A win today (Torino) with the 3-5-2 (3-4-2-1) Martino mentioned as hope for the future.

"Maybe this is the one where we turn our fortune around." - Me, during a losing streak, playing Football Manager.

Pioli always gets one thing right though… those turtleneck fits never disappoint

No kessie replacement pioli is giving up on his tactics rn too

Easy, They used to have Zlatan. Now they don't.

Milan's current form definitely has to do with the lack of form and injuries to the leaders that helped our squad stay motivated. We lost Romagnoli, Ibrahimovic is just now returning to training, Maignan got injured, Kjaer doesn't seem like he's back to 100% after his long term injury, Giroud and Theo are in dire need of a rest week (played World Cup final Dec 18, got something like 2 weeks of rest, then immediately upon returning to Milan, both started against Salernitana on Jan 4 and have played in most matches since), and Calabria is just out of form (he is relatively young and probably isn't fully ready to be Milan's captain, to be honest). Our younger players that really established themselves last season (Kalulu, Tonali, Leao, etc) lack that leadership that led them to the title last season. However, if we look at Pioli's "life cycle" as a manager to date, this follows. He gets his team's squad to perform super well for a period of time before a fallout. Look at Fiorentina's standings in the Serie A when he joined them in the 2017-18 season and their standings the season after, when he was sacked a few months before the end of the season. I still hope he can turn this around though, else Milan could be in another Banter Era.

Finally somebody talks about milan.

Right now qualifying for Champions League would be a success, more so if they get to the Quarterfinals of CL

Loved being back on, Adrian!

We have Adli, Lazetic, Thiaw, Vrancx that are ready. Just play them. Especially Adli. He showed good progress and played good in France last season. Playing Benna and Tonali without 1 other support in the middle will leave them a big hole exposed.

As a Liverpool fan, it comforts me a little that we’re not alone 😩

Loved the atmospheric intro this time!

You're a content machine man, Jesus, keep that grind up

I'm not a active watcher of Italian football mostly because of Juventus having a headlock on the division since 2012, and seeing AC Milan winning the league last season was really nice to see. Such a historic club. Same with Napoli potentially running away with it this season.

Let's be honest, the stars were aligned last year for Milan to win the Serie A. Like, it's a "do it 100 times, 99 of them you would fail" thing. Not to diminish their feat, luck alone isn't enough, luck can matter in deciding if you're first or second or third but luck isn't the thing that makes you be "up there" to begin with, you have to be good to be there to begin with. But as a "neutral" Serie A fan (I'm a Bologna fan, mid-table squad that can only "dream" of a Europa league placement at best) it was crazy how everything that could possibly be in their favour, was. From injuries of their rivals, to THEIR relative lack of injuries, to some favourable referee choices (not "outrageous" and unfair, just 'could be yes or could be no' episodes that were mostly a yes for them), to Inter committing suicide against Bologna(❤️💙) with a crazy Radu fail on top of that. I think they're the same team, with last year being the luckiest it could be, and this year being the unluckiest it could be. If they had "average" seasons, they'd be second/third in both of them. Winning Serie A made the fans dream without considering if they won because they were the best, or because they were a good team on a lucky streak. Maignan being out for Tatarusanu in his place certainly doesn't help.

It’s simple. Because Zlatan Ibrahimovic is Injured. He’s clear of Cr7. He is the 🦁 of Football.

As a rossonero I appreciate the video

Cries in Braga-Benfica... no new player can compete with VAR from Porto.

I'm a Milan fan and this will be a long ramble Tata is bad but everyone knows that, so shouldn't we try to involve him less in games. He has been scapegoat for our lack of fire across the squad. He's doesn't comes out at all like he's stuck with glue so defenders should clear the balls asap instead of hoping that he'll come out. We lost kessie and roman in defence and didn't get any good replacement of that quality. Kessie was very physical which helped breaking down opponents counter and also in retaining possession under press. He was necessary box to box as he would help in overloading opponents box when there was space. We didn't lost anyone in attack but we lost 2 defensive players. CDK has no confidence and that's why despite getting in good situations he doesn't trust his decision. Our left side is precious and we can't lose leao Theo or tonali so we have to have them at their best. Renew leao and start him if we can. Adli is good passer and should be given some game time Vrancx is versatile and he has shown quality in limited game time. Thiaw should start more often with tomori or kjaer with kaluli of left back. Salemakers doesn't has physicality of defender so maybe train him for left winger position Rebic was beast and after injury I can't see what he's doing. Messias always gets in dangerous areas but his final ball isn't effective. Calabria is ok and gets beaten too frequently again decent dribblers with pace. Maignan was my MVP last season and we need him more than anyone else. We lack depth at left back, and although Theo stays injury free he gets tired too this alongside lack of motivation is a dangerous combo. Bennacer hasn't been consistent and his set pieces are as bad as our set piece defending. Giroud is still our best striker and origi has shown a few sparks insted of fire. Zlatan was integral to keep morale and he has pushed leao to excellence so his return can be instrumental. We should focus on top4 security and put up a good game against spurs. Pioli needs to figure this out. FORZA MILAN 🔴⚫

Came from the Osasuna video. Wonderful content man, keep it going!!

Always nice to see Martino

Beautiful intro man, loved it

Banger After Banger After Banger seriously great content i enjoy si much waching Your videos

giroud brought the chelsea luck with him. from champions to mediocre in under 12 months, only difference being the insane investment of the blues

Team has become fatigue, lack of playing young players. No recruitment in Transfer window. Same thing LFC facing. Hope Milan turn around.

Watching this video before AC Milan vs Torino FC later today 😉

Great waltz music

Fix the graphic at around 9:30 which is comparing goals against from last year to this year. For both totals it says 21-22.

It’s a dire indictment of the disparity of money in football that AC Milan - the reigning champions of Serie A and one of the most historic clubs in the world - couldn’t compete with a Newcastle side that were inches away from relegation less than 12 months ago to sign a player.

You guys can laugh at me but Milan should sign Harry Maguire in the summer. He's really good aerially also on the ball if he gets his confidence back his lack of pace can be easily compensated. English defenders seem to thrive in Serie A look at Tomori, Smalling, Young two of them were considered a joke in PL

What hurts about this video, is the "pioli's NOT on fire " slide. Just hurts to see the polar opposite what we milanisti were chanting just 10 months ago. And youre right about it too.. great video.

Nice jersey Adrian! El más grande carajoooo!!!! 🔴 ⚪

This brother is such a nice way to catch up on football

Man that "Ciao" at the end has never felt so apt.

Ayo... is that a River Plate shirt? My guy is a millo at heart!

Klopp is making the same mistake with Pioli, trusting the old guard that is floundering every week rather than giving other player the opportunity

Very well but I need to know why in the world did Pioli bench the best player (Leao), during the Derby...

Guys guys we gonna be fine, chill 🤣

😱 holy crap, im a ac Milan support i never knew we got sold I saw no news about it, or maybe I forgot wtf

I agree with mostly everything Martino said. But a couple of notes: The benching of Leao I kind of understand as part of a tactical choice in terms of formation and play style. Leao's only use is going forward and that clearly wasn't the plan in the first half of the derby. It was kind of embarrassing to witness but it's somewhat obvious that Pioli went into the derby with only one thing in mind: reinstating some semblence of defensive solidity and confidence. There was no intent in attacking whatsoever. I mean Milan weren't even trying. The spending problem has indeed been influenced by the takeover, but it's mainly about a continuous effort to instill financial sustainability that started when Elliott management took over. And although the players they brought in seem to have not be working so far (for various reasons), it's been a trend in this new Milan era that new young signings have needed at least a season to truly get going. However I still think that the lack of the use of Vrannkx and Thiaw is not justifiable.

To be fair, Milan was second until xmas. If napoli wasnt 1 million points ahead, Milan wouldn’t have given up like this in the 2nd half of the season.

We keep waiting for a miracle

Losing Maignan was pretty big

Redbird Capital Partners are owners of AC Milan. Guess which other team they partly own in PL? The team in PL is also suffering from the same lack of player purchase too.

in all honestly, we’re not that good of a squad. we played good collectively & had great individual performances to save us, but the stars aligned for the scudetto, all the teams around us were struggling as well. with this year, the lack of reinforcements is the main problem. pioli’s system has been figured out without much tweaking and our best players aren’t able to save us as much as last year, plus inter seemed to regain their footing somewhat and napoli is in a league of their own. all in all, we should still finish top four hopefully but changes must be made. get origi far away from this team. CDK needs minutes, pioli needs to work on his in game adjustments/tactical tweaking and investments MUST be made this summer. it sucks seeing milan spend/act like a small club when it comes to transfers/wages(i totally understand that they came out of a rough period, BUT this is milan were talking about, this is no small club)

It's obvious lack of quality reinforcements in the transfer window.

Nice River Plate jersey. Is it for Ramon Diaz and his success at the World Club Cup

Loved the intro to the video should do more like it. As for AC Milan i felt last seasons title win was a bit flukey as inter were the better team all around but Milan just got the rub of the green in critical moments, so it's no surprise that they are worse now because not only are they regressing to mean but also teams around them have improved but Milan have stayed static

How many points could Napoli lose due to plusvalenza? Would it hamper their title charge?

Same shit going on at Liverpool (who RedBird also have a stake in) Not surprising that AC Milian and Liverpool are having almost the exact same kind of season because of lack of investment in the team 🥲🥲

We just want to see Milan back where they belong

eerily similar to Chelsea's situation.

As a longtime season-ticket holder, I don't completely agree with the analysis made by Martino. Last season stretch was achieved playing with all our best 3 midfielders: Tonali & Bennacer back, Kessie closer to Giroud, in a Lampard/Gerrard-like role. With Krunic stepping in and replacing whoever of the 3 that was missing. Even in the derby, the match that really turned things for us, we played like that. So it was more a 4-3-3 than a 4-2-3-1 And that's what is really missing this season. We don't press in a well organized way and the opponent just beats our midfield in a bat of an eye. Even yesterday against Torino it was the same, with the 2 midfielders running all over the place because we were not able to cover the spaces inbetween the lines. The 3-4-3 is not gonna work either. Pioli really wants to play with a "trequartista" but honestly this team cannot sustain 1 striker and 3 offensive players. Not with players like Diaz, CDK and Leao that do not put the necessary effort during the defensive phase and do not even possess the necessary tactical QI to position themselves in a way that can help the team. What is really mindboggling is why he still doesn't want to at least try to play with Pobega and/or Vranckx in the CAM position ...

Forza Napoli sempre 💙

Coz of No ZLATAN remember, they lose to genoa and ended up at 11th on 2020 January Zlatan came and changed their mentality Qualified to europe Then, to champions Won the league Yes, he dont alone do everything even stats wise. But the impact and the winning mentality is different. If he comes back, they gonna be on track again.

The new owners are the main problem. They just don't want to spend

Calabria is definitely not good enough don't know how this guy became captain

Ngl Liverpool and AC Milan fall down have been very similar. Both have same issues and their investers are almost same (red bird invested few money in fsg)

In my opinion the only reason is Mike Maignan. This is the difference between a world class keeper and an average one. Lille colapsed after Maignan left...

Very bad defense similar to PSG. But the psg case has more to due with the front players simply not defending and as a result the team barely steals balls and the opposite team has a lot of goal chances agaisnt team. Also Donnaruma isn´t the best..

You forgot to mention the buyers loan of 600m

As a Milan fan here is the thing this season that people miss. We were not doing good prior to the WC, after the injury of Maignan and the injury of Salemeakers and Calabria vs Empoli we were grinding up results in the worst ways possible or dropping points in the worst ways possible. I would suggest people to look at games like Empoli 3-1, goal to take the lead in the 94th min. Fiorentina 2-1, Milenkovic own goal to win. Loss vs Torino. Draw vs Cremonese. Win at the end vs Hellas 2-1 with Hellas having all rights to win that game. What does this tell us? That we were winning out of character. Out of mentality. Now what do we need with December coming and the WC? Pioli to make the team play better be more effective. What does he do? Nothing literally nothing. Now what is the worst thing to happen for this team? An event to destroy the Milan spirit and mentality. Guess what?! That happens vs Roma... we just closed on Napoli to 5 points of distance. 2 goals scored at the very end from Roma in the 88th min and 90th min to draw 2-2 and lose that closing line from Napoli which went to 5 points. That one string that was holding this team together, because for the longest of time there was no game, was mentality. After Roma that got destroyed in 100 pieces. But, also... let's not lie to ourselves and think that the issue starts this season. Sure, we won the title and at the end we were a fort. That is true... BUT, we were playing 1nc a week counter pressing football based on episodes. We were not playing like a title winning team. We were full on super motivated to win the title... WE HAD issues. Issues that Pioli had to fix on the summer by training. Such as holding the ball, attacking and defending set pieces and so on. We didn't improve those thing one bit. Was clear as day in the first game of the season vs Udinese.

Havin Tatarasanu certainly doesn't help them rn whatsoever

Here after the victory over Atalanta. I really like the new 343. Forza Milan sempre!!!

Ac Milan didn't act like one of the biggest clubs in the off-season. They made no big signings and weren't even linked with any big player.

I come back to this video to double down. UCL semi final and 4th in the league. Again, definitely not collapsing.

Adrian puts out this video and Milan beats Torino today. Adrian is a good luck charm

Injuries, ownership troubles, and lack of reinforcements? Sounds like Liverpool

We'll Zlatan Ibrahimovic is missing

It can be simply regression to the mean.

Milan's left back is the same as Liverpool's left back, knows attacking but no idea about defending.

14:58 Let's look at Thiaw's 20 minutes in the Derby - Lose Lautaro, who scored. Luckly for him, it was offside by less than an inch - Got bodied by Lukaku, who scored, but the ref saved him again with a foul - Lose Lukaku in the small area. Luckly for him, Romelu didn't control the ball Yeah, I wonder why Pioli doesn't play him 😂

Malick Thiaw a.k.a. Thiawo Silva showed his quality in his full debut vs Torino. If he doesn't start the next games, then Pioli should really be sacked.

Milan is definitely not collapsing lmao. Everything is at stake between 3rd and 6th. Only 2 points between Roma and AC Milan.

Collapse? Stil batling for champions league, advanced through to the round of 16th. I think that people had greater expectations than the position the team is in. The scudeto of last year came earlier than their own prediction. They thought they would need 3-4 years to come to that. But talking about collapse in mid season? I guess anything just to put out content.

The first 7 minutes demonstrates the hollow nature of globalised “calcio moderno”. Owners who aren’t even in the club’s country, let alone city. Owners who treat the club like an asset.

Milan have risen and fallen a bunch of times .. they'll be back again

Only the coach

Not enough zlatan

Mhen we are back in form… wym

I'm an inter fan, so i may be biased, but if you're thinking the better team last season, it was definitely Inter to be honest. If they don't have the unreliable Dzeko at the top, they would have 90% won the Scudetto that season. Statistics wise, Milan wasn't that good imo.

Pioli completely lost the squad. He’s become arrogant and stubborn. Hasn’t integrated talent and keeps reverting to the same squad time and again. Milan will not make the CL next season meaning a massive financial downsize which will hit us in the next transfer window. Maldini has to share much of the blame. Origi signed to 2026 on €4M per year !?! Shocking decisions. Half the squad has to go and be replaced but none of this will happen . Hence Milan is looking at some enormous trouble ahead. Financial stability but complete footballing collapse.

Imagine being in second place yet this youtube guy still calls it a complete collapse lmao

Zlatan. Thats it.

River Plate shirt 🤎

Milan is tied for 3rd... that's not bad lol

Tatarusanu

Daleeeee adriaaan AGUANTE RIVER JASJASJAJSAS

Basically because they have less money than Bournemouth

Thaiw has been great but vranx is over hyped

13 shots. 11 goals. That's some old Handanović shit 🤣🤣

Milan overperformed their talent last year. That Serie A title came ahead of schedule.

No Zlatan No trophy

As a spurs fan, i love this video

Zlatan is Injured Thats Why

Inter on the other hand are doing good😤

If you’re getting clapped by this years Chelsea there’s a problem. Coming from a Chelsea fan

Pioli and cardinale

I don't watch the Serie A.. I just pulled up the table before this video and they're 4th and just 2 points behind second while Napoli are way ahead of the pack.. I dunno if I'd call this a "collapse" i remember they won a closely fought title race last year.. and considering inter are just 2 points ahead who were second last year.. I won't really consider this to be such a dramatic decline.. It maybe a start of one but definately isn't one at this stage i think

Hey slow down! We were very good for 2 years, now because of a F’d up January, btw don’t forget the World Cup! Now we trash? Ups and downs happens, now it’s a low time ok. Do this vid again in may...🔴⚫️🔴⚫️🔴⚫️🔴⚫️🔴⚫️🔴⚫️🔥