OPINION: Mihajlovic has triumphed against all the odds...and Silvio!
Talking about supporters, they are much more realistic than their president. They know they can’t compete with Juve and it is impossible to play with four strikers on the pitch. They understood that the glory of the past is a honor, but it can’t be an illusion for the present.
Sinisa has been amazing because he decided to do his way and not Berlusconi’s. Playing a super-offensive team would have wrecked the squad. He has challenged his president deciding to wait for his opponents and trying to score on counter attacks with Carlos Bacca and M’Baye Niang up front, Giacomo Bonaventura and Keisuke Honda down both flanks. He switched Milan to 4-4-2, not a spectacular system, but definitely a very practical one.
That’s how Milan won against Fiorentina and Inter, how they held Napoli to a 1-1 draw at the San Paolo and how they reached the Coppa Italia final.
He won, but that could not be enough to save his job. We wouldn’t be too surprised if Berlusconi would fire Miha at the end of the season, finding him guilty of not having qualified for the Champions League or not having won the Coppa Italia. The president still believes Milan can beat everyone, even if they have no Van Basten, Maldini or Kaka anymore.
That’s his way to show that the team he built it’s always the best in the world. Everyone knows that’s not like this, but he doesn’t want to hear it.
That’s just his problem. If Berlusconi will really sack Mihajlovic at the end of the season, it won’t be the manager to have lost his battle.
Stefano Agresti @Steagresti, translated by Lorenzo Bettoni @lorebetto
