AC Milan - Fiorentina (post-game comments)

Here are my comments on the individual performances of each player (no scores, I leave that to the papers )

Dida - Not much to do, but on the few occations he was troubled he looked solid

Maldini & Nesta - For the most part of the game you could have landed B-52's on Milans half of the pitch as Fiorentina clearly had decided to defend with 10 men around the edge of the box I have never seen a game were our CB's had less to do

Cafu - Early in the 2nd half I noticed Cafu talking to Maldini. I suspect he said "Paolo, I'm gonna spend the rest of the game in the attacking 1/3 of the pitch, so see you in the locker room after the game". And that is what he did. And well too

Kaladze - Was IMO the player that impressed the least today. You can't blame his defending, because there was no defending to do. But he could have done more in the attack. I saw very few successfull passes into the box from him (allthough he did a nice tunnel on a Viola player)

Pirlo - Missed a penelty but had otherwise a great game until he was substituted. Precise passes and inventive playing throughout

Gattuso - Played a Gattuso game, kicking at anything that moved. First I thought that he wasn't very impressive, but if it is his job to intimidate opponents to avoid the midfield alltogehter, he deserves 10 out of 10. Fiorentina had 5 midfielders on the pitch and none of them dared to be in the midfield.

Seedorf - Fantastic game from Clyde! When he is in the mood there is simply noone better. He scored twice (first header was a beauty! ), assisted brilliantly (a few nice back-heals) and broke up any attempts by Fiorentina to try not to be a door mat.

Kaka - The assist to Sheva's goal was class. Clearly intimidated Viola defenders to the point of rigor mortis. He had a few attempt with long range shots that failed.

Crespo - First goal was his, second goal was his and then he got to score himself. Crespo has found his place in the team and the right pace. If he continues like this he will stay next year at the expense of JDT.

Sheva - Scored twice and worked generally very hard from a deeper position than I would have wanted. But hey, he scored twice

Rui Costa - came on for a while but didn't find his position and frankly didn't look enthused about playing Viola. I forgive him

Ambrosini - Missed a great scoring opp with his head (just like the one he scored against Lazio with). Wonderful unselfish pass to Clyde for the 6-0 goal.

D'horasoo - His pass that set up the last goal was class. Pirlo quality

Extracts from a pre-game interview with Viola coach Buso: (My comments in "( )")

“We respect the Rossoneri as they are a world class club,” said Coach Sergio Buso, “but we won’t go in there looking for the draw (wish granted ). We have to play in a manner that will leave us open (they did indeed leave themselves open) to getting all three points.”

“We cannot rely on man-marking Milan’s stars (too bad putting 10 men behind the ball didn't work either ) as there are far too many of them to control that way (you got that right ).

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NO FURTHER COMMENT !!!!

HAHAHAHAHA

just wanted to point out that around this time last year was when milan went on their run ( give or take a week or two)....same thing happened year before that......during this time is when we see our spectacular milan.......

what else can i say but D@mn we are good

One down.

Next week it's gonna be Gobbi's turn!!!!!

Sweet.
Good boost for us before next weeks game.

Now i need to scan my satellite to find a channel that will show the game.

Anyone knows which italian channel will broadcast the game?
Or any other?

This was a great display from Milan although I also believe that Fiorentina did us a great favor by counting the game over from the start of the second half. They did try defending in numbers but Milan were just too quick and adventurous upfront. Too bad Buso didn't play Uijfalusi in CB for then he would have finally seen how he compares to Nesta.
Crespo IMO was at least equal to Sheva in his contribution to this great display. They played very very well and had to offer some very nice moves to La Viola. Crespo got the penalty and pretty much scored the second goal with which the game was practically over. Even without adding the 4th(?) he scored, I believe he was our decisive force in attack today, of course I am not trying to play down the contribution of Sheva, Kaka, Seedorf, Pirlo, Cafu and the rest.
This is pretty much it - an easy but fully deserved victory for Milan who proved to be just too much of a team for Fiorentina to handle. The perfect preparation in view of next week's encounter at the Delle Alpi, may be full for the first time this season thanks to Milan.
Speaking of being hypocritical, I can only imagine how reduculous and stupid feel those who not so long ago booed him and now they are full of praise of him.
Also I think Pirlo MUST betaken out of this squad. Today he got one pass wrong and I believe this is more than enough for Milan to get rid of him right away and bring in some fresh blood. Who? Well, ask Bayman - he has made up a whole list of possible recruits.

The only 'bad ' thing in this game is that the second goal was not given to Crespo. For the rest, all of the players where wonderful. Now let's kick the juventus s' ass!!!!!!!!!!

this win felt really good. i was impressed with everybody's playing...and that assist from Kaka' for Sheva's goal was truly pro. keep it up MiLaN!!!!

I wanted 8 !!!

Always great to see this sort of domination and big scores like this

FORZA MILAN

Originally Posted by Laudrup

I wanted 8 !!!

The are saving it for next week, this was target practise

Originally Posted by zlatanov

This was a great display from Milan although I also believe that Fiorentina did us a great favor by counting the game over from the start of the second half.

I don't agree, they played up until Crespos 4-0 goal which was in the 60 minute, after that they lost their will to play.

The team was nearly perfect today, and showed its true colors. We won big, we won with class and attacking football, and could score 3 or 4 more easily. An excellent "tune-up" before nweek's big battle against Juventus.

The flow of play - waves of attack after attack- plus the early goals made Fiorentina look like children on the field. Congratulations to all.

What we saw today in the attack is Pirlo, Seedorf and Kaka, in their different styles, push in constantly, with Cafu running from the right, and Crespo and Sheva popping up when needed and destroying the defense. I suppose they silenced the sceptics and seem to have found their form after a shaky start of season.

In addition, friends: RAI had today the beautiful blond lady "hosting" the show in the studio, and she was absolutely stunning - standing there and making her comments to all of us football fans. Our small group of Milan fans in Port Townsend wants to marry her (jointly) even if it is illegal and she inspires thoughts unfit for a Sunday morning. I am a sinner....

Oh, well, this is another thread...

Happy Holidays to all.

JUVE IS LEADING 1-0 WITH A DOUBTFUL FREE KICK

These are f*ckers