[Zed.D]

OFFICIAL line-up vs. Valencia (4-3-1-2): Abbiati; Antonini-Bonera-Mexes-Constant; Poli-De Jong-Nocerino; Boateng; Robinho-Petagna.

Milan's bench: Amelia, Gabriel, Vergara, Zaccardo, De Sciglio, Traoré, Muntari, Cristante, Urby, Niang, El Shaarawy

[mishie]

back to the game, decent result but the defence still is a worry and i feel without better players Juve, Napoli and Fiorentina will open the gap between us and them

[KillerMax]

back to the game, decent result but the defence still is a worry and i feel without better players Juve, Napoli and Fiorentina will open the gap between us and them

I know that seems pretty obvious as we look so shambolic doing it (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) , but I think as strange as it may be, defense is our strongest point. The overall plan seems to be(same as last year) squeeze in the goals one way or another and then hold on to it with all the grit you can muster. I think it makes it really difficult for teams that don't attack as a unit and lack world class attackers.

Anyways, this system is hard to get used to for us AC Milan fans as we are used to seeing Milan take charge of situations instead of let the other team dictate. We even did that against small teams last season.

I actually believe the biggest worry is the lack of pure creativity. A couple players with that play-making genius.

Quick example that I have seen happen over and over again: We win the ball, Mexes passes to Muntari, Muntari passes to El Shaarway and In the final third he hits a wall of defenders so we start making wide passes instead of keeping the momentum to going forward. (You can put in different player names, it's the same scenario)