Here are the call ups:

PORTIERI: Dida, Fiori, Kalac;
DIFENSORI: Bonera, Digao, Favalli, Kaladze, Maldini, Oddo, Simic;
CENTROCAMPISTI: Ambrosini, Brocchi, Emerson, Gattuso, Kakà, Pirlo, Seedorf;
ATTACCANTI: Gilardino, Pato, Paloschi

Dida and Seedorf are back.
No Nesta or Janku.
Yay for Paloschi!
This week, Kaka is a midfielder.

Oddo-Bonera-Kaladze-Maldini it is. Expect x-mas tree.

Dida's back finally recovered.

The game against empoli spawned a good win even if the play wasnt all shining. Now we will face a difficult game, but nonetheless it makes a victory all the more glorious. I hope Pato can once again show his skills. I'm guessing we'll win 0-2.

No Nesta!??

We crashed out of Europe, so Kaka will be a midfielder until the end of the season. He's mostly listed as a forward in Champions League or when our army of strikers is out injured.


I like your confidence, but 1-0 will do it for me. Roma is the same old Roma, while we've fallen from grace. I'd much rather expect a loss or draw than a 2-0 win at this point in time.


From what I've heard, he'll be back to match fitness next week.

Whoa!

I hope you're right, but I can't see Milan winning this one 0-2. I think it'll be a pretty tight game, probably ending up 0-0 or 1-1.

I agree it may be unlikely, but i figure why not a great performance by us?

We're certainly due one! This will be the first time in what, two months(?), since we haven't played a game every 3/4 days. Carlo has assured us that we'll see a 'different' Milan on Saturday night - I hope he's right. It's not necessarily the recent results that bother me, it's the lack of performance and we need to improve a lot if we're going to grab that 4th spot.

Without Nesta chances of conceding a goal are: 99% - and conceding two goals are: 80%

We've certainly been due one for a few good months. But deep down I know things won't change so fast. It's not about the rest between matches, it's the lack of motivation. Last season, Ronaldo helped us immensely because he was motivated. And that proved the difference between our success in the league last season , along with the dream run of Kaka in Europe.

We haven't been the same Milan since Istanbul, since the 2006 scandal, and since Sheva betrayed us and left: the old 4-0 Milan, the 6-0 Milan, the 2-0 at half time Milan. Now it's just some sparks here and, a trance of a run in Europe there. Fingers crossed things will improve.

No way were going to win this.
1-0 for Roma, they're playing better than Inter lately

wooow wht happend to u ur usaly the one who is omtamistic .......so that means we are dead

OR, that means that we're actually going to win this one convincingly

I wouldn't bet on this, if I were you m1ke. We're still in crisis mode.

Hm.

The playing field is just a wee bit more even. Milan are without Nesta, but Roma are without Mexes. He wasn't called up for the giallorossi.

I am being optamistic... hahaha we would be lucky not to concede 2 or more goals.

but who knows, if we play at our potential then we can do it. We have had 2 month of continues football. Maybe this full week of rest might help us make the match at Roma a turning point into better things.

We play good when we need to. Sure Fiorentina is still in the UEFA cup and might start dropping at the very end but that is nothing to depend on. If the players in Milan thinks about that the coming matches will decide wheter Milan is in CL next season or not then I'm sure we can get some good performances.

2 days

One other thing to keep in mind - and I'm sure it's in the back of the mind of the Roma players - is that the midweek game next week is Roma-Lazio. There's been some discussion about not playing players who are 1 card away from suspension v. Milan so as to have 'em available for the derby.

I don't think they'll have any problem of any sort against Lazio... they can even beat them even with their reserve players...

That's what people said last fall, when Lazio beat 'em 3-0.

Derbies are funny things; you can never be entirely sure how they're going to end up.

He promised a different Milan against Arsenal in San Siro too...


Depends on which team's the host. but that result was very strange... kinda one-off.

I dont think roma will switch focus from this game. This game is important for them in order to not let inter get away.

You are not a new member, but good to have you back. Stick around and post more often.

what happened to nesta?

Carlo has been assuring us a different Milan since the christmas break and we might have gotten worse rather then better since then.

But as you said, this is the first game we've had in a while that we hadn't had to play in the span of 3 days form the one before it. Hopefully we'll actually put in a performance.

The fact that Pirlo has been non existing for the last month has been a huge blow and probably one of the big factors of going out of the CL

Let's hope for the Duck's seventh goal tonight.

Nesta has a thigh injury, Hanna. I think he hurt it during the second Arsenal game -- didn't he have it strapped up?

He got the injury during the first leg but was rushed to play the second leg and aggrevated it

anyone have the link to steam the match?

ROMA-MILAN: FORMAZIONI UFFICIALI
15/03/2008

MILANO - Roma e Milan tra poco in campo così all'Olimpico:


ROMA: Doni; Cicinho, Panucci, Juan, Tonetto; De Rossi, Pizarro; Taddei, Perrotta, Mancini; Totti.


MILAN: Kalac; Oddo, Maldini, Kaladze, Favalli; Gattuso, Pirlo, Ambrosini; Kakà, Seedorf; Pato.

It's a kind of MAGIC !

thanks for the lineup!

Why is favalli starting and not janku

janku didnt recover in time like nesta

Poor Yanku !

Favallinho!!!!!!!

Has the game started?

10 mins to go

Yep, yep. Where is the old Milan to blow Roma out of water? Come on you oldies! Do you're grand children proud and win this one for us!

Interesting. The two former Lazio captains available for the game (Oddo and Favalli) are starting.

Forza Milan. C'mon, ragazzi!

one of them will be up against Macini I am afraid who will out pace both of them

game under way...

FORZA MILAN

Mancini straight away

shot from Seedorf wide and weak...

Ambrosini...

Well atleast we're playing well so far...

We're playing quite good so far...

Does anyone have a good strem? The SopCast stream I have seems to have 2 commentaries... It really bad...

bet365.com all the way....

Nice run there by Maldini!

We're playing GOOD! hope our form doesn't drop...