Lazio-Milan Giornata 12 8.11.09

Need to win this one too. Lazio are not doing too well, but we just cant write them off. Im hoping for a good performance from our team. With regards to Boriello, i believe he s been doing better in the sense that he s able to ward off the defenders and keep possesion and provide the ball for Pato or someone else to score. Huntlaar needs some games but we cant risk a game waiting for him to click coz we dont have the luxury to do so. Whenever he gets the chance he should make good use of it and he s a top class striker. Otherwise i would like to see the team which played Parma. FORZA MILAN

I remember years ago when Carletto said that he expected Crespo to start scoring in November cos he needed time to gel with other players. And he was right.

Let's hope the same thing apply to Hunter. If not, there's always the next month

MILANELLO - Here is the situation player by player as of today, Friday 6 November 2009, on the basis of the indications of club doctor Massimo Manara.

RINO GATTUSO: He reported a distraction because of a fibrosis already present in a muscle in his right thigh.

RONALDINHO: Suffered a contusion during yesterday's training and did not train today. Tomorrow a new evaluation.

LUCA ANTONINI: He's recovered, today he worked with the team in a group.

DANIELE BONERA: He is training. He's doing the preparation.

DAVIDE DI GENNARO: Today a control visit from Dr. Martens. It was passed positively. He can return in the group.

MARCO STORARI: He went back to training. On Wednesday 11 November his return into the team will take place.

MAREK JANKULOVSKI: He's started the rehabilitation. Tomorrow his pins will be removed.

OGUCHI ONYEWU: He has started the rehabilitation in the United States.



By the looks of our medical situation, we probably won't see Ronnie and Rino playing.

I say:

Dida
Abate-Nesta-TS-Zambro
------Flamini---------
----Pirlo-Seedorf-----
Pato---Hunter----Borri


Yeah, and I saw your discussion about Dida.

He's been great since that silly mistake against Real in the first game. He made countless brilliant saves and very few mistakes.
About the goal in the second Real game, it wasn't his fault. Kaka's shot was very powerfull, and it hit our defender which changed its path...he saved it very good but Benzema was there to score from tight angle( off the post if I saw it correctly)...Where was Zambro? You can see he's just standing there doing nothing...it's his fault...
So enough with this. Dida sucked for a while but now he's great again.

http://www.goalsarena.com/index.php?...tlink&id=17523


FORZA MILAN!!!

Originally Posted by El Fre

MILANELLO - Here is the situation player by player as of today, Friday 6 November 2009, on the basis of the indications of club doctor Massimo Manara.

RINO GATTUSO: He reported a distraction because of a fibrosis already present in a muscle in his right thigh.

RONALDINHO: Suffered a contusion during yesterday's training and did not train today. Tomorrow a new evaluation.

LUCA ANTONINI: He's recovered, today he worked with the team in a group.

DANIELE BONERA: He is training. He's doing the preparation.

DAVIDE DI GENNARO: Today a control visit from Dr. Martens. It was passed positively. He can return in the group.

MARCO STORARI: He went back to training. On Wednesday 11 November his return into the team will take place.

MAREK JANKULOVSKI: He's started the rehabilitation. Tomorrow his pins will be removed.

OGUCHI ONYEWU: He has started the rehabilitation in the United States.



By the looks of our medical situation, we probably won't see Ronnie and Rino playing.

I say:

Dida
Abate-Nesta-TS-Zambro
------Flamini---------
----Pirlo-Seedorf-----
Pato---Hunter----Borri


Yeah, and I saw your discussion about Dida.

He's been great since that silly mistake against Real in the first game. He made countless brilliant saves and very few mistakes.
About the goal in the second Real game, it wasn't his fault. Kaka's shot was very powerfull, and it hit our defender which changed its path...he saved it very good but Benzema was there to score from tight angle( off the post if I saw it correctly)...Where was Zambro? You can see he's just standing there doing nothing...it's his fault...
So enough with this. Dida sucked for a while but now he's great again.

http://www.goalsarena.com/index.php?...tlink&id=17523


FORZA MILAN!!!

It was the situation on Thursday morning if I'm not wrong ... That has probably changed since ...

What seems good is that we're going to recover all our players sooner or later !!

I think we still should field our strongest (w/ some rotation), this is Lazio & though they are not in good forms lately, theyre playing at home - not to forget they have good players too ..

my pick:
-------------------Dida-------------------
Oddo---------Nesta----Silva------Antonini
--------Flamini ----Pirlo------Ambro-------
-------Pato-----Borigol------Dinho--------

What do you mean Geo?


The report is from friday and it says that Dinho didn't train "today" meaning friday.

And Rino reported a "distraction because of a fibrosis already present in a muscle in his right thigh. That can't be good.

I don't think we will see R80 or Gattuso vs Lazio....and I doubt we will field all three of Boriello, Pato and Huntelaar.

Leo will have to adust his formation a bit if R80 can't play, and probably put Seedorf in the hole behind Pato and Boriello....

Abate would play in midfield, with Pirlo and maybe Ambro or Flamini (I think Ambro over the young Frenchman).

Let's hope Ronnie recovers, as he seems to be getting better almost game by game.

Let's win this one guys!!!

This is on football-italia.net(channel4) today:

"There were concerns for Ronaldinho when he picked up a knock to the ankle on Friday, but Leonardo assured 'he’s fine now'."

Originally Posted by Leonardo

MILANELLO – These are the declarations of coach Leonardo during the press conference on the eve of Lazio-Milan:

ON THE PURCHASE OF DOMINIC ADIYIAH “I saw almost the entire Under 20 World Cup because for me it is interesting since I played in it, but sincerely the purchase of Adiyiah was a request which started from Adriano Galliani and Ariedo Braida. Having been the best player of the Under 20 world cup is a great thing, I’m happy for his arrival and I think that he will do well. He will be here with us in January. Now he will have to play his games with the national team, he’s young and is a purchase for the future.”

ON THE WORK OF A COACH AND MILAN’S MOMENT “If things had gone badly in the last month, I don’t know if I would have had to leave the job. Analyzing the squad, I always said that in football you need some time to be well and to be bad, it’s about emotions and as always in the emotions we know that all this is part of the game. The only thing that I know is that I look at the future, what we must still do and try to be as lucid as possible. The continuity? The continuity arrives by doing a step at a time. This team in the past games has always added something more. The continuity is that thing that a team searches for when things go well, succeeding to be continuous is not easy, but I see a great enthusiasm in the group and it’s what gives us the right optimism to continue to do well. The match against Real can be defined as the end of the mini-cycle? “Looking at the training sessions after the match against Real, I thought about it, but I did not see in the team this sensation of arrival. In football you just need a dip in concentration which allows the opponents to surprise you, but the team is aware of this. We must still always have an alternative to be able to change on the go and maintaining always an important performance. In the past I had my moments of very strong personal reflections. I worked for six years in the shadows and I was fine. I’m here to work, but not to judge myself. At the age of 30 years I had a very strong self-examination moment. I’m here to be Milan’s coach and today I’m living a strong role, I want to work and go forward in my project, dedicating myself at 100% to the team. Things happen and there’s also a puzzle in front of me of which I need to put the pieces together, but I can also make mistakes. The moves are small, I must still be aware of how careful I must be to the small things. In these moments in which things go well are those which you worry most because you must be very careful so that things always go well. I’m very concentrated on the commitment I made. It’s a role of continuous highs and lows, it’s exciting because in the good and in the bad they are touched inside you by very strong things and I believe that it is a very positive thing from the human level and I’m see as a person to a life lesson.”

ON LAZIO AND TOMORROW’S GAME “Lazio has an incredible potential. We cannot think about Lazio by looking just at the latest results, because it’s a team which has a great depth and game with great personality. For both teams it will be a very nice game. To face an important team like Lazio we will need the right concentration.”

ON PRESIDENT BERLUSCONI “I never spoke with Silvio Berlusconi about leaving my job or to go forward. He has always been close to me, it always pleased me to have him at the training camp with us, having him at Varese and receiving his phone calls. Our rapport has always been of great respect, obviously respecting the hierarchy that exists. Lately we haven’t spoken a lot, but on the Ronaldinho topic everything has always been very clear. We can agree with the choices, but on the work base there are already established things and which we take forward. We have spoken a lot and about everything, I’ve been here for the past 12 years, even though I’m a coach for only the past four months, but we already know the basis of this job, then the ideas can be shared for the specific moment.”

ON THE LEAGUE BREAK AND ON THE INDIVIDUALS “We needed the break after many games. The previous one was very important. You cannot play every three games for an entire years. There are the national team players who will leave and I hope that they will play just one game because they are tired. The break will still be useful to recover everyone. Unfortunately Gattuso hurt himself, it’s a pity because he was returning, but during Wednesday’s training he felt a pain and now he must stop again. With the break he will recover and work for 15 or 20 days. Abbiati will return after the break, but he is playing the training games with the team, he’s fine and tomorrow against Lazio he will be the third goalkeeper. Ronaldinho picked up a knock during yesterday’s training session, he stopped because he had the ankle swelled, but today everything is fine and he does not have any problem. Pato is feeling the trust in him every day from many people. Even his team-mates tell him that he can be a Golden Ball winner, world champion. In the end we will have to see how he dgest this and how he will succeed to maintain his level high. It’s clear that his talent will allow him to arrive high, in my opinion. Borriello is fine, also from the level he shows during training as he has a certain continuity which allows him to stay fine. When all are fine, the choices, become more difficult, but better like this. Borriello and Inzaghi? In choosing of playing one or the other, many things matter and when all are fine the choice is difficult to make and the most important thing is to do what’s best for the team. Who balances the setup is the way in which you interpret it. Borriello and Inzaghi have a very different game, the choice arrives also from the moment, it depends against whom we are playing and how the others are feeling.

ON THE FUTURE OF PAOLO MALDINI AT MILAN “Maldini and Billy during the week have been inside the dressing room, they were very positive presences. The same thing for Mauro Tassotti, who has been at Milan for the past 30 years. Their presence gave us a lot, the players were happy because with their words they transmitted a lot. Paolo Maldini and Baresi are world flags of Italy and Milan. I don’t know what Paolo will do in the future. Today he is in a moment of transition, it’s easier for me than for Paolo, because for what he represents it’s not easy. However, he is calm, he’s an intelligent person, these things are built slowly inside you.”

ON THE SEASON OBJECTIVES “The Scudetto? For a club like Milan it’s impossible not to think about it, it’s in our DNA. There was a lot of talk about the league being over because Inter play well and prove to have strength, but I think that there’s still a long way to go. The teams from the second up to the fifth place have good and bad moments, the team who will manage to have more continuity will be able to get back in the race for the Scudetto. I think about improving and maintaining a certain level of game, then inside us we always go on the pitch to win and if we always succeed...The club’s objective is very clear and it’s the Champions League, the rest must be evaluated little by little.”

ON THE NATIONAL TEAM “It’s a particular moment for the national team. Italy won the last world cup and has a solid base, with the same national team coach. Brazil also had positive things with Dunga and I believe that if Ronaldinho, Pato and Thiago are fine, it will be difficult for Dunga not to call them up. If they are fine, I don’t see too much competition for them.”

LAZIO-MILAN: THE CALLED UP ROSSONERI
11/7/2009
MILANELLO - Here are the 20 players called up by coach Leonardo for Lazio-Milan:
Abbiati, Dida, Roma, Antonini, Favalli, Kaladze, Nesta, Oddo, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta, Abate, Ambrosini, Flamini, Pirlo, Seedorf, Borriello, Huntelaar, Inzaghi, Pato, Ronaldinho.
Unavailable players: Storari, Bonera, Jankulovski, Onyewu, Gattuso, Di Gennaro.

acmilan.com

Thank God Ronaldinho is fit for this game,i do not know who could have replaced him in the 4-3-3 formation if he was out,the only real option was to put Pato on the left and Abate on the right as Borriello isnt a real winger so his performance will be limited. Also Abate would not be the right replacement for either Pato nor Dinho,because Abate hasnt the ability to do what Ronaldinho or Pato does,he cant dribble past his men and score a goal or give a wonderfull assist.Abate has speed and he works hard,but that is not enough if you want to be a winger in this formation,Abate is more suited for midfield.

I want Antonini to play this game,he should get his chance again,against Parma he really was a relief on that leftflank.

Good to see that all of our players will be back soon,only Onyewu will be sidelined after the break,then we will have a full squad. I am still waiting on Di Gennaro,i know he will not add anything other then useless depth but still i want him to make minutes,just curious....

Originally Posted by Dutchie-Milan

Thank God Ronaldinho is fit for this game,i do not know who could have replaced him in the 4-3-3 formation if he was out,the only real option was to put Pato on the left and Abate on the right as Borriello isnt a real winger so his performance will be limited. Also Abate would not be the right replacement for either Pato nor Dinho,because Abate hasnt the ability to do what Ronaldinho or Pato does,he cant dribble past his men and score a goal or give a wonderfull assist.Abate has speed and he works hard,but that is not enough if you want to be a winger in this formation,Abate is more suited for midfield.

I want Antonini to play this game,he should get his chance again,against Parma he really was a relief on that leftflank.

Good to see that all of our players will be back soon,only Onyewu will be sidelined after the break,then we will have a full squad. I am still waiting on Di Gennaro,i know he will not add anything other then useless depth but still i want him to make minutes,just curious....

It's exactly the contrary ... his speed allows him to do what you say he isn't able to do when he plays as a winger. Then, of course, instead of going towards the goal, he will probably be more on the right and cross more often than Pato ... which could result by good assists for Borriello and/or Pato.

So Abate is for me the direct replacement to put on the right of our attacking trio, but principally when we have problems with our midfield (Abate will naturally stay on the right and be available for our midfielders).

And so far, Ronaldinho always was far from the goal ... he is on the left, just in front of the middle line. So Abate can do as much as Ronaldinho for now (about skills, of course, it's not possible to compare them).

Juventus impressed and won 5-2 away at Atalanta tonight. They are now 5 points ahead of us so we need a win against Lazio.

I wish we could score more goals. 12 in 11 matches is just really bad. Inter have scored 28 in 11 matches, Juventus 25 in 12. I don't expect us to score many away at Lazio though so 3 points will do, for now...

Originally Posted by Arildonardo

12 in 11 matches is just really bad. Inter have scored 28 in 11 matches, Juventus 25 in 12.

Ouch. That's just horrid.

If we win tomorrow, what's the highest we can place in the standings?

I wouldn't be worried about that number.. keep in mind that Milan scored like only 3 goals in their first 7 or 8 games in Serie A... milan has been playing well recently and have been scoring a good amount of goals recently (i think we've scored at least 2 each game since the Roma game..right?)

By the way Abate was talking up the importance of the Lazio match, he may command a starting spot......

That would be good, because Oddo has been featuring a lot lately.