EXCLUSIVE: The media is wrong about Brocchi and Milan
Despite the Rossoneri's comeback, the near-farcical way in which they shipped in three goals to relegation fodder will rankle with fans for a long time. Even Milan's resurgence was favoured by some frankly bad football, and included a missed penalty.
Even Mario Balotelli's late effort on the bar could have resulted in a goal, had Carlos Bacca not stood offside for most of the Italian's run.
Though the picture is far from rosy, many in the media have done a lot to make it look far worse. Vice-president Adriano Galliani's post-match visit to the dressing room was, for example, portrayed as an emergency summary, with Brocchi on very thin ice.
Instead, it transpires that Galliani went down there to congratulate the players on their comeback, on the spirit they showed when they found themselves two goals down with just over half an hour to go.
Furthermore, many have reported that the dressing room wasn't enthusiastic about Mihajlovic's sacking, interpreting the numerous expressions of support towards the Serbian as evidence that the squad didn't like Brocchi. Again, that's not completely accurate: for a start, where does this information come from? Moreover, support of one manager doesn't necessarily imply hatred of another.
It's been a tough time for Brocchi, who was thrown in at the deep end barely three training sessions before Milan's away trip to Genoa. He's had very little time to deploy his football vision... yet we saw something against Carpi, a Rossoneri side happy to dominate play, and not react to what the opponent was doing.
Either way, we here in Italy tend to overreact to everything, and are unable to contextualise certain failures, especially those of a manager called up at the last minute to take care of a squad, nay a club, that has systemic issues that can't be solved overnight.
@EdoDalmonte, inspired from a piece by Loris Cialini
