OK, no one moved to start this thread so I'll do it.

Cagliari are so far the only team we haven't scored a goal against this season. I can see them coming and playing a typical small Italian team's football; defending and bothering our weak defense on the counter attacks.

It's not going to be an easy game...

What's your track record like with match threads? If we lose it's all your fault, no matter how much you try to pin it on Carlo and/or Kaladze and/or Seedorf.

I've not kept track of it but I guess it's not very good!
As long as Kaka and Bonera are there, Seedorf and Kaladze's liabilities wont matter that much.

Cagliari are playing some very good football this year. I think it would be a mistake to stick them with the generic 'small team' label. They're close to (if not in) a UEFA Cup position and they beat the gobbi in Turin (rather easily too).

They've got a good attack - Jeda, Matri and Acquafresca - and Milan's defenders are going to need to be awake and paying attention.

EDIT: Saccani will referee the game.

yeah i rate Matri and Acquafresca pretty highly hopefully they will both have a off day

You're right

Thank you, but I'm actually still smiting from the inter thread I opened last week.


Not that good, unfortunately. The track record, I mean.


Bonera is actually half a defender than Kaladze - the Georgian falls flat on his face because of all his stupid, tasteless mistakes he makes once or twice every match. I only wish he had a twin brother who was more beautiful, and made less mistakes. I'd have swapped, eyes closed.

[font="Palatino Linotype"][/font][size="2"][/size][color="#FF0000"][/color] I hope Milan win as always but carlo will play his amazing xmas tree. Ill keep my fingers crossed that we win and Inter lose.

Flamini should play, he's in good form recently and he should get a chance to start over Ambro.

Haha. Welcome! Nice post.

Milan (4-3-2-1): Abbiati; Zambrotta, Bonera, Maldini, Jankulovski; Beckham, Pirlo, Flamini; Seedorf; Pato, Inzaghi. A disposizione: Dida, Antonini, Kaladze, Favalli, Ambrosini, Emerson, Viudez. All: Ancelotti
Indisponibili: Nesta, Gattuso, Borriello, Kakà, Kalac, Mattioni, Ronaldinho, Shevchenko


r80 and kaka seem to be out for this one or rested for bremen

Gosh. Look at that projected lineup: there are two strikers.

However will we stand it?

i hope we play 4-4-2 not the 4-3-1-2 seedrof plays much better in deeper role seedorf on left side becks on RM pirlo and flamini in centre with flamini proceting pirlo and assisiting the defence with 2 stikers pato behind pippo

Goalkeepers: Lupatelli and Marchetti;
Defenders: Agostini, Astori, Bianco, Canini, Lopez, Magliocchetti, Matheu, Pisano;
Midfielders: Biondini, Conti, Cossu, Lazzari, Fini, Parola;
Attackers: Acquafresca, Caschili, Jeda, Matri

Cagliari called up players

+1. it could work:

Easy win for us .. If Inter lost or tied i would say we would choke because every chance we get to make up ground we have never taken advantage of.


I feel our master Carlo will be up 1-0 @ half time and then put in Emerson and take out our lone striker Pato/Pippo for the second goal and kill the match.

MILANELLO - Questi i 20 convocati di Carlo Ancelotti per la gara contro il Cagliari:

Abbiati, Dida, Antonini, Bonera, Favalli, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Maldini, Senderos, Zambrotta, Ambrosini, Beckham, Emerson, Flamini, Pirlo, Seedorf, Inzaghi, Pato, Ronaldinho, Viudez.

Giocatori indisponibili: Kalac, Mattioni, Nesta, Gattuso, Borriello, Kakà, Shevchenko.

Viudez called up??!!!

A Pato-Viudez attack would be nice (I myself know it won't happen).

Did I miss news on Abbiati or something, is he injured?

He's called up

0-1 cagliari
95th minute penalty

Man, I love your posts! they're just perfect!

Dunno how I missed that. I think I just assumed the players called up would be preceeded by 'squad' or something, meaning Dida was the first name.. or I'm going blind.

Funny how I didn't see his name either, before reading your post that is.

Every time Jefri makes these pessimistic posts, we go on to win!

4-3-3 with pato-pippo-videuz with pirlo/seedorf-flamini-beckham/seedorf or 4-4-2

oh forget it r80 is back we will play xmas tree

Pato-Viudez would be too short a frontline. They'd boss over them. We should have got Heskey.

Since we're all putting in 'hope posts' I'm going for this formation



That's a half each for Becks and Seedorf with Viudez providing the speed we're missing because of Kaka's absence, Dinho being the creative mind in attack without having to worry about tasks such as running ( rolleyes: ) and Pato pretty much picks himself out in attack

Now that's a hopeful lineup

It would be the same as having Kaka start. Kaka might be tall but he's not an areal presence. At least we could recover some speed that we've been missing since Kaka's injury with Viudez instead of Seedorf who is somewhat of a liability playing in that attacking midfielder role because he's slow and more then that likes to slow down the play himself with the back passes and the standing on the ball for 5 minutes before releasing it

Sh!t

Pato is out, according to mediaset


Favalli instead of Pato

Janku in midfield

+1

Kaka and now Pato out...?

MILAN: Abbiati; Zambrotta, Bonera, Maldini, Favalli; Pirlo, Flamini, Jankulovski; Beckham, Seedorf, Inzaghi.

CAGLIARI: Marchetti; Pisano, Bianco, Lopez, Matheu; Fini, Conti, Biondini; Cossu; Jeda, Acquafresca.

What a weird lineup Beckham as an AM ...


I bet the age average is around something like 32

Cagliari will probably beat us.


EDIT: sorry 'bout the triple post

huh...

-----------Flamini---------Pirlo---------Janku------------
--------------------Becks-------Seedorf------------------
----------------------------Pippo---------------------------

Am I right??

The good just keeps getting better. The injuries, I mean. We should never have let Paloschi go on loan! At least he was fast, had heart, and was desperate to score goals, beside being young. Could have helped with these constant injuries we get to our players. Bah!

I think Carlo will not risk anything for the league anymore. had we still been in the title race, Pato would have started thi s game (Carlo said he would). looks like he (along with Kaka) is being rested for the UEFA Cup......

Hopefully what you say is true! Me? I can't really tell. If there's one thing I've learned is that there is nothing that can be said with absolute certainty in today's football. This is true with everything else, more so with world football. Still, like I said, I hope what you say be the case.

Hm. This should be interesting.

Janku is rather good in midfield, at least for his NT.

What happened to Ronaldinho and Pato?

We are really going to suffer with that line-up

Now who's on the bench exactly?

I think it's Dida, Ambro, Kaladze, Antonini, Emerson, Cardacio and Viudez.

Sorry for busting in, probably been commented before - what's with Pato?

Wow that's a bad bench!!

I'm thinking we're going to lose points today...

They have a good goalkeeper!

Not sure, Fillipo. Pato was a last minute scratch.

We've put in a great start, first corner to us

Seedorf needs to shoot when he get the ball on the edge of the box, not keep trying to pass it

Wow Pippo on the volley

He's going for the spactacular these days