Milan was disoriented, dysfunctional. When 2019 was over, another year without weight and clarity was summed up, another half season in the middle kingdom. Then he came. The weight of Zlatan Ibrahimovic and his 95 kilos cannot be emphasized enough. It is not possible to paint the picture of today's Milan without giving him the brush.
At San Siro yesterday, Juventus took the lead when Adrien Rabiot put 1-0 up, and Cristiano Ronaldo lifted the ceiling and let the starry sky to 2-0. Every now and then everything was over. The reigning champions reigned again, extending their lead at the top to ten points. It was over.
From eleven meters
When the referee found a penalty, Milan gave a free ticket to a lost match. Wojciech Szczesny went one way, as usual Ibrahimovic turned the penalty into others. There were no fanatical fans in the stands, no throats that burned when they fired for a receipt. It did not matter. Milan's momentum was in a creator and director with the letter "Z" embroidered on his chest.
Zlatan immediately forwarded the ball to Franck Kessié and a controlled shot later Milan acknowledged. Their number 21? He was replaced with an injury that haunts, but with enough deep imprints in the match that Milan would finish the job.
It was without Ibrahimovic on the pitch that Rafael Leao and Ante Rebic ran home three points, but it is with him in the team that you have the mentality and the power to come back and score three goals in five minutes.
Won everywhere
The man who is said to take the self before the team has taken so many gold with his team to get in the story transcends him. He has been networking for four different decades and has stayed at the world top ever since the small steps in Ajax and the big steps in Juventus.
Now he was behind a crazy turn, paving the way for a win that does not solve any long-term problems but which gives Milan job peace and faith in the future, whether he stays or not.
And regardless of whether Zlatan has met Ronaldo for the last time, whether this was his last dance in the limelight, we can only thank you for the show. It wasn't his best, but maybe not his last either. The show ends when he says.