[Portman]

I'm hungry. Need the some official match as soon as possible. (IMG:http://cyrus.medialayer.net/~m1ke/milanfan.com/forums/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)

Gonna play the winner of the leg: Red Star Belgrade - Cork City (The 2nd leg is next Wednesday and it's 1-0 for Red Star, and they play at home the 2nd match. So we'll probably going to Belgrade...)

First leg will be played on 8/9 August in San Siro and the second one on 22/23th.

Let the party begin!

PS: I hope some MOD change the Topic Title soon, putting the right things, when the confirmation come out.

[han2503]

Welcome ljuba1 - enjoy the game(s)!

Ignoring what Carlo has already said, don't you think this game would suit the Xmas tree better? We've got the extra midfielders to make it work and we're a bit short up front at the moment - it makes sense to me. Plus it will allow us to play posession football against Red Star which is exactly what we need to do in order to get the result - quick tempo stuff won't work because they're about 4 weeks ahead of us in terms of fitness.

Totally agree with you, plus with a more solid midfield our VERY fragile defense won't be put on as much pressure as it would be with the 4-3-1-2 formation.

I think our formation should be something like this

----------------Dida------------------
Brocchi--Billy--Favalli--Janku/Serg
------Gattuso---Pirlo---Ambro------
---------Gourcuff---Seedorf---------
---------------Pippo/Gila-------------

This way 2 defensive midfielders will be covering our defense and giving Pirlo more freedom. Kaka is training on his own right now and Carlo said he wouldn't be available at least not for the first match, so I put Gourcuff next to Seedorf considering how well they seem to work together.

Pippo would be my first option here because if Gila's luck in the CL hasn't changed at all from last year, I wouldn't try to risk it