Milan - Chelsea July 24th

FT. 1-0 Chelsea

FT milan lose 1-0. Pretty poor game if u ask me. Vieri was invisible, our corner kicks were crap and the midfield looked SO CROWDED.

On the other hand, the fans didn;t look all that into the game. they just sat and watched. no cheering at all - hmfff american soccer fans lol.

Gatusso shoulda stayed calm - it was only a friendly.

Best players in the second half - Cafu and er.... hmmm.. that's it. Maybe Rui Costa.

after the game finished, this flag started waving with some arab guy in front of it. i am not sure but i think that's the Kuwaiti president or king or amir or something

full time 0-1

Never mind, it was a good exercise for the ;ads. Next weeks game will be a diiferent affair with Maldini, Gilardino and Kaka catching up with the team. Once again, I am sorry for not posting the link earlier. I will make sure you all get the link to the next match with plenty of notice.

Good night or good morning all!


Walid Belkhear
President Milan Club UK

Well, a bad display against a very good team...

C. Vieri was invisible, Milan played with 10 most of the game, Vogel did not show much, Ambrosini is better than him, Kaladze played really bad in defence, he was outrun in his flank 5 or 6 times.

Cafu played great has usual, Serginho played very well, and Rui Costa played his heart out in this match, by far our best player tonight.

i agree. the only people we could consistently see trying to turn the game were cafu, serginho and rui costa (in that order). let's give vogel a chance. our goalie did fairly well too.

we played a dreadful match, i think only rui, cafu and ele played well today... vieri was $hit by all means, i thought serginho wasted too many good opportunities though he tried... seedorfs passing is dreadful, nesta was outrun a million times, kaladze was scared to go forward, gattuso also wasted good runs.

played that caught my eye was shawn wright phillips... hes goooood!!!

I just got back from the game, very bad game without some of ours key players. Both sides played very bad. I have a lot of pics (like 200 pics) I will try to upload some tomorow. Rui was the best for the fans, he signed autographs other didn't do anything, they didn't even say "Hi"

I saw the match it was my time 3 am down here in the Middle east it was bad performance by the Milan and they were trying to find ways to get through their Chelsea’s Mid field, but they were trying this new formation and the first 20 min Chelseas had a lot of the ball and controlled the game tempo pretty well as they wanted it.
Robbens goal was pretty good from out side the plenty area and as we all know he was free to shoot on goal no pressure at all by gattsuo or Pirlo , like Alonso goal in CL final he was given space and time for him to score.
I was disappointed very much with our crossing and corners, they looked like they had no idea how to cross and vieri I cant blame him he was soo isolated by Milan’s midfield and wingers nothing decent came up to him but a one or 2 good pass.
Other then that to me the game was played pretty bad by Milan, Pirlo was not as his best, the Defense looked out of position at times knowing they r using the 3 Defensive backs and havin Cafu and Serghino on the wings.
To me it we had no bench at all other then seeing Vogel, Simic and new Striker forgot his name 18 year old. Cafu and Rui cosat were playing pretty good Serghino as u all know him comes and goes but he did well on the left.
Other then that I haven’t seen Ambro come in I was expecting him to play but maybe Ancelotti had other ideas. Chelsea looked pretty good the first 25 min they did pretty well moved the ball all over cut of any link from our player makes to Vieri.
I cant blame BoBo nothing did come to him, I am hoping to see Milan use their old formation back with Chicago and maybe use the new one in the second half with 3-4-2-1 seems like our main problem was our mid field cutting them off they made them move very easily and it was shame but its our second game and there is a lot of things to change its better we make the mistakes now then later on we can fix them now and know where we went wrong there will be a lot of changes in the up coming games so no worries even if we had take our time but in a month things will be smooth I hope.

we have to remember we have only been training in 1 week, while Chelsea are far more ahead than us in their preparations.
Also, remember we were missing Maldini, Dida, Kaka, Gilardino and Inzaghi... Once again it has been proven that we are not so good playing with only one striker. This time, we did not have other options though!

I agree with u about us training for just one week and havin this as our secondly friendly match, its good we started off with Chelsea see where we went wrong. And other most of the players looked like they couldn’t go 70 min so would have proffered everyone back but u have no choice use what u have.
The team needs time to get used to the new system its not easy from 4-3-1-2 to 3-4-1-2 coz more work for the Pilro and Gasttsuo running back and winning the ball back and Milan doesn’t look good at all with one striker upfront I cant blame Vieri he still needs time we cant expect a lot out of him he would need a partner like sheva or Pippo upfront and few more games then they would understand each other well enough.
Forza Milan

Originally Posted by freddydaddy7

I agree with u about us training for just one week and havin this as our secondly friendly match, its good we started off with Chelsea see where we went wrong. And other most of the players looked like they couldn’t go 70 min so would have proffered everyone back but u have no choice use what u have.
The team needs time to get used to the new system its not easy from 4-3-1-2 to 3-4-1-2 coz more work for the Pilro and Gasttsuo running back and winning the ball back and Milan doesn’t look good at all with one striker upfront I cant blame Vieri he still needs time we cant expect a lot out of him he would need a partner like sheva or Pippo upfront and few more games then they would understand each other well enough.
Forza Milan

chealsea won but we had crap team out so no need to worry - forza milan

Well, I would not call Stam, Cafu, Nesta, Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Rui Costa, Kaladze and Vieri for crap players. Bottom line is, we have been training for one week - so do not put too much in a friendly match.

Originally Posted by Hitman

Well, I would not call Stam, Cafu, Nesta, Pirlo, Gattuso, Seedorf, Rui Costa, Kaladze and Vieri for crap players. Bottom line is, we have been training for one week - so do not put too much in a friendly match.

yeah but no Gila, Maldini, Dida, Janku Shevchenko, Kaka, and Vieri only played the first 35 mins so we had Ardemagni up front alone for most of the match.

How did Vogel play, I have real hopes he'll take a first team spot this year.

about first team spot about Vogel u cant say anythin for now he played his first match i guess 35 min he did good as u all know its never easy playing ur first game but i was impressed he needs time and he will be off well and at least we have good midfield player but still Daira would be great having him on board.
but Chelsea looked at ease we had hard time but Dr/ Milano said no worries just wana see then get back to their old grove

Originally Posted by meazza

yeah but no Gila, Maldini, Dida, Janku Shevchenko, Kaka, and Vieri only played the first 35 mins so we Ardemagni up front alone.

How did Vogel play, I have real hopes he'll take a first team spot this year.

vieri did not play just the first 35 mins. i watched the second half and vieri was playing - he was just totally ineffective