AC Milan - Fiorentina (post-game comments)

1...2...3...4...5...6!!!!!!

6-0 (Sheva twice, Seedorf twice, Hernan once and Chiellini once )

BRILLIANT!!! SPECTACULAR!!! Great win before the big match against Juve!!

I didn't see the match, but this seemed like our best game of the season!....lets hope next week we'll do even better


!!!!FORZA MILAN!!!!

Great result!

although it'd be cool to see a hat-trick from Sheva soonish


Forza Milan Per Sempre!!!!!!!!!!

I saw the match ..... really really entertaining match ..... Milan dominating and teaching Fiorentina how to play football .....
long time no see Milan like this ... !

SUPERB !! FANTASTIC !! MAGNIFICENT !! BRAVO !! SPECTACULAR !!
World Class Performance by AC Milan

Today is a great day for us

match report from www.channel4.com

enjoy reading



Serie A Week 15 - 12/12/04 (15.00)
Milan 6 - 0 Fiorentina
Seedorf 16, 81 (M), Crespo 22, 60 (M), Shevchenko 51, 73 (M)
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

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Milan couldn't ask for a better lead-in to the Scudetto showdown with Juventus as they literally tore Fiorentina apart with six goals.

Manuel Rui Costa has never been able to face his former club, as since his summer of 2001 move injuries and Fiorentina's relegation made it impossible. However, Carlo Ancelotti opted not to field the Portuguese international from the start, preferring Kaka and Andrea Pirlo in support of Hernan Crespo and Andriy Shevchenko.

The Rossoneri went close early on and Cristiano Lupatelli dived in to push a cross away from Shevchenko's head.

Milan were dominating the early stages and after 15 minutes Crespo was dragged back by Daniele Delli Carri for a penalty following some great build-up play from Kaka and Marcos Cafu. Andrea Pirlo stepped up and saw his spot-kick saved by Cristiano Lupatelli, but he could do nothing on Clarence Seedorf's follow-up header.

The home side doubled their lead soon after with a well-worked team move, even if the finish was curious. Crespo ran on to a Kaka through ball and lifted it over Lupatelli, but instead of a goalline clearance Giorgio Chiellini accidentally ensured it went into the net.

Fiorentina's first real chance saw Tomas Ujfalusi take advantage of a Kakha Kaladze error, but Christian Rigano' was put off by a desperate Dida rush off his line.

Kaka's solo slalom past defenders was not matched by an accurate finish, chaotic defending cleared the danger from Shevchenko and Crespo while Rigano's looping header shaved the far post.

Shevchenko wasted a good chance and Kaka's vicious piledriver was just about parried by Lupatelli.

There was bad news for the Viola, as Lupatelli suffered an injury and did not come back out for the second half, so former Dundee goalkeeper Roccati was guarding the posts.

Shevchenko is set to receive the Balon d'Or on Monday and he marked it with a brilliant goal. The Ukrainian exchanged several passes with Kaka as they tore the Fiorentina defence apart and he finished off the move with style.

Even Gennaro Gattuso was caught up in the atmosphere and flicked the ball over a defender to set up Shevchenko's well-saved volley.

The fourth goal came on the hour mark when Pirlo set Crespo running on the counter-attack and his angled drive left Roccati with no chance.

Crespo's hat-trick was disallowed for Kaka's push on goalkeeper Roccati, but despite the scoreline the Fiorentina fans continued to cheer on their team.

Roccati pushed away Shevchenko's tap-in at the near post, but the European Player of the Year sprung the offside trap on Crespo's pass and delicately placed the ball into the far corner for his 102nd Serie A career goal.

Fiorentina had fallen apart long before this stage, but Milan kept going and Massimo Ambrosini rolled across for Seedorf to tap in his second of the game - the team's sixth.


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Milan: Dida; Cafu, Nesta, Maldini, Kaladze; Gattuso, Pirlo (Ambrosini 68), Seedorf; Kakà (Rui Costa 66); Crespo, Shevchenko

Fiorentina: Lupatelli (Roccato 46); Delli Carri, Viali, Dainelli; Ujfalusi (Fantini 60), Maresca, Piangerelli, Obodo, Chiellini; Miccoli, Riganò (Nakata 68)

Ref: Rodomonti

Missed pen: Pirlo 16 (M)

It's the result of set only 3 main defenders against Milan

Great to see we have exellent condition before against Juve!


Forza Milan!!!

Hahahahaha That Was Some Match!!!

Fantastic win!

Fiorentina were truely pathetic to watch, but it was good to see that our team didn't stop playing after 2-0. It was also great to see the good team spirit and unselfishness (particularely Ambro's pass to Seedorfs 6-0 goal).

a fantanstic match from milan! the whole team playeb suberb! i'm very happy with this perfomances! let's focus now on the juve match!! and hope that bologna will beat team this evenning!! FORZA MILA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

gr8 result, i hope the same for next week!

Nice Result!

This was simply wonderful and beautiful and fantastic. The first half alone was great and then we had the second half. Crespos 4-0 goal killed the game in the 60 minute and after that it was cruise mode for both teams. It was still really nice to watch until Crespo was off which meant our offensive options subsided. The thing was that our goals was simply beautiful and we had several plays that really deserved goals. It could have been a rout... uh wait it was a rout.

Dida 6. They had two chances, both missing the goal.
Cafu 7. Played good and was a threat early one, dissapeared in the game, but was solid in defense in the second half.
Nesta 6.5. Played pretty good, had some problems with Rigano at times.
Maldini 7. He blocked all their shots, Played very secure except one instance where he lost the ball that ended up with Cafus yellow card.
Kaladze 7. His best game since his injury problems. He was helping in offense and was great in defense, he even looked quite pacy!
Gattuso 7. The old Gattuso. Won a lot of balls and even got some unfair freekicks against him, protected the ball well when he had it and played it on.
Pirlo 7.5. That's my Pirlo he played up great pass after great pass, especially early on. Fiorentinas mistake was to give him free reign, they concentrated to much on Kaka and Pirlo could dictate.
Seedorf 8. A typical performance from in form Seedorf, worldclass. He had some awesome pleasing passes, scored two from midfield and could easily walk around with a smile.
Kaka 7.5. Kaka is back! He did really well, played simple and made a fool out of Piangerelli that was supposed to take him out. 3rd goal was a masterpiece together with Shevchenko. Where he passed Sheva who passed it back in his stride only for Kaka to pass Sheva again for an pretty easy finish.
Crespo 7. We seen Crespo score already, but I have not seen him play this good (did not watch the Shaktar game). He was very much involved in the play, more or less scored two and assisted one.
Sheva 8. Golden ball.

LOL i wanna tell this story:

today i couldn't go san siro so i went to my fav bar, where there are two rooms: the Milan one (the barman is a milan fan) and the other one, sometimes they show juve matches and sometimes inter's ones.
Well, we were already partying in front of Merde's fans, but the boast when Siena scored has been an absolute laugh BWUWUHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Anyway i'm gonna gamble on the next Inter draw, but luckily they are so probable they pay very few moneys in case of right bet

Kris imo Crespo played even better than Sheva: he was inside every goal chance!!

Kakà 7.5
Sheva 7.5
Crespo 8

Absolutely fabulous( that reminds me of the British programme,...`just do your best darling` ),however,great performance by us,i can`t add much to what most of you have already said,but i have to express my thrill.....FORZAAAAAAAAAAA MILAAAAAAAAAAAAN!!!!

P.S.
i was yelling so much after every goal was scored that i think i`m losing my voice now ......even if so, milan is so worth it
Looking forward to (probably) spectacular match with juve

ancelotti I salute you.

what an under-rated manager he is, exellent tactician but it's his abiltity to get players playing well that's really astonishing. no one stays out of form long here.

that donkey crespo looks a bit tastey now dosn't he