Booing Donnaruma or giving him applause is a problem.
In the UEFA Nations League semi-final, where Italy lost 2-1 at home to Spain, Donnarumma experienced a magical scene: some fans who also came to support Italy, some of them would be crazy provocative and make harsh boos every time they took the ball, while others used the best goodwill to try to overcome the negative effects of the boos with applause.
If you were an AC Milan fan, would you not hesitate to boo Donnaruma in the San Siro? In a national team game, Donnarumma actually played an away feeling on his doorstep, and this kind of "counter-attack" from the fans of the team is probably extremely rare in the home history of the national team.
Before the game, the media of all parties seemed to have already tacitly accepted that the main goalkeeper of the national team would be wildly boycotted by the fans of the team, and all the celebrities also expressed their positions for this purpose. Liccari, a journalist who covers major matches and the national team for the Milano Sport newspaper, called on the audience not to boo Donnarumma, "The disappointment and anger of the Milan fans is understandable, but don't boo the players tonight. Donnarumma represents the national team, which lacks respect for the fans who support the national team on the spot. ”
The boos and applause of the stands are also regionally distributed, and the boos come more from the north-south stands where the ticket prices are relatively cheap, that is, the stands just behind Donnarumma, at a glance, their age structure is relatively small, and people have to suspect that they spent 10 yuan to scold Donnarumma. Before the game, extreme fans put up signs outside the hotel where the national team was staying, saying that "Milan City will never welcome Donnarumma", and they said and did the same. The applause from the stands came more from areas with relatively high ticket prices, their age groups are generally older, and most of them are dragged by the family, maybe they just want to support their European Cup heroes.
Donnarumma was also unlucky, as he caught up with a national team match scheduled at Milan's San Siro Stadium. If the Italian Football Association follows the practice of recent years, it will not easily return to Milan City, because the last national team game in San Siro was the disastrous Italian vs. Sweden, a nightmare that domestic footballers and fans do not want to remember. Although the national team never lost in San Siro, since then, superstitious Italians have stayed away from the city of Milan until San Siro applied to host this year's European League, and Italy's strength caused Donnaruma to crash into the muzzle of the gun.
In every sense, San Siro was supposed to be Donnaruma's home. Came to Milan House at the age of 14, made his first-team debut at the age of 16, was named the best goalkeeper of the Serie A season at the age of 22, helped Milan qualify for the Champions League after 7 years with excellent performance, Milan fans watched him grow from a thin hairy boy to a man who stood tall in the sky, but red and black fans found out how much affection he had invested in him at the beginning, how deeply he was hurt, Donnarumma's seemingly loyal behavior but finally left in freedom was regarded as a betrayal.
Italian star Capello commented: "Donnarumma's choice to leave Paris Saint-Germain made him look ungrateful to Milan and he should have handled it better based on what the club had given him and his family in his youth. Even AC Milan president Scaloni, who has always spoken more gently, also had a slight taste of ridicule, "If some players make their choices, I can only wish him good luck, as long as you find a good replacement in advance." Looking at Menion, I am so glad he chose Milan, just as I wish Donnarumma the same pleasure with his own choice. ”
Donnaruma is not without controversy, and the nicknames "Dollarumma" in the Western world and "Money Dodo" in the Chinese world are not in vain. As early as when he represented the national youth team, he was treated by fans with money, and he was repeatedly insulted by south stand fans in the club, so when there were fans in The European Championship this summer who took out euros to satirize him, it seems that he has learned to treat him with a smile instead of secretly wiping tears like in the past. But this time it was different, perhaps he had never experienced the kind of squalor of being an enemy by the fans of the "team".
It can be seen that his heart is also fluctuating. To be fair, Italy's two goals conceded, Donnarumma is not too directly responsible, but just a few minutes after the first goal, he faced the opponent's long-range shot that was not too threatening and directly staged the "butter hand", the ball fell off his hand and slammed heavily on the goalpost, Bonucci quickly broke the siege, and the Italian international goal escaped the disaster. Throughout Donnarumma's career so far, there have been few mistakes of this type, and perhaps only Milan's last goal conceded in the 2018 Coppa Italia final can be compared to that of The then 19-year-old Donnarumma, who pounced on Mandzukic's feeble header directly at Benatia's feet and delivered an "oolong" assist.
In this game, Italy exposed more of a central defender reserve problem, replacing Chiellini's starting bastoni did not play well, two goals conceded from his side of the leak, the second half Of the chiellini came out to calm the scene. The performance of the two sides in this battle is the same as that of the European Cup semi-final, and it is also Chiesa who single-handedly breaks through. Only that time the Italian defense resisted, and this time it lost.
But Donnarumma's problems can not be underestimated, one is the pressure brought by the aforementioned off-field, the other is the competitive factor, the reality is that his continuity of appearances in Paris is still not guaranteed, Mancini chose to continue to trust him unconditionally, but before next year's World Cup, the Italian coach will definitely want to have a goalkeeper who can play at the club.
Author: Little Five (from San Siro)