Lazio v Milan - Feb 1st - 19:30 hrs

With barely a moment to catch our breath, we're plunged straight into action again with a tricky tie away to Lazio.

With the side apparently 'tired' according to Ancelotti and with injuries & suspensions, this could be an awkward encounter. However, Lazio are having an equally tough time with some heavy defeats lately. With the home fans storming a Lazio training session recently, their players dare not let their supporters down again and will find an extra energy for fear of what might happen if they play as badly again.

For us Maldini & Flamini are suspended, while Foggia & Lichtsteiner are banned for Lazio. With Beckham going off injured against Genoa, we'll have to see if he can make it in time to play some part in this match. Plus i'm sure there'll be a few others with bumps and bruises that could miss this match.

Dare we dream that Mattioni could play some part in this game? Maybe miracles can happen and he could be ready for Sunday.

Assuming all are fit and Bonera, Kaladze, Borriello are still unavailable, i'd go with:

--------------------Abbiati------------------
--Zambrotta---Senderos---Favalli---Antonini--
--Beckham/Ambrosini--Pirlo--Jankulovski------
-----------------------Ronaldinho--------------
-----------------Kaka--------------------------
--------------------Pato-----------------------


As for the subs, well take your pick from these players:

Dida, Kalac, Mattioni? Darmian, Strasser, Cardaccio, Emerson, Beckham/Ambrosini, Seedorf, Inzaghi, Shevchenko

I'd rest Seedorf and if both Beckham & Ambrosini don't make it, i'd play Strasser. Should be a good match, lets hope we get the 3 points!

assuming that unavailable players will be: beckham, gattuso, flamini, bonera, maldini,kaladze,nesta, boriello.....

I would rather go with this formation:

abbiati

antonini-senderos-favalli-zambro (antonini is much better on right side)

ambrosini-pirlo-jankulovski

kaka

pato-inzaghi/ronaldinho(but ronaldinho on striker position,same position like inzaghi would play, and not on offensive midfielder position ,which is same position as kaka)

but, knowing carlo, he will play like this :

abbiati

zambro-senderos-favalli-jankulovski

seedorf-pirlo-ambrosini

kaka-R80

pato

..............
1.substitute (around 65.min) = seedorf out, emerson in
2.substitute (around 75.min) = pato out, cardacio in
3.substitute (around 94.min) = kaka out, inzaghi in (ofcourse, it will be too late for inzaghi to score with only 24 seconds left to play)

At the rate our "tired" side is going, I would be happy with a point in Rome.

That said, we should have the class, and form to beat Lazio, even with key players out.

Lets see.

FORZA MIIIIIIILAN!!

I say drop Seedorf, and play R80. Hope Ambrosini is fit.

I hope Seedorf scores a hattrick

beckham is a must !

Originally Posted by OCmilano

I hope Seedorf scores a hattrick

plus 2 assists to please his secret admirer

yeah.. so man city attracted to spend money on this guy at this remaining transfer window

Originally Posted by Peachtot

beckham is a must !

He is injured.

Originally Posted by Peachtot

yeah.. so man city attracted to spend money on this guy at this remaining transfer window

that would be nice. 30 million would surely shut me up, or 3 million, please? And take Ancelotti and Senderos and Emerson please.

The rest I don't mind, including Kalac, Dida, Favalli... I don't mind.

I heard that Mattioni is finally available. He was just registered but I am not sure Ancelotti would dare to play him.

Also, I heard that Bonera is back, so hopefully he would partner with Favalli.

And we definitely should stop playing Janku as a LB. He is a disaster there, yet he is such a gem when he plays LM.

And Favalli should never play LB again either. He is fine as CB, a position that doesn't cripple him due to his lack of speed.

And Senderos should never play. Period. If it was up to me, we should send him back to Arsenal (I heard that we could still that by the end of this month? not that we would do that, but still.) That would save ourselves at least half a season's salary and half a season's nightmare.

Seedorf should not play every match. He seems to still have something in him, and kaka' seems to enjoy and benefit from his presence. But Seedorf is such a lazy ass, unmotivated. I say play him one game out of every 3 and see whether it helps pumping him up. If not, send him away. It is so embarrassing that the No.10 of any team would be booed by their own fans.

Pato should never be subbed. His speed is such a weapon even when he is standing still. I don't get it why he would be replaced (always) by Ronaldinho. They aren't even alike. Stupid Carlo.

Ambrosini seems to be on the downhill, and I miss Gattuso dearly.

What's wrong with Ancelotti? cant' he see all these simple things that are such no-brainers to even amateurs like us? I have always supported him in the past years, but this season I think he's finally lost it.

I hope that we would win against Lazio, a team that always seems to bring us luck whenever we need it. But I suppose that we can't count on that either considering that we just drew at home against a weak team like Genoa (I know they are ranked no.4 now, but still, they are an inferior team) and played with no teeth and no ball which is very humiliating.

Stupid Carlo and Forza Milan.

Originally Posted by Xudong

I heard that Mattioni is finally available. He was just registered but I am not sure Ancelotti would dare to play him.

where did you read that?

Originally Posted by Xudong

He is injured.

ohh no.. my idol being injured. source pls !

I died from laughter when I saw MArek holding his ghand up for offside at one point of the 1st half vs Genova, and he was the one that was disturbing the offside line

But I rate Marek as a midfielder highly as he has tremendous running capacity and can hold the rithm for 90min. And he is a fighter with big heart, but he is not a defender...

We'll see: Abbiatti-Zambro-Senderos-Favalli-MArek-Pirlo-Ambro-Seedorf-Kaka'-Dinho-APto.

Tired side will now play its 5th game in same lineup (90%) and then its Reggina ( Milan II, its an easy one ) and then derby.

We need 3 wins in a row and we are at -5. Its possible, but pleeeease ATTACK LAZIO!! ot the love of god stop being stupid Ancelotti and play man's football. We runs them like a scared old lady...

Also I hope we can play Bonera not Senderos as Senderos is FAR too slow for ALzio tridente, but we'll see.

Lazio in in a very poor form,they are really playing humiliating football,even Cagliari trashed them with 1-4 in Stadio Olimpico.

This is a must win,Inter will not drop points against a weak side like Torino,we have to win this and we can.

Beckham isnt injured,so insert him in your line ups.He will make it because against Genoa he only had some small muscular problems according to Carlo,so he should be there,also Bonera is going to make his comeback i think.

I really hope we win,we always win against Lazio,last year we gave them 1-5 in their face.

Pato do it for us!

Do we already have any ideas about the composition ?

Who will bench ??

I think that he wldn't dare putting R80 on bench again ....R80 saved our ass during the first part of the Calcio !!

Hoping Sheva is useless !!!

Does Carlo already gave reasons about Sheva ??

i was hoping is gonna be a great match against lazio cause after the defeat 2-1 in the copper italia cup we lost so i believe we are going to make revenge of that and i also believe that my boys wont lay a disappointment to me and my club.For it to be much better i would rather like my formation to be abbiati antonini favalli maldini zambrotta pirlo jankulovski seedorf kaka and little pato cause i believe pato is gonna score more goals for ac milan HEROES NEVER DIE