Milan - Marseille (25/11/09)

I know it's a bit early to start a thread about our next game of CL ... but, let's face it, it's a very important game, probably more important that what we think because our destiny in CL will be played there !!

I explain: we all think that we will win in Zurich for sure or almost, so we aren't afraid about our next game and are probably too confident (we = the fans).
But if we were to lose this game for any reason, then, the game in Zurich would be anything but easy ... pressure would be huge and we would depend on the other result too (depending on the score in our possible defeat against Marseille).

1st: Milan - 7 pts
2nd: Madrid - 7 pts
3rd: Marseille - 6 pts
4th: Zurich - 3 pts

One thing is sure: we will be ahead Madrid if we end with the same number of points.

So, the key in this game will be the way we play: are we going to play like we want, which is something we don't manage to do yet against very attacking teams, or are we going to let Marseille dominate ?
Marseille will probably play with five fast attacking players if Lucho Gonzales is still injured.

Also, we will have to face a confident Marseille team after their win against Zurich (6-1 in Marseille) and probably a good result in Lyon tonight (they are leading the game 3-2 in Lyon and it's the 65th).

For our side, confidence is back and our team seems to know his strenghts now even if we probably didn't reach all our potential (which is something good, that means the team can still improve) ...

Only one thing to add: forza Rossoneri and let's win this game to easily qualify and end at the first place !!

agree geo... this break is also at a good time the players will be rested and go into the break with high confidence i am confident we are gonna have a postive result in this game against marseille

Geo we are going to win just because you started this thread.

Must win imo. We need to secure qualification as it would be horrible to need a win against Zurich on the last matchday.

forza Rossoneri and let's win this game to easily qualify and end at the first place !

win the match, hands-down

kudos to milan with the wonderful performance of the whole team against cagliari and with what ac milan played today i believe they will defeat marseille by 3 goals to nothing. GOOD JOB KEEP UP UR CONSISTENT FORM AND SCORE MORE GOALS.

Dont wanna rush....But i feel than marseille cant do anything against us atm...

ac milan's trick to winning was being the underdog... let's not get a bit complacent here alright...cause everytime we had a 2 goal lead or something we seem to throw it away... let's just hope for a good performance and hopefully a win

After Kaladze-circus show over the weekend, Im just SOOOO glad that Nesta will be back in the defence line..

let's focus & win the game.. !

Pirlo needs some YAM (Usain Bolt food)...

Looking at our current form,a win should not be a problem at all.We play good football,Nesta will be back and the match is in our own home: San Siro!

I expect a win,we will get away with at least a point,a defeat will not happen.I think we will win and go through to next round.Looking forward to this game,it will be live in my country.

Like i said,with Ronaldinho really in hot form together with Pato,and Nesta back,the guys also just came off from a break so they are still charged up,a win is excepted.But Marseille is a good team so lets be careful.

Not sure if we can be as effective without Borri, and it seems he won't play.

brk: Perfect opportunity to give Huntelaar a start methinks.

I want to see Milan playing high up the field, like we did is some occasions this year. NEsta will be back so that will be possible. Our midfield is too thin and we are loosing too much time and posesion when we are sitting back.

With this new 4-2-4 strange spanish stile ( which I do not support! unless its fixed and more balance is found which actually creates serious 4-3-3 ) we need to take control of the possesion more, which we are also not doing so well.

But, lets just win it and take 1st place! Forza ragazzi!

Marseille desperately needs win here. If Real win against Zurich, which is almost sure, and Marseille plays draw with us, then they'll have to win 4:0 against Real to qualify and that's frankly not possible.
That's why I don't think Leonardo will play Hunter. Marseille will be open, so we can take them on counter and Hunter is not good in that. He's too slow.
If Leonardo is clever, and I think he is, he will go for win in these 2 games, so that way we will end up first at the table. I think Leonardo knows he didn't exploit his system perfectly yet. Because that inline 2 in midfield, flanks are not covered good, almost all the goals we are conceding come from the flanks. It's not all fault of our side-backs, frankly Oddo and Zambrotta are lacking support from our midfield. Anyway, it's better to avoid a team like, say, Chelsea for now. We need to come first than.
Another thing which bothers me, not actually part of the topic, is that Leonardo never change starting 11. It's always the same. Ok, our bench isn't that good, but Flamini and Gattuso for example could start some games. Huntelaar also. Abate and Antonini are good at the flanks, especially Abate.
Talking about Gattuso, I think he's perfect for this system, he can cover much ground and he needs no attacking involvement at all, which is on the other hand shame for Ambrosini, because he has attacking potential.