Roma-Milan post-game comments

milan what wrong...why lose again..?????
hik..hik..hik....

That's really a worthy try, I guess... let's experiment with Ambro or Vogel to see how they can perform covering the retaguard.

Its Champions League or bust, so need a miracle to save this season.

Originally Posted by Andy Christ

Well, last season we managed to do it. Our form wasn't that great in serie a, but still we were impressive in CL and almost won it. Fact is that in really big and important games we usually manage to get our act together. Let's not forget that our best performance by far this season was against the most difficult opponent...Juve.

our best performance was not against juve!....we did win the game, but we also got lucky. the juve keeper made too many mistakes. if abbiati would have it played it would have been a different story.

at this point why not play mazoratti at RB already. the team isn't doing any better with simic, stam at RB. might as well have the him get experienced for the future!!

Stam simply can't play as a RB, he don't have enough pace and skill to fulfill the tasks of a RB, that's the true, I cannot understand why Ancelotti insists with that 'miscast'!!!

Originally Posted by GRE-NO-LI

Stam simply can't play as a RB, he don't have enough pace and skill to fulfill the tasks of a RB, that's the true, I cannot understand why Ancelotti insists with that 'miscast'!!!

I thought this one was more than obvious but still - the reason why Stam was at RB is because we had Sergio attacking on the left. This is how we play - one back is solid and stays mostly at the back, ahile the other is morte attack minded and spends most of his time going forward and making runs on the wing. If Cafu plays on the right, then we have Kakha/Maldini on the left. Now, however, Cafu is unavailable, so Carlo uses a solid RB - Stam/Simic - and an attacking left one - Sergio. Right now, given the players Carlo has at his disposal, this looks like the best, if not the only, option we have.
The only time we have used both Cafu and Sergio at the same time is against smaller teams that come to the San Siro to defend with 10 men behind the ball. Should we do it vs bigger teams, like Juve for instance, we would get massacred.

That's why we are urgently in need of a REAL and SOLID Right Back, 'cause Stam cannot play on that position, even in a defense minded fashion.

The same 11 players are playing game after game. Against Roma we had no penetration and something needed to be changed. We needed a goal and Carlo brought on one defensive midfielder for another. Unfortunately, Carlo waited until 80 minutes bring Rui on. What on earth is the guy suppossed to do in 10 minutes. Inzaghi had 7 minutes to make a difference.

Watching Milan against Roma we have formation issues. Everything was going through the centre of the pitch, even though Roma packed out the midfield. This was because we didnt have an attacking fullback available. Stam is fine with Serghinio on the other side, but not if Gatusso is in front of him. When a less attacking fullback than Cafu plays at leftback then at least Seedorf gets involved in the build up. Honestly watch the match again and you will see how we tried to 1-2 our way through goal. I love Pirlo, but everytime he got the ball he tried a Maradonna pass over the top. this is partly because there was no one on the right to receive it.

That's right, we didn't see almost any attacking moves thru the flanks.

Stam and Simic are best defenders than "flanks players". I would play with Cafu in the right and Serginho in the left, with the midfielders coming back to support the defensive line.

Brazil plays thus.

What do you think?

With this tatic, in Brazil, we call "retranca" = excessive defense, fear to attack.

I think we need Baresi!!

No, I'm not insane and know he's retired, but my point is we need a player with his organisational qualities and abilities to strengthen the side.

Basically, on the pitch at the moment we don't have anyone consistently doing that (I'm praying Maldini can raise the morale and take this role when playing again). Players like Rino, Ambro, Sheva and others have at times taken this leadership role to inject the side with greater focus and intensity on the match, but none are doing it every match, which results in the side getting sloppy.

At home, our record is excellent and thats usually because the fans are behind the players the whole time, providing that motivation to the players to keep focused the whole time. On our travels, the players usually have inconsistent games as they don't have someone around keeping the discipline and focus. This is where the sloppy play creeps in and the tactical and technical lapses.

Sheva isn't a bad captain, but we need a general to rally the troops, which he isn't at this point on a regular basis.

At this point I hear shouts to buy a lot of players, but unless they can gain instant respect from all the other players and are able to organise and keep the discipline in the side, I don't see how it will necessarily improve us.

Against Roma the team seemed quite lost really. We dominated the game mostly, but the usual lapses in the tactical play cost us.

Going forward we were quite poor compared to normal and rarely looked like we'd do much.

On the positive, Seedorf did play a good game.

12 points is quite a lot. Never give in, but its fair to be realistic about our chances.

FORZA MILAN!!!!!

Regardless of the result, this has to be one of the most boring Milan game ever in the last 5 years. I’ve also never seen so many wrong passes from Milan players in one single game.

The team lacked creativity and ideas. They were simply unable to break the 5-men midfield formation that Roma displayed. Ancelotti got it wrong in the first place, he should’ve known that Roma will try to shut Pirlo down and they did with Tomassi, Aquilani and Perotta harassing him right from the beginning and it cut out supply to the front broke down the offense even before it got near Roma penalty box. He tried to redeem it and balanced the midfield by bringing Rui Costa and Max later in the game but Roma already got the advantage of frustrating Milan.

The offense is too predictable, get it to Seedorf or Kaka who will then pass it out to the left for Serginho to whip a cross to the box.