Comments on: Costacurta: ‘Milan played much better without Leao’ against Atalanta https://football-italia.net/costacurta-milan-much-better-without-leao/ Italian football news, analysis, fixtures and results for the latest from Serie A, Serie B and the Azzurri. Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:54:47 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.1 By: Rosario https://football-italia.net/costacurta-milan-much-better-without-leao/#comment-746493 Wed, 29 Oct 2025 12:54:47 +0000 https://football-italia.net/?p=923436#comment-746493 He is right.
Leao has never developed his game. He keeps making the same errors as he did years ago. Playing ri5ky balls back into his own pen area while it is full of Atalanta players, playing hollywood flicks inside his own half. He is not ri5k aver5e, never quite knows how to hold up a ball and only relea5e it when keeping possession is a priority and too often of cour5e offers nothing out off the ball.
It is important to add that he wa5n’t the only one giving the ball away needle55ly e5pecially in the fir5t half. The entire team did it.
For a 15 minute period in the 2nd half when L.Cheek and Nkunku were on the pitch, Milan looked much better. They were combining well, pu5hing the team further up the pitch, and confidence began returning to players like Fofana, who can regrettably look awful when backs are again5t the wall. Tomori is another one looks like he is playing for the other team. How he is 5till at Milan is beyond me. De Winter needs to 5tart regularly.

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