Milan CL Discussion

Ah i see, ok Capo Ultra ...

Originally Posted by GRE-NO-LI

Not a hard task, for sure... but make no mistake: without the needed reinforcements, he will not go beyond the group stage.

Thank you Captain Doom for the insight.

Originally Posted by zlatanov

I know this is the case especially for the russian teams and Shakhtor with their Rinat aka Roman of the Ukraine ... not sure about Dynamo though. As far as I know they have a brazilian centerback and forward - don't quote me on this - but the vast majority of the players are ukrainians.
I just wish Inter were meeting Spartak in a slightly better form though, cause for the past several years, SPartak hasn't been the team that won what - the first 8 champinsips of Russia in a row. Still, they seem to be coming back to their good old days as now they are also in the CL.
That argentinian guy, Cavenaghi, does he still play for them? I remeber them getting also Mozart, theBrazilian mid who used to play for Breschia, right? The ukrainian Kalyninchenko (sp?) had a pretty good WC. Not sure about Egor Titov though cause he got banned for dopping for 2 years I think ... he was Spartak's most influential player, I think.
They are a good team, not at their very best in terms of what Spartak M was 5-6 years ago but still will create lots of problems, especially to the bunch of primadonnas Inter are.

Dynamo played in Turkey with 4 unkrainians underlined:
Shovkovsky, Markovic, Sablic, Rodrigo, Kaddouri, Yussuf, Correa, Rotan (Verpakovskis 80'), Husiev (Gavrancic 64'), Rebrov, Shatskikh (Belkevich 89'). They also have several brazilians and other internationals on the bench. Shatskih plays for Uzbekistan, Verpakovskis for Latvia. Correa is a new and good Brazilian addition, rumors are that since he is under 21 he can be naturalized to be able to play for the Ukr. NT.

Spartak is better this year. Kavenaghi played 87 min in the last qualifier on Wednesday. Mozart played too on the pitch not on a piano :-).
Titov is back and is available, was pulled into the Russia's NT by Hiddink (spell?).
CSCA is in great shape too. I think CSCA and Shakhtar have good chances to advance, just by looking at their group and performance. Dynamo had a superb start of the season performance-wise and should be able to punch Real again just like last time in 99.

Speaking of internationals, have you seen a roster of the NT of Georgia, Italy and Ukraine's opp-t in the Euro-08 qualifying group? They have had 0 (zero)
players who play in Georgia, that is the NT is comprised 100% of internationals.

Tomorrow night Milanistas i will present you our first opponent, AEK fu..ing Athens, today unfortunately i had a lot of work to do and now is 3:14 in the morning.

I merged several CL threads and made them into this one: General Discussion of Milan in the CL.

Nice draw!

Since I've been seeing equations around here lately:

Group H = Top (Pot1 + Pot4) + Bottom (Pot2 + Pot3) == EVEN DRAW!

* Top = highest coeff in Pot


So what are Chelsea and Inter complaining about???

Last night after the draw Galliani called RM director said: now our position has changed, we offer anly 10m for Ronaldo. If Inter plays in Moscow winter they have no chance at all.

Originally Posted by ukrainian_CA

Speaking of internationals, have you seen a roster of the NT of Georgia, Italy and Ukraine's opp-t in the Euro-08 qualifying group? They have had 0 (zero)
players who play in Georgia, that is the NT is comprised 100% of internationals.

wow, Dynamo have deffinitely changed their philosophy from the Lobanovsky days of the club ... knew that they sort of followed in Shakhtor's steps but had no idea that 2/3 of their starting 11 are foreigners.
As for Georgia NT, I guess this should be expected ... something very similar happened to Bulgarian NT a little before and after WC '94 ... this is good for the whole team as players gain international experience and can only get better by playing with Europe's top footballers on a regular basis. Many georgian intern. players play their football in Germany, some in Holland, and a certain player in Italy too

When do we play next?

Originally Posted by Rapini

When do we play next?

Serie A starts on Sept 10, I believe. As for CL fixtures, I took thefollowing from the official site:

Below are Milan’s fixtures in Group H of the Champions League:

September 13: Milan-AEK Athens
Sebtember 26: Lille-Milan
October 17: Anderlecht-Milan
November 1: Milan-Anderlecht
November 21: AEK-Milan
December 6: Milan-Lille

Easy matches for our team. Yes!!!, I'm gonna see Milan on Athens Olympic Stadium. I was waiting for this time for so long time. (On 1994/1995 CL period I was too small to go to see Milan :P). Giorgos, Athens is a wonderful place to live and much richer from Thessaloniki.

Easy but not so easy; giveh that Milan is (potentially) not as poweful as last year, we'll have to reconsider our position.

In any case, all matches are difficult in CL.

I expect Gila to start scoring with the opponents we are facing in group stages

Originally Posted by Stezagud

yeah thats a nightmare draw for Sofia, i imagine their manager was watching that last part of the draw whispering to himself "please not A, please not A, please not A, please not.. DOH!"

At least their fans get treated to some of the best players in Europe.

You have not idea how right you are, that's exactly what has happened
Pretty easy group for us, but we have to be careful, you know, Serie A starts on September 10th, and our first game in CL is on September 13th We will lack practice

We have the easiest group eh?

Dangit!

I'm always afraid of our games against the so-called weaker teams. In Serie A, we usually loose points against weaker teams instead of those so-called strong teams. Got me worry a bit though.

On second thought, the group stage will be a good experience for Gila to actually score. Come on mate, if you can't score against Lilie, then, I'm not sure if I could give you more chances. Go for it!