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Promises that can be kept: suddenly Milan showed up for her | Israel today

2020-10-26T10:48:15.720Z


| World footballAfter a decade of disappointments, Milan have discovered that common sense is better than big money • With former star Paolo Maldini at the helm of professional management she is once again approaching her good old days • Tonight the Rossoneri will try to stay perfect even after Rome Milan players celebrate. Both stable and conquering Photography:  IP We already understood that football went


After a decade of disappointments, Milan have discovered that common sense is better than big money • With former star Paolo Maldini at the helm of professional management she is once again approaching her good old days • Tonight the Rossoneri will try to stay perfect even after Rome

  • Milan players celebrate.

    Both stable and conquering

    Photography: 

    IP

We already understood that football went crazy;

That sevens, eighths and even 13 goals are part of the new routine of life, and that in this routine nothing is expected and everyone can beat everyone.

Here, for example, in England: Liverpool lost this season to Aston Villa, who lost to Leeds, who lost to Wolves, who lost to West Ham, who lost to Newcastle, who lost to Brighton, who lost to Chelsea, who lost - yes - to Liverpool.

These are crazy days.

It seems that yesterday a group has no immunity to the situation and conditions.

Big teams are collapsing, champions are stuttering, empires are struggling, and only one team in the big five leagues has yet to lose a point or lose a game in any frame.

This is Milan, who will host Roma tonight as they lead the Serie A with a perfect balance - another proof that football has really gone crazy.

True, only four rounds have passed, but Milan's stability stretches over a very long period.

Given that, it's not a trivial matter.

Try to recall her last eight years - the ones between the 2011 championship and the runners-up a year later to the last year that ended in fifth place hero.

During this time Milan created expectations and lowered them at the same speed and frequency.

Occasionally, after a convincing victory and the lifting of the Supercup crumbs left by Juventus, articles have been written about a possible comeback for Granada Milan.

Here and there she made the believers believe, but in reality she finished outside the top four since 2013 and at no point was a factor in the championship fight.

Coaches have changed at a dizzying pace, acquisitions have not lived up to expectations, management has changed - there is no shortage of reasons why Milan have failed to produce a sequence of games that cries out for optimism like the one it is in now.

The win over Celtic last Thursday was Milan's eighth season in eight games in all competitions.

With the addition of the end of last season, Stefano Fioli's team has already counted 21 consecutive games without a loss - its longest streak since - 1996 when it wins 17 of them and scores 54 goals.

Admittedly, she was lucky on the way with the win over Rio Abbas in the Europa League playoffs after a dramatic 2: 2 and 8: 9 on penalties, but the element of luck is marginal in the team's current success.

Of course she has a lot of quality with Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Gianluigi Donaroma, Khan Chalenolo, Theo Hernandez, Simon Kier and others, and no less important she has a way, an idea and a project - and people who will carry it all out.

"Now we are a group"

Paolo Maldini does not need to be introduced.

The great former player, together with the sporting director Ricky Masara, have taken over the matter of professional management in the last year and decided to change the attitude of the club.

Aside from the decision to keep coach Fioli and persuade Zlatan to come, the current Milan are no longer acquiring glittering players with a lot of money as they were under professional manager Leonardo.

Instead she owns a magnificent scouting line led by Jeffrey Moncada and locates young and cheap talent.

"Everything changed when we started bringing in players who fit our method," admitted Fioli, who in the 1: 3 win over Celtic received output from many of them.

The goals were scored by Rada Kronich, who was bought for 8 million euros, by Brahim Dias, who arrived on a free transfer, and Vians Peter Hoga, who cost 5 million.

Those who cooked were Theo Hernandez which cost 20 million and Alexis Salmakers, for whom the group paid 3.5 million.

"We were able to find stability by keeping the coach and continuing on our way," Maldini said after the derby win against Inter, "maybe we are not the best team in the league yet, but now we are a team."

For Milan, this is the most important thing.

After years of going into the unknown, there is suddenly order and logic.

In the crazy football world we are in, it's worth first place right now, and a real hope that maybe this season Milan truly and sincerely - returns

Source: israelhayom

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