good scka and porto tied cuz if not we could possibly face arsenal if they end 2nd. man we might even face barca or real. we are so screwed it's not even funny. i'm sure we're out next round even if we play well.

Or.. ''here lies galliani, the retard that thought that everything was ok''..

Bonera - I hate you!

We're screwed anyway. No mather if it's Porto, Real, Barcelona...

what's up with him ???

He's awful!

0-2 GRAZIE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

well ladies and gentlemen, let me tell ya... now, i feel pity for this, this is so indignant

How did you guess ?!!?


ON EST EN 8E
ON EST EN 8E
ON EST, ON EST, ON EST EN 8E

Aye we played probably our worst match of the season. It was pretty obvious we weren't going to win this one, Lille needed the victory more than us and they obtained it. The players lacked motivation, it's pretty much understandable since we were already qualified. Now let's look forward to the Sunday match and see what the guys really can do.

Malicki: 8/10 Excellent. No error.
Chalmé: 5,5/10 Mistakes but a good 2nd half-time
Plestan: 7,5/10 Our best central defender
Tavlaridis: 6/10 Too many faults
Tafforeau: 6,5/10 Captain Greg !
Makoun: 8/10 ENORMOUS
Bodmer: 7,5/10 The future French Ballack !!
Cabaye: 6,5/10 What a work !
Keita: 6,5/10 It's him.
Debuchy: 6/10 Correct
Odemwingie: 6,5/10 Pure striker !

Claude Puel: 10/10 Sir, you're a God.

We were so bad!!!
Lille deserves to go through, they played a very good and serious game, while we were just watching!
It's a pity, such a shame!!!

Aye he impressed me a lot. MOM.

Maliki had nothing to do to night, while Chalmé deserves better!
Bodmer was great, as usual at the moment
Well done anyway!

HELLO to the other football clubs
these are the steps to make your football club CRAP in less than 6 months

-U know wat there arent any steps just do exactly wat AC milan has done over the few months

these steps are going to work 4 sure
call 0-800-BERLU for any questions

Agreed!

Now I DON'T WANT find you again if we pass the 1/8. I'm too afraid of a Milan on top-form. You're too strong, Pirlo deserved the Ballon d'Or this year, Gattuso and Serginho are poisons and Nesta is one of the 5 world best defenders !

i think your just trying to spare our feelings!! thanks anyway and well done you deserved your victory

And he's that incredible since two years. We're beginning to wonder why he's not in the Equipe de France. He can play as libero, defensive midfield or n°10. He has potentially the class of a Laurent Blanc.

Champions League Gp H, Match 6 - 6/12/06 (19.45)
Milan 0 - 2 Lille
Odemwingie 7 (L), Keita 67 (L)
Stadio Meazza

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Howlers from Zeljko Kalac and Dario Simic allowed Lille to grab a 2-0 victory away to a desperately disappointing Milan, who were already qualified top of Group H. This result - and the 2-2 draw between AEK and Anderlecht - saw the French outfit through to the next phase.

The Rossoneri were already sure of their leadership spot going into the final game, but Carlo Ancelotti opted to field one of the best line-ups at his disposal to build confidence in this difficult time. Kaka, Marcos Cafu, Dida, Serginho, Giuseppe Favalli and Gennaro Gattuso were out injured, but Massimo Ambrosini returned from his setback. Yoann Gourcuff was given a new more creative role.

Lille were in third place, but could aim for qualification, a UEFA Cup berth or risk a European exit at the end of the evening.

Pippo Inzaghi had an early penalty appeal for a shirt-tug waved away, but the French side were more motivated and it showed. Keita dispossessed Marek Jankulovski for a Peter Odemwingie strike well parried by Zeljko Kalac at the near post.

It was only a warning, as on seven minutes Kalac was surprised by a long-range Bodmer snapshot and his ineffectual flap placed the ball right into the path of Odemwingie from six yards.

Malicki was tested by a couple of Andrea Pirlo free kicks and Inzaghi's glancing shot, but more defensive chaos between Dario Simic and Daniele Bonera almost granted Odemwingie his second of the match.

Another Simic error passed the ball straight to a Lille player and Odemwingie's effort was beaten away by Kalac.

Keita's snapshot from 30 metres took a deflection to whistle past the post, but Milan seemed to have absolutely no width and tried to aim all their attacks through the centre, leaving Gourcuff isolated on the left flank.

When Gourcuff was able to get into the game on 37 minutes, he tried to dribble through three defenders inside the area and hesitated too long to pull the trigger.

Kalac flew to fingertip a hopeful Cabaye free kick over the bar, although he seemed late to it and could easily have caught the ball.

Borriello had Milan's best chance of the first half in stoppages, hooking down a pass and storming into the area, where Malicki rushed out to smother the finish. It didn't help calm the crowd, who jeered the Rossoneri as they left the field.

Clarence Seedorf replaced Cristian Brocchi at half-time to spark some more creativity and Borriello was able to continue after a clash of heads with Tavlaridis.

Simic continued to disappoint in central defence and was fortunate Graham Poll did not consider his shirt tug on Keita to be worthy of a penalty. Odemwingie sprung the offside trap - Simic at fault - to sprint into the area only to side-foot straight into Kalac's chest.

Inzaghi couldn't get enough contact on a corner kick and nodded it wide. Kalac continued to seem insecure in goal and pushed an apparently harmless long-range strike out for a corner when he could've caught it.

Kaka replaced Ambrosini, moving Gourcuff to the right. Jankulovski's first touch let him down on Seedorf's assist, but Inzaghi was unlucky not to score on the hour mark when his towering header thumped the crossbar from a corner kick.

Inzaghi held off his marker and placed an angled drive towards the far corner, where Malicki held well, but Lille doubled their lead.

Kader Keita combined passes with Bodmer to split the Rossoneri defence and stroke his finish past Kalac. However, once again the Australian goalkeeper and Jankulovski were slow to react.

Ricardo Oliveira took over from Borriello in a final bid to make the scoreline less embarrassing, but it could've been 3-0 when Bodmer spun round to force a tough save out of Kalac. From the resulting corner kick out to the edge of the area, Cabaye's fierce strike smashed against the crossbar.

Oliveira's hopeful long-range effort didn't trouble Malicki and both teams ran down the clock for Milan's first ever home defeat to a French club.


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Milan: Kalac; Bonera, Simic, Kaladze, Jankulovski; Brocchi (Seedorf 46), Pirlo, Ambrosini (Kaka 54), Gourcuff; Inzaghi, Borriello (Oliveira 72)

Lille: Malicki; Chalmé, Plestan, Tavlaridis, Tafforeau; Keita (Youla 83), Cabaye, Makoun, Debuchy; Bodmer (Fauverge 88); Odemwingie (Robail 72)

Ref: Poll (Eng)

We could face Barça, PSV, Real, Cetlic or Porto!
Take your pick!
I'll go for Barça

Just few things that I saw from tv highlights:

-Kalac made some good saves but the first goal is inexcusable
-There was a penalty on Pippo in the begining of the game
-We had one real chance , and even that was from the corner

Forza Milan!!

Bye now and maybe for a revenge Lyon-Milan. See you !

I'd go for Real, thanks.

Well Domenech sucks so much that he'll wait to see him sign in a big club!
Plus he'll not let him play in the center of the midfield, he plays too forward for him lol

barca, thank you.

Will be great to have Cetlic. We have a very good chance vs them.
Cetlic<PSV<Porto<Real<Barça

Just as usual

I'm very disappointed.
Considering Ancelotti played many 'good' players...
Inter also haver 10 pts, and are 2nd in their group!!
This shows how pathetic we are.
I bet I'll read in the next hours crap excuses, like that many are injured, so what!!! A team like Milan should have a good bench!!!
We drew the 'easiest' group in CL, and barely manage to win games!!
I think we should have drawn a difficult team, and then Galliani&Co would see how bad we really are!!!
Seriously, I'll expect we'll be knocked out right out, no matter who we will play. Even some Serie B club could knock us out, in this state we are.
I'm ashamed of Milan letting me down.

Still, Forza Milan per sempre!!

Milan win sparks Lille celebrations

LOSC Lille Métropole won 2-0 at AC Milan to progress to the knockout rounds of the UEFA Champions League for the first time in their history as runners-up to the Rossoneri in Group H.

Famous victory
Lille's hopes of qualifying had seemingly taken a fatal blow when they only drew 2-2 with RSC Anderlecht last time out, but the Belgian club did their French rivals a favour tonight by repeating that scoreline at home to AEK Athens FC when an away win would have rendered Lille’s famous victory meaningless. Peter Odemwingie and Kader Keita were on target for Claude Puel’s side, who showed more enterprise than their illustrious hosts from start to finish.

Odemwingie opener
Lille coach Claude Puel had urged his side not to come away from the match harbouring any regrets and with that in mind the French side started positively. Kader dispossessed Kakha Kaladze after just five minutes and teed up Odemwingie, who forced Zeljko Kalac into an instinctive save with a fierce strike from ten metres. But Kalac, deputising for the injured Dida, was not so sharp in dealing with Lille's next attack two minutes later. Mathieu Bodmer surprised him with a powerful shot from distance which the Australian could only palm one-handed into the path of Odemwingie, who volleyed in from close range.

Lille control
Having wrested the advantage, Lille were content to let Milan, minus the creative skills of substitute Kaká, come at them but, if anything, it was the away side who looked the more likely scorers. On 20 minutes they almost did when Odemwingie broke clear down the left only to see his shot repelled by Kalac, and midway through the half, the giant custodian was almost caught out for a second time when Keita chanced his arm from all of 30 metres. His low shot deflected off Kaladze and narrlowly wide of the far post.

Boriello appeal
Milan's clearest chance of a goal before the interval came when Yoann Gourcuff twisted and turned in the area before finding Marco Boriello who collapsed appealing for a penalty. Lille's attempts were more direct, such as a curling free-kick from Yohan Cabaye which Kalac tipped over the bar at full strength soon after. Despite the early second-half introductions of Clarence Seedorf and Kaká the Rossoneri struggled to cope with their well-organised opponents who threatened with every counterattack. Odemwingie was put clean through again by Keita’s exquisite pass in the 50th minute but shot straight at Kalac with the unmarked Bodmer screaming for the square pass.

Inzaghi chance
Odemwingie was almost punished for his miss when Filippo Inzaghi headed Gourcuff’s corner against the bar with an hour gone but the travelling supporters behind Grégory Malicki's goal found their voice as news of Anderlecht’s second goal filtered through - a collective voice became a roar when their side also took a two-goal lead on 67 minutes. The excellent Kader raced 40 metres with the ball, exchanged a one-two with Bodmer and delivered a cool finish with his right foot to put the win beyond doubt and a dramatic qualification within touching distance.

Festivities
On what proved to be the best night of European football in Lille's history, Cabaye even found the time to rattle a long shot off the bar before the festivities began.

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I want Barcelona now. To start thinking only on Serie A...

Carlo slams selfish Rossoneri Wednesday 6 December, 2006

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Carlo Ancelotti admits this was an “awful” Milan performance and urged his players to be more “altruistic”.

The Rossoneri stayed in the locker room for some time after the match with Vice-President Adriano Galliani for a crisis meeting following their worst performance of the season so far, a 2-0 Champions League defeat to Lille.

“We lost in the worst possible way – on home turf, when playing badly. It’s a habit we must not get into. The players know the way I feel about this and I expect an immediate reaction,” slammed the Coach.

“I think I have an excellent rapport with the squad and understand their difficulties, but it’s also important for everyone to act in a more altruistic manner.”

The San Siro giants have been struggling badly in Serie A and Europe this term, although the result did not change their qualification top of Group H.

“If Milan are what we saw tonight, then it’s total darkness, as we were awful. When a team isn’t working well, then clearly a lot of the responsibility falls to the Coach. I’m not backing away from that.”

The draw for the second phase is on Friday December 15 and Milan will face one of Barcelona, PSV Eindhoven, Real Madrid, Celtic or Porto.

“The team to avoid is Barcelona, especially considering how they played yesterday. Yet we were on level terms with Barca in the semi-finals last season. The winter break will be crucial, as it’ll allow us to get some of our injured players back and work on the form of others. We absolutely need this time out.”

Lille’s victory allowed them to leap into second place and qualify for the next phase, while a stunning late scissor-kick volley from Bruno Cirillo took AEK Athens to the UEFA Cup with their 2-2 draw against Anderlecht

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Clearly, otherwise I can't wait to see Puyol down again crying for a foul

I was reading through the posts and you guys made me laugh a bit (well the laughing was mostly at he way we played). Milan are known to n ot win matches they don't need to win, we didn't win the last 2 in the 02/03 season and neither did we win the last 2 of the 03/04 season. And I can't see why all of you where expecting something more from this especially considering the way we have been playing AND not even having to play for the first position since we already have won the group.

The players didn't even try to win it, they where't even running they where just walking around and when we had the ball just put in a few string of passes

We practically fielded our second squad, and we only came down to play this match because you have to honour the fixture.

It looked like they where going through a regular training sessiopn, everybody was taking it easy, even in the end of the match, nobody was even trying to hurry and take the free-kicks or corners, they were just jogging along to the corner flag, or taking a free kick that was in a good position shortly

Kalac made some good save but their first goal was partly his fault and partly the fault of whoever it was that was supposed to be marking Lille's striker.

What I'm trying to say is, just don't get worked up over this match I think everyone here knew what was going to happen in the first place.

The next round is going to be played in February. 'Till then the situation would have totally changed. Don't worry, after the Christmas break you're going to see a different Milan, I assure you of that.

And han, I couldn't agree more with your post. It's all I've been saying the whole time, this was more of a training session than a real match. The guys didn't care at all, they probably had their heads on the Sunday match against Torino.

Yeah that was what I was thinking, seeing how important that match is and how unimportant this one was.

I just think we sold this game. Nothing more.

that was why I was saying, at the moment.
I hope that Galliani and Co will have a brain surgery, they have some kind of tumour,....

I think they even managed to get more money in ticket sales costing 1€ rather then selling them for the original price and only having a couple of hundrerds of people coming to San Siro.

Right now there is nothing we can do but try and win at least 3 of the 4 Serie A fixtures we have left and wait to go into the christmas break. Hopefully we'kk get a couple of players back and a defender and a forward arrive. I hope it's a fullback and Suazo.

I thinkSuazo could be tempted away for less then 8mil and try to get a decent full back that has an EU passport.

now i read some other things that make me laugh, well its understandable that milan never won the last two games on the ucl, when they were already qualified for the next round in first place, but im not agree with your comment, not because you posted, no, you make good posts bru, but if they have this feeling all time , why then they just can say , ''no why tha heck to play'' , we don;t give a damm ..

what makes me mad, (sort of) its because real , played against dinamo, and real only had the second place , no watter what, and they were losing 2-0 and they never gave up, and real fans are just like milan's, they demand the best from them, and as you can se eventhought the entrance to the san siro was 1 euro, and the stadium was really quite empty, and there are so many things now, its like a cicle, like when shevchenko was just arriving to acm, we got nothig for like 4 years, and it seems that is beggining again, we have already two seasons with out any kind of silverware.

Also they know the fans are pissed, not glad, why not win a game for them, just a questions , do you really think we can beat real, or barcelona , o any other world class team now ?? and be objective, dont think like a milanista , like we all do , but with you hand on your heart , we won be able to, until the team gets new players for the squad , and thats all the problem, if you have subs. is to replace a player if they gor injuried, suspenden or who knows, but we have a very short squad, so as you can see, is not only in the field were the team has problems, i dunno why the management haven't done a single thing, they are the in the heart of milan , and still they dont realize about this whole crappy mess ??

so at the end, i really hope this changes, it hurts to see my team losing, but losing this way, so patheticly, so saldy ... i hope it changes, nobody seems to hace the courage that they had before.

the game looked like it. We had nothing to lose nothing to gain. Lille at least had big chance, and they used that chance, of course not without Milan's help

heard that 25,800 people were there

and we have more than 80,000 seats....

Fact is we absolutely need reinforcements, especially a defender and a striker. Oddo and Suazo are by the window, we can take them for less then 20 million together. Really, if we don't sign at least a player this winter we're screwed.

And I agree with what you said but you have to be objective about this and take our current situation into account.

So what would you prefer that we will give our all in this and play for pride? Just so we can say "We won the game cause we are Milan" or would you like to let the players play complaicently in a match that has no significance to us WHAT SO EVER and conserve their energies for a much more important match in the weekend, that if we don't win we will continue to fall off the pace even more.

For me, it's pretty obvious which one I would choose.

And yes, they wheren't even trying to win this match imo, just by watching them play you could see what their intentions where, they where just running down the clock passing the ball around

don't think that oddo will come.. as milan treated him...
But yes, if we don't sign anybody/someone bad/few we are screwed

Now just imagine the attendance if the tickets where sold for the regular price.

It's just hard to fill up the San Siro to full capacity, when you compare it to most stadiums in England it is twice their size. So it would be twice as hard to fill to full capacity if it's not a big match.

Like Stamford bridge for example, what's it's capacity, something like 40,000? And it's not always a full house. Now just imagine what it would take to fill a stadium that can hold over 80,000 spectators every weekend

Yes han , but the problem here is that we have been lack of wins the season so far, that another defeat is not a joke anymore, and you will see, that will have a lot of problems facing torino, and using la prima squadra, and the same topic will come to life here, is what we are talking about all time , is our main concern, the main topic.

yuor point is reazonable, more if you say '' hey wa have the ucl final around the corner and the serie A is lost already'', but is not the case, the can get smacked the next round, and belive me im really sacared about that , becasue the seria A is not an option now, lets be honest, and coppta italia might be out redemption.

Oddo would still come he's a Milanista at heart and he would do anything to wear the Milan shirt.

Oddo and Suazo should be out January targets. They would come for probably less then 20mil€ together, like X said, some thing that should be well in our price range considering we just made 15 million pounds from qualifying from the group stages of the CL.