Allegri has not been long sighted. The unpopular decision to exclude Inzaghi and El Shaarawy from the Champions League list is proving to be a boomerang for the coach, who risks having only Cassano for the attack in Wednesday's game at San Siro against Viktoria Plzen.

Pato is grappling with yet another muscle injury, Robinho is still ko and to make matters worse the young Kingsley Boateng is also injured. At this point only the young Comi is left, but the hope is to be able to recover Ibrahimovic. Otherwise, the coach of AC Milan would be forced to come up with something, such as a change of form.