What amazes me is how Honda and Bonaventura have no direct competition in their positions. Cerci may have been shit, but atleast he was an option from the bench as was Suso. We should have kept one of the two. Today we can applaud Kucka, Alex and Abate and to some extent Balotelli. Bacca is a farce of a player as is Bonaventura. Bonaventura can dribble but stalls on the ball for too long and never gets the ball to his target man in the final third. I don't give a fuck how many dribbles he makes, can he give the ball to Bacca, Balo, Antonelli or whatever midfielder is making the run in the box?
Montolivo is half the player he once was as well. Romagnoli is inexperienced and got bullied by Mandzukic all game. Kucka had Pogba in his back pocket the entire game and Abate had Alex Sandro pocketed as well.
Bacca can't dribble, can't control the ball, can't win the ball, all he can do is push the ball in the net and even that he can barely do. I don't understand why he's a 30m euro player when Dybala was 40m and is 10x the player he is.
This is a team that has no depth beyond the starting 11. Mihajlovic as well should be looked at under a microscope. He relies on the same 11 players in order to have a positive performance. If one of those pieces goes missing, he has no game and his Milan look horrible. Why is it that Bacca always gets a free pass and never gets subbed out? He contributes nothing on the field with Bacca we play with 10 men instead of 11. I would have started Luiz with Balotelli, Luiz at least can control the ball and feed balls to Mario.
What makes me especially angrier is Juve were actually so shit today and won thanks to our own blunders. We let them win and this is 100% the fault of the manager. Milan gave way too much respect to Juve in the first half in my opinion and we could have really hurt them if we wanted to.
Zapata also should have started instead of Romagnoli. Romagnoli will grow into a fantastic defender but right now he offers me no guarantees. Zapata at least 1 on 1 gives me the guarantee that he will take the ball from Morata/Mandzukic and could have matched Morata's pace.
Balotelli was okay but he's still a shadow of the Balotelli that could get past players. Antonelli showed his experience numerous times as well. Milan's three weak links today were Romagnoli (inexperience), Montolivo (physically poor), and Bacca (farce).
If Bonaventura is considered our "best player" as I often read on these forums while lurking, we have to see how far this Milan as fallen. From his facial aesthetics all the way down to his 10 second stalls on the ball and his horrible final balls scream mediocrity and is in reality the perfect mascot for this Milan.