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The most difficult and important victory of 2020: this is how I defined the success of Reggio Emilia. Not only because it allowed Milan to maintain the lead in the standings on Sunday when everyone was convinced that Inter’s cousins were overtaking. Not only because it was obtained by a team in total emergency due to the unsustainable sequence of injuries, obviously the result of the 22 games compressed in 4 months. Not only because he has matured in a very difficult field against a team that even aspires to high ranking positions. Not only because it arrived a few hours after the second muscle injury that occurred to the irreplaceable pilot of this team and this environment, just when he was about to lift the group from a moment of obvious flexion. The unexpected victory against Sassuolo came in these almost prohibitive conditions was above all the success of Stefano Pioli, a technician who has never fully recognized the authorship of the Rossoneri metamorphosis of this 2020 record.
Everyone, me in the first place, we have always given the arrival of Ibrahimovic the main factor in the rebirth of Milan, remembering that a year ago in these timesWith Pioli on the bench and the Swede still in America, Milan was the team that was sportively humiliated by Atalanta de Gasperini. This is probably really the case and if the Boban-Maldini duo hadn’t insisted on Ibra’s return, Milan would still be shrouded in that degrading anonymity that had characterized the last five years of the Rossoneri. Ibra was and is the soul of this group, on and off the pitch. It was the driver and crazy motivator that really embedded the dream of scudetto in this bunch of guys. But the victory against Sassuolo is symbolic of the fact that there is now more besides Ibra. There is much more. And this added value was contributed by Mr. Pioli himself.
In silence, without proclamations and without excessive merit. The second muscle injury happened to the Swede just as he was about to return and just as the team returning from two disappointing draws against Parma and Genoa was waiting for him as the Messiah, it could have psychologically undermined not only the championship dream but also the Champions League goal. the most logical and realistic of the season. And instead Pioli managed to avoid the collapse, which seemed announced And that could have materialized precisely against Sassuolo, who in recent years had often been a very painful time for Rossoneri history. Instead, in Reggio Emilia, where a few months ago the unexpected renovation of Pioli and the continuation of this technical project became official., AC Milan win a game that seems like a turning point.
Unlike other coaches, Pioli does not cry for the many absences and adapts the tactical plan to the men available to him. The technical and tactical skills of the mixed emiliano come out perfectly. Leao’s swift goal will go down in history as the fastest in the Serie A championship, but the preparation behind it is a demonstration of the meticulous work of Pioli and his staff. Precisely that goal allows the coach to develop the game strategy that he had planned at the table to balance the very high absences. A simple but difficult strategy to apply for a team that until now had always mounted a fast ball in the opposite field. Pioli was very good at preparing the match against Sassuolo in a totally different way to take advantage of the characteristics of a leading forward like Leao. One who gets into trouble in tight spaces and needs grassland to stretch his stride. Leao’s trailer sent first Brahim Díaz and then Hauge with the aim of enhancing their technical characteristics in the counterattack spaces. The Spaniard did better than the Norwegian who revealed all his mental and experience limitations that remind everyone where he comes from and how old he is. Even for those who want to see it as a permanent holder. In any case, the project of a team reunited and willing to relax on the counterattack was a winner and allowed Milan to score two more goals. One annulled for millimeter offside, the other inspired by Theo Hernández finalized by Saelemakers, which for the operation and continuity of the game becomes essential. This strategy has also restored security to a defense cut back by injuries, which in recent outings had strayed too far, scoring more goals than it should. And that this time he was able to resist with ease the comeback attempts of Berardi and his teammates. In conclusion the victory at Reggio Emilia was Pioli’s tactical masterpiece.
Unfortunately, however, there was also a downside. Indeed Two other important defections have arrived that risk making the game against Lazio an even more impossible undertaking. Training on Wednesday is like solving a puzzle. Pioli will have to put more players out of position to send 11. But he has shown that he really knows how to get out of the most difficult, apparently unsolvable situations. It is no coincidence that he and his Milan remain incredibly and wonderfully first. And the dream seems destined to continue …
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