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first things first: ratings:
(gk):abbiati 7 saved a one on one with fava but unfortunatley rebound went to udinese player, made no mistakes and didn't chicken out of anything either, nice performance
(lb):kaladze: 6,5 some nice dribbles, some times left his defenders in trouble, and his crossing was poor, but did ok
(rb):pancaro: 6 nothing spectacualr except for one shimmy, average game from him
(cb):colocinni: 4 terrible, nothing else to say, on this performance leaving milan in the near future, three times he gaved away the ball in his own half, twice he got away with it, but no the third time replaced at h-t by nesta who was calmness its self 7 for him
(cb):costacurta: 6 lack of speed brutually exposed at times, but performance was ok.
(dm):ambrosini 7: two goals but didn't impose himself on the middle, also hit the post at the end, but two goals speaks for itself.
(rm)broochi,7 full of running, a lil bit of skill but not much, def not a starter, but a graet squad player
(lm)seedorf :6,5 didn't do as much i hoped he would, that said didn't do much wrong either
(am)rui costa: 6,5 better from him compared to recent form, always wanted the ball, and didn't waste it, even if he wasn't deadly with it.
(lf) serginho 7, two free kicks, once saved well. the other a goal, looked dangerous on the left some good crosses come poor ones, but good effort.
(st)tomasson 6,5 made some good runs but didn't get the ball enough.
replacements in 2nd half:
kaka, n/a looked dangerous at the end and one great tackle saved from an udinese player saved a certain goal but not enough time on the pitch
INZAGHI, 6,5 nearly scored a 'hand of god' nearly scored the second he came on and nearly got injured aswell! promising come back from him, its great to have him back!
man of the match, hmmmm no real standouts today so mom imo ambrosini for nearly getting a hat trick!!!
in the first half, udinese pressed us like crazy and targeted colocinni and this resulted in a goal as well as severely disrupting our passing game, we took the lead early with a well placed ambro header, but 2 mins later they equalised from a set piece free kick, which di natale scored from, this was the fault of kaladze for making an unessecary foul, and for pancaro for not picking up his man.
udinese fully deserved thier h-t lead.
in the second half, nesta's arrival transformed our defence and we played better, inzaghi's return gave the team a lift and we soon scored from a serginho cross(i think) which pippo headed before de sanctis and ambro headed into the empty net, then virtually all milan pressure, serginho went close with a free kick before doing so near to the end. in the final few minutes we threated with the amrbosini post, a kaka shot raides down the wing and some graet defending by udinese.
this sets up a great return leg in the frulli, milan deserved the victoy, but it was only fair that udinese weren't further behind than they are!
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schumacher: world champion 2000-2004
ferrari: constructor champions 1999-2004
milan: serie a champions 2004
milan: super cup champions 2004
ny rangers: champions once in last 60 years
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