Forget last year's heroics from Milan. They certainly won't make the top 3 this time. Everything's broken there. Due to the ridiculous amount of dives from Balotelli, the refs are starting to overlook even the actual fouls. The defenders know how to provoke him, and now it's way too easy to eliminate him from the game. He already has 4 yellows and 1 red card in 7 matches. Allegri can't control him anymore. It's going from bad to worse with Balotelli. Soon he might ask for a transfer. It's really fucked up when your best player is your biggest problem at the same time and when he's hurting the team so much.
Anyway, 16 points behind such strong teams like Juve and Napoli is way too much. Last year the furthest they were behind was 12 points behind 3rd placed Fiorentina. Then they strengthened with a focused Balotelli and he was getting practically everything in his favor, whenever he fell in the box.
They really brought this to themselves. It's unbelievable to watch ex bench players of Genoa (Constant and Birsa) getting regular starting time for Milan. What were they thinking?
Despite Milan's awful form, till this round they still had more points than last season. After matchday 10 last season they had 11, this season 12p.
Now even this statistic is worse, not looking at the distance to 3rd place.
After matchday 10:
2012/13: 11p, 11points from 3rd place
2013/14: 12p, 13points from 3rd place
After matchday 11:
2012/13: 14p, 9points from 3rd place
2013/14: 12p,
16 (!) points from 3rd place.
CL is as good as gone for them.