AC Milan - Fiorentina (post-game comments)

Here are my comments on the individual performances of each player (no scores, I leave that to the papers )

Dida - Not much to do, but on the few occations he was troubled he looked solid

Maldini & Nesta - For the most part of the game you could have landed B-52's on Milans half of the pitch as Fiorentina clearly had decided to defend with 10 men around the edge of the box I have never seen a game were our CB's had less to do

Cafu - Early in the 2nd half I noticed Cafu talking to Maldini. I suspect he said "Paolo, I'm gonna spend the rest of the game in the attacking 1/3 of the pitch, so see you in the locker room after the game". And that is what he did. And well too

Kaladze - Was IMO the player that impressed the least today. You can't blame his defending, because there was no defending to do. But he could have done more in the attack. I saw very few successfull passes into the box from him (allthough he did a nice tunnel on a Viola player)

Pirlo - Missed a penelty but had otherwise a great game until he was substituted. Precise passes and inventive playing throughout

Gattuso - Played a Gattuso game, kicking at anything that moved. First I thought that he wasn't very impressive, but if it is his job to intimidate opponents to avoid the midfield alltogehter, he deserves 10 out of 10. Fiorentina had 5 midfielders on the pitch and none of them dared to be in the midfield.

Seedorf - Fantastic game from Clyde! When he is in the mood there is simply noone better. He scored twice (first header was a beauty! ), assisted brilliantly (a few nice back-heals) and broke up any attempts by Fiorentina to try not to be a door mat.

Kaka - The assist to Sheva's goal was class. Clearly intimidated Viola defenders to the point of rigor mortis. He had a few attempt with long range shots that failed.

Crespo - First goal was his, second goal was his and then he got to score himself. Crespo has found his place in the team and the right pace. If he continues like this he will stay next year at the expense of JDT.

Sheva - Scored twice and worked generally very hard from a deeper position than I would have wanted. But hey, he scored twice

Rui Costa - came on for a while but didn't find his position and frankly didn't look enthused about playing Viola. I forgive him

Ambrosini - Missed a great scoring opp with his head (just like the one he scored against Lazio with). Wonderful unselfish pass to Clyde for the 6-0 goal.

D'horasoo - His pass that set up the last goal was class. Pirlo quality