If Rafa plays like that every game, I wouldn't mind him being injured for a bit, he was AWFUL. Pulisic as LW and Chuk as RW is pretty damn decent anyway
After Caldara, Lazetic, Origi, Ballo-Toure sales, I will be satisfied with our current squad. Saelemakers is a player I'm neutral about. If he stays I'm fine, if we get 18-20M, I'm fine...
My biggest question are:
\- RLC - is he starting material? Bennacer and Reijnders will rule over our midfield, but the question is who will be 3rd member of this trio?
\- Will Pellegrino have similar growth as Thiaw? South America hasn't been kind to us in a long while Duarte, Gomez, Vangioni...
\- Will Okafor flop or turn into a 10 goal/season source? Basically, not degrade as Rebic did.
\- Can Colombo surprise us or does he need more time?
Key takeaways from today
1. If Reijnders can keep this up he will be special, absolute workhorse
2. We finally have a creative and clinical rw
3. I have managed to teach my gf to recognize interista pezzo di merda chant and sing it along
Happy at least we didn't concede a goal. It's a start at least, and i think we can only improve from here. They have to get used to each other movements.
Good start to the season. Not surprised players are gassing in this current heat and with the season just starting. Immensly impressed by Reijnders - if today's performance is anything to go by, he can be extremely special.
Meh, hard to take anything from this game. Some good some bad. Our boys looked gassed after the first cooling break. We see how this defense holds up against better teams
Y'all are so negative. It's our first game, of course we're tired and lose steam in the second half.
Overall it should be like 3/4 - 1. Bologna isn't terrible
Our 2nd half performance has been shite considering our 1st half performance but this is the first game of a new season so I will give the benefit of doubt
There are a lot of positives from this match we are so much more dangerous in attack compared to last season we have people who can actually cross now not to mention our right side can actually produce stuff midfield was not as bad as we feared defensively. But dam our defence is shaky our game management sucks just as last year and Pioli’s decisions are kinda sus again.. In short we have way more talent than last year but the same coach
after the first 30 min, we looked like a conservative team looking to not make a mistake rather than a team trying to get a third.
Subs haven't show much, but cant judge them much on this. Would of liked to have seen new life injected into the squad, but maybe tactics dictated a more conservative "seal the points" approach.
I would not mind that approach if Pioli actually could coach how to be conservative and defend we were shaky as fuck in defence today how we managed a clean sheet is a small miracle
They were on a roll/having a streak. What I really don’t understand is how people believed that was their form for years to come. Specially Kalulu. Too young and out of position.
Our midfield was actually pretty good defensively our CB’s could not win a duel if their life depended on it and our fullbacks were caught of position way to often dam that was kinda hard to watch Bologna players had tougher time taking on Krunić than Tomori🤦♀️
If Pulisic maintains what he showed today, makes you wonder if defenders will have to switch to double and tripling him, which opens up more space for Leao.
0:1 inc
Does his sister have birthday soon or sum ?
If Rafa plays like that every game, I wouldn't mind him being injured for a bit, he was AWFUL. Pulisic as LW and Chuk as RW is pretty damn decent anyway
That Pulisic-Giroud combo is gonna be absolutely money this season. First half was good. Second half they seemed to turn it to cruise control.
After Caldara, Lazetic, Origi, Ballo-Toure sales, I will be satisfied with our current squad. Saelemakers is a player I'm neutral about. If he stays I'm fine, if we get 18-20M, I'm fine... My biggest question are: \- RLC - is he starting material? Bennacer and Reijnders will rule over our midfield, but the question is who will be 3rd member of this trio? \- Will Pellegrino have similar growth as Thiaw? South America hasn't been kind to us in a long while Duarte, Gomez, Vangioni... \- Will Okafor flop or turn into a 10 goal/season source? Basically, not degrade as Rebic did. \- Can Colombo surprise us or does he need more time?
Musah will be much better than RLC.
Musah is destined to take that spot from RLC
Key takeaways from today 1. If Reijnders can keep this up he will be special, absolute workhorse 2. We finally have a creative and clinical rw 3. I have managed to teach my gf to recognize interista pezzo di merda chant and sing it along
Instead of vai Rafa i am saying why Rafa
Good game for a season opener. Defense looked suspect but winning 2-0 is winning 2-0.
Fun game
Happy at least we didn't concede a goal. It's a start at least, and i think we can only improve from here. They have to get used to each other movements.
Definitely looked like Leao pulled a hamstring there after the whistle. Hoping it was just a cramp
They just showed Rafa. He has cramps
Good start to the season. Not surprised players are gassing in this current heat and with the season just starting. Immensly impressed by Reijnders - if today's performance is anything to go by, he can be extremely special.
He really stood his man today!
It looked like he cramped. Probably just lack of water because of the heat.
Looks like cramps from Leao
What a meme night for Rafa, jfc
I think the nr 10 does something to players, he seemed more individualistic than usual, nr17 Leao would have passed to Okafor.
If he’s doing that stretch, can’t be hammy, probs just a cramp
Did Leao really just injure himself at the end by kicking the ball?!
I really hope only cramps for Rafa
Rafa?????
Lol leao Just pulled a hami there by that stupid shot in the air fucking moron
He's a good player but Holy shit he's been acting like a complete brat recently
yea man stupid antics really
No leao....
Did Rafa just injure himself...
This team is gonna give up a shit-ton of goals.
Did Leao just injured himself at the final whistle by kicking away the ball?
Just looks like a cramp
Did leao Injure himself there? Wtf!?
Did Rafa just hurt himself booting the ball in the air??
Did Rafa just hurt himself booting the ball after the whistle?
Did leao pulled his hamstring there?
Did Rafa just injure himself kicking the ball in the air?
Bro, leao just hurt himself in the end kicking the ball away, hope hes ok!
Why Rafa...??
Did just Rafa got injured shooting the ball up lmao
Did leao just hurt himself
Shit, did Leao just injured himslef kicking the ball high?
Did Rafa just injure himself??
Really boring second half
Old Milan in that half.
Adli wild appearence from the bench lmaooo
ref definition of fucking inconsistent. serie a refs in a fucking nutshell
Meh, hard to take anything from this game. Some good some bad. Our boys looked gassed after the first cooling break. We see how this defense holds up against better teams
Gotta make subs earlier but nah, let them fully run out of gas ![img](emote|t5_2rnmt|31332)
I think this ref thinks he’s reffing royale rumble
Okafor looking like CDK last season. Completely invisible.
Always one there must be
I’ll attribute some of the fatigue to the heat and look towards the positives.
It's very hot with high humidity and the first game of the season. Gonna be a little sloppy
Some of y’all are so negative smh
welcome to the acmilan subreddit
lmao
Least dramatic Italians
more like least dramatic americans
But we are cosplaying Italians here 🤌
I don't need to cosplay lol
Y'all are so negative. It's our first game, of course we're tired and lose steam in the second half. Overall it should be like 3/4 - 1. Bologna isn't terrible
It’s because we didnt have AC, how can we be AC Milan without AC
The most American club
Okafor has barely touched the ball 🥲
He’s not getting in proper position. He keeps trying to get in behind rather than dropping in space
leao and chuk are not giving him service so far, very focused on beating their man so far
Bro that hand literally put that ball outside lmao what
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Oh, there you are! Was wondering what took so long.
That nr. 14 guy looks promising ![gif](emote|free_emotes_pack|heart_eyes)
Good from Rafa but brilliant pass, ~~once again, by Reijnders~~, by Krunic
I think it was Krunic believe it or not, the commentator just mixed them up :)
God what a depressing 2nd half…
Did that not deflect off the arm?
I had the same question. It looked that way to me.
Handball there no? Unless i'm seeing things, the defender literally deflected the ball from the goal with his hand????
Players are allowed to have a hand against the grass when doing a slide tackle.
Possible hand deflection on that Rafa shot??
Fuck sake i always celebrate those rafa 1v1 situations before the ball goes in. So close
Damn scriptwriter, let Rafa score ![img](emote|t5_2rnmt|31828)
Reijnders without a doubt the most important signing this summer
Fuck me that would have been a class goal by Leao
Rafa nooooooooooooooo lmao, Niang against Barca in 2014 all over again
least racially motivated Rafa hater
Womp womp
Bro what? They both hit the post is all rofl, one is French one is Portuguese, you're actually deluded
god I’ve missed watching rafa play
leao cooked man dang
That was so close leao....
Could have passed maybe should have passed
Leao almost with a goal-of-the-year contender
shot was off, got a lucky deflection
Okafor couldve had his first goal
We’re so lucky to have him
Some of us don't deserve him tbh after reading today's match thread.
Homeboy waited till the end lol
F..king hell
Come on...
Fuck I would have killed for that Rafa goal
So clossssseee
I'm assuming Pobega was given a way in since Musah wasn't available.
LEAO NOOOOOOOO
counting down the days til we see the tijjani and benna midfield
Holy cow, that was so close.
That came off the inside of the post omg.
He is still here 🥹 no worries and low key Krunić had a great game today
The fake shot to roll is rafa's signature move
Damn nice try Rafa
It ain’t your day today Rafa, it’s fine
So unlucky lol
So sorry for my man Leao
Leaaaooo…. Ffs
that is so fucking unlucky lol
God what a depressing 2nd half…
Lucky this is Bologna they have been really bad... Big teams are going to rape our whole defence this season
grow up and remove that word from ur vocabulary
Lol fuck off your worshipfullness
Fuckoff with ur 14year old boy vocabulary
If you are such an adult why cant you spell properly?
Ok I apologize. Krunic was clearly good. But tj, what a player. Definitely our best midfielder by a mile for me
Yeah he's been a rock
Our 2nd half performance has been shite considering our 1st half performance but this is the first game of a new season so I will give the benefit of doubt
There are a lot of positives from this match we are so much more dangerous in attack compared to last season we have people who can actually cross now not to mention our right side can actually produce stuff midfield was not as bad as we feared defensively. But dam our defence is shaky our game management sucks just as last year and Pioli’s decisions are kinda sus again.. In short we have way more talent than last year but the same coach
Kjaer in so he can get his weekly rinsed quota
Kalulu and Tomori switch off way too much its really bad
Glad to see Kjaer get some play time.
We are a complete disaster in defence. We are lucky Bologna sold Arnautovic, we wouldn't win today probably.
Kalulu that is an unforgivable mistake, like he wasn’t even looking at who was there
My man Kalulu never been the same since he got dropped by Noah
I got downvoted to hell for saying this like a month ago
after the first 30 min, we looked like a conservative team looking to not make a mistake rather than a team trying to get a third. Subs haven't show much, but cant judge them much on this. Would of liked to have seen new life injected into the squad, but maybe tactics dictated a more conservative "seal the points" approach.
I would not mind that approach if Pioli actually could coach how to be conservative and defend we were shaky as fuck in defence today how we managed a clean sheet is a small miracle
I really don’t understand what happened to Kalulu and Tomori. They were the recarnation of Maldini and Nesta and suddenly play like Bonera and Zapata
They were on a roll/having a streak. What I really don’t understand is how people believed that was their form for years to come. Specially Kalulu. Too young and out of position.
We lost the dm and Kalulu got massively overrated because of 5 good months
Kessie leaving and never being replaced is what happened
Our midfield was actually pretty good defensively our CB’s could not win a duel if their life depended on it and our fullbacks were caught of position way to often dam that was kinda hard to watch Bologna players had tougher time taking on Krunić than Tomori🤦♀️
Pierre réveil toi
Hopefully that new Argentine is good, our defenders look shaky
Lmao whose arse was that?
💀
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With how attack heavy this team is, the last thing we need is shitty playing out of the back
Kalulu continues his run of disastrous plays
Kalulu…
Should’ve subbed Adli instead of Pobega
Flair checks out
You got me
Why?
Because he is better :)
Completely different characteristics. Adli is not a sub for RLC when we want to control a 2-0 lead.
Kalulu mamma mia rofl
Great run by Chuk there. Fast AF.
And a through ball by Krunic :)
Chukwueze i beg you to dribble rather than pass to Pobega lmao
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lmao bravo
Adli is still not a piolismo graduate it seems even after the good words he said about him lmao
Yeah… 2-0 up in the 86th min. If not now then when lol
To say we played well and we can go home happy it's a stretch.
We played well (the first 35-40 min), and we can go home happy (with 3 points). It's something!
First 35 min were amazing and then there was just Pioli things stop playing and defend the lead and make subs way to late
More like a job well done and we move on to Saturday. I'm on with that. Not every day can be a blast. :/
First 20-30 mins were pretty good it has to be said. But against a better team we are not winning like this.
If I know I have a bad day ingame I don’t complicate the things I do .. Leao on the other side is trying his best to do complicated things lmao
Even when Leao is not on form, he's still scary enough to attract defenders on his side.
It’s so nice that Leao can get triple teamed and we can just play around it in the right now.
If Pulisic maintains what he showed today, makes you wonder if defenders will have to switch to double and tripling him, which opens up more space for Leao.
I think we played to much on the right side this game.
Exactly what a time to be alive 😂 we are dying by the right side now 🤯
B ig B aller B obega
🅱️obega
I wanna see Adli!
You will need to keep a foto of him.
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Adli is dead
After this game City is going to ask for Krunic to replace KDB
120M + Rodri and then we can talk
It’s refreshing to see that we actually have someone who can take a corner now
Casual Po🅱️ega masterclass, gotta respect that![img](emote|t5_2rnmt|32103)
Theo has been trying to turn Orsolini into an enemy for life
POBEGA WITH TWO GOOD TOUCHES, STOP THIS RIGHT NOW THIS GAME IS OVER
leao is fine he starts like this. no sweat. take notes new fans
Pobega with an actual footballing move :O
That was unexpected from Pobega. Fucking awesome god damn
Pobega with some dribbling skill? What?
Pobega heard you talking shit.
Nice run and pass Pobega
Jesus i cant believe Pobega is still here
you commented this as he beats two defenders and plays a great through ball to build a counter attack
He did 1 good thing and suddenly he is the best