Milan doesn't stop anymore! Gattuso's team also beat Sampdoria and achieved a double objective: to grab sixth place, occupied by the Sampdoria, and reinvigorate hopes of a Champions comeback. Something unthinkable until a few weeks ago but now, waiting for the Lazio (tonight at the Olimpico against Verona), is "only" 7 points away, still an important gap but which with 13 races available is certainly not unbridgeable.
The point is to understand how long this phase of grace for the Rossoneri will last because to date they are among the best in form in the entire championship. The merit, ça va sans dire, goes almost entirely to Gattuso, capable of transforming one of the worst AC Milan players of the last 30 years into one of all respect, capable of fighting tirelessly and also offering excellent football. A cure that has certainly not gone unnoticed, so much so that by now the chances of reconfirmation have reached very high levels and nobody, absolutely nobody, questions his skill as a coach anymore.
"Since I played I've carried the label of being only heart and grit but this is bar chatter – explained Gattuso. – These guys needed just a few concepts, we brought something new and the results are there for all to see. The important thing is that everyone continues to work like this, then we'll see how the season ends. Until May I will be the nightmare of these guys but they should know that they are giving me great satisfaction”.
Yesterday's match was a real watershed and not just because therein Sampdoria he was 3 points above the standings: up for grabs were the residual hopes of annoying those who are fighting for the Champions League, the real goal at the start of the season. Winning was therefore necessary and Milan succeeded through an important test, the result of a start to the boarding that put the blucerchiati in a corner and which then, on balance, decided the match.
La first big break it came from a penalty (Murru's arm) but Rodriguez, unlike what he did in the Cup, wasted badly, but then, a few minutes later, there was a right-footed volley from Bonaventura to seal the 1-0 Milan (14'). A result that would never change despite numerous goals for the Rossoneri (above all Calhanoglu's crossbar) and a final in the Sampdoria, who came close to drawing with Caprari. It would have been a joke, a bit like in Benevento on the day of Gattuso's debut. That day the Champions League zone was even 18 points away, today they are 7: and this, regardless of how things end up, is already a good victory.
