Milan - Bologna (Game Comments)

[ilgenio]

Milan

1 Nelson Dida
2 Marcos Cafu
3 Paolo Maldini
31 Jaap Stam
24 Vikash Dhorasoo
8 Gennaro Gattuso
22 Ricardo Kaka
21 Andrea Pirlo
27 Sergio Serginho
11 Hernan Crespo
7 Andriy Shevchenko

Subs:
17 Christian Abbiati
5 Alessandro Costacurta
4 Kakha Kaladze
23 Massimo Ambrosini
10 Manuel Rui Costa
20 Clarence Seedorf
15 Jon Dahl Tomasson


Bologna
1 Gianluca Pagliuca
3 Alessandro Gamberini
17 De Souza Texeira Juarez
30 Valentin Nastase
18 Andrea Sussi
20 Stefano Torrisi
4 Christian Amoroso
19 Leonardo Colucci
10 Tomas Locatelli
6 Theo Zagorakis
11 Claudio Bellucci

Subs
12 Andrea Pansera
14 Jonatan Binotto
2 Daniele Daino
8 Federico Giunti
13 Massimo Loviso
32 Ciro Capuano
23 Marco Ferrante

[ilgenio]

Giunti on the bench for Bologna :eekani:
Peachtot must be very pleased with that :devf:

[SHEVCHENKO 007]

Come on MILAN 3pts today.

AC MILAN 3-0 BOLOGNA

SHEVCHENKO 2
CRESPO 1

FORZA MILAN

[ACMILAN1983]

A little late :tong:

We have started brightly with Sheva so far.

With Serginho at LB, clearly our intention is in using wide areas effectively

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vady]

2' SHEVA HEADER

Milan immediately press forward, as Serginho delivers a delicious cross from the left for Andriy Shevchenko who heads just wide.

[ACMILAN1983]

Serginho crosses for Crespo, but its too high

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vady]

Cagliari 1 - 0 Fiorentina
11´Esposito

Reggina 0 - 1 Lazio
10´ Cesar

AS Roma 0 - 1 Messina
12 ´ Zampagna

[ACMILAN1983]

Kaka has a shot! blocked!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilgenio]

Dhorasoo cracked a superb 25 yard volley into the net but the goal was disallowed for an alleged foul by Dhora on Locatelli :(

[ACMILAN1983]

Sheva had a great ball from Dhorasoo, but miscontrolled!!

Dhorasoo has a long range goal disallowed!! :mad:

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

Kaka falls in the area....no penalty

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[kris]

we are loooking fabolous, Dhorasoo scored a goal, but the yellow clad Juventini disallowed it for some reason we will never know.

[ACMILAN1983]

Its all us so far!! Bologna are all defence, but we need the breakthrough!!!!!!

Kaka, Crespo and Dhorasoo (playing superb) build another attack, but Bologna hold out

Kaka also had a shot blocked on the line

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

PS - Zebras take 1-0 lead :mad:

[ilgenio]

Neat interchange of passes between Crespo and Kaka in the box but Kaka's shot was deflected away for a corner

[ACMILAN1983]

WTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! BOLOGNA 1-0 UP Locatelli!! :mad:

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[m1ke]

what are milan playing at?

[Vady]

28' Milan are desperately unlucky to be behind here.. they have dominated play from the word go... but there was no doubting the quality of Locatelli's finish!! Great exchange of passes with Zagorakis too.

[ilgenio]

27' Milan 0 - 1 Bologna :mad: (T. Locatelli)

Pirlo lost the ball in midfield, Bologna played some neat passes and a cheeky backheel by Zagorakis into the box was coolly slotted home by ex-Milan boy Locatelli :(

[Vady]

0 - 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wtf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

Vady, its 1-0, if your following Eurosport they've made a mistake

Were attacking a lot!

Colucci gets yellow

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilgenio]

0 - 2 !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Wtf !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Nope. It's only 1-0 down at the moment. Eurosport got the score wrong :wallbang:

PS: I'm watching the game

[ACMILAN1983]

Were trying to play a passing game, but Bologna are having none of it

We must get back into this match

Our performance has gone downhill since going a goal down

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

Crespo knocks the ball out of Sheva's path who was free in the area

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

Sheva tries to get a shot off but its blocked

We aren't using the wide areas as well now

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilgenio]

Sheva limped off the pitch and was replaced by JDT. Let's hope it's nothing serious :(

[ACMILAN1983]

Serginho had an effort, but its deflected out for a corner

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hitmannq8]

sheva got subbed out for tomasson :(.. i hope he's ok

watching milan in their last 3 games play is depressing, they are holding the ball quite well but they're creativity is absolutely terrible.. watching them play pisses me off, we better find our form soon

[m1ke]

shev had to be carried down the tunnel :( :( :(

[ACMILAN1983]

Were trying to simply force our play a game it seems, we won't get anything if we blindly keep trying to force our game!

Gamberini gets yellow

this match is becoming a disaster :(

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Bayman]

Problem is the fvcking 2 striker thing.

Crespo gives absolutely nothing to the game. We are basically playing with 10men. We need on fast dynamic creative player instead.

[ilgenio]

Sheva's foot is heavily strapped, looks like some ankle injury :wallbang:

[hitmannq8]

watching fking Gattuso attempting to shoot or cross or even pass the ball makes me sick, i could do that better than him.. he just wastes so much balls

[mange]

Well no surprises so far... Milan has the possesion and dominates the game but still struggles to create real goal scoring opportunities and then as always nowadays "BAM!!" the other team gets a chance and they make the most of it. So we are down again... This is becoming a really frustrating pattern...

Now Sheva is injured and subbed aswell. Well if he is gone then... sigh... Since we didn´t sign Gilardino during January we are desperately awaiting Pippos return.

Sorry, for being a bit negative, but I just saw Sheva again and it looks bad! The situation as it stands right now with the injured strikers and the already big gap in terms of points to Juve really makes worry...

We are currently without bite

[ACMILAN1983]

pirlo assists Tomasson, but its just wide

I think we need half time to come to try and organise things here

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

HT!

We must improve. Simply put, with sheva out, things are as hard as can be, but we have the talent to get the result here!

The side can't keep trying to force things, PLEASE tell me Ancelotti learnt this lesson last week!!!!

Also, the side has lost its solidarity. I hate to say it, but it seems that those who said Stam has affected this are right :(

Still, can't give up, if we do, we really are losers!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[mange]

Juve are up, goal scored by Olivera. Now the gap is 8 points, let´s hope second half brings us another outlook. Being 8 points behind and with Sheva & Pippo out, relying solely on Crespo/Tomasson looks quite scary. F uck.

[ilgenio]

Milan 0 - 1 Bologna [HT]

Milan started well, having the lion share of the possession and sprayed some neat passes. Dhorasoo scored a perfectly legitimate goal but that ****** De Sanctis dreamt up an alleged foul by Dhora on Locatelli and disallowed the goal.

Milan were then hit by the curse known in Italia as "The Revenge of the Ex", as ex-Rossonero Locatelli scored a nicely constructed goal in what was Bologna's 1st attack of the game.

Milan struggled after Bologna's goal and to make matters worse, lost top-scorer Andriy Shevchenko in what looked like a serious ankle injury :wallbang:

It's gonna be a tough 2nd half...

[HOVO]

i think it's our midfield.....kaka, pirlo and serginho are absolutely sleeping today. especially pirlo.

[ACMILAN1983]

Second half is beginning!

Lets get some goals!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Vady]

46' Crespo with Milan's first chance of the half.. it looked as though he had lost possession when he slipped over in the box, but somehow he managed to hit the ball from his prostrate position, looping it into the grateful arms of Pagliuca!!

[ACMILAN1983]

Crespo has the first chance, but it goes to Pagliuca

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Warro Bantan]

Should I even bother to ask where is Rui Costa in all this?

[ACMILAN1983]

Pirlo has a freekick saved!

dhorasoo misses a great chance!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Warro Bantan]

Come on Milan....lets score...wake up Carlo...put on Rui...for whom? I really dont care, just as long as he gets on the field with enough time to make a difference...

This is too important a match for us to lose...worse at home.....

[ACMILAN1983]

Pirlo wonderfully through to Tomasson, but its wasted

Kaka has an opportunity, but its not going in

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[D-Elect]

how about this?:

rui costa

crespo kaka'


kaka can also play als striker right? last season he played couple of games as a striker.. and he scored in those games..

come on milann:(:( FORZA MILAN! have faith!

[Vady]

52' Dhorasoo is brought down on the edge of the area by Locatelli, who earns a yellow for his troubles... free-kick in a dangerous position...

50' Kaka with another opportunity for Milan... you have to feel for the reigning champions. The quality of their build-up is unparalleled, but the end product just isn't there today

[shevagol_7]

Serginho steps over it...PIRLO! Hesitates...THEN SHOOTS! DEFLECTS OUT RIGHT OFF THE WALL! CAFU! SMASHES IT!! TOUCHES OFF AMOROSO AND...OOOOOHHH! Whistles just wide of the far post...so close to an equaliser.

[ACMILAN1983]

Cafu had a shot deflected just wide!!

Were getting close, but we must get the goal!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilgenio]

Gattuso out, Max in.
Good move by Ancelotti, we need Max's aerial threats from setpieces :hopefull:

[ACMILAN1983]

Juarez gets a yellow card

Ambro in for Rino, I assume were gonna try to use his heading abilities

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Warro Bantan]

How about the abilities of Rui Costa.....wow...I sound like a broken record....this is too annoying.,.is Carlo blind to the abilities of our #10?

[ACMILAN1983]

Rui for Kaka, your wishes come true Warro

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ilgenio]

Kaka off for the lateral pass master, Rui Costa!
Now you'll see more passes to the flanks

[Goirre]

Rui in! about time! Come on RUI!!!

Still plenty of time to change this....FORZA MILAN!!!

[shevagol_7]

Now would be a good time for Tomasson to prove he doesn't belong on the bench.

[ilgenio]

Max has a goalbound header cleared off the line by Zagarakis! :wallbang:
It's just not our day :cry:

[ACMILAN1983]

Zagorakis saves Bologna as Ambro closes in

COME ON!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hitmannq8]

fking Telelatino decided NOT to put the second half for milan-bologna for some reasons.. fking fags

[ACMILAN1983]

Cafu has a shot saved by Pagliuca.

This isn't looking good tbh

Giunti in for Amoroso

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

juve 2-0 up

this sucks!

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[almilan]

seriously worried but hopefully we can get 2 late goals like we did earlier in the season against them, we have to at least get a draw and hopefully atalanta can equalise

[hitmannq8]

i want to punch carlo

[ACMILAN1983]

Giunti has a long effort.

things are not looking good

WE MUST IMPROVE, THIS IS NOT SATISFACTORY

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

Dhorasoo has a shot saved

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hitmannq8]

this sucks

and now we're without sheva for who knows how long.. we're screwed.. and the scudetto just disappeared..

[almilan]

how much time?

[Billy_Montreal]

Juve plays Bologna...plays like Crap yet still gets points from that last minute non-existent free kick. WE play like Crap as we are doing today and widen Juve's Gap....
What a shame...

Come on RAGAZZI

[SteVen]

We ruined the whole season today, as for Serie A, IMO.
As far as I read, we played really badly and did nothing to remind Juve that we are title challengers. Too difficult now for us to overcome this 8-point gap...
And stop complaining about Juve because they have proved to be worthy of their place and have fought and won every single match! 21 games are not a small number to claim that they have been helped too much from the refs...

Even Roma today won 3-2 from 0-2 down. The teams try and win on the pitch. We have failed to do this for 20 days now. So sad.

[ACMILAN1983]

5 mins extra time

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Atalanta pull one back

[ACMILAN1983]

Juve win 2-1

Ambro gets yellow

FORZA MILAN!!!!!!

[Goirre]

what a shame, really.....there are still many matches to go, but it is kind of pointless to hope Juve to drop points if we can't even win our matches to start with.....having said that, I still believe in the Scudetto

!!!FORZA MILAN!!!

[ACMILAN1983]

FT! we lose :(

January has been disastrous for us really. Lets look toward February.

We can't give up yet, but things are very, VERY difficult now

[ilgenio]

It's over!
The game and our scudetto hopes :cry:

[Gipson]

Game Over!
We lost and Juve won, i think that 8 points gap is too much...and Sheva :depress:

[hitmannq8]

hope berlusconi and galliani give the boys a lecture..they have played absolutely appauling in the recent games.. and from the beginninng of the season, all they kept saying everytime they got a bad result was "its all in preparation for spring, the season is still long.." .. well guess what? IT IS SPRING, and we're playing like ****..

ffs this game pisses me off, and dont any of u ppl come back saying this is just one game only.. its now like foking 4 games, messina, livorno twice, and bologna.. dont say this is just an episode or some crap like that.. we obviously have a problem.. we also have probs scoring.. and plz dont recall the coppa italia game cuz it wasnt the same players who played..

[Bayman]

Our play is all unorganized "try and error creativity"....

I'm calling for what I always called for:
A rock in central defensive midfield and a REAL creative offensive player who is dynamic, fast (like Donadoni, Savicevic) who can't just put the ball left and right with an occasional long ball but instead can crack up a tight defense.

[almilan]

bad day 8 points is still manageable if sheva is not seriously injured

ill open up a post game thread

[Lippi]

They can go and F* them selves, i wonder if they know what f* **** they are representing. All of them, only Vikash show some class otherwise it was a shame wathcing them today.

[martin]

crespo has been crap lately n same goes for tomasson, bayman is rite, against lil teams 2 strikers r ineffective cuz 1 doesnt get used at all, so we playin with 10 man. n our play isnt organized, we jus cross the ball n hope for the best

[Warro Bantan]

I am watching Atalanta fumble against a solid Juve team, when the dreaded news window showed what I did not want to see, Milan 0, Bologna 1.

I don’t know who Milan is fielding in the starting 11, but I do know that Carlo has picked a team that he thinks is the best 11 to face Bologna.

Juve are mostly all over Atalanta, the team that knocked them out of the Italian Cup…Del Piero is on the bench, and Nedved is out…and the Turin based team is not missing a beat….Milan are missing Nesta, but surely Billy and Paolo should be able to halt anything Bologna had to throw at us, but some how Locatelli managed to score.

The goal Juve scored was a beaut, one time from a through ball from Emerson, and Olivera one-timed it, over the onrushing keeper and into the net….with Kaka and Pirlo, Sheva and Crespo, why cant we do the same vs Bologna? :dconf:

Why does Rui Costa continue to languish on the bench, yet play in the Italian Cup with all the skill and intelligence of a starter? I guess he cant seem to please Carlo, yes, whom I blame for our loss against Livorno, and now, who should be the scape-goat in this current debacle? :dconf:

How might the tone of this missive change if Milan were to score now….and at the half, there has been no update, so I know that Milan haven’t scored, unless I missed the equalizer while shining my son´s shoes….well, lets log on to the net to see what livescore has to tell me, as well as my fellow milanistas on Milanmania…..

Its half time, and we are losing at home….just great. :pchate:

I have just reviewed the starting line up….Serghino…”he who tackles not”, is starting over Rui Costa….what a joke. :yuck:

The posters are saying how well we are playing, but to give up a goal….to an away team just dying for an excuse to defend…hmmm not good….then I read that Sheva, one of our most reliable scorers, is carried off on a stretcher….to be replaced by a player that cant buy a goal…JDT….this is a patent disaster…at least Juve have not scored again… :dconf:

In my honest opinion, Milan lost the scudetto race last weekend, with the pathetic capitulation to Livorno…Juve have too good a team, too good a coach, to give up the points we need to catch them. This weekend’s potential result will see us completely out of it, even if not mathematically, knowing what Juve have in terms of influence over Refs….its more likely that Chelsea will surrender their huge gap, than Juve lose enough points for us to catch up…and that is only possible if we keep winning….which as today´s result is looking, is very unlikely. :moan:

We have half an hour to go now, and hope is ebbing… :sigh: while I am not seeing this match, the Atalanta / Juve game isn’t doing anything to bring my hopes up…we need to score 2 unanswered goals, but in order to do so, we need more creativity than Ivan can give us, in the form of a certain Portuguese maestro…

Speaking of maestro…in an act harkening back to days of Imperial Rome, il emperor Capello has introduced Del Piero to thundering applause from the traveling Juve supporters…
It was a shout of almost equal magnitude that made me look up from my lap top to see the little update window showing what I least wanted to see, that one of our former players, Locatelli, had put one in on his old club…

Time is the enemy now, time and the desperate defending by the Bologna players..who, having achieved their aim of scoring one goal, have retreated into a defensive shell I am sure.

What a way to start a Sunday morning….I wonder if I am being punished for not going to Church with my wife and kids….?

20 minutes to go… :r7:

I am back from dropping the wife and kids to Church…and we have lost another match we absoloutley couldn’t afford to… :broken:

For this season, the scudetto chase is over, but long live Milan.

[Bayman]

Problem is we have no other really creative player apart from Kaka and he suffers under the burden to do it all alone.

These are the luineup's of former/current great teams:

Massaro
Donadoni Boban Savicevic

Morientes
Raul Zodane Figo

Drogba
Robben Lampard Duff

Eto'o
Ronaldinho Deco Giuly

Apart from Kaka we don't have anything that can match these teams creative zone (marked)...absolutely nothing. And to add to that, our defensive midfield is inferior (at least not beter) to these teams.

[MIRZA]

What can I say????
If we continue to play like today our chances to win Squdeto will be very small.
But you guys are very nervous, I know that we played very bad, but all great teams have their bad period. We can't win always.
I'm also very disappointed, but that is football, you must sometimes lose...
It will be better soon....
FORZA MILAN!!!!!

[Billy_Montreal]

[QUOTE=SteVen]
And stop complaining about Juve because they have proved to be worthy of their place and have fought and won every single match! 21 games are not a small number to claim that they have been helped too much from the refs...
[QUOTE]

Really...wow..that really came out ...please show me how.

Was it the valiant effort against Milan?
Was it the valiant effort against INter in which they got away scott free on a Adriano take down?
Was it the Bologna Match when Pagliuca was ready to hit the ref for that terrible call?
Please before posting know what you are talking about...