ACHTUNG! BARCA vs. MILAN

i have to agree about the fans, eventhough barca would be my 2nd team (eventhough i really couldnt care less what happens to them) but their fans are so gay and pathetic, no real soul in them, not even the cool choreography, we really do have the best fans in the world, barca lift these things up and stay shut, we do a nicer choreography and along with the sounds we make it makes opposition piss their shorts... and another thing, despite our badass look, we have civilized fans, we have the choice to be rude and obnoxious, we got more flares and really badass ultras but were not sore losers, and what do we get today? i heard barca fans shouting 'Milan, Mian, Vaaaafankulo' ... why??? not only would they get their asses beat up, but why be like that? ...

oh and one more thing on their fans, whats with that one souless sng they keep singing, the one that ends with .. barca, barca, baaaarca.... they just pop it up every now and then and its got no passion in it..

Well, both teams were equal to eachother in both games, but there has to win one team. And now that's Barca. IMO Milan wasted it in San Siro, where they wasted 4 good scoring opportunities. If you have to make up for a 1-0 defeat in Camp Nou, you know it'll be difficult.
But Milan played good, better then in San Siro IMO, although they got less scoring opportunities. In contrary to what a lot of people said before the game (especcially the newspapers here in Belgium) that Barca can outrage Milan in Camp Nou, that they are actually better then Milan, ... it was an equal game. There are not a lot of teams that have so many ball possession in Camp Nou, even if it was Milan that had to attack.
Ancelotti did the right changes i guess, although i wouldn't have replaced Pippo. You never know : one chance and it's goal.
Markus Merk ennoyed me as he whistled all the duels against Milan. And Sheva never made a fault on Puyol ! I don't know if it would have been a goal, since Valdez wouldn't stop then, but it was a great opportunity of a goal : a disgrace that refereeing sometimes decides games.
We lost against a very strong team and were never the weaker team (only in 15mins in san siro). But we wasted the qualification at home. A shame !

Originally Posted by rahul.acm

'luck' - a word that doesn't exist in our dictionary

don't exxagerate man, there were games in the past that Milan was very very lucky.

First Byron Moreno in WC, then Collina against Juve last year in scudetto, and now Markus Merk.

Originally Posted by hitmannq8

1 was very close to them scoring but thanks to a great Dida and a clearance from Billy.

it was thanks to a bad central pass of Costacurta that Kaladze lost the ball !!

What a dissapointment...I am really upset. Sheva's goal was dissalowed..what a big mistake by the ref!!! We played well...but seems that not good enough...Inzaghi was horrible today...missed many opportunities, smth was really wrong with him. Kaka, I think wasnt 100 percent well, so maybe thats why he didnt play very good, although he still was helpful. Kaladze played sh*t..my God, how many mistakes?! Pirlo wasnt seen much, Gila didnt manage to enter the game...Seedorf and Dida were both brilliant...if not those guys, we d loose and wouldnt have any attacks. Cafu played good.
Overall performance was good..but the biggest mistake of Milan was that they have lost at home...It was understandable that Barca was not gonna allow Milan to score in Spain...
So lets hope that next year we will evantually win the CL, but this year we are out in semi-finals. Maybe if Juve gives us such present as draw in the next 2 games, we will manage to take scudetto..Hope Milan is gonna play their best to win scudetto.

There's no doubt that we were robbed tonight. I don't care how many chances Barca created, because I think if you look at both legs, then both teams created a fairly equal amount of goal scoring opportunities.
And it really doesn't matter how well Barca played - because you don't deserve to win just because you play well. The only thing that matters is scoring goals. Barca scored one goal, we scored one goal - the only difference was that ours was disallowed for a non-existent foul.

I do NOT think Barcelona deserved to go through to the final. They should have lost tonight, and the match should have gone to extra time. And I think this would have made them really nervous, while our confidence would have been boosted.

although i think that some other refs would have given a red card to Billy instead of yellow. I think if Eto'O is on full speed it would have been a clear scoring opportunity. Although there was another Milan-player in the neighbourhood, so yellow was maybe enough, although there would have been other refs who would give red.

I cant sleep.... we need to win this or I'll go insane in the next few years. Come on Silvio, get rid the refs that are destroying us and spend some quality money, wisely. Bring Diarra,Gallas and one more so we can win it. Huh....now I have to live another year not being a CL winner.... FORZA MILAN 4 EVER!

I think this kind of utterly suspicious referee mistakes should be dealt in a legal court ... so referees can get a suit if proved was a wrong call under suspicious acting ... sorry I'm pissed off and this kind of injustices shouldn't be happening in modern football ... GET MERK JAILED NOW... !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Yeah...very upseting...but I think now that maybe its better to be out in semi finals then in final again...coz I think that would be bigger dissapointment. Although I am very upset...I hope next year Milan will finally prove everyone who is the best in Europe..Forza Milan!!!

Originally Posted by devoted_dm

There's no doubt that we were robbed tonight. I don't care how many chances Barca created, because I think if you look at both legs, then both teams created a fairly equal amount of goal scoring opportunities.
And it really doesn't matter how well Barca played - because you don't deserve to win just because you play well. The only thing that matters is scoring goals. Barca scored one goal, we scored one goal - the only difference was that ours was disallowed for a non-existent foul.

I do NOT think Barcelona deserved to go through to the final. They should have lost tonight, and the match should have gone to extra time. And I think this would have made them really nervous, while our confidence would have been boosted.

I dont think we were robbed tonight at all. Though I am proud of Milan and the way we tried to impose our plays on Barca, I have to say Barca deserved their ticket to the final. They created more clear-cut chances than us and played well the whole game. Many here mentioned and blamed the outcome of the match on the disallowed goal. The goal was scored when Valdez heard the whistle and he stopped. Hadnt the whistle been blown, Valdez might have saved the header.

If I need something to blame for our loss, I would blame it on luck that we had to play messina while Barca were rested. We were clearly tired in final minutes of the match (Kaka even seemed not 100% fit for the entire match). I would also wish that we had taken our chances better in the first leg. Having come to the Nou Camp to chase the game, the task was made twice difficult.

On the positive notes, the old Dida is back and Stam had a wonderful performance all night. It would be sad seeing him leaving us.

Although I am not blaming the ref for the outcome of the match, he sure frustrated the hell out of me. In a match of this calibre with so much at stakes, the official just simply cannot make that many mistakes.

All in all, If there is to be another team in the CL final, I wouldnt mind it being Barca at all. Tough luck for us !! I am proud of Milan as an ESPN commentator said tonight '..This team (Milan) has proudly carried the Italian colors in CL football in recent years '

Our season isnt over yet. I still believe in the Scudetto. Forza Milan !!

Originally Posted by Bram

don't exxagerate man, there were games in the past that Milan was very very lucky.

wats abt exaggeration in it? in the end fouls committed on us weren't given and on top of the ref's mistake. and i hope u remmeber the depor and the liver pool games, we were unlucky in that!

abt barca, they had gr8 chances in the beggining with eto'o but it was dida who saved them!

Originally Posted by rahul.acm

wats abt exaggeration in it? in the end fouls committed on us weren't given and on top of the ref's mistake. and i hope u remmeber the depor and the liver pool games, we were unlucky in that!

abt barca, they had gr8 chances in the beggining with eto'o but it was dida who saved them!

yes but we were very fortunate to get past PSV last season as we did, for example.

Also, against Lyon we needed a bit of luck to progress.

Originally Posted by Nalx Sijabat

Rahul my man please... How could you say the only thing we lacked is luck when Barca wasted 4-5 clear chances? I expected a DO OR DIE spirit along with imposing our style on Barca.
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barca missed those chances because of the saved by Dida and not that those shots were deflected! abt our luck i am talking abt the ref, who disalllowed the goal! i know its just one mistake but a big 1 which decided the match! we played well had good possesion and kept pressing them. in 180 minutes we were the better team and deserved a final berth!