{"id":332400,"date":"2025-12-05T17:16:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:16:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332400\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T17:16:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T17:16:13","slug":"corsport-a-crippled-team-milans-two-biggest-limitations-exposed-in-lazio-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/332400\/","title":{"rendered":"CorSport: A &#8216;crippled team&#8217; &#8211; Milan&#8217;s two biggest limitations exposed in Lazio defeat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AC Milan\u2019s Coppa Italia defeat to Lazio highlighted the truly irreplaceable member of the starting line-up: Luka Modric.<\/p>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.corrieredellosport.it\/news\/calcio\/coppa-italia\/2025\/12\/05-145054861\/vittoria_e_rimpianto\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Corriere dello Sport<\/a> report, there are obvious question marks about where Lazio might be had they not been hit with a transfer ban, preventing them from making three or four new signings to raise the level of the team and the squad.<\/p>\n<p>They played a \u2018great match\u2019 last night, and were on top for all the game barring the start of the second half. Zaccagni, Guendouzi, Gila and Isaksen were the best, but Romagnoli also did some good things to limit Milan.<\/p>\n<p>Milan\u2019s issues<\/p>\n<p>The paper asks: \u2018what is Milan without Modric , nor a central striker worthy of playing such a crucial role?\u2019 They were a \u2018crippled team\u2019, forced to attack with two playmakers accustomed to exploiting other spaces, in this case Rafael Le\u00e3o and Ruben Loftus-Cheek, with Pulisic only playing at the end.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"762\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/SnapInsta.to_588625630_18550723213018468_3843632571985352565_n.jpg\" class=\"wp-image-318473 has-webp\" alt=\"Milan players before Lazio game\"   style=\"aspect-ratio:1200\/762;max-width:1200px\"\/>Photo by AC Milan<\/p>\n<p>This combination of \u2018limitations, subtractions and suspensions\u2019 resulted in a match that offered no thrills in the first half: just a lot of effort and a lot of running. It improved significantly after the break, as Milan persistently pressed for the lead, but <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/player-ratings-lazio-1-0-ac-milan-de-winter\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">with little effectiveness<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sarri is starting to make sense of the season, while Allegri has exited one of the three competitions his side are competing in. Neither Elliott nor RedBird Capital seem <a href=\"https:\/\/sempremilan.com\/pellegatti-mercato-pointless-no-signings\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">willing to risk more money in January<\/a> to try and move closer to a complete squad, which could generate further issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AC Milan\u2019s Coppa Italia defeat to Lazio highlighted the truly irreplaceable member of the starting line-up: Luka Modric.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332401,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-332400","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-soccer","9":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332401"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}