Whee. Milan are playing another friendly. This one is against the Albanian national team in the second II Trofeo Taci Oil Albania Read game. The game is tomorrow (Tuesday); the team will fly in, play the game, and fly back.
The team has already had practice today. Those who played yesterday mostly worked in the gym; the rest mostly did drills and played a practice game.
Nesta worked and did running. Beckham trained separately.
Dinho will start so will the kids who are bought to play only in these kinds of games can't wait!
I love these games!!! We should do arrange these next season too in order to make sure we won't win anything!!
Meh. It's one (not very glamorous) way of making up the money lost from CL revenue. Gattuso is supposed to play part of the game, so it's useful for that if nothing else.
And we lost out to CL football because we did not care to rebuild the team when we should have... anyway, looking at the past for anything more than learning from one's mistakes is not useful at all so I'll stop here.
These games mess up the squad's training schedule... we HAVE TO stop them next season!
call ups for the game:
Kalac, Perucchini,
Albertazzi, Antonini, Darmian, Mattioni, Jankulovski, Thiago Silva, Senderos, Zambrotta,
Beckham, Cardacio, Gattuso, Flamini, Pirlo,
Seedorf, Inzaghi, Kakà, Pato, Shevchenko, Ronaldinho.
Maldini, Dida and Bonera are being left behind for the friendly. (With my luck, Dida will probably wind up sitting out against Udinese as well.)
Here's the starting lineup (game begins in 10 mins):
Kalac;
Mattioni, Thiago Silva, Senderos, Antonini;
Gattuso , Pirlo, Jankulovski;
Ronaldinho, Pato;
Shevchenko.
Links to watch the game http://www.milanfan.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=6889
Thanks for always finding links, Rivaldo!
I'm at work and can't watch; can you (or whoever else is watching) keep us updated on how things go?
Senderos just saved a goal
is it HT ?? and what is the score
Gosh. Really? Yay!
How does Rino look?
Mattioni Great play on D
Dinho PLAying possesed
Rino - Capitano))
can anyone link please?
Janku down
all the streams are showing adds where r u guys watching
I'm seing Senderos playing ALOT higher then he is used to and it is confusing albania.
Cafu anywone?
ronnie is ALL OVER THE FIELD
RONNIE 1-0
Ronaldinho scores with a shot from just inside the box after a link up between Shevchenko and Pato.
gattuso just knocked down his first albanian of the match, many more should fall...
Senderos looks great guys, i hate to say i told you so but his yearlong improvement is showing today in a big way
Great link up between ex and current 7 again, Pato misses a one-on-one from a very tight angle.
that sheva did well to set up
gattuso unfortunately got owned with stepovers :S
sheva setting up pato again
Albania has speedy players
Another great combination between the two this time the goalie gathers the ball before Pato manages to reach it.
sensational chalange by Senderos
Albertazzi warming up... the crowd goes crazy... oh wait, that's Kaka next to him!
(there seem to be many Milan supporters in the stadium, probably an Albanian fan club?)
sloppy defense from Rino, he needs to shake of the rust :S
HT 1-0 on my stream
Is mationi really a player that can play in the first 11 in Milan next season? How is he for real?
albania got no chance now seedorf is on the Field
sheva 2-0
latest rumor in the italian media is that mattioni will go on loan to udinese.
2-1
Pippo for Sheva
Albertazzi for Ronaldinho
2-2
3-2 to albania defence is shocking
Ended 3-3.
We won on penalties
5-4
Kaka,Seedorf,Flamini,Thiago Silva,Pippo scored for us
They missed the very last penalty
Thanks to those who watched for the updates!
From what I've heard, the youngsters (Cardacio, Silva, et al.) were pretty lousy tonight. Hopefully it'll put the "Carlo should play the young guys more" invective on ice for awhile.
I did feel bad for Perucchini (sp?), though. He made Kalac look like Gordon Banks tonight.
I would like to see these guys work a game on their own, though, maybe against some lower-level Serie B squad.
terrible game...
I thought this one was tomorrow, Oh NO!!! I'm so horrified, I missed our season decider!!!
Anyway, read through the comments, it looked like Senderos did really well, at least in the first half, so did Dinho, and the Sheva Pato partnership upfront worked very well, maybe Carlo could try this one in a Serie A match?
IMO Carlo had the game won at 2-0 then he toyed with the formation, Ronldinho was playing at his best, Sheva and Pato were creating chances and the back four won their individual battles quite often.
Don't read too much into it, when seedorf came, then knew their time to strike was now.
We won this game in grandiose fashion, carlo knew this and toyed with formations he wouln't otherwise play(even more outside the box)
In only a couple years, Ronaldinho has gone from Ballon D'or winner to scraping for game time in a friendly against Albania. How the mighty have fallen.
Fishdoll asks if some kind person would open the Udinese-Milan match thread!
would but some montreal-based devils don't have all the privilegde that others do .
^^^
Ohhh...the oppression that exists in modern day forum society. Canadians are human beings too, they cannot be under the boot of the Fish oppressors.
Keep the faith man!! You shall get your divine right...or we'll have a few volunteers die for our cause. I volunteer kurt!
Fishdoll isn't the oppressor this time! You need to have a certain postcount (or to have been here a certain length of time) to open match threads.
+1 cookie (or, if you prefer, a 'get out of the piranha tank free' card) to whoever opens up the match thread for the Udinese game.
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