Loftus and Pulisic for the double module – Corriere.it

A new Milan is being born. With more kilos and centimeters, faster and more upright. More suited to the Champions League, where you run and fight more. Pioli’s plan is clear: expanded squad, more choices, tactical variations. Exactly all that was missing last season, when due to the bankruptcy summer market we ended up always fielding with the same 12-13-14 players. A sentence. The mission, this time, is to be competitive on several objectives. the time has come to change something in our way of playing admitted the Rossoneri coach on the day of the match. There is one in his head double tactical choice: a 4-3-3 to alternate with the tested 4-2-3-1 which he has done so much in recent years, resulting decisive for the 2021-22 Scudetto. But which now inevitably needs a robust restyling. Not a revolution but an evolution to use a concept dear to the CEO. Furlani.

The arrival of Loftus-Cheek from Chelsea is decisive in this context. I chose the number 8 of Tonali and Gattuso, I know what it means – said the Englishman yesterday -. the manifesto of my ambition. I feel like a leader and I dream of going back to the times of Sarri. 2018-19 season, when he won the Europa League with the Blues. With Reijnders from Az, which Milan wants at all costs, he could compose a midfield of European level, making Tonali’s absence less heavy. Krunic, reliable jolly, will find space. The other key man for the tactical breakthrough is Pulisic, a quick and technical midfielder who arrives in Milan this morning for visits: he can play as a central attacking midfielder or even on the right, in case Furlani and Moncada fail to acquire Chukwueze of Villarreal, which as a non-EU citizen would close the door to the Iranian Taremisone of the options to support Giroud in the center of the attack, together with Chess from West Ham. On the left, untouchable Leao. With his renewal, Milan has laid the foundations for the future. But now we need a further leap in quality on his part, in terms of continuity and leadership. This must be the year of his definitive consecration. what Pioli is already asking of him these days.

I hope that by July 21st, when we leave for the United States tour, there will be some other arrivals admitted the coach, who is increasingly central to the project, well aware of the fact that there won’t be much time to structure the team. It starts on August 21 from Bologna: an uphill start, with 5 direct clashes in the first 10 days and a Champions League to be faced from the third pot. A tough double challenge. And without favors of the forecast. That’s why, to face it, the Devil has (wisely) chosen to shed his skin.