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For better or for worse, this Milan revolves around Zlatan Ibrahimovic. It is the sweet condemnation of a team that totally trusts a single player who, as he himself says, acts as captain, forward, coach and president. Long ago, maybe too long. And the draw against Verona showed not only the positive aspects of the Swede, which he has become accustomed to, but also the negative ones.
To describe the importance of the Ibrahimovic concentrator since he returned to Italy, just read the numbers. In fact, AC Milan is unbeaten in the second stop of the season, first only in the standings, with Ibra as the top scorer and a more beaten record, that of scoring in seven straight games. He doesn’t even seem like a distant relative of the team that a year ago trudged into very expensive anonymity and was preparing to hit the bottom of its recent history with the Bergamo Five. However, it is almost useless and cloying to recall once again the extraordinary importance of Ibra in this metamorphosis of the team, the environment and the Rossoneri club.
Instead, it may be more useful to underline the disadvantage of having such a conditioning, dominant and centralizing player. Let’s start by saying: age has nothing to do with it, in fact it is increasingly surprising how Ibra manages to arrive still so toned and brilliant after 90 minutes to give Calabria the assist of the canceled draw and score the validated draw. Ibrahimovic of games like this, in which he focused everything on himself and did not match the day, he always played, even as a young man. P.His dominance on and off the field was the aspect that did not allow him to link with Messi and with Guardiola’s Barça. Even in the first version of Milan there were bad days in which it was detrimental for the team, I especially remember the loss at home to Fiorentina in 2012, which allowed Juve to advance the championship. Here, against Verona, Ibra was in one of those days there.
AC Milan takes the field continuing the Europa League blackout and immediately goes down by two goals, gets nervous, just as he had altered when leaving the field last week against Lille. And your nervousness has two negative effects. First: he yells at teammates that they don’t make the right moves or passes that he indicates. Second: he decides to do everything himself, receives the ball even when it is marked, forces personal solutions instead of playing with others and makes senseless decisions, such as the free kick to the stars from 40 meters, instead of going to an area and wait for the cross. His eagerness to exaggerate doesn’t even take into account the understandable exhaustion that comes with the passing of minutes. And that’s how he dominates the scene at the box, but he often misses options and jab or assist moments. The badly kicked penalty is proof that for him this is the classic night.
The problem is that: “normal” players when they are at night do not disappear, they just do their homework, leave the game and then maybe they are substituted. Instead, the exact opposite happens with him. The more you make mistakes, the more you get the ball. The more you miss the bets, the more you try to complicate them. Instead of giving more space to his companions, he takes it away. Unlike “normal” players, however, he is not replaced, Pioli does not even dream of it. And it’s good. Not only because the Swede would not have liked it, but because in the final siege someone like Ibra is indispensable. And indeed, Ibra once again shows all his extraordinary character. Because after a bad night, in which he took a risk, after leading his Milan to the top of the standings, to accompany him by the hand to the first defeat in the League, he manages in recovery time to hit a corner of the posts , to provide assistance. in Calabria and then score the goal that straightens the cabin himself.
And then, after the game, to go in front of the microphones to frankly declare: “I was not there today, from now on I leave the penalties to Kessie.” Chapeau. This time around he didn’t play the entire game as a team man, but he certainly spoke as a team man. In short: matches like Verona would suggest Milan look for other benchmarks and other drivers in addition to the always one and usual Ibra. But then looking back over the last few seasons, you’d think it’s much better to be totally dependent on Ibra, both because only someone like him could get Milan out of the situation they were in and because there are no real alternatives. The real problem, even after an evening like this, is that Ibra is almost 40 years old and therefore cannot be the “center” of Milan for long. Unfortunately.
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