[Tennie]

So, Milan take on Werder Bremen in the UEFA Cup this Wednesday.

Bremen are traditionally one of the stronger sides in Germany but they're struggling this season and are currently in midtable (at the weekend they drew with bottom team Borussia Monchengladbach). Their defense is leakier than ours but they've got a pretty strong attack. Folks may have seen Claudio Pizarro or Diego before, but to me the guy to look out for is Mesut Ozil - he's an AM and he's really very good indeed. Just got his first call up to the German NT. Both Vranjes and Jensen are out with injury. A really big blow for them is that Torsten Frings is suspended for the game (yellow card accumulation from the CL).

English referee Mike Dean will be in charge of the match. I think he's one of the better English refs.

Here are Milan's call ups for the game.
Abbiati, Dida, Perucchini (50)
Antonini, Bonera, Darmian, Favalli, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Maldini, Senderos, Zambrotta
Ambrosini, Beckham, Flamini, Pirlo, Seedorf
Inzaghi, Pato, Shevchenko, Ronaldinho.

No Kaka. Shevchenko is carrying an injury, not sure why he's been called up.

[elcordobez]

The game's getting a lot of coverage on Bremen's website.

There's a longish interview with Maldini (in German, don't have time to translate) HERE.

Cheers..

Google translator kinda gives you the jist of what they're talking about (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

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