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Originally Posted by Jeff
Just one quick response to rt9: You can play crappy and win. In fact, some will argue that that's what make a team win a Serie A: you can win even if you don't deserve it.
To me, whether you deserve it is like whether you play beautifully.
We deserve a win, but we draw (we play beautifully, but we draw).
We doesn't deserve a win, but we win (we play ugly, but heck we win).
To me, winning, even if it's ugly, is a win.
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Based on your assertion, however, there are many games when Milan actually deserves winning (still makes me remember the first game when we play against Bologna with so mcuh aggression) and yet we lost.
Deservedly lost? Heck no. Did we lose? Yes.
Which matter? Winning.
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No Jeff, it's not only playing beautifully, but it's about being able to compete, being on the same level as our opposition. Juve have always played crap football, create nothing, and score on a free kick or corner kick in the 89th minute and seal the game--that's fine. But they are a solid team, they may not play beautiful football, but they can compete with any team in the world without being outplayed.
We, on the other hand, have been outplayed in a lot of games. Inter played us off the park IMO. They created so many chances in the derby that they deserved to win the game---it wasnt like Adriano's handball was their only chance that game. What about the Bremen game? THat second half was atrocious, they played us off the park in our own stadium---they ran, they hustled, and they scored 2 goals within minutes of each other and knocked us out. This is what I mean. A team with no solidity, no consistency can play beautiful football at times, but usually even with referee errors, we still deserve to lose a lot of games this year.