see the tennis. Those guys haven't actually played and they haven't given them minutes, but you keep playing Krunic. You keep playing Krunic Every single game. You play Krunic. He just came back from injury. You rush him in. You play him.
Speaker 2:I feel like it was wrong in doing that, but at the same time, you also need to understand some certain things. I don't think and I'm saying it because you guys have been always on Pugli all the time You're getting like the players' rotation and whatever. I think Pugli has improved on his rotation this season. He might not be as good as we expect, but I can tell you that I haven't seen any player in Milan's court this season that hasn't been given their chance Now regarding chances the question is to cap it all, especially looking at this PSG game that's coming up, I would just say I don't really see us coming out of that game with anything.
Speaker 1:Honestly, I'm being frank here, like because the way we are playing, I can't see any promise. So I'm not expecting anything. But if I were, purely, I would look at that team and tell them like guys, come on, you have to be professional here. This is where your professionalism should come in. You need to dig deep and find it. Give the fans what nobody is expecting. Raise your game, because I don't look at every game is how you manage it. I don't look at teams because they have big names.
Speaker 1:You can't beat PSG not because they had better players than PSG, but because they had a better approach to the game. All Milan needs to do is to focus on the game. This is 11 players of PSG purely needs to do his own work and come up with a tactic that these guys could work with. Do your homework and watch PSG games and see how they do, see how the transition with the ball off the ball. How can you counteract that? Come with a tactic, and this is what frustrates a lot of Milan fans, because we feel like we have a coach that doesn't do that. Leo, he does the same thing every single time.
Speaker 2:If Milan is not creating these chances, I would say that Milan is at fault. Milan creates good chances and wouldn't be able to convert them. If you want to put that on the coach, then I think that's not fair, but Chin just gave you some of our XGM facts. This is in here Whenever I come through. I'm talking about the XGM.
Speaker 1:That's what we tell you was actually an expected goal.
Speaker 2:Again, leo, if you watch a work class striker, when you're a goal down and you're in the box of your opponent and you have a glaring chance to shoot, thinking of people who will block your chance should be the last thing that you ever think of. That's why you see players like Mbappe and all those players that you guys are comparing Milan level of performance is with. That's why I see those players scoring those goals, because they don't doubt.
Speaker 3:Why did Okafor not shoot the ball one time then? Because he was right there, he saw an empty net, and then he decided that he should take another touch.
Speaker 1:One thing Dave is not even considering is that even in Mbappe those guys have missed glaring chances. That is even worse than what Okafor missed Again what they are still up there. You can't take anything away from that. Okafor did not miss the chance.
Speaker 3:He tried to give himself a better chance to score. The guy did a good defensive job on him. There was a guy that was watching the match. He's not a Milan fan. His rest response was that he texted me and said why didn't they? What was Okafor doing there? And then a few seconds later, when they showed you, I was like, oh I see, Because if you see, the guy has already literally blocked the shot, he should give him credit for not even just shooting the ball at somebody. And then tomorrow now, you'll be asking him why didn't he just pause a little bit? You could have got in a little bit more room to shoot. But let's forget Okafor for a second.
Speaker 2:Dave, can I ask you a question?
Speaker 3:You keep asking chances. Milan create chances. Milan create chances. Please, can I ask you what is consistent about these chances that Milan is creating? Are they looking the same? Because I seem to remember a lot of chances, but to me it's almost like sometimes they are like trial and error chances, chances by mistake, chances that basically come from brilliant plays by one or two players. So let me tell you why I say that. If you go watch when man City played, which would they play this weekend?
Speaker 2:Toku, you're not making a comparison though New.
Speaker 3:Castle, why are you? How about New Castle Biamonics? Oh, I don't want to say Biamonics, that would be a fair comparison. New Castle Okay, you want me to use Biamonics? Is Biamonics okay for you?
Speaker 1:Yeah, biamonics, because I reckon God had a heart rate. Okay, good.
Speaker 3:When you watch Biamonics, almost you start even watching their full match. I can tell you what they want to do. They want to lure you in, get the ball outside to their wings with those guys at a fast so they can take advantage of their speed and bring the ball back so that Hurricane Do you know how many goals Hurricane has scored this season? That is tapping. It's almost the same thing. Copy and paste, copy and paste. Every game you watch, he scores three goals. It's game style.
Speaker 1:It's almost copy and paste that is tactic, which is not player, that is the manager. No, so I will take.
Speaker 2:I'm going to give you my last piece about Pune, because I don't want to talk about this again. This is both of them.
Speaker 3:No, no, no. But let me learn now. Let me learn Because you always tell me how they are making chances, and I do not disagree with you. They are making chances, but all the things I have to tell you is that those chances, they are basically chances that God gives us by chance, and then chances that come by chance right, and those chances are not repeatable. Tomorrow, when we land play PSG on Wednesday, I can certainly guarantee you that I know what PSG we do. Guess what? They will give the ball to Papi and Dembele on the wing and they will just isolate your players one-to-one, and not for you to worry about it, because that is exactly what you know when you have advantage, you take that advantage Every time. Raffaella is always 2v1, right, you see, raffaella only him wants to take on 2 or 3 people. But why do things like that? Why do?
Speaker 1:things like that.
Speaker 3:Because the nice thing you tell me is that Theo Hernandez is not informed, right?
Speaker 2:Because that's your answer, come on man, you know, because Chien can we be in? I want us to like just make some good points, okay.
Speaker 3:Let's leave it Milan create chances. Let's give them create chances.
Speaker 2:This is what I want to ask Chien Theo Hernandez. I really want to understand your perspective about him, about his lack of consistency. This is not just this season. This has been like last season. He's like really been struggling since last season, literally right from the start of the season actually. I'm just trying to understand, like, what do you think is the reason why Theo has been struggling?
Speaker 3:Do you think Theo is a good, very, very good player On his best day. Is he one of the best players in the world, like top, like best, one of the best left-back in the world, right On his best day On his count? Like five, yeah, top five. Yeah, he's top five here. Okay, good On his best day. Why do you think, if he's that, why is he not playing for Real Madrid and for man City's and the Bayern?
Speaker 1:Chien, I disagree. Come on, we can also have a top five.
Speaker 3:Let me explain. No, no, no, theo is good.
Speaker 2:The left-back is top five. The left-back is top five. The place for France is oh nah, you won't let me land.
Speaker 3:By the way, remember this, remember this. Theo is that.
Speaker 1:But he was one of the one who go from being the world champion, so Chien be careful, Wait nah.
Speaker 3:By the way, he was also on the best. He went on to his brother, got injured in the first game of the World Cup, and then he went to.
Speaker 2:At some point you get a chance right, yeah, good he did his job.
Speaker 1:He got them to the final.
Speaker 3:Wait, can I land? The point is this you and I know, we all know, that Milan players, if they are not Milan players, cannot go. Like you know, harriki comes in and he scores 15 goals in 12, 11 games and you are very sure that you probably get 30 goals this season. That's not the Milan players. Olivier Giroud will give you 10 goals in 38 games. Devou Crya Shaq. Oh my God, wg. I mean why he scored those 10 goals in three games, right? Theo Hernandez is sometimes With seven penalties. Yeah, so Theo is he used couple of goals, like couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3:Okay, wait, now Theo is almost in the same. Well, wait for him to go on a game. Go left street. Theo is almost like that. Theo is not the most consistent I've seen. Theo and Leal was when Milan won the league. Right, that's the most consistent. Good, because those players are not that consistent. Weak and weaker. They say we brought him Dias, he was like that.
Speaker 3:There are a lot of inconsistent players, but consistency has levels though. There are people that are like game in, game out, inconsistent. There are people that go three, two, three, four games good and then maybe a few games bad, and then two, three, four games good. Those levels exist. The difference between Milan and a lot of other teams is that we cannot absorb that inconsistent In consistency. It shows because nothing else is there. If Theo is bad, you bring in what is called Florenzi or whatever. Then it looks even worse.
Speaker 3:Right, because they are guys through their inconsistency, good teams. What they do is, if a player is actually having a bad, whatever, they find a way to give them time to rest and recover, because usually those inconsistencies come from fatigue or that stress that is happening. Right, because their mind is not sharp, their body is not sharp, you give them time to recover fully before you bring them back. We don't have that luxury. In the normal world, we should be benching Rafael Leal, giving him a few days to rest up his body, maybe send him to the beach to go and rest. But we can't afford that, because if you rest up in the room it might as well all go home. What am I getting at In consistency is exactly what these Milan players are. The only thing consistent about them is their inconsistency, starting from beginning to end. In fact, do you know, when you come in and you tell me how tomorrow is one of the best defenders in Europe? It's because now, that is a consistent wait.
Speaker 2:Now Don't put tomorrow's question. Let me just say you it's been exceptional decision.
Speaker 3:Apart from that, rumours- the only person that has been in Milan from the beginning they want to end. That has not had any inconsistency issue. He's Mike Meaghan. Literally he's been the only constant, in my own opinion, since he has been in Milan till the end you haven't looked at him and looked at him as suspicious. Then recently I've been suspecting him a few times Since that day he jabbed, he hit somebody and got a red card. I've been looking at him working, working.
Speaker 2:Was it a Napoli game that was dropping some balls? I was looking at him and beginning to look at him.
Speaker 3:That inconsistency is now dripping into his own self. What am I getting at? Milan has a lot of inconsistent players. Let's not point to you, hernandez, football, as a human being, is getting consistent at times. The difference is that you have good systems, good structure, you have good support system and you have good bench rotation. You can pick up their inconsistent time and you won't miss that much of a beat. It's a long season, it's nine months. You can't expect the player to be Nobody's doing the messy. If they are that consistent, they are doing the messy, or Ronaldo.
Speaker 2:I think Milan is bringing a left back from Rebetis.
Speaker 3:Oh my God the one that will come in now. We'll see him until everybody dies.
Speaker 1:He's not ready, he's not ready, he's not ready, he's not ready, he's not ready.
Speaker 3:I'm still waiting for that thing. Colombian goalkeeper. I'm still waiting for that Colombian goalkeeper to be ready. What's his name? Again? Vasquez, the one that Vasquez is still getting ready for three years. But what am I getting at? So don't? Theo Hernandez is inconsistent Almost every other player Milan, so there's nothing unique about it.
Speaker 2:Okay, now let's talk about. Let's talk about Milan's team as a whole, like the squad as a whole, right, because when you want to look at it too, to me I kind of feel like this team, right, is still Like, I'll say it again, it's a work in progress and I feel like there's so much potential in this team, but it's not something that you just get right off the bat, because of the fact that a lot of players are still new and adapting to the Italian league and are still settling, and I feel like that will take a lot of time. If you notice, when Milan started the league, milan was doing very well. We topped the league until the break. We didn't just stop for no reason. These guys were playing good football. We all agreed to it one of the podcasts but the thing is that when injury starts settling in, it started from love to stick right. We're playing good football with shitty players.
Speaker 1:With shitty players. You said all the players are shitty. We played good football. No, I never said it was shitty.
Speaker 2:I'm just saying that they need time. There's two different things. I never Okay your words. Yeah, Less quality players. Again, I didn't say less quality. I said there's difference between an elite player that will hit the ground running and a good player with great potential to grow. That's what Milan has. That's who Okafo Chico is all.
Speaker 3:These guys are Ryan Dice, ryan Dice. Tj Ryan is the same thing too. He was probably Milan's best player.
Speaker 1:He even got caught before Dave, dave, yeah, let's talk about Manchester United. Casemiro is an elite player.
Speaker 2:Casemiro is in the sunset of his career.
Speaker 1:Good, bruno Fernandez is an elite player. Yeah, he is. What's your point, google? It's not an elite. Give me your point, bro. He had a good career, progressed up to the Champions League. My point is it is the manager that makes the player stick, it is not. You could have all the quality players, but if you have a crappy manager that doesn't understand how to use his resources, you get bad results.
Speaker 2:So how do you expect the manager to use resources that are very fresh and new in a league?
Speaker 1:Jeremy Dockoo is new in Manchester City.
Speaker 3:I was going to say Jeremy Dockoo.
Speaker 2:Did Manchester City sign 10 players last summer?
Speaker 1:Okay, let me answer your question. I said Manchester City bought players in areas where they had deficiencies. Did Manchester City?
Speaker 2:sign 10 players this summer.
Speaker 1:Milan also bought players in areas where we had deficiencies.
Speaker 2:No no, no no 10 players. This is not one, this is not two players. This is 10. There is a whole squad. This is 10 players, 10 players were brought into the team. Every player had their own responsibility. The reason why Sported was brought to Milan, right, sorry, now what happened? When they got to the top to help my manager, they got injured. We had to bring Mirante, who is 40 years old, who was not able to move the ball around the way they wanted to.
Speaker 1:It would have been like 3-0, if not for Mirante. No, no, yes, you would have considered that goal, that deflection.
Speaker 2:Clonics is deflection, that's not the point I'm trying to make here, don't?
Speaker 2:keep out what I've saved, that the point I'm trying to make is every player brought into Milan. They're not brought into Milan because they wanted to play every 10 at once. They're not brought into Milan because they brought all these players for a purpose. I can name all these players and their responsibilities. Sported was brought in to support Mnian On the right flank. They wanted to change Messias completely and they saw Messias and Salamakas. They brought in Chiquiz and Pulisic. Pulisic has put in his own share, chiquiz hasn't. They brought in Okafor to be taught in the attack. Okafor hasn't hit the ground running yet. You can't blame him. He's a new kid, he's a young kid, he scored two goals.
Speaker 1:with how many minutes played? See, he hasn't hit the ground. Go ahead. Okafor was injured.
Speaker 2:He just got back.
Speaker 3:He got back against.
Speaker 2:Napolio. The question is before Milan went on break, milan was stopping the league. How was Milan playing? Were they playing good?
Speaker 3:No, that's the question I wanted to ask, so it wasn't the same players that you're calling. They have to complain now that there are 10 of them.
Speaker 2:Half of these players are injured already.
Speaker 3:Half of these players before the break are injured. Or is it new players? Let's pick one. Let's pick one. David is just pushing his agenda.
Speaker 2:I'm not pushing my game. I'm trying to stay the fuck away.
Speaker 1:I'm not saying I can tell you more goals, more goals per game than Giroud.
Speaker 1:I want us to talk about the positive stuff, the point here is that you brought in a bunch of players that you don't even trust. You don't even trust them to play. The next person is far above that person. So what is the drive for him to give his A game, compared to when he's playing for Milan? Because there's no risk. And I think the same thing goes with Lea. Most of them on that left side they know that they are it, but with Lea, lea is now getting threatened Because there are several other options. Politicians can play left wing, wokafa can play left wing, so there are other options.
Speaker 1:I feel like that's also what's messing up with his head, but not for Theo. Theo is just costing Because he doesn't have any competition. So how is he going to? If you are, theo, what's going to push you to say Because there's something about football players. They know that there's this competition, internal rivalry within them. Most of the players will tell you that they always want to give it. That's why when they get a chance and they come off the bench, they want to give their A-game so that they can keep that starting shape, like internally, they compete. Theo has looked at the team. He doesn't see his competition. So what do you expect? I won't say that's unpeely, I'll say that's on the management.
Speaker 2:Can we plan for a main trial Champions League exit so yeah, I was going to say that can we just go into the PSG game because I think that's one of the. That's a nice beginning now.
Speaker 3:I think you have to. Basically, I don't see a way for Milan According to you. Dave, you say when everybody doubts them purely on Milan, that's when they stand up. Hopefully, I doubt them enough I hope they can hear me I doubt them enough so that they can stand up against PSG, because I don't know. You know what he's going to do on Tuesday he's going to play a midfield tray of Ruben Lofti's chick Pobega and what's. He called Krunic Paul.
Speaker 2:Yeah, go ahead. Let's talk about the line-up here.
Speaker 3:What are?
Speaker 2:you asking me the PSG game is obviously a must-win for Milan and then I think it's going to decide purely his fate being Milan's coach. My, Are you sure?
Speaker 3:Because I think the Wufa. I'm just reading something that says he still has they still believe in him. He has a lot of style, I think all this should really and everything happened right.
Speaker 2:I think it has to do with external pressure. Anyways, it's not helping either. Which is very funny because, again, I'll say it again, 10 game into the season, it's too early. If you give a coach 10 players, to give a coach 10 new players, I think you have to give him time to get these guys up and running. That's how I feel.
Speaker 2:So the PSG game I've PSG. They're in good form. They won again 3-0 this weekend. So it's going to be a very, very intense battle between Milan and PSG. But at the same time I know Milan is not really I mean, they're not in good form, let me use that word. But at the end of the day too, I feel like we're going to have some of our regulars back. Love to see who's going to come back. Juque is also going to come back, or Kaffo is back as well. The police will also be playing as well. So I just want to quickly talk about our first starting line-up. So Mechminian is going to have Malik Tiau and Tomori back Chain. Quick question on Malik Tiau what's your assessment of him? On the last game, nothing has changed.
Speaker 3:He still struggles in one-to-one situations with very strong files.
Speaker 2:I think it was better though.
Speaker 3:That is not great. Well, I'm just saying it's not going to change. Everybody somehow struggled against Isaac Sussis. Saturday he became the left-leafed. Tomori did struggle. That's what you say, tomori did struggle.
Speaker 1:Yeah, he did struggle a little bit. Chain is right, everybody went there.
Speaker 3:If I'm not mistaken, he was laughing because it's almost like comical. All of a sudden the guy changed into have you seen Isaac's promise?
Speaker 2:on Tomori in the last three or four games. They have always been up. I'm sure Tomori probably ignored Isaac's promise. We're not on the same level. That's why I'm probably not really pleased with Isaac's promise of because the last three to four games against the Disney it's always bad to be cheap on them. I don't think they would say hi after the give-safe course.
Speaker 1:Isaac's promise has this kind of? You know this guy, Terence Murphy, the way he was annoying.
Speaker 3:Bappy. Oh my God.
Speaker 1:That's how Isaac's promise gets on Tomori's nerves.
Speaker 3:To be honest with you, right, I think Maliktea got subbed after 45 minutes against PSU. The only problem right now is that we don't have any other option. There's no alternative because Kalulu is not there. Nadia, is your new sign in Pellegrini, which would have been, oh my God, what he's not registered. Nadia, do you want to play Simón Kier Against this guy?
Speaker 1:No, I don't even try, simón Kier.
Speaker 3:Right now, to be honest with you, the only option Milan legit have is those two centre-backs, right? Good, so Terence probably starts. If he wasn't injured last weekend, I don't know why he wasn't playing. Terence will start Then on the right side. That's where you might have a couple of questions, but I don't think there's a question. Calabria is going to start.
Speaker 2:So basically, let's talk about Calabria.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so far. In terms of form, I would say start Calabria.
Speaker 3:Yeah good, see, it doesn't matter, because if it's no, I feel like what is the? Puppy on the belly.
Speaker 1:What is the puppy on the belly? What will you do with it? To play a Calabria, maybe Chiquise on the right side and give him that instruction.
Speaker 3:No, there's no Chiquise.
Speaker 1:Even if it's police age. Wherever it's going, it has to, oh it's fitting off?
Speaker 3:Oh, yes, it's fitting off. So let me tell you now. So this is where the problem is To beat PSG, you have to beat them in the middle. Okay, so that's how a new cast will beat them. You have to beat them in the middle Because if the boy doesn't get out to Bapy and the belly, they don't get to disgrace your defenders, right, one vs one.
Speaker 3:You were the one that said you did your boy, that's it to Mori, right? So my theory is this Purely, it's going to have to. You want to pack the midfield with energy and leg and a lot of disruption, right, right, but then the problem with that is if you do too much of that, then Milan cannot create, because, technically speaking, milan also needs those misreaders to get the ball to Rafael Leal and other attackers, right? So the problem here is you have to kind of balance it. So my theory is that, purely, we end up playing Krunic, maybe Musa and then maybe Ruben Lossif-Cikh, somehow something like that, and the writer might not play right, or he might end up even not playing Ruben Lossif-Cikh and then end up playing Pobega. Like, I would not be surprised if, purely, he just goes there and just puts Pobega, krunic, and then Musa. Oh my God, I don't know, only purely we watch the match.
Speaker 1:He won't do that, he won't do that. No, that's not the best theory to view for this type of game. Come on, guys, I know there are many.
Speaker 2:Chien just makes a mistake, but don't worry, it's fine.
Speaker 1:Our best bit through remains Brian Jass, for now, on Tibenassia comes back, Brian Jass. Musa, Love to Chik and Musa. Oh yeah, but I'm playing.
Speaker 2:But the thing is, though, let's go into play Krunic. There's a reason why he plays Krunic, and I will support him on Tuesday, to be honest, because if you have Love to Chik back, you need to play Love to Chik Krunic behind, love to Chik and to January, because that's how they were playing before.
Speaker 3:Okay, so then Musa does not get to play, right. Musa comes to second half.
Speaker 2:I understand for Musa to get some rest too. He's been playing my full game for the past three or four games.
Speaker 3:Now let's talk about In attack, it's going to be your boy, olivier Giroux, your boy Rafael Leal, and Christian Pulisic.
Speaker 2:I feel like Pulisic playing on Tuesday is going to add a lot of value to the attack, because I know at least if yeah, he's not having a good game, or, like Olivier Giroux, playing on Tuesday, adding value to the attack, but yeah. Well, we need you to do that front-end with regardless.
Speaker 1:If I were purely, I would even not play 4-3-3 against PSG. What do you think PSG is? I don't know why he switched to that 4-3-3. Like we suck you should play the 4-2-1-3. 4-2-3-1,. That's what I'll play.
Speaker 2:I saw funny because when I'm not sure, maybe he looks at the team and says maybe he's trying to fit in.
Speaker 1:Even with 4-2-3-1, you can easily fit Krunic to that formation.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, krunic plays behind the side ring. Yeah, and maybe he loves to see plays in the middle, or I prefer to see plays in the middle, and maybe he loves to see plays on the side.
Speaker 1:We move from that left wing because I feel like he's been figured out playing on from the left.
Speaker 3:You're making too much sense. You're making too much sense. That means Pio is not going to do that.
Speaker 1:Exactly, a player, a player with his name play Krunicic on the left side. Exactly, I'm playing too crazy on the right side and leave Old Manjiro up front so that he, so Riamadu, plays this formation.
Speaker 3:Riamadu plays his diamond in the middle. What stops me from trying diamond in the middle? Like you play one defensive midfielder 2-2-2.
Speaker 1:Because we don't have the belly ham. Oh my God, I wish I had the belly ham. Star ball.
Speaker 3:No, but Leo. This is the point, though. This is where the coaching comes in right, because the truth of the matter is, if you want to be PSG, you have to beat them in the middle, and normally, just having Even PSG. They realize this when they play against Milan, so they play 3 leg-full midfielder right, zayamere, just Bosse.
Speaker 1:Zayamere, Just Bosse Zayamere. Oh my God, I was so embarrassed 17-year-old boy.
Speaker 2:Anyways, my next question is Leo, do you see Milan getting anything out of this game?
Speaker 1:No, I think we have to be careful with our current form. Like, if you look at the last game, there's something going on in the heads of the players. Ryan just had this look like he wanted to even cry, so I don't know. I think it's such a short time between Saturday and Tuesday for us to just dramatically, just so. I'm not expecting anything, in fact it's, I just don't feel like not even watching the game. I just, you know, I'm not expecting anything.
Speaker 3:I'm in line with Leo, in fact, the same thing he just said. It's going to happen right in the middle of a work day, so I usually have to risk work time with trying to get this game in if I want to, or I have to record the game, or something like that, right and watch it later, which, again, that's the worst option, because if they lose if they lose, there's no need of coming to watch Milan lose and train nothing again For me. I don't think Milan is going to win the game, but you and I are going to say Milan will win.
Speaker 2:Honestly speaking, I believe something has come out of this game.
Speaker 3:Good so with 2-1, with Giroud scoring the goal.
Speaker 2:To be honest, I just feel like Milan can pull something out of this game. I know we're not in good form right now and again we're just recovering some players from injury, right but I still feel like this is a very important game that decides the fate of Milan.
Speaker 3:Milan lost that for the Champions League. When they went, they couldn't beat Newcastle at home and they could not beat Dotmond Nothing. So guess what I'm just saying? Because, whatever you're thinking with PSG, I never thought we were going to get anything from PSG. Because PSG is one of those teams that we should be putting in the same category as Contenders for Champions League, and nothing. Milan is a Contender.
Speaker 1:PSG is not that fantastic.
Speaker 2:No no.
Speaker 1:It's just that we have the right mentality to pull it off.
Speaker 3:I can't vouch for it.
Speaker 2:We'll save this conversation for after the PSG game, please. It's been a pleasure talking to you guys tonight because we need to wrap up Chain. Just quick prediction, please. What's your prediction for PSG game, please? Please make it quick. Two-nothing, okay, two-nothing. What about you, leo?
Speaker 1:World's case two-nothing. Best case one-one.
Speaker 2:Okay well, I predict Milan will win like one nail. Thank you so much, guys. It's been a pleasure chatting with you guys tonight. I'm looking forward to seeing you guys after the PSG game have a good night guys.
Speaker 1:Bye guys.
