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Continue reading →: AC Milan – 2022-23 Season Review: La RisoluzioneYou read this after the 2022-23 Champions League Final. AC Milan have just lost to Manchester City at Wembley after a 119th minute extra time goal by Bernardo Silva secured the trophy for the Citizens, after Piątek had missed a penalty in normal time. Within two days AC’s double scudetto-winning…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan – Season Preview 2022-23Before the new transfer window opened, AC Milan owner, Paul Singer announced his retirement, triggering a sale of the Club. This news was somewhat of a surprise in terms of his retirement but it was not a total shock as takeover rumours had been doing the rounds for some time.…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan Tactical Set-up 2021-22This post sets out to look at the tactical set-up of the double scudetto winners, AC Milan. Below you’ll see the players from the squad with hyperlinks to their metric radars – click on those to open a new window if you are interested in seeing them. Goalkeeper – Sweeper…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan 2021-22 Season ReviewThe 2021-22 Serie A season saw AC Milan defend their title, with a six point gap to second placed Napoli. I Rossoneri improved upon their points total, picking up an additional two, and maintained their frequency of clean sheets when compared to the 2020-21 season. With 69 goals scored (one…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan 2021-22 Summer Transfer Window UpdateAt start of the Summer of 2021, the squad performance was evaluated both holistically and individually. Personnel within the squad were identified as requiring an upgrade in the positional sense, most notably in the left-sided attacking midfield slot. Following a relatively poor showing for both Rebić, whose loan period ended,…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan 2020-21 Season – Player Analysis: AttackersWide Attackers The attacking wide men in the AC Milan side play in the inverted winger and inside forward roles, depending upon who is playing in the various positions. The players drive at the half space in between central defenders and full backs before looking for a cross/shooting opportunity in…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan 2020-21 Season – Player Analysis: Central Midfielders
Central Midfield The central midfield trio play different roles within the tactical set-up, with a single pivot as a deep-lying playmaker, and the other two as a box-to-box midfielder and a mezzala. As such, the player radars look very different to one another. Sandro Tonali stepped up to the starting…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan 2020-21 Season – Player Analysis: Defenders
Central Defenders AC Milan employed a flat back four throughout the season, using three main central defenders: Alessio Romagnoli, Mateo Musacchio and Mattia Caldara. The stand-out performer of the trio was the Club captain, Romagnoli. Whilst his pressure adjusted (PAdj) tackles/90 and key tackles/90 were very low (12th and 16th…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan 2020-21 Season – Player Analysis Hub
The player analysis initially started out as just one blog post but it soon became evident that it would have to be a series of blogs with one central hub. Each image below is just a sneak preview of the content within each of the three posts and all images…
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Continue reading →: AC Milan – 2020-21 End of Season Update – Club FocusHaving lost just two games before the Winter break, AC Milan were sitting atop Serie A. The squad had gone through something of a transformation, as clubs with a higher reputation, such as Liverpool, Manchester City and Real Madrid, picked off some of their best talents. Five players left, three…
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