Ruben Amorim’s choices are still a matter of debate, as he made a couple of questionable selection decisions in the defeat to Bournemouth.

This morning’s edition of Il Giornale (via MilanNews) reports on AC Milan’s 3-0 defeat to Bournemouth. They spoke ,of an ‘excessive turnover’ by the head coach Amorim, which led to the defeat at least in part.

It’s clear that with such a busy schedule and four injured players, some decisions were absolutely inevitable for the Portuguese coach; it’s also true that, in an emergency situation in itself, the Rossoneri manager found himself in a bit of a bind on certain matters.

Two obvious issues

The most debated issue in the run-up to the Bournemouth-Milan match was undoubtedly the choice of Goncalo Ramos’s replacement, who remained in Milan with an injury that fortunately isn’t expected to be serious.

Last week, to rest the Portuguese, Amorim chose Francesco Camarda , who had been designated by the coach himself in the summer as the first available replacement (and, as it turned out, the only one) for Ramos.

The Italian started against RB Salzburg and his performance was rather anonymous – which is perfectly reasonable for an 18-year-old – and yesterday Amorim decided to field Alphadjo Cisse as a centre-forward instead.

Regardless of the nature of the match that ensued, the 20-year-old looked like a fish out of water. His willingness and fight are commendable, but it’s clear that his characteristics don’t identify him as a lone striker. In one fell swoop, this created a difficult atmosphere around Camarda and nullified Cisse’s qualities .

Yesterday, no Milan player put in a good display. However, it must be said that the clear difficulties of Pervis Estupinan and Ruben Loftus-Cheek emerged once again. The former offered a confused and imprecise performance from a technical point of view:.

For the Englishman, however, the role of attacking midfielder or second striker, as Amorim sees it, doesn’t seem to be cut out for him after another soft approach to a game that required grit.

The magnifying glass is on these two players because they represent the emblem of some of Amorim’s repeated choices that aren’t working and which will need to be remedied. And this doesn’t mean that Amorim is making all the wrong choices, but he is being let down by them.