Sound the alarm bells, two if by sea one if by land, use whatever kind of cheesy phrase you want, but Milan's season is slipping away. A 1-0 defeat to Palermo has now allowed Inter Milan to close the gap that AC lead by to a mere 2 points. Once again, Milan showed a lackluster effort across the board, with little to be happy about. Palermo are a respectable team, and deserved the goal they scored. I would say that Milan are better and should have thrashed them, but at this point I'm not really sure if they are as good as I think. Ibra was suspended, and although sometimes he does more good then bad on attack, the team looked lost without the large Swede up front. It seems his presence does a lot more then I previously thought. With the intra city match against Inter looming in the coming week, the next match that Milan has must absolutely be won. There are are only a few weeks left in the season, and to see it slipping away to the hated cross town team is the painful.
On an interesting note, ever since the news surrounding Berlusconi has died away, so has the winning ways of Milan. Something really has to be said about this, and not rule it out to simple coincidence. Maybe that with all the pressure on the owner the players were able to go out and perform with no worries, or vice versa and thrived under intense pressure. The task to reigniting the fire or coming up with new motivation falls to Allegri the manager. This is what he was brought in for, and if he is able to right the listing ship in the coming weeks, a contract extension is in order. If he fails, then the well used manager axe will be swung again. The Rossoneri world is on eggshells for the next 2 weeks, so until next time,
FORZA MILAN.
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