Inter Milan vs AC Milan

Originally Posted by will4li

Well said! but it takes top form and great coordination to press and close all space on the court,and tireless legs also which I think it's no more our superioty any more.

It's reasonable cause we should match ibra's combination of strength and speed. Kalazhe is the best of the 3 on this aspect.It can be forseen that kalazhe will be overmatched, the problem is that our defence exposed him too much ,did not offer enough support(as your post no334 mentioned) .

It takes coordination and organisation to be a good team. Once you have the organisation in place, a pressing game isn't too complicated and if you can manage a game, then you won't be trying to press 90 minutes (which is nigh on impossible). Carlo is failing in all of these points.

Kaladze for me was never in consideration. All season he's been awful, so despite on paper appearing the best candidate against Ibra, that's not the reality and that was known before kickoff.

Originally Posted by Christian

I have no doubts that Pato is better than Borriello, my point is just that against the teams that we struggle against, ei. Reggina and other ultra-defensive teams, we often need some power in the air. We get loads of crosses, but we never really seem to score from them. If you look at Inter the majority of their goals against the smaller teams comes from crosses, because they have Ibrahimovic who's a tower. The results against the smaller teams is really whats the diffence between us and them, and therefor i think we have needed a target man.

I agree on Kaladze. I have to disagree on Ambrosini though, i think he played a good first 30 minutes or so, really good actually, don't forget the awesome tackle he made on a hesitating Stankovic. After that he played bad, and did what he does from time to time, which is to make late tackles resulting in cards and free kicks. After the yellow card it would've been ok to replace him with Flamini, but don't forget that Ambrosini is the only decent header we have, and i think that is why Carlotti decided to keep him in the game. Afterall he played fairly well when he had the ball, didn't throw away any stupid balls, which is something Flamini has done all to often when he's gotten the chance this season.

Looking at the game in retrospectiv, then it's a clear mistake to play Kaladze, but i think the substitutions were ok. Maybe Senderos should've come in at half time, and maybe Inzaghi could've come on earlier, but all in all i don't think it would've changed alot. We lost the game in the first half cause of poor marking from Kaladze. Afterall, we all knew he wasn't top notch as a CB, but noone could've expected him to be as bad as he was.

Fair point, we do need a player of Borriello's qualities, that's something I've said myself for years, but I still doubt whether Borriello's the one to make the difference. Despite being a good player, to me he's like Igor Protti in the past, and not really of the quality that Milan need.

The tackle Ambro made on Stankovic came from his own mistake. As with Stankovic's goal, he didn't stick to his man and lost him, which is why Stankovic was in such open space. Though in his slight defence, Kaladze was no where to be seen on either chance. As for Ambro's power and heading ability, how often do we see him dominate teams these days? Against Inter I really can't remember a single header he won. Ambro

About Kaladze, please look at my response above.

Originally Posted by Mystik

LOL People complaining Dinho isn't tracking back...he's playing SUPPORT STRIKER. Sheva seldom used to track back...nor does Kaka when he plays there. Dinho was probably our best player on the pitch...that's how a real playmaker plays. Haven't seen one of those in Milan for a while...

What people are frustrated about is his lack of effort whenever he loses the ball. It's not a case of tracking back all the way down the pitch, but at least press the Inter defenders or DM's when they're a few meters away with the ball.

Originally Posted by boring

4. Who the f*ck said this team can't run? I saw everyone run in the last 20 minutes when their asses were on fire. It's all about motivation.

I disagree. After Beckham came off we had changed as Pato was free to move more rather than play as the striker. His movement and running combined with Janku and Zambro pushing up more made it appear we were running much more. However, Seedorf, Ambro, Pirlo and Dinho (great on the ball, but wasn't really running madly) weren't moving much more. With Beckham, Pato stayed up front so in midfield we had no strong runners.