19 Yi-League Championships, 7
European crown
Champions, six Ballon d'Or winners, and local legends such as Maldini, Nesta, and Inzaghi have played here - for the younger generation of fans, it's a great place to be.
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All the honors that were once won have become unattainable myths. Stadio San Siro, the Promised Land of glory, has hit its biggest low in 30 years after the 10/11 season, when it celebrated its 18th Serie A Gold Cup.
The team is in financial difficulties and had to sell the stars in the lineup, because of the poor strength of the account can not attract top players to join, poor performance and often have to change the manager before the lineup, such a vicious circle let AC
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From kicking in twice in three years
European crown
The final of the continental alliance became the seventh consecutive year of absenteeism.
European crown
of the top middle division teams in the Boxing Day League.
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The 19/20 season started with four defeats in seven matches, which cost Marco Giampaolo, who had been on the job for less than three months at the time, his job, and this time it was a coach named Stefano Pioli who took over.
Pioli's soccer career was a joke - he was one of the most highly touted Italian center back stars, joining the Champions League at the age of 18!
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Pioli's career-long injuries kept him out of the national team's favor; his retirement to coaching hasn't been much better: Pioli spent the 16/17 season as an international
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coach when he started the season with 12 wins in 16 games and was once favored to have a chance to lead the team to overthrow the
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He was finally fired after a seven-game winless streak (2 and 5 losses).
Traditional giants with glorious histories that have been sinking in recent years, paired with head coaches who have had highs and lows in both their playing and coaching careers, the only thing they have in common is that not many people are optimistic about them anymore.
in the end
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And Pioli made an unexpected comeback under these circumstances--
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After finishing sixth in the league in 19/20, the same as in the past few seasons, and second in 20/21, their best result in nine seasons, both Çalhano?lu and Donnarumma, who were the main stars of the team in the 21/22 pre-season, left the team as free agents, with the former even going to the reigning champions, Internacional, without a signature.
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Falling out with the former owner. Most people think
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The good performances, even if they weren't short-lived, were hard to sustain after sending away two starters without replacing them with a real star, and Pioli's relationship with the
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The team, however, hit those doubters hard with their first Boxing Day title in 12 years.
Today, we're going to look at the tactics Pioli used in the 21/22 season. How did he manage to lead this unheralded team despite being short (two big players gone) and short (Ibrahimovi, the previous season's goal-scoring king? started only 11 games due to his age and injuries)
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The team regained the Boxing League title that had been lost for more than 10 years? Was this miracle a result of overwhelming strength or a combination of good timing and good fortune?
Spread out Pioli this season in
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Putting out a formation, you'll see that his 4-2-3-1 is so standard that it looks like it was copied out of a soccer textbook: center backs with a decent range of movement, wing backs who are actively involved in the attack, a center of defense that can attack and defend and is physically capable of doing so, flanks that are fast and able to cover up for the wingbacks, attacking midfielders who are capable of passing, carrying, and shooting, as well as a high center back who is tall enough to help the team keep the ball in the air.
Pioli may look conservative in the formations he puts out, but he is actually a very open-minded coach. While maintaining the functionality of the players in a traditional 4-2-3-1, he is also flexible enough to incorporate modern soccer thinking, using a number of variations to maximize the functionality of each player.
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Not a team that likes to control the ball in the center of the field. In the 21/22 season, they ranked 8th out of 20 teams in the league in terms of touches in the midfield and 13th in terms of touches in the backfield (while they had the 4th and 3rd most touches in front of goal and in the penalty area respectively). Overall, the ball possession was only 54.2% (also ranked 8th in the league), and the number of passes made and the success rate were only in the mid-to-high end of the league.
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The Pioli are not a good possession team either. With a low possession and passing success rate, the Pioli do not favor the passing game as much as other powerhouses do, and are instead looking for efficient, quick decisions.
