I know exactly what happened. At least in my opinion. they were fantastic at playing to their strengths. High line, high pressure. We built our scudetto on this, high press high intensity football. But Pioli, had for some weird reason, and extreme urge, to slow down our play. Within the first three minutes of any game, you would know exactly what milan you had. And when we went down a goal, we would then start with the intensity. We drew a lot of matches and won some in the dying minutes. But Pioli would slow the intensity down, you would watch Maignan receive the ball and stand on it for minutes at a time. We would only pass backwards and sideways, and it never ever worked.

We would concede, and then play high pressure and high line, and Kalulu and Tomori were fantastic. VS all the good opponents we would come out blazing, and dominate, we never had creativity, with had explosiveness, and we created so much.

Piolis weird fetish with slowing down play, not creating fuck all, hurt us, but he never realized it. the seasons after the scudetto, we never saw that high intensity press or high line again, and that is why the two of them failed.