[han2503]

It's a 2:35 am CET. Anyone brave enough to watch it be my guest. I think I'll catch the highlights tomorrow

[Zed.D]

expecting a great spectacle.

That usually doesn't happen in pre-season friendlies.

they should instead have been trying to make a hard fight out of it.

Why? it was a friendly not CL quarter finals.

a meeting of two high profile clubs

Yeah but it was a friendly.

Perhaps Galliani even felt that Allegri was trying to 'show-up' obvious weaknesses in the team

That's what friendlies are for. what's the point of playing your best XI, get a draw or a light defeat and have Galliani come out and talk **** about how competitive we are? let's not fool ourselves.



I was pissed at the result too, but tell me it's not easier to take a defeat like this in a pre-season friendly than in a CL quarter final. I think playing against one of the world's top 3 strongest teams with our crappy, crippled team was a mistake in the first place and Gllainai is at fault before anyone else. he better do his own business which was supposed to be adding a few good players to the team (I'm not gonna say "champions" even though that's what he said). and his angry interview isn't going to help the team in any way, it'll only put extra pressure on them and Allegri. another mistake from Baldy.

This post has been edited by Zed.D: Aug 10 2012, 02:22 PM

[Jack Sparrow]

That usually doesn't happen in pre-season friendlies.


Why? it was a friendly not CL quarter finals.


Yeah but it was a friendly.


That's what friendlies are for. what's the point of playing your best XI, get a draw or a light defeat and have Galliani come out and talk **** about how competitive we are? let's not fool ourselves.



I was pissed at the result too, but tell me it's not easier to take a defeat like this in a pre-season friendly than in a CL quarter final. I think playing against one of the world's top 3 strongest teams with our crappy, crippled team was a mistake in the first place and Gllainai is at fault before anyone else. he better do his own business which was supposed to be adding a few good players to the team (I'm not gonna say "champions" even though that's what he said). and his angry interview isn't going to help the team in any way, it'll only put extra pressure on them and Allegri. another mistake from Baldy.

A friendly, in Italy I can understand.

This is a 60,000 packed stadium in NEW YORK. Definitely having US media coverage, lots of money but some place the football market has not been able to break.

And Real Madrid vs. AC Milan is never 'just a light' training match. That's why you face Olympia and all those other clubs, so Allegri can try out all the various tactics they want.

This is mostly to sell high-level European competition to the US audience and losing 5-1 does not do that.

I think we are worse off than Madrid, absolutely.

But we are NOT 5-1 worse, if you know what I mean.

[TriniKing_CE]

But we are NOT 5-1 worse, if you know what I mean.

We could have lost by a wayyy bigger margin on that night.