ACMilan- Arsenal Champions League 07/08

Originally Posted by mzk57

Its really hard to take I guess we should SUCK it up & hope for the Scudetto this season

lol if we really win the scudeto this season i bow to heaven 7 times a day for the whole week

Carlo is not one of the best coaches around, stop listening what media says. Be real paople, look at the team Carlo had in the last 4 years:

For Deportivo: Dida-Cafu-Nesta-Billy-Maldini-Pirlo-rino-Seedorf(young)-Rui-kaka'-Sheva ( tomasson, Serginho, inzaghi....)

For Istanbul night:
-----------------dida-------------
--cafu---nesta--STAM--Maldini ( younger )
------------pirlo----------
----rino--------seedorf---------
-----------kaka'-----------
-----sheva----crespo------------

Do these tema even need a coach?? Come on... be real... Its easy to work with paolo, Billy, Nesta, strong Cafu, Serginho, Pirlo, rino, Seedorf, Rui, Kaka', Sheva, Crespo, IOnzaghi, Rivaldo, Stam...

Look at what Prandelli is doing in Florenze?!! __Have you paide attantion to him? AndPRandelli at Parma who created Gila and Adriano? And now montolivo, Pazzini...

6 years is enough, whoever the coach is.Even Lippi's time at Juve came to an end eventually. But Galliani wants Carlo to stay as he is a coach that never has any complains about the mercato and doesd what is told to. that is the truth and if you dont like it, think again. and again, untill you see it.

About Oddo - yes I was for him. I made a mistake. But I am a young person (23) who has seen Oddo for like 10 time sbefore that and he seemed good for Lazio. Galliani is a prefessional manager and there is no roome for mistekes like that. Now you will say: Kaka', Pato, Serginho...Its all Leonardo... And it wasnt so hard to scout the best young brazilian who scored and made 3 assists in his first officialy game by the age of 17.

Originally Posted by mzk57

The thing which is killing me is the fact that Paolo Maldini will end his career without a trophy. How abt 1 more season? So that he could finish with the Scudetto or Champpions League. After all he was the best defender of ACM in the match & is still in great shape

He's won more silverware than people who play Football Manager. He should have retired after the CWC. Physically he's not up to it anymore.

lol mrki, you should shut up now, you're talking non-sense...

Carlo is by far one of the best coaches out there..
he's the only coach who managed to win 2 CL's in 6 years with the same team, not to mention the times he reached Finals and semi-finals!

Well done to Arsenal, well deserved victory.
what happened last night cant be changed, MOVE ON..

still 12 league matches to be played, think about those for gods sake

MR. carlo ancelotti must quit at the end of the season, he is guilty for last night game, every child sholud saw that Prilo playing bad and that he must replace him with Emerson, but he didn't and what about your great keeper KALAC, even i could svae this ball.
I realy can't stand this, this year we will win NOTHING, even a fourth place is UNTOUCHABLE for us, carlo S*CKS he must LEAVE.
Lippi To Take Over At Milan?
This is what we need and of course a few new players, players like Benzema.
I"ve had told you that carlo doesn't know how to play without Seedorf, Pirlo and Kaka, so you have seen last night. The place where Seedorf play was empty and Kaka have no chance to show his kvalities, everytime when Kaka move and try to pass there was no one at the other side of the pitch. this is why i HATE ancelotti, he is no more tactician.

And forget fourth place, that belong to Fiorentina not to us, we deserved next year to play Uefa Cup.

Lets stop crying and trying to find excuses... it was evident from the start of the season that we would come up at the ****ty end of the stick... This is the only time in my life that i did bet $2000 that Milan would lose... i love Milan but i'm no fool... When ever we win a game i'm suprised... but i hope we dont play uefa cup next year.

You betted $2000 that Milan would lose against Arsenal?

I once betted Arsenal will lose 2-1 to Barcelona after taking the lead in the final, all before 2nd round match against Real Madrid in 05/06. I won 10,000 pounds.

I also betted 50 pounds before we played the 1st leg against Milan, that Arsenal will face Barcelona in the Quarter Finals.

Originally Posted by Peachtot

Pirlo was totally pressed by Hleb. Clear thing Pirlo made mistake caused Hleb pressure when he missed short passed just few yards infront of milan box to Adebayor.

Decent tactic by Wenger i guess

Honestly, who didn't know that pressing Pirlo is important? Which team did not do that?

Pirlo missed passing that he completely SHOULD NOT miss. There is no one pressing around him for the goal; there is no one pressing around him when he passed the ball to Adebayor. He is not concentrating enough.

Note: I'm not blaming him. He is out for quite a while and is so so tired, not just tired physically but tired of football. Also his teammates didn't run and create space for themselves and that's the problem. But honestly, a top-form Pirlo can deal with the pressure pretty well.

Remember he said that he was used to it, so there was no reason why he flopped in both matches. Think about it: HE was playing one game for every match (except missing one) since what? Decemember? or NOvember? Or only got a rest last week. Not blaming him, but this is one reason.

So, management failed to find a subsitute for Pirlo: big problem. But who can do that? I don't know.

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I hope Arsenal will win the Champion League; they deserve it very well, but I honestly don't see their defense as solid. They will have big trouble playing against Barcelona whose speed match them, but it will be a great match. Hope they'll go all the way and win the final.

Milan has no one to blame, again, except themselves. This time the management has no excuse. Of course, it all falls together quite nicely isn't it? That seedorf got injured just ONE game before vs. Arsenal, Janku, Pirlo, Nesta, the declining form of Gattuso and his bad passes, Oddo's helpless crosses... it all just came together.

And forget about Arsenal being hungry. Milan is not even up for it physically at this stage, and playing against Arsenal is the worst possible opponent. Saying that the best three players of Arsenal didn't play and still win didn't make the argument any stronger, but kudos to Arsenal for having the bench players who are 'hungry' to play. If you look at the number of chances Milan gifted Arsenal and ARsneal take advantage of, it's surprising how they could only manage 2-0 yesterday. Think about all the chance Arsenal has crafted, and you wonder how the hell they only won 2-0. Lucky we didn't play against Barcelona or any other team; we would been in serious deep trouble. Oh well, 2-0 is better than 10-0

Let me add one more thing: The reason we lose, perhaps, is the fact that Ambrosini and Gattuso are not strong midfielders who can pass the ball well, and that dearly costs us.

Honestly, we lose in the midfield yesterday, in both leagues. We trump them in defense against their attack, but their defense trump our attrack too. And guess who won the midfield?

If there is one mistake this season: it is the lack of emphasis on the league. Perhaeps we have been putting so much pressure on ourselves on CL, which makes things worse.

BUT: let's get the fourth place now. And for those crying for UEFA spot and saying that thise is a good thing to Milan, good for you.

J

Originally Posted by outlaw_member

So a great game has just finished. Cannot say I am surprised, this Arsenal team is so hungry and want to prove to everyone how good they can be. Today was no different. We had 3 First Team starters(Rosicky, RVP, Toure) who did not play, making it an even better victory. I'd leave it at that and let you guys be. This is my last post here, it was great knowing you guys. I thought I would let you know that your the only team in the world, whose forum I have been on, that I don't support. Shows the respect I have for your team. Thanks

PS. I'll definitely be back next time we meet again.

Did you not post this twice?

I don't know, did I?

I forgot to add, Barca's defence is not solid either, so that will be a tight game.

[quote=_Ace]lol mrki, you should shut up now, you're talking non-sense...

lol you should shut up. Look at the players Milan had. it was BY FAR the best team in Europe...

Stop asking people to shut up can you please? Thank you.

@outlaw member: I suppose you copied and pasted it from another forum that you have posted, but that's ok. Just an observation.

No probs, guys I am off. Nice knowing you. I will be back next time we play.

Long live Milan, the most respectable team in World Football.

Anchelotti should reconsider the christmas tree formation and play the conventional 4-4-2 system. Playing with 2 DMs makes milan play too defensively - every time we're poise to attack, Arsenal already had 5 or 6 men behind the ball. Either Rino or Ambro has got to learn to play in a new role !