Also Caldara ends KO: now it is full emergency in defense

It's raining in the wet at Milanello. Difficult to use less banal expressions to describe the moment that Milan is going through. To the difficulties on the field, to the disqualifications, to the delays and to the retreats are added the injuries, not only those of Calabria and Conti going back to the challenge against Udinese. It is news of the evening the physical problem, yet another, of Mattia Caldara, who left the retreat at Milanello on crutches for a knee problem.

DEFENSE EMERGENCY - Now Gennaro Gattuso has to deal with what is a real accident. For Monday's game against Bologna, Milan cannot count on four defenders. There will be no Conti, Calabria and Caldara, absent due to injury, and Romagnoli, who will have a disqualification day. At the decisive moment of the season, when the fourth place has momentarily escaped and the rivals try to escape, Gattuso will not be able to afford the luxury of choosing and at San Siro he will field a defense with the counted men. Abate, Zapata, Musacchio and Rodriguez will play at the door of Donnarumma, the only ones available at the moment.

GROUP - Milan had already had to deal with injuries this season. It had happened at the turn of the matches against Juventus and Lazio in the first round, when Gattuso was forced to field Abate in the unprecedented position of central defender. What struck at that stage was the strength of the group, the desire to react to the difficulties fielded by the Rossoneri who succeeded in that period of alternate fortunes to find the momentum for the run-up to fourth place, then escaped. In such a negative period for Milan, the hope is that the difficulties can be a glue in the Rossoneri dressing room to make up for the lack of verve and determination shown in the latest opaque outings.