MN: The fight against complacency – Milan must show growth in crucial week

AC Milan’s draw against Pisa means that top spot has been surrendered for the time being, but there are even tougher tests to come.

Following the home draw against Pisa and the victories for Napoli and Roma – against Inter and Sassuolo respectively – Milan are now in third place in the table, as MilanNews write. The league is still very compact, and any misstep is punished in the standings.

The impression is that it will be a season where the top of the table will be tight and will contain more than one team in the running until the very end, so a single mistake could cause a team to drop more than one position.

What Milan must change

After Leao’s opening goal in the seventh minute, Milan paradoxically dropped out of the game, inexplicably stopping playing, perhaps thinking they had already secured the three points, but that wasn’t the case. In fact, they almost lost it.

Arrogance is what must never appear in a team that needs to improve on an eighth-placed finish in 2024-25, a team that must make hunger its greatest driving force and therefore cannot and must not allow itself to fail to win games because of attitude.

This must be demonstrated on the pitch, from the 1st to the 95th minute, when the appropriate assessments will then be made. Allergi has repeatedly emphasised this: his side but work hard with their heads down, with top four as a target and with 30 games still to go.

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A crucial week

With the draw against Pisa behind them, a crucial seven days begins for the Rossoneri, who will face Atalanta away and Roma at home. These two matches will tell a lot, both in terms of mentality and in terms of the tactical approach of the team.

The current situation in terms of injuries is not ideal, given Christian Pulisic and Adrien Rabiot – two key players for the Rossoneri – will remain out. The coach’s line is clear though: when someone is missing, others are found.

The important thing isn’t so much the individuals as the team’s ability to grasp concepts and work as a team. This is the real secret, and it must be this way until the end of the season, when, with the games over, there will be more than enough time to draw conclusions.