Milan flies. In the standings, where he is in 5th place just 6 points from the Champions League area and on the market, which today could give a really big blow. After last week's exploratory trip, Mino Raiola and the lawyer Vittorio Rigo are back in London, this time to get serious. Adriano Galliani has mandated to treat Mario Balotelli with a cash offer, essential to sit down at the City table. Around 5 million dance between supply and demand, but the will to close is there on both sides. “Saturday it was 99,9% no, today we are at 99,5% – winked Galliani. – It's a different fixing, but the stock exchange is closed until Monday…”.
So optimism reigns, on the market as on the field. The victory in Bergamo has really turned the Rossoneri scenarios upside down. In fact, the three points proved to be very heavy also, if not above all, in the light of the results of the others. After overtaking Roma, Milan also put the arrow on Montella's Fiorentina and gained further ground on Lazio and Inter, who are now 6 and 3 points away respectively. “I'm serene, let's see where we can get at the end of May – said Massimiliano Allegri satisfied. – We are a growing team, at the moment we don't know how many margins we can have. The run-up is long, when you run after you always have to try to win, now we have a week to wait for Udinese”.
The AC Milan coach believes in it and with him the whole team. The signals arriving are unmistakable: the group is clearly growing. Yesterday, on the difficult Atalanta field, Milan took the field with the right attitude, mixing aggression and cynicism for a lethal cocktail. El Shaarawy's goal, back on the net after a mini fast of 4 games, was enough to bring home the whole stake, without suffering particularly. The nerazzurri were also conditioned by the expulsion of Brivio in the middle of the second half (double yellow), but if Milan had been a little more precise they would have closed the discussions even earlier.
“It's the only thing that was missing – acknowledged Allegri. – The boys did well technically in the first half, very well in the first minutes of the second half. We deserved the victory despite a good Atalanta. We are a little tidier, we have more geometries, there was a good play between Niang and El Shaarawy in the moment of goal". Waiting for news on the market (Allegri preferred not to say too much about Balotelli), the coach is enjoying the improvements of his players. The road leading to the Champions League is still long, but the distances are getting shorter and shorter. And with an extra Super Mario in the engine who knows what might happen.
