{"id":535038,"date":"2019-10-08T12:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonfootball.com\/?p=535038"},"modified":"2019-10-08T12:16:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-08T16:16:07","slug":"report-ac-milan-sack-marco-giampaolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/football\/2019\/10\/08\/report-ac-milan-sack-marco-giampaolo\/","title":{"rendered":"REPORT: AC Milan Sack Marco Giampaolo"},"content":{"rendered":"

AC Milan<\/a> have fired coach Marco Giampaolo after just seven games in charge, according to Fabrizio Romano<\/a>.\u00a0 Giampaolo is set to be replaced by former Lazio and Fiorentina boss Stefano Pioli, who will be Milan’s ninth coach since firing Max Allegri in 2014, and it continues another chaotic year of questionable decisions at Milan.<\/p>\n

AC Milan Sack Marco Giampaolo<\/h2>\n

He was in charge for just seven games, but apparently nine points from seven games aren’t enough for Ivan Gazidis and Milan management.\u00a0 Given that Milan need to make it into the Champions League, it’s not a huge shock.\u00a0 They are already four points outside the top four.<\/p>\n

That does not mean that Marco Giampaolo was given a fair shot, nor was he blameless either.\u00a0 His squad is not great, and many of his new signings were injured on their pre-season trip to the US.\u00a0 It’s tough to build a team when important players like Theo Hernandez, Rafael Leao, and Ismael Bennacer all missing preseason.<\/p>\n

Where Giampaolo lost his job was failing to deal with those problems correctly.\u00a0 He decided to play Hakan Calhanoglu<\/a>, a winger, at the base of his midfield.\u00a0 He tried to play Suso, an inverted right-winger, as his number ten, a decision that has failed spectacularly.<\/p>\n

So Gazidis hit the eject button before things got out of hand, and in comes Stefano Pioli, a cool head, who will put these players in the right positions to succeed.\u00a0 He will have to figure out how to get Krzysztof Piatek<\/a> scoring again.\u00a0 The Polish striker has only found the back of the net twice, both from the penalty spot this season.<\/p>\n

Pioli’s only task is to get AC Milan back into the Champions League.\u00a0 It’s hard to tell if that goal is still obtainable, but Pioli’s job will depend on it.\u00a0 Any failure to qualify and it would likely be the last act for Pioli as Milan boss.\u00a0 The fact that that is the case might say more about AC Milan’s problems than anything else.<\/p>\n

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