Champions League 2010/2011

i agree with Nalx;better now than in the group stages. Having said that, i don't see us winning the group or qualifying easily.

Originally Posted by M.O.I.

F*CK!
the draw is awful!!
it can destroy all our schedule..
we have 6 tough matches!

its hard to do well sunday-wen/day-sunday against not easy opponents
6 times like that!

and its really important to finish first so as to avoid a 16 tough again..

Well, not really.

We'll have to be careful in Auxerre, but that's it, by being just careful, we should win (the problem will be if we come there by thinking we will win easily). This team will park the bus and hope for counters. Their only thrat is Pedretti, their midfielder who has a role like Pirlo for us. He's their leader, and when he is in fire, he can be amazing, so dangerous for us. But around him, there is no big player, nobody scaring me. In Milan, this game should be and will have to be a formality.

That means potentially 4 or 6 points against Auxerre, something I'm not sure Ajax will do.

Against Ajax, their main player is Suarez, so if we manage to block him, there's nobody around to be a real threat for us.

So, we will have difficult games (like each year in CL of course), but compared to last year, I think we should manage to qualify before the last game of the schedule. Madrid and us should fight for the 1st place.

Oh, and UEFA wants a Germany-Italy opposition ?

A: Inter, Werder, Tottenham, Twente
Inter vs Werder ... Actually, it's not an easy group for Inter, they could be in trouble because Werder can play like if they are the best team in the world in a good day, and Tottenham should be a good team (no experience though).

E: Bayern, Roma, Bale, Cluj
Roma vs Bayern ... If Roma starts the season like they ended the last one, I think they could manage to beat Bayern (I never was impressed by them, IMO, they had a lucky draw/result last season in CL).

And I'm starting to think Arsenal must pay to have easy groups !! Each season, they are in the easiest group of CL, and this year, they are again in the easiest one: Arsenal, Donetsk, Braga, Belgrade. Seriously, there's something wrong, it's not possible to be "helped" this way, I can't remember the last time Arsenal had to play against a big team in the group stage.

Originally Posted by GeoTav

Oh, and UEFA wants a Germany-Italy opposition ?

A: Inter, Werder, Tottenham, Twente
Inter vs Werder ... Actually, it's not an easy group for Inter, they could be in trouble because Werder can play like if they are the best team in the world in a good day, and Tottenham should be a good team (no experience though).

E: Bayern, Roma, Bale, Cluj
Roma vs Bayern ... If Roma starts the season like they ended the last one, I think they could manage to beat Bayern (I never was impressed by them, IMO, they had a lucky draw/result last season in CL).

And I'm starting to think Arsenal must pay to have easy groups !! Each season, they are in the easiest group of CL, and this year, they are again in the easiest one: Arsenal, Donetsk, Braga, Belgrade. Seriously, there's something wrong, it's not possible to be "helped" this way, I can't remember the last time Arsenal had to play against a big team in the group stage.

I noticed that too!

we're always in the group of death, nothing new and we should approach it with a view to winning the group as always.

Inter have a tough group too, though I expect they will win it. Roma's only real threat is Bayern, the others are beatable.

Here is Milan's roster list for the Champions League:

http://www.milannews.it/?action=read&idnotizia=33409

I'm curious as to why Pato and Strasser are on List B. Obviously neither of these guys were left off the champions league roster but can anyone explain to me the difference between the A list and the B list?

I'm going to post this on another thread as well in search of an answer. Thanks

Originally Posted by ACMILAN1983

we're always in the group of death, nothing new and we should approach it with a view to winning the group as always.

Inter have a tough group too, though I expect they will win it. Roma's only real threat is Bayern, the others are beatable.

Now is probably the best time to play Bayern as Robben is out for two months or so and Ribery is too busy with his court case. Looking for Borri to score

You have to be under 21 to qualify for the B list. Pato turns 21 tomorrow. By including him on the B list it means that Milan were able to add an extra player to the CL squad.

It doesn't reflect Allegri's thinking on who should start. It just means that Oddo or Jankulovski are able to tag along for the holidays.

Originally Posted by K77SH C

You have to be under 21 to qualify for the B list. Pato turns 21 tomorrow. By including him on the B list it means that Milan were able to add an extra player to the CL squad.

It doesn't reflect Allegri's thinking on who should start. It just means that Oddo or Jankulovski are able to tag along for the holidays.

And 3 years spent in the club.
I'll try to find again the post I made explaining all that in the summer mercato thread I think ...

our biggest threat now in the group is ourselves, we still need to play the games for 90 minutes and take the opponent seriously.

Auxerre will come to park the bus in Milan in our first game ...
The only problem I see with that is it will only be our 3rd official game of the season when Auxerre will already have played 5 times before this game !!

Added the group stage fixtures to the first post of this thread

shame we didnt get Mexes he would have liked to go back to Auxerre i'm sure!

38500 subscriptions so far for CL !!
Last year, only 22100 subscriptions were sold for CL ...

Since Robinho and Ibra signed, each day, the club sells an average 5000 subscriptions a day.

There is a real enthusiasm around Milan nowadays !!

Originally Posted by GeoTav

Auxerre will come to park the bus in Milan in our first game ...
The only problem I see with that is it will only be our 3rd official game of the season when Auxerre will already have played 5 times before this game !!

Good that they will park the bus in Milan, as Ibra the bus driver will bring them to school. hahhahahaha