‘Can’t make any more mistakes’ – Fonseca hopes for European cure as scrutiny mounts

AC Milan are back in Champions League action this evening against Slovan Bratislava, and their search for one key thing continues: consistency.

Corriere dello Sport (via MilanNews) this morning has a front page which piles the pressure on Paulo Fonseca, reading: ‘He can’t make any more mistakes. Fonseca under pressure’. Indeed, Fonseca’s Milan are described as a ‘case to study’.

While in the league the team cannot find the consistency that they need fight for the Scudetto, in the Champions League they actually have the real possibility of finishing in the top eight, despite defeats against Liverpool and Bayer Leverkusen in the first two games.

Before making any premature calculations, however, the Rossoneri first have to face Slovan Bratislava this evening. They are bottom of the bottom of the class in the Champions League and have failed to collect a single point after their first four games, conceding the most goals too.

Will this Milan, so unstable and indecipherable, manage to get back into the top eight teams in Europe? They will battle their former midfielder Juraj Kucka and the one who is defined in his homeland as the ‘Slovakian Guardiola’, namely Vladimir Weiss.