Anyone has the full table?

Nice performance (after ronnie came in)

Seedorf played great tonight, but was slow at times.

Oddo played good in defence, but was terrible in passing and crossing the ball.

Ronnie

Yanku and Rino

I think R9 has shut people's mouths now!

Well played by all the team - even Pirlo!

FORZA MILAN

i hope he'll start next match!!

Anyone have the clip of the first power shot of Ronaldo? That shot was amazing !!

Ouuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuf!
That was a close one, Pirlo impoved in the 2nd half, and Turtle was @$$!#&!!!
I still dont understand why Kaka played the whole match, f@cking Carlo Oli was 10 times better than him and you took him off grrrrrrr!
By the way, Bonera was great

Anyway, it was important to get the 3 pts and we did



Really?

Catania is losing at the moment in Messina.

Catania and Palermo have 1 more match (that match 1 week ago).

We have a left back that scores goals... And desicive ones... I mean how f@cking great is that?

It's cos we've got wing backs not a flat back 4 (even 3 at the back would be safer). Bonera & Maldini did very well today but it was only them in the centre. As it always is - only 2 in defense! And I think subsequently 3 in midfield looks empty as well, even if Rino & Pirlo did great. Seedorf put a lot of effort in as well. I think all this can be changed with 3 at the back and Oddo & Jankulovski external MFs!

Great new, we're 2pts from the 4th place

Yeah, and we also have an attack that doesn't score

Yeah I thought we where really good also, but the lapses in concentration in defence need to be assessed. We can't conceed soft goals like that one now that we need to win each match and no more mistakes cannot be permited.

Oli was simply great his speed and movement was perfect. Gila was really working hard olso and had some great shots.

R9 was simply great, came on and almost scored 3 goals if it wheren't for some great keeping from Amelia. His bullet shot from 30 meters was more of a super save from Amelie more then anything else. If Dida leaves in the summer we should really go for this one




Eurosport.com There's the full table. Only a win away from leap frogging Empoli into 4th. Our game against them in a few weeks will be crucial.

Oddo put in some great crosses and was really putting Livorno under pressure everytime he put one in. He hit the post with one of his crosses that was looping into the net

Seedorf was also good

And R9 was great, Kaka was playing better once he came on and really looked like he was enjoying himself

Phew! That was close, well done to Livorno, they have a bright future ahead. As for our game, we were decent offensively but quite shite defensively. Bonera was MOM in my opinion, I'm starting to fall in love with this guy. Oddo needs to improve his crosses a little and Kakà is slowly gaining his form back, he was more consistent in the 2nd half. Same with Pirlo. Dunno about you guys but I think Andrea had a very good match. Seedorf was zero, while Rino was... well, Rino. Oli and Gila moved very well, while Roni showed he needs to catch his pace up. Still, his combinations with Ricky and the others were brilliant and his shots were bombastic. Hopefully the guys will work a little more on concentration, cause if we develop that then I think we can beat any team easily. Only 2 points shy from the 4th place now, FORZA MILAN!

Oh, and how could I forget Jankulovski?

SEI GRANDE JANKUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!

Apart from the goal Janku was pretty bad, his mistakes where putting us under pressure.

OMG!!!

Oddo crosses were good?!!
Seedorf and Kaka played well?!!
And what, we played a good game?
You call this a good performence, pfff it seems that we haven't seen the same game guys!!!

Milan has always been great! (One way or another )



I remember that one, but did not see anything spectacular in attack from him, Cafu looked better (at times )

IMO we need to drop Sedorf as he's not much use at the moment. We should be giving Yoann more games and help his development.

I think me and you saw the same game Kaka wasn't on form like he said he was in an interview, even if there were a few flashes of what he's capable of. It wasn't a great team performance but a few individuals did well. But then credit to Livorno, they had no fans and a draw wouldn't have been undeserved.

Totally agree, was disappointed not to see him today.

Agreed, Livorno played very well, they were far better than us by moments

11 matches unbeaten and counting!

FORZA MILAN!

I posted it in the Kakathread.

His church is accused being a fraud, because they stole money from the church, and begged for money in the US or something like that
It's all over the brazilian news, blabla, and he defends them.

We all know what's 1.place on Kaka's mind. So I'm not surprised that he plays badly

I can understand bringing a defensive type player on when we're winning and the game is tight, but sometimes bringing a player on who can run at people is just as effective. It would have been better to bring Yoann on instead of Ambro, as bringing Ambro on meant we had three DM's when two would have been sufficient. That is probably why we struggled towards the end.

I don't think we played any good. We had some moments... but our defence... fgs. If we were playing Inter or Roma, we would be ***** again.

We really need Nesta back. Bonera + Nesta.

Nobody said we had a good game, stop complaining and enjoy the 3 points. I said Oddo needs to improve his crosses, I said Seedorf was zero and I said Kakà is still out of form. I also said we were lucky we got the 3 points here. And give some credit to Livorno for god's sake. They played a wonderful match.

Yea, that's what I would have done. And because Gourcuff's an AMF it would have wound the clock down some more. I think on the whole we were a bit rusty after not playing for 2 weeks, but as some one said it's the 3 points that count.

Good post Portugal.
I really do miss the Ministry of Defence - that is Nesta!
He really does control the back four.

yes, he was perfect.
but Oddo made some errors

I think Seedorf wasn't bad at all. He made some good moves. But Kaka, I think needs to rest and recover 100% coz after the injury he still didn't find his form. And, YES we were lucky

Here are some posts that you obviously missed!

And I'll stop complaining when my team starts to play some good football, since some players are still walking aroud and giving away, I'll keep saying what I think like it or not!

Milan 2 - 1 Livorno

Gattuso 29 (M), Lucarelli 31 (L), Jankulovski 68 (M)
Stadio Giuseppe Meazza

Ronaldo made his Rossoneri debut and Gennaro Gattuso scored a rare goal as Milan continued their revival.

Emergency work on San Siro saw 28 turnstiles installed overnight, bringing the stadium up to the standard where at least the 37,000 season ticket holders could be allowed in despite the drastic new security measures to view Ronaldo's debut. Milan were closing in on a Champions League spot and took on a Livorno side without a win in nine.

With both Dida and Zeljko Kalac injured, January signing Marco Storari was given his Rossoneri debut in goal. Serginho, Alessandro Nesta, Giuseppe Favalli and Cristian Brocchi fleshed out the injury list. Marco Amelia returned from suspension for the Amaranto with new signings Stefano Fiore and Cesar Aparecido.

Livorno had only ever won here once in Serie A - a 2-0 result in June 1942. Amelia has been heavily linked with Milan and showed his talent after six minutes by fingertipping an Alberto Gilardino rising strike out of the top corner.

Kaka dummied a defender only to drill wide, the Massimo Oddo spotted the goalkeeper off his line and clipped the crossbar with a splendid lob.

Livorno also threatened with new signing Fiore testing Storari's reflexes from just inside the area. A powerful Paolo Maldini volley from a corner kick was well held by Amelia.

When the goal finally came, it was from an unusual source. Ricardo Oliveira turned provider down the left with a taut cross that Gennaro Gattuso came sliding on to for a finish from six yards.

It didn't last long, as Livorno had a furious reaction. Within seconds Storari had parried a Cristiano Lucarelli strike, then he pushed away a Dario Passoni missile, but only into the path of Lucarelli.

It was a very entertaining game with chances for both sides, as Amelia required a double intervention to keep out Seedorf, then Gilardino.

Livorno went very close on 54 minutes when Stefano Morrone got away from two markers and Fiore pushed on for Cesar, but he fired over from a tight angle. At the other end, Gattuso's diving header was well held.

Ronaldo made his return to Serie A - and his Rossoneri debut - for Oliveira at the 63rd minute, receiving a warm welcome from the local fans. Within minutes he had created a good chance, combining with Gilardino, then a deflected Andrea Pirlo strike dipped on to the roof of the net.

Yet it was another defensive player who restored Milan's lead with a stunning goal. Marek Jankulovski found space on the edge of the area and unleashed a sudden left-foot snapshot that near broke the net between the near post and Amelia's hand.

Livorno never gave in and a free kick found Fiore's header just over, while Morrone's goal was disallowed for a tight offside position.

Ronaldo stung Amelia's gloves with a fierce drive from 30 metres, but Morrone only failed to volley in an equaliser because he lost his balance in front of Storari.

Milan: Storari; Oddo, Bonera, Maldini, Jankulovski; Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf (Brocchi 75); Kakà; Ricardo Oliveira (Ronaldo 63), Gilardino (Ambrosini 79)

Livorno: Amelia; Grandoni, Kuffour, Galante, Pasquale (Paulinho 83); Filippini, Morrone, Passoni, Cesar (Balleri 69); Fiore; Lucarelli

Ref: Rosetti

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chiillll. When we get all the players back, kick Seedorf out and get Gourcuff in, sort Pirlos problems out and get ronnie playing, we will kick some ***

Hope so

ask Rossoneri7, he's no impressed yet!


It's cause we can't defend as a whole... nothing to do with fullbacks! Defending as a unit is more important than individual defence...

Anyway... 3 points! We can't ask for more this season so I can't but be happy!

Pirlo looked better than usual today but I still think Gourcuff should have played. The French should feature either in Pirlo's or Seedorf's position. Most of the time and as soon as possible...

Grazie Ragazzi!

I thought it was a good performance (not a great one). We controlled the match for large periods and had the chance to score quite a few. I thought Livorno did quite well and looked dangerous going forward, but I always felt we'd win the game.

First of all, Chill man.

About Oddo.

What I saw him do was make a few bad passes. His crosses where not bad, everytime he put in a cross Livorno where scrambling it away and having trouble, that means it's a good cross.

Yes they wheren't perfect but they wheren't bad either, the important thing is that he was constantly running up the flanks and putting the ball in.

About Seedorf and Kaka

No one said Kaka was good, in fact I think everybody said that he was bad again, but he did have flashes and he was more consistant in the second half then he was in the first.

Seedorf had a good game, like it or not. If he did have a bad game I would be the first to point it out but he wasn't bad.

About the game.

First of all you need to give Livorno some credit, they are a good team, secondly we where better and where controlling the game most of the time. The chances Livorno had where mostly being given to them by our defence having concentration lapses.

Imo we where better going forward and where actually somewhat fluent when passing the ball around, we created sevral good chances that Amelia saved (btw, I want this guy for next season if Dida leaves). Our problem was again the defence, it might have been because they where a bit rusty because Bonera and Maldini have been very solid in every game lately

I really can't remember a decent cross form him, even his corners were bad!



Are you joking, he(Seedorf) was the worst! Half of the San Siro was bouing him whn he went off!

Kaka dont even worth my comments, but I balme Carlo for letting him on the field for the whole 90 mns!




I gave Livorno all the credit they deserved, they played a very good game and with the players we have and our standing I believe we were pure sh!t today!

Amelia is good and he'd be my second choice if Dida doesn't renew but he wasn't impressive today IMO... Most of his saves were shots, headers straight on him and Janku's goal is partly his fault cause he position was ugly... I would expect from Milan's keeper to ricochet that shot!

I agree, Oddo's corners where bad but his crosses wheren't as bad as you are making them out to be. At this point I don't know who should be taking our corner kicks, we seem to have a million of them in a game and manage to waste all of them.

Pirlo and Seedorf where once good at taking them Kaka has never been much of a cornerkick specialist either.



If you want to keep saying Seedorf was bad fine, that's your oppinion, but I don't think he was, and he was not booed.



No, Kaka needs to play as much as he can, we need him at his best against Celtic, and he needs to play to get back his best form. Imo Carlo should have taken off Gila for R9 to come on. He and Oli could be devistating with eachother. Plus I thought Oli was one of our best players today.



Look a couple of weeks ago we couldn't string 2 passes together. Our play is becoming more fluent, we are controlling the tempo of the game again and apart from the chances our defence GAVE Livorno, they wheren't that threatening when they where trying to attack us. Right now we should just be thankful for the 3 pts, this isn't the season when we should be whining about how we played the match, the win is all that matters. And we got that, so let's be happy about it

The defence was pretty bad today though, the lack of concentration at times was horrifying to see. The soft goal we allowed demonstrated this quite well.



You suck the fun out of everything don't you

Me?? Without Me this place would be as joyful as a graveyard!!

Jack likes to chat (and maybe do some more) with the dead but that doesn't count!

I'm sorry han but when he left for Brocchi you could hear half of the San Siro booing and half of it applauding him. I personally thought Seedorf today was our worst player on the field. He was doing pretty much nothing except slowing down our game and losing balls. Yoann would have done much better, I'm sure of it.

Good game.

Nothing special .. The closing minutes, Carlo was hanging onto the 2-1 lead .. And that could have cost us the 3 points; but in the end, it was a good game.

R9 looked weired in a Milan jersey .. I cant get it out of my head he was a merda.

Oddo did good, well and Janku .. Apart from the goal, I want Sergio back !!

Our Mdfield .. Nothing special going on their .. same old same old ..

And Gila .. I wish I had a gun to put to his head, maybe then he could finally put the damn ball in the net .. It aint rocket science !!!!!!!

Yep, he was booed and applauded at the same time which made it even uglier... He knows what he needs to do and Carletto better f@cking know that Gourcuff is more than ready to step in and control the pace of the game for us because he does that so well.

no goals from our strikers

Again.

Well as long as they keep coming , I'm not gonna split hairs, not the kind of season to be doing that.

I do wish though that between Oli,Gila,Pippo and Ron they could tally at least 50 goals this season. Doesn't look like it.

I don't think Milan played all that poorly. In fact with the exception of a few defensive lapses we dominated possession and (more importantly) when R99 came on we could've scored at least 2-3 more times.

More than anything else I was really encouraged with Ronaldo's play. I think it won't be as long as many think before he starts to show sustained periods of brilliance.

If the defense improves its play i don't see why Milan can't win each one of its remaining league games.

The problem with our defence was because they where playing as individuals. And for a defence to work well it needs to work as one unit.

Janku, apart from the goal was pretty bad, made a lot of bad passes and didn't really try to cross the ball as much as he could have

But agree with you on everything else you just said.

We're 2pts shy of 4th spot and if Palermo keep slipping up and we continue to improve we might just slip into the 3rd spot

What do you mean again? Our strikers have been very consistent this start of year.

Milan 2 - 0 Arezzo: Gila goal, Pippo goal
Milan 3 - 1 Reggina: Gila goal
Milan 2 - 2 Roma: Oli goal, Pippo goal
Milan 1 - 0 Parma: Pippo goal
Roma 3 - 1 Milan: Gila goal

Our attack's been doing great so far.

This probably is just a matter of coincidence and may not mean much of anything, but did anyone else notice Arrigo Sacchi in the stands with Berlusconi and Galliani?