Milan - Catania (18/09/10 - 20:45)

---------------------------Abbati--------------------------
--Anyone--------Thiago Silva----Nesta--------Antonini-----
--------------Boetang----Pirlo----Seedorf-----------------
--------------------Robinho----------------Ronaldinho----
--------------------------Ibrahimovic---------------------

Our tactics.....
1. Defense to Pirlo
2.Pirlo to defense
3.Defense to Pirlo
4.Pirlo to Ronaldinho

Originally Posted by M.O.I.

we need a f* DEFENSINVE medfielder!!!or someone playing there! omg!!

just wait till flamini comes back

Originally Posted by #3Forever

---------------------------Abbati--------------------------
--Anyone--------Thiago Silva----Nesta--------Antonini-----
--------------Boetang----Pirlo----Seedorf-----------------
--------------------Robinho----------------Ronaldinho----
--------------------------Ibrahimovic---------------------

Our tactics.....
1. Defense to Pirlo
2.Pirlo to defense
3.Defense to Pirlo
4.Pirlo to Ronaldinho

Don't forget

5.Ronaldinho to Seedorf
6.Seedorf to Ronaldinho
repeat till they lose the ball.

YYYYEEEEEEEEEEESS......(offside??) YEEESSS

goallll pippo

nice ball by ronny

Ill take that offside goal.

Originally Posted by Ryo

Don't forget

5.Ronaldinho to Seedorf
6.Seedorf to Ronaldinho
repeat till they lose the ball.

Very true. At least now we have raised the tempo even though the goal was offside:P Bad first half. Lucky to still be in it

Omfg!! We totally didn't deserve that goal....... but.......
See what happens when Ronnie gets the space!!!?!?!
We should have been providing that space since the beginning of the match!

Too bad for Catania.

Pippo slows are game up though. We need R70 and Abate will give energy we need to this team.

Its hard to watch this team though. The coach reallly doesnt have any tactics.

Good job, ronnie.

we need a ball winner,we stare at them everytime they get the ball,and we loos so much time..the only one trying to mark without gr8 success is pirlo..

boateg has to mark more seedorf too ofcourse..

Originally Posted by OCmilano

Pippo slows are game up though. We need R70 and Abate will give energy we need to this team.

Its hard to watch this team though. The coach reallly doesnt have any tactics.

No tactics? NO TACTICS! We are the most heavily drilled team in the league! What world are you on buddy. Defense goes to Pirlo, Pirlo passes back and so on and so forth. After a while Pirlo will pass a long ball to Ronaldinho and than we will see what our smiling genius will do this time, most likely a pass to Seedorf. No tactics? HAHAH

our biggest problem is the midfield....Seedorf, pirlo, KPB all doesn't defend well enough. Maybe we should put in gatusso in place of seedorf or pirlo. Its too unbalanced now.

Agreed. Prince adds dynamism, and pulls opponents out of position, like Ambro used to be able to do. The only problem is that we're not actually exploiting it because our passes are too slow and too calculated, by the time the pass comes in, the opponents already realize what we are trying to do (pull them out of position) and have corrected their positioning already.....

Having Ronnie play at a tempo up will rectify everything, but that all depends on whether or not we can make sure he's only facing one defender instead of 3 :P
Seedorf and Antonini need to play the triangles a little less closer to him, otherwise we're just going to crowd the left wing up and no crosses will come in. I say Seedorf should pull back into the middle a little bit. Antonini to overlap Ronnie is enough.


As for Prince not defending well enough, actually he was doing alright up till he got that ridiculous yellow card. We were controlling the midfield and actually stole the ball on several occasions. Once we lost the goal, midfield was all over the place for around 5 to 10 minutes.
We have to mentally improve in those situations.