Carlo Ancelotti has pointed out Milan may only have one striker at their disposal for the Champions League encounter with Celtic.

“I really don’t think Alberto Gilardino can recover in time for Tuesday. He still has this knock to his knee that is causing him pain,” warned the Coach after today’s 4-3 win at Siena.

“Tomorrow Pippo Inzaghi will undergo tests and we’ll understand if he can take part in the match or not. We don’t have many options, but whatever happens, there will be 11 of us out there.”

It’s a heavy blow for the Rossoneri, who cannot count on brace hero Ronaldo, as he is Cup-tied from his participation with Real Madrid.

Marco Borriello is sitting out a ban for failing a random drugs test, so Ricardo Oliveira is the only forward available for the game at Celtic Park.

Nonetheless, the January signing of Il Fenomeno has proved an impressive one, scoring a brace in his first Serie A start for the club.

“He played 90 minutes in great form. There were occasional pauses, as there had to be, but Ronaldo gave a fine performance for him and for us. Everyone knows he’s a champion, but the fact he was able to do so well in such a short space of time was a surprise.

“Ronaldo deserves praise, as it wasn’t an easy choice to come to Milan. He wanted to put himself up for the challenge again and if he did that it’s because he is still motivated. Kaka also impressed and Massimo Ambrosini has unique qualities within this squad.”

However, there were worrying signs at the Stadio Franchi, as the Rossoneri were leading three times and always let Siena back into the game before Ambrosini’s last-gasp winner.

“I am worried by this aspect,” conceded Ancelotti. “They scored against us with the defence set out, which means the marking was lax. I am convinced that with seven players you can defeat well, as long as they are organised and aggressive. It’s something we have to improve quickly, as against Celtic our defensive strategy will be very important.”

$hit!!

Still, at least Oli should get 90 mins...

Already posted in the match thread

Can a mod please close this?

if Oli have more self confidence , something like he show parts of it in siena game , he will be definitly enough and very Dangerous

Hi...I`m back! Sorry I took so long, but I`m still a Milanese if somone questioned my loyality!?

Well, something to ask for the start - how is Serginho doing? Is he coming back soon?

As for the striker problems. We will just have to make a X-tree with Pirlo, Kaka and Oli. That will do it. I belive Celtic can`t be a real danger for us. I don`t see any possible problem with them. But there could be problems with our team...

Welcome Fillipo Simone ..

Well Dida is out ... Sergio wont be back till April, Nesta March ... So basicall it's gonna be a looooooong 90 mins

welcome back Fillipo Simone, we've missed you.

yes it's gonna be a long game of defending and nothing else

But at the end, the victory will be ours..

Ya and who had the brilliant idea to loan oli out? we would have no strikers, i repeat no strikers for this game if we dint have oli... have you ever herd of such a thing? i feel sick just thinking of it... this may not be all that bad cuz oli was deployed as a lone striker with real betis.

Forget it

We dont know how to defend for 90 mns and we're not gonna do it!

Exactly. I expect us to try and go for the away goal, regardless if we lose, if we lose 2-1 it would still be beneficial for us, we'll have the away goal and all we would need is to finish them off in the San Siro.

I think that we'll most likely try to keep the ball a lot which we should be able to do considering the quality we have in our midfield as opposed to their's. And try to search for an opening.

Kaka showed his brilliance in yesterday's game and thank god he is back in form in time for the CL, all we need is a flash of brilliance like that one to win the game.

The defence won't be like yesterday's Maldini and Bonera have been great together Bonera was the only good one in the defence yesterday. Oddo is far better then Cafu at defending and #Janku will do what he usually does, but if the central 2 stay tight (which they will do since Maldini will be leading the defence not Kala) we won't have problems

Let's just say less problems...

Storari on ur mind too

we would've just moved kaka up

Sort of like Totti at Roma?

I don't know it probably won't work since we have no wingers.

that's what I think we should do.

I don't think he would be very effective there.

And trying it against Cltic is not such a good idea

Kaka as a lone forward?

I think he will.

Well it's not like he'll play as a goalie... He just won't come down to the midfield as much as he's used to. A little bit more advanced is what I'm thinking, it won't alter his game THAT much. And he can just get at where he usually does if it doesn't work out. It's better than fielding Gourcuff at the center IMO, that one is more risky.


No, as Oliveira's partner.

I think Warchant was saying if we didn't have Oliveira, we would just push Kaka forward in response to what bigmac had said earlier...

That's what I was implying also when I said he wouldn't as effective.

I think the formation with kaka as a lone forward would be the xmas tree formation with Seedorf and Yoann supporting him.

But I think him having someone to play off of is very important to his game

i didn't say he would be more effective...i'm just saying that's what we would probably have done

do you see anyone else on the team that could fill that role?

Oh yeah, you're right. NO that's not what I want, definitely not. What I was thinking is Kaka playing in a more advanced role.

Paolo Maldini

Don Paolo can stgand foali and not conceed ... What u talking about, he doesnt count

=stand goalie!??

Sorry that was the booze