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He was not included in the list for the group stages. Allegri's decision relates to Inzaghi's precarious physical condition. El Shaarawy was excluded as well. Below is the list of the 25 players.

Abate, Abbiati, Ambrosini, Amelia, Antonini, Aquilani, Boateng, Bonera, Cassano, Thiago Silva, De Sciglio, Robinho, Emanuelson, Gattuso, Ibrahimovic, Mexes, Nesta, Nocerino, Pato, Roma, Seedorf, Taiwo, Van Bommel, Yepes, Zambrotta.

Why the hell not El Shaarawy???

[CHU-LIP]

That Inzaghi isn't valuable at the moment is a conclusion we seem to follow. Gattuso on the other hand is match fit, and was starter last season, and so it makes sense Allegri seems him as valuable. That people like you, han, don't think so as obvious as snow being white. Even though it's for me questionable whether he still should be a starter or not, he's still valuable in my opinion and belongs to our main eight midfield options. Of course the ban makes him only valuable for two matches, but one from them is vs Barça. And vs Barça is a team you want enough defensive midfielders available so let's I follow Allegri on this. Of course I also follow when han doesn't, since he prolly wouildn't include Gattuso in the CL squad even when he could have played all six games. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

[han2503]

That Inzaghi isn't valuable at the moment is a conclusion we seem to follow. Gattuso on the other hand is match fit, and was starter last season, and so it makes sense Allegri seems him as valuable. That people like you, han, don't think so as obvious as snow being white. Even though it's for me questionable whether he still should be a starter or not, he's still valuable in my opinion and belongs to our main eight midfield options. Of course the ban makes him only valuable for two matches, but one from them is vs Barça. And vs Barça is a team you want enough defensive midfielders available so let's I follow Allegri on this. Of course I also follow when han doesn't, since he prolly wouildn't include Gattuso in the CL squad even when he could have played all six games. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

Inzaghi is as valuable as Rino is imo. 1 will be injured, while the other suspended, what's the difference?

And yes he is still a good player to have in case of injuries as such, but we're talking 2 games here, and the Barca games might be even less important then the one we're playing in a couple of days, simply because the group will most likely be already decided by then.

And let's not kid ourselves, Rino will be far from a difference maker, if he steps onto the pitch against Barca then expect that side to get ripped apart and for Rino to get sent off at some point, simply because he couldn't handle Barca's midfield, he might be DM by name, but these days his position title should be AR - Aimless Runner.

Also, I think we established that stuffing our midfield with 1 dimensional DMs like Rino and Ambro won't help our cause one bit against Barca, simply because they'll lose posessiong more then they'll win balls.