It will be the classic Juventus-Milan Cup final Italy, 2017 / 2018 edition that will be played, as usual, at the Olympic Stadium in Rome on Wednesday 9 May. It was on the Roman court that last night, Milan succeeded only after more than 120 equal minutes in the white and 14º kicked penalty, to get the better of a strong Lazio, and to reach the final Juventus, which a few hours before had prevailed sull'Atalanta, thanks to a penalty kick scored by Pjanic so bissando, just as happened between biancocelesti and rossoneri, the result achieved in the first leg.
Fourteenth final for the Devil therefore, the fifth against the Bianconeri. A classic that is repeated after two years, when the Rossoneri, then coached by the substitute Brocchi, had to surrender, only all'over-time overwhelming superpower made concrete dall'attaccante Juventus Morata.
This year Milan is presenting itself to contend for the prestigious national trophy in a state of increasing form. Like two years ago, the technical guidance of the Rossoneri club is entrusted to a substitute technician, one of those coaches who removed his team's "uniform" only on paper and for reasons exclusively personal. In reality Gennaro "Ringhio" Gattuso, among the skepticism of many, managed to recover his Milan, which obviously will not undress a shirt that like few other cases in Italy, seems sewn on his skin. Substituting the technical guidance of the Rossoneri, instead of disappointing Montella, he had suddenly found in his hands a sort of "off-the-top carburetor", game at the beginning of the season to stand between the top positions of the standings, but found at some point of the season, very far from any possible ambition. Showed
intelligence Gattuso, entering a locker room, certainly not very serene, and he did it with the humility and willpower that distinguished his great career as a footballer. He joined the group, becoming one of the group, a driver. His coaching palmares clashed heavily with how good he had managed to be a footballer. Experiences far from exciting before driving the Palermo and then Pisa, where in the past season had failed in the miracle of keeping the Tuscan team in Serie B, certainly did not put in his favor. The beginning, as it was logical, was not encouraging. He had even gone down in history for giving the 15ª day, the first point of the Serie A at Benevento, after the Samnites had beaten all the records of the top flight, having lost the first 14 races in a row.
Gennaro Gattuso has been "put under" as they say in these cases, becoming day by day, one of the group, at the service of the group and the results are clear. The achievement of the final of the Italian Cup, is only the last momentary act, a hard and stubborn path undertaken by the technician who has succeeded in a first psychological work, to restore confidence and consequently strength, to a team that was destined to abyss.
He took Milan in his own way Gennaro Gattuso, becoming, even from the sidelines, the indomitable soul and warrior. Fight and suffer with his men Ringhio, jump and wiggles in front of his bench, regardless of the weather, as happened yesterday in Rome, where like his colleague Inzaghi, with the snow in his hair, he seemed to play the game. The final exultation, at the end of the exhausting lottery of penalties, which ends, ironically, a laziale of blood, but in the Rossoneri shirt like Romagnoli, is the emblem of the deserved revenge of Gennaro Gattuso, who at the end of the hard match , accompanies his men as a leader to thank the many Milan fans who flocked to the Olimpico to support the Devil.
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