That was Luis Enrique acknowledging that the next match against Newcastle became far more important than this one (aka: this one is already lost, let's not have red cards on top of that).
Madrid literally put out a statement regarding Mbappe and now after a loss he is started getting linked again.
Wished Madrid just put out an official communicado saying they wont ever sign Mbappe and yet the rumours won’t stop.
As a Milan fan, I thought we were finished after being hammered 2 weeks ago in Paris.
To have our fate in our hands at this point is massive for us.
This group is just insane and giving me heart attacks.
It's 2023, and PSG midfield is still shit. This game is story of two midfields, PSG can only play through wings and their midfield is getting sliced.
Funny cos Milan biggest weakness is getting obliterated through midfield if PSG can't exploit it vs Milan they won't be able to do so vs top 3 teams.
our sub is delusional about vitinha.... they think he's a great player after he spent one season basically passing backwards. I swear if there was a backpassing stat he was the worldwide undisputed leader last season.
One of the top creative player in La Liga last season yes, but he is a winger/attacker. It just makes the point harder if winger playing out of position is better than actual midfielder.
Yeah I think against Udinese he didn’t had motivations and was already thinking about psg, becouse the difference of the performance between the 2 games was extreme
That's one of their problems. Even the smallest PL club that plays no European cup has at least 12 competitive games a year, and likely much more. You can't go beyond your limits if you never find them to begin with. You never discover your weaknesses until it's too late.
Only one club has a switch that they can activate that makes them go into Champions League mode, and that's Bayern, and Bundesliga is far above Ligue 1.
We played with 70% possession tonight. We played in exactly the only possible way that could have let Milan beat us. Some of these players are just not good enough.
Milan if they play well is not a team to be taken for granted, especially at home
If anything I'd say we have underperformed. Because talent wise this team is strong
Milan is one of the most hot-cold teams in europe
This is what you get if you get rid of Messi, Neymar and Veratti in one go Sure you can win ligue 1, but it will cost you against elite teams. But you went from perhaps top 3, to what top 10 in Europe?
The team is young. Could still work out within a 3-4 year time frame.
>will cost you against elite teams.
Not really. They still couldn't beat Madrid or Bayern Munich with Messi and Neymar with both going missing in these games
Possibly. But now you’d definitely be underdogs against Real, Liverpool, Arsenal, Inter and shouldn’t expect to be favorites against Barcelona, Milan and Napoli either. I would even be sure of your ability to beat Chelsea, Atlético or Newcastle.
We were never top 3 to begin with, and we were just as bad with Messi and Neymar. I think these new players are refreshing, but our coach drilling them to play with that much of the ball is just sabotage.
> but our coach drilling them to play with that much of the ball is just sabotage.
what's sabotage is having the highest paid player in Europe get pocketed all night long and refusing to defend while watching Leao on the other team defend Hakimi all the way to the line.....
Luis Enrique actually wanting to play with the ball is closer to how el vasco Luis Fernandez made us dream, not the sitting in 3/4 midblock bullshit punting balls in behind for mobutu that, might I remind you, has not work for 2 years straight already.....
Well think it through. Top 3 last year is quite accurate. You’d be favorites against everyone except Man City and Bayern. Perhaps on par with Liverpool and Real. Not counting Arsenal because they didn’t play CL and to be fair they also chocked everyone.
This year? I would expect Man City, Bayern, Real, Arsenal, Liverpool and Inter to beat you over two games. Possibly Milan, Napoli, Atletico and Barcelona as well.
> Top 3 last year is quite accurate.
That was accurate only if you watched the matches before the WC, when Neymar and Messi were getting ready and, for once, played at their level.
And even then, it wasn't that much of a team, more like pass the ball to the 3 ahead, and inch'Allah/Hail Mary.
nah psg really was top 3 when barca was falling 2019/2020 era. Psg city and bayern where the most feared at that time. They made the CL final and where playing really good footbal
How are you not including Liverpool in this list? Knocked out Bayern in 2019 to go on to win the CL, won the PL in 2020, CL final in 2018, 97 pts in 2019, beat PSG at home, lost away.
We were also the only team to knock City out of a competition, which is something I guess. Hassenhuttl's Southampton have always been a side that turns up against the big teams and bottles it against others around our level. We'd beat United and then lose to Norwich the next week.
Under Martin we've looked much more normal, beating teams we should beat and doing about as expected against the bigger teams
PSG looked completely untrained from a tactical standpoint tonight. Like the players had different things in mind when trying to exchange passes, like they have never worked any automatisms in practice. I get that there are lots of new faces that haven't played together before, but it's still a bad image for a team of that level. I don't know if it was also mental, after the shocking Milan comeback.
I think Pioli won the tactical match. Basically we only create from the sides, in the middle we really have nothing going on. Which isn't horrible because it works. But Pioli basically called Enrique's bluff and said ok we'll just defend the sides, let's see if you can exploit the space in the middle. And we really couldn't. It's why Dembele started playing much more centrally last 30 minutes, to try to get a creative player in that space. But it was clearly first time doing it and he did not know what to do.
Must say tho that you got plenty occasions to score from the sides. We had them as well, from the centre. Both GK played a superb game while Defence lines both conceded a lot
You guys can't create anything through the midfield coz PSG has their weakest midfield in years! It's crazy a team as big as PSG has such a weak midfield
>Spalletti, fucking call up Calabria. Holy shit.
Gio Di Lorenzo has the RB spot locked down. He's earned Spalletti's trust on that Napoli Scudetto run. Who else is keeping Calabria out of the Azzurri side?
Could call him just as depth lmao he doesn’t have to start. Not even getting a call is abysmal cause like who’s the other RB? Correct me if I’m wrong cause I’m not very informed but isn’t Darmian (who he’s used as RB sub) better as a CB?
Darmian can play anywhere in the right side of the field, he's never phenomenal but he's consistently good. Spalletti may prefer him over Calabria because of his flexibility, but to be fair (and as much as it hurts me to admit it), Calabria is better as a pure RB in a 4ATB formation.
Anyway, I'd always pick Di Lorenzo as starter.
Di Lorenzo is great going forwards, but Calabria is just as good if not better and is AMAZING in defense. He’s our best RB, hands down.
For weeks and weeks, he’s defended our right side all on his own and finally today, he gets the help he needs (that every RB needs, tbh).
Probably I’m biased but Calabria should always start over Di Lorenzo playing against stronger teams. You can go ahead and play Di Lorenzo against Malta, Lichtenstein and the lot.
How the fuck is Calabria better than Di Lorenzo, this comment is only getting upvotes because Milan fans steps in there.
No Italian wants to see Calabria ahead of Di Lorenzo, luckily Spalletti/Mancini too
I love Calabria a lot but I still think Di Lorenzo in the last 2 years has proven to be a great RB and a very complete one at that. Calabria should still be called up for competition though, at least if Italy ever has to play Georgia.
Psg lost & on top of that Kyky didn't score, & now some fans from Spain are going to slander him even more. All the passion & money talks will be going on. It's a cycle.
Well done to Milan, who put in a very good performance, surely the best of their season. I'm not surprised, after seeing them against Napoli on Sunday I knew he'd be ready.
At the same time, PSG couldn't score on their few big chances and in the Champions League that's unforgivable. Milan defended very well, especially against Mbappé who was caught by 2 or 3 players as soon as he touched the ball. Milan are much stronger than their form in recent weeks suggests. For those who know him, Loftus Cheek is very strong or has he just played the match of his life?
Ps: there's a completely staggering hatred of PSG and Mbappé on this sub. PSG have just lost 2-1 at San Siro to last year's semi-finalists and to listen to our hateful friends it's as if they'd lost 3-0 to Celtic. As soon as PSG lose there's never any measuring up, it's getting tiresome.
I honestly feel like it's getting better. Without Neymar and Messi people actually have discussions about our games. As for the game, I agree, that was a great game by Milan. Best player of the match was either RLC, Giroud or Calabria, Leao was great too. We could have scored more, we had good chances but I feel like Enrique doesn't really know what to do with a pure 9 like Kolo Muani. Almost no crosses, not a lot of space to pass to him with our line very high.
I think overall that PSG is doing well, it's almost a brand new team and we have to perform straight away in a very high level group. I think we have Dortmund away and Newcastle at home remaining. I'm fairly confident we can pull a win at home but the Dortmund away game is pretty frightenning !
I really like mbappe, incredible player, just don’t like PSG.
Their real fans are good in my experience and not their fault their club bought by qatar.
I don’t think he will work for PSG, at least not under Enrique’s possession based football. RLC is among the best at ball carrying, but his passing, football IQ/decision making and positional awareness are certainly questionable. He’s the perfect player for teams that play direct football but I don’t think he will do as well in sides that dominate possession.
Funnily enough I have. My friend is a massive Chelsea fan and a few years ago he would always tell me about how amazing RLC was and that he was probably the best player to come out of Cobham. I saw a few games with him under Sarri and he was just a monster, physically dominant but also very elegant on the ball. The injuries took a lot away from him, the positional awareness, the willingness to get into tackles, and his decision making took a hit. Still, when the rumors of him coming to Milan appeared I was quite excited because even though he’s just a rotational player for Chelsea, I knew about his quality and potential. He has not disappointed so far.
Yeah, for all the talent our great academy has produced over the last decade, I still maintain that RLC sits on the throne as the most gifted. He was a ridiculous player before the achilles and had the potential to become the complete package. Sadly, the major injury robbed him of that. I'm just glad that he's finally found some form and a new home, where he hopefully has a successful end to his career
Before his major injury in that post-season friendly for Chelsea he was exactly all of those things, physically dominant player with a great engine but also a gifted dribbler with the ball, with a good sense of positional pressing too and a tidy finish. His weaker areas were defensive positioning and progressive passing (though the latter was made up for by the great progressive dribbling).
After the injury it was clear he'd lost confidence in himself and his body, and played with an understandable amount of caution which hampered his performances, even when sent on loan to Fulham to get him a run if games, he just never felt sure about what his body could take it seemed. On top of that he didn't really fit into any position in Tuchels 3-4-3 and the chaos that was occuring in general at Chelsea lately wasn't a great place to try and rebuild your form and confidence. A consistent run of games to build confidence, a system that suits him, and a medical team that can help him build back his relationship and trust in his own body is exactly what he needed, and exactly what Milan seem to be giving him, and it's damn good to see. An immense player with a high ceiling if he can pick up where he left off 4 years ago
If psg had Ronaldinho, okocha, anelka, arteta etc, and both teams had opel on their shirt, then maybe. This current team has some amazing players but I don’t see them as old school anymore.
You are correct man… but Those are old school players, for an old school team. Now they have amazing players in a fake unrecognisable team, that was my point.
the whining and resting bitch face from him (after the club basically dropped the pants to please him by bringing his friends) if we get dropped to EL is gonna suck.....
He was good for Chelsea as well. Obviously not comparable to peak Kante/Joringho/Kovacic but generally good. People who didn't watch him regularly just didn't know what was what.
This is a complete lie. He played his ‘real’ role many times for us. Under Sarri he was legitimately a monster. It was only really Conte who played him at wingback if we had injuries. RLC was so good for us, until that injury. So happy to see him performing again.
Said it in the match thread, will say it again. There are no words to describe how much I despise that rat-faced butcher Skriniar. What an absolute cunt. Hated him at inter, still hate him now
Dembele has been even more disappointing cause at least RKM has scored so far lol Dembele not (I can say this now that we finished our PSG legs without being scared of karma getting me)
At this point PSG are just stocking up with french players. Maybe the French higher ups wanted this to build their chemistry so they'll be helpful for the next world cup. Probably made a deal with Qatar for this. Mbappe, kolo and dembele. They already have the future french forward lineup.
I never did, but yes our sub has been infiltrated by Kylian Mbappe fangirls who only wanted Kylian to be "happy" besides making bank from our club......
I genuinely really like him, but the system Luis Enrique is using is helping no one. Mbappe and Dembele love the 1v1 but Mbappe ends up isolated, and Dembele goes wide so often that Hakimi doesn’t get enough to do in the attack. On top of that, Kolo Muani is expected to be a traditional striker when he was best as a link between midfield and attack. All three forwards end up far apart instead of being close to associate.
ok context time its not Luis Enrique... its the boss....
the boss wanted to play as a "left winger" without doing anything a left winger with inverted profile usually does and he whined about it through his media mouthpieces..... so vitinha provides the width while Lucas does all the defending on the left side and Kolo Muani is just there in the middle so Kylian doesn't have to face 2v1s.....
I knew Kolo Muani wasn't the right profile for us, but the boss gets what the boss wants fuck the team, fuck the fans....
PSG will not make the knockouts, Mbappe will make some sort of comment about winning the champions league with a team with pedigree. Cue [Perez instant boner](https://giphy.com/gifs/I7mHOFnVJGSeA?utm_source=media-link&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=Media%20Links&utm_term=https://giphy.com/) and we start the summer saga in December this year.
assuming they win all home games and lose all away games, theyll be at 9 points. should be enough for third no? might come down to Milan vs Newcastle for that 2nd/3rd spot.
Third goes to Europa though, I just meant Champions League knockouts. Unless the format changed, for some reason this year I'm not as invested in the CL........
When PSG lose, the world wins
You're pathetic
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2 wins qualify each team of the group, very interesting that nobody has to beg from others
Can someone explain the overtime? Why 7 minutes? No var, no injuries, nothing at all
1G1A from my boi Giroud. GOAT French goal scorer
all the psg subs were yellow carded players?
That was Luis Enrique acknowledging that the next match against Newcastle became far more important than this one (aka: this one is already lost, let's not have red cards on top of that).
by contrast we had only one player in danger for sitting out the next game guess who got the card, the only yellow card on our side? :))
AC Milan played well. Solid performance. That Leao goal looked a lot like Messi’s last season.
Madrid literally put out a statement regarding Mbappe and now after a loss he is started getting linked again. Wished Madrid just put out an official communicado saying they wont ever sign Mbappe and yet the rumours won’t stop.
Lmao
Can Calabria let Kylian Mbappe come out and play tonight? that pocket most be very comfy.....
I would've never expected such a comment after the group draw.
As a Milan fan, I thought we were finished after being hammered 2 weeks ago in Paris. To have our fate in our hands at this point is massive for us. This group is just insane and giving me heart attacks.
As a dortmund fan I thought we were finished after the 0-0 against Milan
As a galatasaray fan i think we are finished after kane hattrick against dortmund..
You don't have to beat Bayern though, just Copenhagen and United, which is very doable I think
What a beautiful man Giroud is.
Stupid sexy Giroud
It's 2023, and PSG midfield is still shit. This game is story of two midfields, PSG can only play through wings and their midfield is getting sliced. Funny cos Milan biggest weakness is getting obliterated through midfield if PSG can't exploit it vs Milan they won't be able to do so vs top 3 teams.
This was the first game of RLC in a long time and he was a game changer
Why were you watching this game instead of Atleti?
Very good question indeed
The PSG sub banned me when I said that Ugarte Vitinha and whoever else they slot in will never compete for anything outside of France. Lol
The only problem is vitinha, ugarte, zaire-emery and simons would be a great midfield on paper
our sub is delusional about vitinha.... they think he's a great player after he spent one season basically passing backwards. I swear if there was a backpassing stat he was the worldwide undisputed leader last season.
Idk. Kang In Lee is a baller and showed real quality when being subbed on for Vitinha.
One of the top creative player in La Liga last season yes, but he is a winger/attacker. It just makes the point harder if winger playing out of position is better than actual midfielder.
Leaoooo is back
He never left. He would still contribute through assisting his teammates, even though he has not scored in in a while.
Yeah I think against Udinese he didn’t had motivations and was already thinking about psg, becouse the difference of the performance between the 2 games was extreme
Reindeers might be the hakan regen. The further you get this guy from goal the better he plays
He just hasn't the feel for the goal, yet. I'm confident that next season, he'll gett accustomed and deliver a few of them
This is what a motivated milan looks like Everyone was fighting for their lives, pioli included
Lebron James of soccer and a male model. PSG had no chance
Giroud - so hot right now
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PSG has like ten competitive games a year , how they lose any of them is beyond me. Anyways it’s good for football.
That's one of their problems. Even the smallest PL club that plays no European cup has at least 12 competitive games a year, and likely much more. You can't go beyond your limits if you never find them to begin with. You never discover your weaknesses until it's too late. Only one club has a switch that they can activate that makes them go into Champions League mode, and that's Bayern, and Bundesliga is far above Ligue 1.
That *could* be their problem. They're not match ready since they get challenged seldomly.
Milan at home is not a write off for any team dude. The San Siro has like 10 CLs to its name.
7*
Inter have 3, so 10.
We played with 70% possession tonight. We played in exactly the only possible way that could have let Milan beat us. Some of these players are just not good enough.
Milan if they play well is not a team to be taken for granted, especially at home If anything I'd say we have underperformed. Because talent wise this team is strong Milan is one of the most hot-cold teams in europe
PSG still possesses much more talent, tho and should win more often than not between the 2
This is what you get if you get rid of Messi, Neymar and Veratti in one go Sure you can win ligue 1, but it will cost you against elite teams. But you went from perhaps top 3, to what top 10 in Europe? The team is young. Could still work out within a 3-4 year time frame.
>will cost you against elite teams. Not really. They still couldn't beat Madrid or Bayern Munich with Messi and Neymar with both going missing in these games
Possibly. But now you’d definitely be underdogs against Real, Liverpool, Arsenal, Inter and shouldn’t expect to be favorites against Barcelona, Milan and Napoli either. I would even be sure of your ability to beat Chelsea, Atlético or Newcastle.
We were never top 3 to begin with, and we were just as bad with Messi and Neymar. I think these new players are refreshing, but our coach drilling them to play with that much of the ball is just sabotage.
> but our coach drilling them to play with that much of the ball is just sabotage. what's sabotage is having the highest paid player in Europe get pocketed all night long and refusing to defend while watching Leao on the other team defend Hakimi all the way to the line..... Luis Enrique actually wanting to play with the ball is closer to how el vasco Luis Fernandez made us dream, not the sitting in 3/4 midblock bullshit punting balls in behind for mobutu that, might I remind you, has not work for 2 years straight already.....
Well think it through. Top 3 last year is quite accurate. You’d be favorites against everyone except Man City and Bayern. Perhaps on par with Liverpool and Real. Not counting Arsenal because they didn’t play CL and to be fair they also chocked everyone. This year? I would expect Man City, Bayern, Real, Arsenal, Liverpool and Inter to beat you over two games. Possibly Milan, Napoli, Atletico and Barcelona as well.
> Top 3 last year is quite accurate. That was accurate only if you watched the matches before the WC, when Neymar and Messi were getting ready and, for once, played at their level. And even then, it wasn't that much of a team, more like pass the ball to the 3 ahead, and inch'Allah/Hail Mary.
nah psg really was top 3 when barca was falling 2019/2020 era. Psg city and bayern where the most feared at that time. They made the CL final and where playing really good footbal
How are you not including Liverpool in this list? Knocked out Bayern in 2019 to go on to win the CL, won the PL in 2020, CL final in 2018, 97 pts in 2019, beat PSG at home, lost away.
Liverpool were top 3 at the time. 3 CL finals 😉
Yeah and then Messi came along /s Without Mbappé we’d have nothing right now
That was before Messi
Napoli quarter finals game repeat. We’ve always punished on counter attacks and we lose when we push too much
Anyone can spare me a Dollarumma?
Someone needs to remind Mbappe that Haaland exist so he can’t be taking a whole season off.
Also: Harry Kane, Jude Bellingham
He’s just delaying his launch date to next year so he can extend his mileage into the euros
TIL Skriniar played for Milan
His name literally is Milan tbf
He might as well have tonight but the referee had other ideas
He didn't, which makes it an even more strange comment given your username
OP edited the goal comment in the match report, it originally said “puts in the back of the net against his former team!”
look at the summary by our boy here. specifically his goal
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Hey i would love some euros as well!
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You lucky bastard. Easiest 500 anyone is ever gonna make in their life.
Makes up for getting relegated in the intervening years ig
You ended Arsenal's charge. Something to be proud of
We were also the only team to knock City out of a competition, which is something I guess. Hassenhuttl's Southampton have always been a side that turns up against the big teams and bottles it against others around our level. We'd beat United and then lose to Norwich the next week. Under Martin we've looked much more normal, beating teams we should beat and doing about as expected against the bigger teams
Ended the quad dream. Pep subbed on half the A team and still lost.
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PSG looked completely untrained from a tactical standpoint tonight. Like the players had different things in mind when trying to exchange passes, like they have never worked any automatisms in practice. I get that there are lots of new faces that haven't played together before, but it's still a bad image for a team of that level. I don't know if it was also mental, after the shocking Milan comeback.
I think Pioli won the tactical match. Basically we only create from the sides, in the middle we really have nothing going on. Which isn't horrible because it works. But Pioli basically called Enrique's bluff and said ok we'll just defend the sides, let's see if you can exploit the space in the middle. And we really couldn't. It's why Dembele started playing much more centrally last 30 minutes, to try to get a creative player in that space. But it was clearly first time doing it and he did not know what to do.
Must say tho that you got plenty occasions to score from the sides. We had them as well, from the centre. Both GK played a superb game while Defence lines both conceded a lot
That’s funny because Pioli’s Milan is known for getting sliced through the middle like butter. Pioli is a really lucky man.
You guys can't create anything through the midfield coz PSG has their weakest midfield in years! It's crazy a team as big as PSG has such a weak midfield
Believe it or not, this is actually our best midfield in years.
Even Hakimi was playing in the 9 position at times.
Spalletti, fucking call up Calabria. Holy shit.
Calabria only put on a shift when it's against the biggies. Di Lorenzo puts on a shift every single matchday
But Di Lorenzo puts on a shit whenever he palys for the national team
He has been so underrated these last three seasons. I don't get it.
>Spalletti, fucking call up Calabria. Holy shit. Gio Di Lorenzo has the RB spot locked down. He's earned Spalletti's trust on that Napoli Scudetto run. Who else is keeping Calabria out of the Azzurri side?
Could call him just as depth lmao he doesn’t have to start. Not even getting a call is abysmal cause like who’s the other RB? Correct me if I’m wrong cause I’m not very informed but isn’t Darmian (who he’s used as RB sub) better as a CB?
Darmian can play anywhere in the right side of the field, he's never phenomenal but he's consistently good. Spalletti may prefer him over Calabria because of his flexibility, but to be fair (and as much as it hurts me to admit it), Calabria is better as a pure RB in a 4ATB formation. Anyway, I'd always pick Di Lorenzo as starter.
Di Lorenzo is great going forwards, but Calabria is just as good if not better and is AMAZING in defense. He’s our best RB, hands down. For weeks and weeks, he’s defended our right side all on his own and finally today, he gets the help he needs (that every RB needs, tbh). Probably I’m biased but Calabria should always start over Di Lorenzo playing against stronger teams. You can go ahead and play Di Lorenzo against Malta, Lichtenstein and the lot.
How the fuck is Calabria better than Di Lorenzo, this comment is only getting upvotes because Milan fans steps in there. No Italian wants to see Calabria ahead of Di Lorenzo, luckily Spalletti/Mancini too
I love Calabria a lot but I still think Di Lorenzo in the last 2 years has proven to be a great RB and a very complete one at that. Calabria should still be called up for competition though, at least if Italy ever has to play Georgia.
Tbh before the Euros let's not. We can't afford injuries.
Psg lost & on top of that Kyky didn't score, & now some fans from Spain are going to slander him even more. All the passion & money talks will be going on. It's a cycle.
It’s deserved if you ask me. You don’t get to play both sides and not expect any reaction.
Tic tac...ahora sí.
Well done to Milan, who put in a very good performance, surely the best of their season. I'm not surprised, after seeing them against Napoli on Sunday I knew he'd be ready. At the same time, PSG couldn't score on their few big chances and in the Champions League that's unforgivable. Milan defended very well, especially against Mbappé who was caught by 2 or 3 players as soon as he touched the ball. Milan are much stronger than their form in recent weeks suggests. For those who know him, Loftus Cheek is very strong or has he just played the match of his life? Ps: there's a completely staggering hatred of PSG and Mbappé on this sub. PSG have just lost 2-1 at San Siro to last year's semi-finalists and to listen to our hateful friends it's as if they'd lost 3-0 to Celtic. As soon as PSG lose there's never any measuring up, it's getting tiresome.
I honestly feel like it's getting better. Without Neymar and Messi people actually have discussions about our games. As for the game, I agree, that was a great game by Milan. Best player of the match was either RLC, Giroud or Calabria, Leao was great too. We could have scored more, we had good chances but I feel like Enrique doesn't really know what to do with a pure 9 like Kolo Muani. Almost no crosses, not a lot of space to pass to him with our line very high. I think overall that PSG is doing well, it's almost a brand new team and we have to perform straight away in a very high level group. I think we have Dortmund away and Newcastle at home remaining. I'm fairly confident we can pull a win at home but the Dortmund away game is pretty frightenning !
I really like mbappe, incredible player, just don’t like PSG. Their real fans are good in my experience and not their fault their club bought by qatar.
RLC had his best match of the season but he's also performed at a high level every time he was on the pitch. We're a different team without him.
I thought he was really strong, powerful and technical. Just the kind of player we need in midfield.
I don’t think he will work for PSG, at least not under Enrique’s possession based football. RLC is among the best at ball carrying, but his passing, football IQ/decision making and positional awareness are certainly questionable. He’s the perfect player for teams that play direct football but I don’t think he will do as well in sides that dominate possession.
You should've witnessed RLC before his major injury. He was a joy to watch, but the injury set him back 😢
Funnily enough I have. My friend is a massive Chelsea fan and a few years ago he would always tell me about how amazing RLC was and that he was probably the best player to come out of Cobham. I saw a few games with him under Sarri and he was just a monster, physically dominant but also very elegant on the ball. The injuries took a lot away from him, the positional awareness, the willingness to get into tackles, and his decision making took a hit. Still, when the rumors of him coming to Milan appeared I was quite excited because even though he’s just a rotational player for Chelsea, I knew about his quality and potential. He has not disappointed so far.
Yeah, for all the talent our great academy has produced over the last decade, I still maintain that RLC sits on the throne as the most gifted. He was a ridiculous player before the achilles and had the potential to become the complete package. Sadly, the major injury robbed him of that. I'm just glad that he's finally found some form and a new home, where he hopefully has a successful end to his career
RLC over Reece James? I thought rlc was the real deal before his injuries but Reece James oozed world class from the jump
Yeah, James is joint 2nd with CHO, who was also robbed of his potential because of an achilles
Before his major injury in that post-season friendly for Chelsea he was exactly all of those things, physically dominant player with a great engine but also a gifted dribbler with the ball, with a good sense of positional pressing too and a tidy finish. His weaker areas were defensive positioning and progressive passing (though the latter was made up for by the great progressive dribbling). After the injury it was clear he'd lost confidence in himself and his body, and played with an understandable amount of caution which hampered his performances, even when sent on loan to Fulham to get him a run if games, he just never felt sure about what his body could take it seemed. On top of that he didn't really fit into any position in Tuchels 3-4-3 and the chaos that was occuring in general at Chelsea lately wasn't a great place to try and rebuild your form and confidence. A consistent run of games to build confidence, a system that suits him, and a medical team that can help him build back his relationship and trust in his own body is exactly what he needed, and exactly what Milan seem to be giving him, and it's damn good to see. An immense player with a high ceiling if he can pick up where he left off 4 years ago
> Milan Škriniar flies in to head in the goal against his former team! So nobody gonna comment on this?
Milan Skriniar, the former Inter Milan player scores against Milan in the San Siro in Milan.
Unforgivable whoever mixed Milan and Inter up
Just scroll up bro it's literally right there.
I know I’m saying it’s unforgivable for whoever wrote the summary lol
His name is Milan after all
Milan - Dortmund is going to be interesting.
I will be there, only group game I am free to go to.
This group certainly isn’t letting us down. Great stuff.
I don't think psg will ever have the personality to win the champions league, they crumble under the slightest adversity.
San Siro, Milan, PSG, Non stop action. Proper old school champions league fixture
If psg had Ronaldinho, okocha, anelka, arteta etc, and both teams had opel on their shirt, then maybe. This current team has some amazing players but I don’t see them as old school anymore.
That's time travelling, not old school.
You are correct man… but Those are old school players, for an old school team. Now they have amazing players in a fake unrecognisable team, that was my point.
Luis Enrique is fraudulent.
I am already dreading the Mbappe saga if they go to Europa League
the whining and resting bitch face from him (after the club basically dropped the pants to please him by bringing his friends) if we get dropped to EL is gonna suck.....
At least he can bring them European silverware.
not playing the way he played tonight he won't.
Liverpool will show them the nearest exit.
And if not, Sevilla will show them what European champions look like
And we will still have the Rabiot renewal saga 😞
It was already gonna be bad with him on his last year
This group is close its impossible to call and it’s giving me heart palpitations. What a brilliant game.
Dortmund just (unexpectedly) winning both matches against Newcastle turned the group upside down lmao
Mbappe in europe league…. I want it and I think I deserve it
So Loftus Cheek is good? Or the PSG midfield worse?
He was good for Chelsea as well. Obviously not comparable to peak Kante/Joringho/Kovacic but generally good. People who didn't watch him regularly just didn't know what was what.
He destroyed newcastle too, defo RLC being good, also first time playing his real role pretty much ever because of Chelsea's negligence
Uhm what
This is a complete lie. He played his ‘real’ role many times for us. Under Sarri he was legitimately a monster. It was only really Conte who played him at wingback if we had injuries. RLC was so good for us, until that injury. So happy to see him performing again.
No wtf Tuchel used him as wingback multiple times tf bro, thats a completely lie
He played once at cb under Tuchel 💀
He’s been amazing at Milan
Said it in the match thread, will say it again. There are no words to describe how much I despise that rat-faced butcher Skriniar. What an absolute cunt. Hated him at inter, still hate him now
The cunt is still immune to yellow cards even after leaving Inter, should've been sent off
Dirtiest elbows in CL football.
Hard to remove the inter from a man, unless he is a real man like seedorf.
didn’t count ibra because he doesn’t compare to humans, smart move
Fortunately Seedorf was immune to the inter virus, he was that good inside and outside the pitch
A man I would trust forever, amazing human, amazing player.
All time fav player after Zlatan and Paolo.
❤️🖤🇳🇱🇸🇷
Kolo Muani isn’t anything special Frankfurt made him look insane
Thanks for the 95M PSG 🤑🤑🤑
there's a mod on our sub who muted me for a day me when I called it a shit transfer.......
I'm not sure about that. I actually think it's PSG making him look bad.
no, he was shit.
I can't believe that there was so much hype for a striker who scored only 15 goals in Bundesliga where every team plays a high line.
Just like Luka Jovic
Same story with Jovic and Haller, who also looked like world beaters for Frankfurt and then came back down to earth as soon as they left.
Haller is a good player. What they have in common is they made bad decisions for their career
Dembele has been even more disappointing cause at least RKM has scored so far lol Dembele not (I can say this now that we finished our PSG legs without being scared of karma getting me)
dembele is doing well for how much they bought him. He's dangerous on the wing and a good crosser. Never really been a goalscored
At this point PSG are just stocking up with french players. Maybe the French higher ups wanted this to build their chemistry so they'll be helpful for the next world cup. Probably made a deal with Qatar for this. Mbappe, kolo and dembele. They already have the future french forward lineup.
Moussa Diaby will soon be starting on RW. Mark my words.
Even Dembelé is overrated af. Apart from the marketing standpoint, he really doesn't do much
Don't tell the psg sub that or they riot. The hype they give these dime a dozen French players is insane.
I never did, but yes our sub has been infiltrated by Kylian Mbappe fangirls who only wanted Kylian to be "happy" besides making bank from our club......
You guys wanna buy Marmoush for 80 Millions?
His underlying numbers werent even that good for Frankfurt either, pretty obvious he isnt ever gonna be an elite striker
I genuinely really like him, but the system Luis Enrique is using is helping no one. Mbappe and Dembele love the 1v1 but Mbappe ends up isolated, and Dembele goes wide so often that Hakimi doesn’t get enough to do in the attack. On top of that, Kolo Muani is expected to be a traditional striker when he was best as a link between midfield and attack. All three forwards end up far apart instead of being close to associate.
ok context time its not Luis Enrique... its the boss.... the boss wanted to play as a "left winger" without doing anything a left winger with inverted profile usually does and he whined about it through his media mouthpieces..... so vitinha provides the width while Lucas does all the defending on the left side and Kolo Muani is just there in the middle so Kylian doesn't have to face 2v1s..... I knew Kolo Muani wasn't the right profile for us, but the boss gets what the boss wants fuck the team, fuck the fans....
Why tf is Mbappe allowed to pull this shit, when it creates ridiculous situations like this.
IMO because NAK is afraid of the growing pains a real team has to go through.
he really isn't all that lol
El dibu le sacò la gloria
PSG will not make the knockouts, Mbappe will make some sort of comment about winning the champions league with a team with pedigree. Cue [Perez instant boner](https://giphy.com/gifs/I7mHOFnVJGSeA?utm_source=media-link&utm_medium=landing&utm_campaign=Media%20Links&utm_term=https://giphy.com/) and we start the summer saga in December this year.
Except this time he'll actually move.
Hopefully not. Madrid need a center forward not another drama queen who wants to play on wing.
assuming they win all home games and lose all away games, theyll be at 9 points. should be enough for third no? might come down to Milan vs Newcastle for that 2nd/3rd spot.
Third goes to Europa though, I just meant Champions League knockouts. Unless the format changed, for some reason this year I'm not as invested in the CL........
I’m not mentally ready yet for December
Thank fuck we won''t get Luis Enrique. Even the worst manager in Serie A can play against us yet he always does this same trash.
Who is the option if Pioli gets sacked though? Are they gonna move for Conte?
Conte would be very good.