[han2503]

First leg of the semi final, I really want to see us get through, try and take the double this season. We need to close this one out in the San Siro, because I can't see us winning away to the cursed Palermo ground, that's a sure loss for us

[han2503]

And Pirlo... man, such an eyeshore to watch him play in front of the defense... nice one, Allegri

Yep, I'm really hoping that Allegri doesn't try to alternate between Pirlo and VB in that holding position. VB is the only player in our team who can play that position, Pirlo just does not have it in him anmore to play such a position. Pirlo before he got injured was occupying the left midfield spot that Seedorf has been playing in, and he was great in it. That's where he should be played, with VB covering HIM, not Pirlo covering Seedorf and Flamini. Ridiculous stuff imo.

Allegri imo has been inch perfect these past few weeks, shut every critic up, but yesterday he made some terrible decisions. Playing that defensive line-up was the 1st one, players who hadn't stepped onto the field in months expected to play against Palermo, it literally looked like only Thiago was playing there, he had to cut in and make an interception on Sokratis' position more then one. Also why he chose to rest Abate, the 23 year old, yet played Seedorf the 34 year old still baffles me.

Pirlo shouldn't have been played in the position, and with Pirlo there, 2 DMs should have ben played, not just Flamini, who is arguably the least defensive DM in our team, because he likes to push forward

You snub the Coppa way too much. It's obviously the least important trophy, but if we want to become a club with winning mentality, we must try to win it at all cost.

Agreed

I hope everyone noticed that we had two penalties not given. First I'm pretty sure it was Antonini who was blatantly and without a doubt pushed to the ground inside the box and the second one was on Ibra when he was tackled inside the area. Actually if Urby hadn't scored, there was another penalty that should have been given on Ibra. But Urby scored that one anyway. Horrendous defending (Papasuckapolous (IMG:style_emoticons/default/huh.gif) ) and bad refereeing cost us a game we could have won!

Agreed,, some terrible refereeing throughout the game, the first half was bad offside calls, I think I spotted 2 where Ibra would have been clean through and he was wrongly called back.

Second half, 2 bad penalties not called, the most obvious one was when Ibra was literally chopped off, and yes before Urby fired it in, Ibra was hacked down with no intention of getting the ball, and I'm pretty sure the ref wouldn't have called that either.

All in all, the defense looked like something out of a horror show, I haven't seen something so jumbled up from us since last season under Leo