To cap off a dismal display against Bari, Ibrahimovic received a straight red card following a lunge on a Bari player. After his dismissal, i noticed that the Milan game really improved. There was no more a 'Henry'(Thierry Henry in his days at Arsenal) figure on the pitch in which all the play was directed at. The Milan players worked for each other a lot more and finally a goal arrived. Another two might even have been added if not for the persistence of bad luck.
Ibra has certainly attained a 'Henry' status at Milan in which all his team mates have that 'instinct' or better still, tendency to pass to him than to other team mates. When with the ball now Ibra is slow to think and loses the ball easily while trying to do some virtually 'impossible' moves with the ball. His 'Henry' status has not made things easier as he is most times with the ball in counterattack situations in which he eventually terminates the effort of his team mates.
His offside statistics now is something that worries me. He is always offside one way or the other as he is easily beaten by the opposing defenders in the offside trap.A three match break will once again, give him that rest he is always clamouring for.
The final part of this hidden blessing could come out of the fact that once back, we could see the Ibra that we knew in the first half of the season, ready to spearhead Milan's quest for the scudetto! GO IBRA! FORZAMILAN!

I liked Henry - Ibrahimovic parallelism. I hope for the best, and good rest to Ibra. We definitely need him.. but the fit one!
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