Milan - Marseille (25/11/09)

MILAN-MARSIGLIA: I CONVOCATI ROSSONERI
24/11/2009 17.17.00
MILANO - Questi i 20 rossoneri convocati da Mister Leonardo per Milan-Marsiglia:
Dida, Storari, Antonini, De Vito (n°56), Kaladze, Nesta, Oddo, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta, Abate, Ambrosini, Flamini, Pirlo, Seedorf, Borriello, Di Gennaro, Huntelaar, Inzaghi, Pato, Ronaldinho.

Giocatori indisponibili: Jankulovski, Onyewu, Gattuso.

Di Gennaro back in the team while Borriello has a very slight injury and his condition will be evaluated tomorrow.

EDIT: No Janku so that either means Kaladze at LB or we could preferably get Zambro to play LB and Antonini to play RB.

Mystik what are you dreaming?Since when is Kala going to play,the wingbacks will be Oddo and Zambrotta...Have you forgotten Oddo?

LOL I completely forgot about Oddo...no idea why. Maybe cuz I don't play him on PES. Well yea Oddo and Zambro will most likely play, Oddo completely skipped my mind.

i am watching barca inter. inter are laughable really

Originally Posted by Lebanese

i am watching barca inter. inter are laughable really

Love it !!!

“A draw is not enough, that is not the attitude I like from my team. Milan have a great history in Europe and must take that into account. Every time we play, the Final is in our sights.”

Leonardo

Now, you know when Interisti will say such sentence? :

With 2 goals behind it took until the 86 or so minute for the ball to come towards Valdes for the third time. That's poor by any standard.

What? Ambrosini has been one of our best players this season. Gattuso can't cover as much ground as he used to, and he's been nowhere near as good as Ambro (or even Flamini) in the few games he played this year.

I don't think rotation is a problem this week, we just came out of a 10 day rest period. Maybe in a week or two we need to rotate.

I think Borri is critical for this game. If not him, then Pippo. I don't want Huntelaar to start out of pity. Let him prove himself against smaller teams, and then reward him with important games.

Borriello's situation will be examined. Hopefully he could play, but we shouldn't risk him. The season is still long. Pippo can do just fine, if not better (in Europe).

Im hoping Bori can play, he s been a real asset to this Milan side.

Also, i saw Barca manhandling Inter. Its such a shame, they are the leaders in Serie A.
Stats show they currently have the second best defence in Serie A and yet their defenders could do ****.

I say give the Hunter a go, but I am not far off from brk's assessment re the Dutch international....so I'm somewhat conflicted...he needs gametime, but at what risk?

IMO the formation/tactic that has been most effective for us is heavily dependent on the physicality of Boriello in holding up the play, and being available for arial crosses from open play and set pieces....as well clearances from the last 2 aforementioned sources.

Pippo, as honest as he keeps opposing defenders by playing on the offside line, cannot offer the same skill-set, nor contribute in the same way as consistently as a more physical forward...hence me thinking that Hunter should start over Pippo.

One of the reasons I think helped in our loss of points away to Napoli is based on the same situation...too often we conceded posession too easily, when Pippo/Pato lost the ball in the attacking phase, so our defense remained under pressure (as confirmed by the numerous saves by Dida).

Marseille, if I remember correctly, has a very physical backline, which too often eliminates Pippo as a set play/set-up/cross-into-the-box threat...and for me his inclusion warrants placing Seedorf or Pirlo on the bench in favor of a midfielder more willing to fight to regain posession in the middle.

His experience, and knack for being in the right place at the right time though, is a potential game winner, of that there is no doubt. He also has a reasonable (if generally ineffective) work-rate in both offensive and defensive phases of the game...

It will be very interesting to see who Leo starts.

Regardless....FORZA MIIILAN! Let's ensure qualification with a win tomorrow!!!

It's a shame Barca so comfortably beat what is meant to be Italy's best team. I won't bemoan how bad Inter were, because really they still dominate Serie A which we compete in and beat us badly earlier this season.

What I will say is despite the fact that Italian teams are doing relatively well in CL, none are really competitive enough to win it.

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

It's a shame Barca so comfortably beat what is meant to be Italy's best team. I won't bemoan how bad Inter were, because really they still dominate Serie A which we compete in and beat us badly earlier this season.

What I will say is despite the fact that Italian teams are doing relatively well in CL, none are really competitive enough to win it.

Despite the fact that Inter showed to all Europe how they can be pathetic and boring (argh, like most of the people here, I wanted them to eliminate or at least put Barcelona in a kind of crisis ... but by watching them, I almost falled asleep and I decided to watch Fiorentina), nobody seems to have noticed that Fiorentina did it for the first time !!

Bye bye Liverpool, and welcome Fiorentina in the best 16 teams of Europe ...
Now, for us, if we end 2nd, it would be better to have Fiorentina 1st of their group, if we end 1st, it would be better to have Fiorentina 2nd of their group (we can't play against an Italian team in 1/8 and I don't want us to face Lyon this early in the competition).

So Fiorentina showed the way, let's hope that we will do the same against Marseille (and also against Bordeaux for Juventus ... after 3 wins from French clubs in CL 1 month ago, it could be 3 defeats for them ).

Inzaghi going to start according to Gazzetta dello sport. Still I think Borriello deserves to play!

Inter is pathetic, Mourinho is an idiot. All he can say "Well, they're stronger than us". It's a real shame, because whatever he wants Moratti buys it, and he' s this pathetic. He has to realize that he's not caliber of, say, Sacchi to build the winning team with 3 or 4 average players. In fact, in my opinion, he's not even caliber of Leonardo. Most overrated coach in the last 10 years.