GdS: ‘What a disaster’ – Milan on course for worst finish in 10 years | OneFootball

AC Milan are on course to have the worst season that they have endured in a decade in Serie A, a report has outlined.

La Gazzetta dello Sport brands the 2024-25 team as ‘the worst Milan of the last ten seasons’ in terms of points earned after 33 games. That is the ‘record’ that Sergio Conceiçao’s team managed to break with Sunday night’s defeat at home against Atalanta.

Worst in 10 years

To find a Rossoneri team with fewer points (43 on that occasion) we have to go back to 2014-15 when Filippo Inzaghi was on the bench and at the end of the season the Diavolo were ranked in 10th place, just inside the top half.

At present Milan are ninth and the gap compared to the closest pursuer (Torino and Udinese, who face each other today, are at -11) suggests that they will not equal or do worse than that finish, but there is really little to be proud of given the difference in investment.

At the start of the season, when Milan started with the intention of winning the second-star Scudetto, no one would have ever imagined such a massacre in terms of results and performances. Especially because this team continues to alternate highs and lows within the same game.

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In short, this Milan is unreliable and those who hoped that the victory against Udinese – brought about by a change of formation (3-4-3 instead of 4-2-3-1) – had brought about a turning point were disappointed by the performance against Atalanta.

Now, with five games to go in the league, Milan have 51 points. They even did better (53 points) in 2019-20, the season that began with Marco Giampaolo and ended with Stefano Pioli in the dugout as the head coach.

Similarities? Only that of the two alternating coaches because, after the stop for Covid-19, the Rossoneri closed the season in style, with five wins and a draw in the last six games. It is impossible to imagine a similar epilogue after Sunday evening.

Milan also obtained more points (52) in 2015-16. A curious detail: in round 33 of that season (a 1-0 victory at Sampdoria thanks to a goal by Bacca) Cristian Brocchi took over from the sacked Sinisa Mihajlovic. At the end of the season, Milan lost the Coppa Italia final against Juventus in extra time.

The biggest problem

It is undeniable that this Milan have thrown away points – especially in the first part of the season with Fonseca as coach – against teams like Parma, Genoa and Cagliari, just to name three examples. Yet, the biggest problems have been against the teams that precede them in the standings.

Of the 16 matches on the fixture list against Inter, Napoli, Atalanta, Bologna, Juventus, Roma, Lazio and Fiorentina (there are still two to play, the return matches against Bologna and Roma) Milan have racked up just points out of 42 available and have only beaten Inter.

The other five points were earned again against the Nerazzurri (in the return match), against Lazio, Roma, Juventus and Fiorentina. It is a real ordeal that shows how poor this side is compared to those above them.

The other striking stat is that of the goals conceded: in Udine a series of nine games with at least one goal conceded was interrupted. Well, on Sunday night Mike Maignan’s goal was again breached. In 24 matches with Conceiçao only four clean sheets, far too few.

If Milan fails to finish in the top eight of the standings, there will be an unpleasant side effect for next season: they will have to play in the Coppa Italia in mid-August, that is, before the start of the season.

The Rossoneri will not enter in the round of 16, as happens with the top eight, but to get to that stage they will have to overcome the third and fourth rounds on the field, usually scheduled in the summer (the first) and in the fall (the second).