The rossoblù in the second half find themselves in nine men after the red in Soumaoro and Soriano. Devil ahead 2-0 with Leao and Calabria, then the hosts catch him back thanks to an own goal by Zlatan and a goal by Barrow. In the final, the Rossoneri are back on top with Bennacer. The Swede closes it
Maximum freedom of choice. Those who want can opt to limit themselves to the result, which gives Milan the solitary primacy in the standings at least for one night waiting for some of the others – on Sunday there is Inter-Juve and Rome-Naples – to lose points, however it will end. Put down like this, it is to dine on caviar and champagne. The Rossoneri fan who instead preferred to look beyond the result, will go to sleep first in the standings, certainly, but full of doubts and fears. Because Bologna-Milan ended 2-4 but the Dall’Ara match was the craziest match in the world and paradoxically it is the Devil himself who comes out with many doubts and few certainties.
DELICATE MOMENT
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In short, the Rossoneri have definitely not made a great impression. The breadth of the result in favor of Milan is not the faithful reflection of a crazy match, in which the Emilians found themselves in ten after twenty minutes and even nine after 13 minutes of the restart. A match in which AC Milan sat in the locker room at half-time above two goals and a man and found themselves 2-2 in the seventh minute of the second half, with an almost touching Bologna – as well as extremely lucid – in getting back on par. and, even after the second red, in containing well a Devil who is increasingly discouraged and without ideas. It was a magnificent volley by Bennacer in the final to bring the Rossoneri back to the front for a victory refined in the score by an Ibra cross and delight: an assist to Leao and a goal, to forget everything else (with an own goal on his conscience), very far from even an acceptable form. After what he saw, Pioli left the field very nervous because the moment is what it is: a time given to Verona, an entire match at Porto and the very serious risk of not winning this time with two more men, are bells of important alarm.
The choices
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If Pioli was plagued by a thousand infirmary problems (nine absent), even Mihajlovic had little to smile. Especially in the median, where men were numbered. In the end Dominguez, despite recent muscle problems, took the field from the start alongside Svanberg. So with Medel left in the center of the defense. Attack entrusted to the Soriano-Barrow-Arnautovic trident. Milan behind Ibra presented themselves with Castillejo (first as a starter), Krunic and Leao, forced median with Tonali-Bennacer and confirmation of the entire defensive line deployed in Porto (Calabria, Kjaer, Tomori and Ballo-Touré). To explain the first part of the game it is necessary to stop the clock at minute number 20. In reality, Milan are already winning, but that is the moment that really changes the challenge: Kjaer’s vertical throw for Krunic, who throws himself towards Skorupski and before entering the area is put down by Soumaoro. Valeri is firm and immediate in the measure: direct red, confirmed by the Var, and Bologna in ten. This is where everything changes. It is here that Milan suddenly find themselves in a decisive descent after a rather complicated first quarter of an hour. It is here that Bologna must surrender to the evidence that they can no longer afford the pressure used wisely in the first minutes, when the Devil was crushed in his last thirty meters by the Emilian push. With the very interesting 19-year-old Hickey (well protected by Theate) skidding to the left, Svanberg towering over Bennacer and Arnautovic moving across the front creating corridors for his teammates. Just before the quarter of an hour, the Austrian international was close to scoring a header after a missed exit from Tatarusanu. An effective Bologna in the maneuvering phase and widely revisable in the defensive one. The Rossoneri’s first goal came on the counterattack but with the Rossoblu in numerical superiority. Yet Ibra managed to throw deep for Leao, and Leao burned Soumaoro on the sprint, firing a left on which a deviation from Medel was decisive.
Another red
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Four minutes later came the red card and obviously it became another game. Mihajlovic went from 3-4-2-1 to 4-3-2, redesigning the defense with De Silvestri, Medel, Theate and Hickey. Ten minutes from half-time, Milan struck the blow that looked like a knockout: a cross from Ballo-Touré, a bad smanaccia by Skorupski, a bit of ping pong in the area and a final blow from Calabria. At that point Bologna staggered, suffered the double slap and with one less man holed up in front of the area. A virtually finished match, judging by what was being seen on the pitch. But the interval broke the cards because everything happened in the second half. Bologna in seven minutes has incredibly recaptured the game. At 4 ‘Milan thought about it directly, with Ibra who headed in the wrong door on Barrow’s corner, and at 7’ with a good action started by Arnautovic, finished by Soriano and perfected by Barrow on the offside. From the crazy Ara, Milan stunned, but the beneficiary of another fundamental referee decision: Soriano’s bad entry on Ballo-Touré’s ankle, the Var recalled Valeri who, once back from the monitor, kicked out the second rossoblù player. Eleven against nine, with Pioli who at that point was played all out. Outside Krunic, inside Giroud. That is Ibra and the French together in the last half hour. Except that the product was not in the least proportional to expectations.
Invention
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In general, Milan did not understand, or in any case was unable to do so, how to surround Bologna. How to get into the right openings and, even before that, how to create them. Instead of biting the opponent, the Rossoneri played with a slow, unloaded round of the ball. More discouraged from being reached than encouraged by the double numerical superiority. Many mistakes near the trocar, extreme difficulty in becoming dangerous. The only real jolt for Bologna was a header by Giroud, thwarted by a great intervention by Skorupski. And the Emilians have also taken the pleasure of scaring the Devil with Arnautovic (careful Tatarusanu). Milan needed a play, an episode, an invention. Arrived six minutes from 90 ‘: Bakayoko sank to the left, cross raised to the bell tower by Svanberg and left in the flight of Bennacer from outside the area. Beautiful and impregnable. The coup de grace was given by Ibrahimovic in the 90th minute with a surgical right that allowed him to become, at 40 years and 20 days, the fourth oldest scorer in the history of Serie A. Bologna with his hands in his hair, Milan out of the league. nightmare and first in the standings but returning to Milanello with many, too many unpleasant questions to ask. At the end of the race, Pioli’s face told everything.
October 23, 2021 (change October 24, 2021 | 00:18)
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