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Old 29-10-2006, 21:51   #489

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I didn't read the all the comments. There was too many of them so here are my thoughts and I am sorry if some of this was mentioned already!



I was shocked at the line up that Carlo came up with at the beggining. I swear I could sence trouble comming in with that line up. There was NO pressure on their defence at all. Pippo was totally alone and outmarked, outmuscled and always marked by Inter. It is really not his fault. Seedorf had one of the worst performances of his career in the first half as far as I am concerned. He did pick it up in the second half however and I have to give him that. He put a lot of effort out on the pitch.

As much as I don't want to say this.........Carlo lost the game for us. He totally put out the wrong tactic in the first half, and we paid for it. Inter was mostly all over us. And even though 3 of theri goals weren't up to Inter's briliance then mostly OUR individual mistakes, still the tactics were totally wrong. We saw what the real Milan looks like in the second half, when we play the way we should. It is not right to blame only Carlo as, if the players played a little better maybe the situation was going to be different. Maybe then we were going to hail Carlo's "mastermind", but it did not turn out that way, so we have nothing left to do but say we are unhappy with what he put out there. Inzaghi had nothing against the Inter defence. Carlo.......If you are going to play the X-mass tree, please make it with a strong target-forward who can hold the ball and fight some chalenges.

Another thing...........I have been keeping this inside for a while now but have been running out of patience and I will definatly say it now! AMBROSINI is not nearly a Milan material type of player. I don't know what he offers to our team. I normaly have patience for all our players and never crititize them like this.....but sorry......Ambrosini is horrible. We played with a man less in the first half and the one responsible for that was Ambrosini. He never made ONE thing that had ANY influence on the game whatsoever! The second goal Stankovic scored I would blame on Ambrosini........because the defence was pushed back from their forwards and they were awaiting a cross. The ball got turned inside by Dacourt(I think) to Stankovic who had a lot of time to line one in. If you look closely you would see Ambrosini just jogging behind Stankovic......and when he saw that the ball is actually getting to Stankovic he started sprinting which by then.........was TOO LATE! Well you need to hustle on the field to play. Expecially if you don't have a starting spot an you want one. I am totally dissapointed by him. Everyone else played bad in the first half as we had no ideas of what to do......but Ambro was in the front of the pack and I was really dissapointed.

Their third goal was just a good counter as we did push up right after the start of the 2nd half. Their last goal was a foul on Nesta. Even though he wasn't the one guarding Materazzi, he had a chance of getting that ball. But...the story of the night was that Inter got 90% of the calls their way. As matter of fact the foul that resulted in the first goal wasn't really a foul I think.

The positives............2nd half. I was so pissed after the first half I was already throwing stuff around the house. But the second half performance made me proud. So much grit from our players and they actually looked like the wanted to win after that horrible first half. Gilardino scored what was a briliant goal and that was a huge positive. I think it was again proven that we have a good striking duo up front and Carlo needs to work on that. Oliveira and Gilardino have been looking impressive. We also had a lot of chances to score......I have to say a lot more then Inter. Great display by Cafu as well, as he looked like he was 20 again. What class by Maldini too as he whipped in some great crosses and some hard tackles as well. Just.....the whole 2nd half was great even though we concided 2 goals.

All is not lost and if Milan can play with the type of determination they showed in the 2nd half.......I really don't know if a team out there can beat us. Great come-back, but it really is not enough to beat Inter with only playing for 45 minutes and be absent for the other 45. We needed to play the whole 90 to win, and sadly we didn't do that.
Let's look up to the CL now and get back to winning ways.

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