CorSport: ‘Can’t make any more mistakes’ – Fonseca hopes for European cure as scrutiny mounts | OneFootball

AC Milan are back in Champions League action this evening against Slovan Bratislava, and their search for one key thing continues: consistency.

Corriere dello Sport (via MilanNews) this morning has a front page which piles the pressure on Paulo Fonseca, reading: ‘He can’t make any more mistakes. Fonseca under pressure’. Indeed, Fonseca’s Milan are described as a ‘case to study’.

While in the league the team cannot find the consistency that they need fight for the Scudetto, in the Champions League they actually have the real possibility of finishing in the top eight, despite defeats against Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen in the first two games.

Before making any premature calculations, however, the Rossoneri first have to face Slovan Bratislava this evening. They are bottom of the bottom of the class in the Champions League and have failed to collect a single point after their first four games, conceding the most goals too.

Will this Milan, so unstable and indecipherable, manage to get back into the top eight teams in Europe? They will battle their former midfielder Juraj Kucka and the one who is defined in his homeland as the ‘Slovakian Guardiola’, namely Vladimir Weiss.

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The disappointing draw against Juventus has come with a lot of fall-out, because while Fonseca and some players continue to talk about belief in fighting for the title, the league table tells a different story.

Saturday’s match risks having important repercussions on Fonseca’s future, because the club ‘are starting to question themselves on the choice made last summer’, but also the maturity of some of the star players in the squad.

The morning presence of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and Geoffrey Moncada at Milanello yesterday is a sort of confirmation of the concern that is starting to emerge. Thus, even a harmless Slovan can think of causing some more damage.