The fears of the eve prove to be well founded. At the season debut on the San Siro lawn, Milan collapsed and, while complimenting Sampdoria, the faults are all theirs. Seeing Galliani leave the grandstand in the 78th minute perfectly captures the AC Milan afternoon, too bad to be true.
Aware of the poor technical rate of the team, Allegri has decided to face Sampdoria with a muscular midfield (apart from the "director" Montolivo) and two broad and fast strikers in Robinho and El Shaarawy, with Pazzini on the bench. The plan consisted in stealing the ball in mid-field and throwing forward, to exploit the one-on-one skills of the Rossoneri forwards. Too bad that Nocerino and Flamini are almost never able to carry out their duties, that Montolivo appears shy and bewildered, that El Shaarawy moves little and badly. The game was slow and predictable and Sampdoria (fielded by Ferrara with a 4-5-1 from another era) slowly gathered courage, also because the Milan defense confirmed all its limits. And so, after more than an hour of boredom, Costa's goal arrived and the sky above San Siro really began to darken. The reaction was a mixture of nerves and heart, but not as happens in vintages (and this one, despite being only at the beginning, has every appearance of being so) bad luck also got involved. After Yepes and Boateng's posts and Gastaldello's save on the line (Flamini's shot with a sure shot), Sampdoria's victory appears a bit exaggerated, the negative judgments on Milan do not. “We were unlucky in the finale, however I have nothing to reproach the boys for. – declared Allegri immediately after the match. - At this moment we don't need to play victims, we have to start again from the good things done today. There is an attitude of distrust around this team, but it will grow slowly only with serenity”. Yes, but how long will the fans' patience last? Reading the messages from the curve, the dead line is set for 31 August, the day the market closes. The Rossoneri expect reinforcements (the plural is not accidental), the feeling is that (perhaps) only Kakà will arrive. “Real wants to sell him permanently, we only want him on loan. Galliani said. – If they change their mind, I'll rush to Madrid to negotiate, otherwise nothing can be done". The word passes to the market, for a few more days. Then the field will judge the work of the company, and it goes without saying that the premises are far from good.
