UCL SF 2nd leg : Milan-Manchester Utd.

where have all the Man Utd fans disappeared to?

a great lesson in football tonight,
and the opponent was the best english premier team.

Celtic
Bayern
Manchester
now Athens

this time we came out from qualification
exactly as pool, 2 years ago
...call it "scaramanzia"

Originally Posted by ukrainian_CA

Double standards, Zlatanov?
The guy uses Italian and you praise him,
the other used Greek and you tried to ostracize him. Hey, be consistent ))

It was simple Italian...that everybody uses. Should he start warning people for saying Forza ?

I guess it's not too late to say CONGRATULATIONS

What a performance. Typical Milan ! Deserved to win and deserved to play in Athens.

As for Manchester. ... i'm so sorry Stez for your team but they deserved to be humiliated tonight. I'll dare saying this was the worst team performance in this year's CL, even worse than Roma at OT.
Milan can be blamed for ManU pathetic display but i still think it was mostly ManU players themselves that were awful tonight, not Milan's ( brilliant) defence that forced them to play as they played.
Ronaldo, Fletcher, O'Shea, Carrick, Vidic and especially Heinze looked like scared little children touching a ball for the very first time in their lives !

I'll be in Athens. The first time ever i'll watch Milan live at stadium, and what a match it will be.

Originally Posted by zZ[-_-]Zz

where have all the Man Utd fans disappeared to?

well it's bedtime for them in the theatre of DREAM

Originally Posted by kastriot

Well TONY you`re cristal Ball was wrong .....and you`re loosing you`re betting abilities since you`re joined MM. You can not be Objective anymore, you simply love Milan to much,though you try hard to hide it!!!

I was pretty close with my last prediction before the match ( but still too far)

I predicted 2:0 at halftime ( i guessed it right) but then i said it will end 2:1 , and i was soooo wrong here.
ManU could have played 90 more weeks and they wouldn't have scored !

Originally Posted by Tony29.

I guess it's not too late to say CONGRATULATIONS

What a performance. Typical Milan ! Deserved to win and deserved to play in Athens.

As for Manchester. ... i'm so sorry Stez for your team but they deserved to be humiliated tonight. I'll dare saying this was the worst team performance in this year's CL, even worse than Roma at OT.
Milan can be blamed for ManU pathetic display but i still think it was mostly ManU players themselves that were awful tonight, not Milan's ( brilliant) defence that forced them to play as they played.
Ronaldo, Fletcher, O'Shea, Carrick, Vidic and especially Heinze looked like scared little children touching a ball for the very first time in their lives !

I'll be in Athens. The first time ever i'll watch Milan live at stadium, and what a match it will be.

Do you think you can give me a hand with getting Tickets!!! i`d be great full

Did anyone sneak in with a picture of CR7 after the game?
I bet my freaking ass that basturd was crying

i'll post the videos i took of the game in a few days.

wow what an emotional night

I am very proud of everyone of our players... We will not make the mistake of istanbul in Athens.. FORZA MILAN!!!!!!!!!!

P.s how much are CL final tickets average?

Originally Posted by kastriot

Do you think you can give me a hand with getting Tickets!!! i`d be great full

It will be very hard, i won't give you false hope, but you have my word i'll use all my powers to get an extra ticket for you !

My friends are from Solun, and they also had to pull their connections to get 4 tickets...

I'll try mate !

Wow i had a thought of going to athens for the game but Tickets alone are $2662 roundtrip from LAX... Yeaaaaaaaaaa TV.....

Originally Posted by Giorgos

Nothing special: "He is happy that he will come in Greece, he will see Rivaldo and they have to face a great team like Liverpool". The players generally belive that they are better than Liverpool but they don't forget the final at 2003 but they want to repeat what theam made in 1994 against Barca.

2005 i guess not 2003.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

Before I get on to us, I want to give my regards to Man U, who never gave up. They made the tie special with entertaining play and were a credit to the football world.

Tonight was absoloutly genius!!! This was easily our BEST performance of the season and played to near PERFECTION! We weren't just good, we were unbelievable, and to say I'm proud would be the greatest understatement! At the end, I was near tears, which is very, VERY rare for me. FIRST for praise have to be the fans! This year we've not always been the greatest of fans, but for this match, prior, during and post match we can be proud of the support we gave. No one, and I mean NO ONE can say that the fans weren't something special.

First half was superb, simply brilliant from the team. We not only pressed back United into their own half (argubly the best team in football this season), but we couldn't have dominated them more. Chance after chance, with two simply superb goals from Kaka and Seedorf. We dropped off the pressure at the right times, pressing United as they would try to attack us. At the end of the half, United had only one good chance, well saved by Dida.

Tactically the second half was very important. There was no chance in hell that we could keep up the pace of the first half, so we dropped back and pressed United. We played a superb counter game to United's waves of attacks!! A few sloppy passes were made, but there was very little threat posed from United overall, and we are the reason, not them playing poorly. We gave nothing to them, physically dominated the game and pressed them brilliantly. At the time United were forced to push with everything they had, we played it the Italian way and pressed in our final third of the pitch. Do NOT make the mistake in thinking we were pushed back, we tactically dropped back to allow United no room to play. You want to know how brilliant this was by us? United's attacking players often had 3 players hacking away at them when they posed any kind of threat, and 90% of the time we came away on the counter with no problems!

Player rundown:

Dida - The opposite of last week. Only had one real save to make, but he was always comfortable, and was very confident in his decision making.
Nesta - A wall, simply a wall
Kaladze - The other half of the wall, his CL experience was massive
Oddo - Excellent, defensively no mistakes at all and never let Heinze forward.
Janku - I've been pretty harsh on him this season, and he's almost never performed in the big games, but in both legs I couldn't ask for more.
Ambro - A rock, whilst Gattuso was a rabid rottweiler tonight, Ambro was huge for our midfield and provided incredible stability
Pirlo - A massive game from him. A few sloppy passes in the second half, but there's no doubt how important he was for our attacking moves today.
Rino - A MONSTER! This man is a lunatic, there's nothing more to say. He pours his heart into our matches and today was amongst his greatest performances EVER in what can only be described as an amazing career. I remember seeing him when he first joined us, NEVER did I think I'd see the day where I'd be calling him one of the greatest bal winners in history. He almost went too far at the end with Scholes, and Carlo was smart to take him off. He was symbolic of everything in our performance today!
Seedorf - Another massive game. I forgive him for everything bad he's done this season! Keep it up for 1 more game Clarence!!!!
Kaka - I have nothing more to say than he is our Golden Boy. He has been huge for us this year, dragging the side out of the dirt and taking us to the CL final. HE IS NOW A LEADER IN OUR SIDE!
Pippo - Probably the least active of all the players, but he didn't have a bad game and was a handful for the United defence. He almost scored a couple of times too.
Cafu - Not much to note. VERY important he came on as Rino would have probably got himself sent off otherwise
Gila - The boy came big in this match. Great sub by Carlo, not only scoring a great goal (though Man U defence went to sleep), but he held the ball up front which was a necessity at that point.
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agree with everything here. The substitution by Ancelotti to bring in Gila was massive because it does wonders for his confidence. It's just what we need going into the final - a confident striker.

Gattuso will be remembered as a legend at Milan long after he is gone in the vein of ...well, there was no other player like him as far as I can remember

This game proved one other thing for Milan fans - Kaka will retire at Milan. There is no doubt in my mind that after the emtions, the expression of love shown to the fans and vice versa, that there should be any doubt of Kaka's departure for Real Merde-rid.

Originally Posted by Mystik

It was simple Italian...that everybody uses. Should he start warning people for saying Forza ?

"simple" and "everyone uses" were generalizations which went too far and became misleading and false. I do not use that "simple" Italian, am I to be ostracized too? take it easy, dude

I was just teasing him. I can care less after such a game!