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MILAN-CATANIA: THE ROSSONERI SQUAD
9/17/2010

MILAN - Milan coach Massimiliano Allegri has named his 20-man squad for the match against Catania:

GOALKEEPERS: Abbiati, Amelia, Roma;
DEFENDERS: Antonini, Bonera, Nesta, Papastathopoulos, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta, Yepes;
MIDFIELDERS: Abate, Boateng, Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf;
FORWARDS: Ibrahimovic, Inzaghi, Oduamadi, Robinho, Ronaldinho.
Unavailable: Oddo, Ambrosini, Flamini, Pato.
Not called up: Jankulovski, Montelongo, Onyewu, Strasser

Err,Flamini not fit :/,what was his injury.Why isn't Strasser called!I mean come on,he looked good in the pre season,and we really needed a Defense midfeild.Beh!I hope we see Nesta-Thiago Silvo duo,would be awesome .

Milan-Catania, Milan's possible formation :



Bench: Amelia, Papastathopoulos, Yepes, Abate, Boateng, Oduamandi and Inzaghi

source : link

Hopefully we don't see the Rino-Pirlo-Seedorf midfield combo. If Rino plays, he needs to play his old position of holding back doing the dirty work for Pirlo, plus Boateng instead of Seedorf, because that is really one slow midfield

It's on Allegri, but I can't see Boateng entering before Gattuso.

I'm a big Rino fan, but he can no longer play at Serie A level. Boateng imo should start ahead of him. The problem is that we have no other DM aside from Rino available. So we can either risk the Boateng-Pirlo-Seedorf midfield, as is predicted by Gazzetta, or we go for the more cautious approach and play the DM, in that case Seedorf would have to be dropped for Boateng as playing Rino-Pirlo-Seedorf will most likeley get us ripped apart because of the lack of any pace in that midfield

Boateng is certain to start. The race is between Gattuso and Seedorf. Also, Robinho didn't train with the squad so he might start from the bench (hopefully not).

I would never play without a DM. Allegri knows he shouldn't play without a DM. Seedorf & Pirlo are untouchable that means it's between Gennaro and Kevin. Like you said G. is the only DM we have right now...

Dude, just because you don't like Boateng doesn't mean he ain't be playing.

I can assure you Boateng is the most certain to start tomorrow.

Why didn't he train with the team? Is something wrong with him as well??

3 weeks into the season and players already dropping like flies

Yeah, probably some light injury.

So a Dinho-Pippo-Ibra front 3 tomorrow?

Hopefully not. I'd rather us play Seedorf instead of Inzaghi.

Thanks. It was in LAST MONTH'S issue of the Milan magazine, which I wasn't even aware of until I visited the site just last night. Not only am I upset at just missing it (coulda asked Fishdoll to pick it up for me), but I was also silently cursing the magazine stand that used to sell it but stopped nearly two years ago.

I'm professional, I don't have feelings

Gattuso is better choice and I know Allegri will chose him.

Wait and see.

Really those 2 sentences in the same post don't make any sense. You clearly don't like Boateng for whatever reason. I agree he's not the smartest player out there put we already have Pirlo and Seedorf who sometimes are too smart for their own good in midfield, we need some exuberance, power and pace in that midfield, and Boateng is just the man to provide that

Look like Allegri said we have to start the game with right menality. We have enough strikers, we need a balanced team more than attacking one.

We definetly must start with Gattuso in midfield. Pirlo is out of question, so Seedorf could go out for Boateng, but since Seedorf is a good friend to Mr. Allegri I think he'll start

Wanna bet?

Why does Onyewu not get called up. I don't get it!

Well, he didn't look even close to fit at the World Cup... may still be getting back to full speed.

...not that there's a major role waiting for him. He wasn't even named to the CL roster... clearly behind Yepes and Bonera. Might see him on a weekend when we face a minnow and have a midweek CL game. Copa, too.

Ask han before you make decisions like that

That's more like it.

Gee that really sucks, so very sorry for this. The Salute Of the Panther, huh? From the look of the spread it looks like a great read. Here's hoping you can find this somehow, for me this would be pretty much a collector's item. Maybe if there was a way to subscribe to it annually you could look into that. I do subscribe almost all of the magazines I read, and well this way I don't miss an issue.


Well put.

dont get it

yeah Gattuso is in the starting Eleven.
Probably cos Robinho's injured (as Gazzetta suggests).

KPB moved up into the trident attack.

So Gattuso is in

due to unforeseen circumstances
I'm sure if Robinho were fit,

Gattuso wouldn't be called up.

Robinho is called up and playing Boateng as an attacker doesn't make any sense

You're wrong

Because a) he's crap, he's the last choice of our 6 CBs.



Well, I'm not han.

Relax

It looks like Boa will play alongside Ibra and Dinho in attack. Midfield should be Gattuso-Pirlo-Seedorf.

Don't really know what to make of it.

A fourth midfielder really... I would have liked this against a strong side... but against Catania? Not so sure...

I really don't understand it either.

Imo we'll see some form off 4-4-2 with Seedorf more advanced then the other 3 Boateng in attack would be ridiculous, you're wasting 3/4 of what he can offer to our game

Some reports are saying that Inzaghi will play instead of Pato. Also Boateng will start in midfield with Pirlo and Seedorf...

source : link

If we play with Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf and Boateng, I believe both Seedorf and Boateng will have a lot of attacking duties. At least that would make sense to me. But all four are midfielders IMO, so yes, I would call it 4-4-2 too.

Will Catania be a team that will be very defensive against us? I remember a match against Inter where they were very dangerous attacking last season, so I'm not sure.

I say 4-3-3 with Ibra and Ronaldinho on the flanks, spearheaded by Pippo

It looks like that's how it's gonna be.

And it's the Seedorf-Pirlo-Boateng midfield as well?

http://twitter.com/RossoneriBlog/status/24868617640

Why Bonera over Zambrotta??!!! :doubleheadbang:

Robinho is definitely injured?

I assume its just a strategic decision to try to keep Zambrotta fresh over the course of the season after midweek European games. I can't imagine Allegri straight out prefers Bonera... especially after the stinker he laid against Cesena as a RB.

This lineup really worries me. Boateng better run his butt off covering back or we're going to be in trouble. Pirlo and Seedorf together in the midfield is a serious liability. If I'm Catania I've been preaching to my team all week that Milan can be hit on the counter attack and showing them the Cesena tape. This lineup would have played right into my hands. The key, yet again, will be whether the wingers (Ronaldinho and Ibra) get back to help. We can't have 3 guys standing around up top and 7 guys trying to defend 8 attacking players. That looks to me like a Maxi Lopez brace. No idea where our width comes from on attack either. Antonini and Bonera aren't much help there and who will cover their runs? Seedorf? Trouble. Perhaps the game plan is to have Boateng actually stay in a holding role in midfield and rely on our attackers to come through with a moment of individual brilliance?

dont worry just yet guys we can always sh** ourselves at half time see how it goes cant wait for kick off was really lookin forward to robinho starting tho

+1

What is this guys obsession with Bonera?!?

Perhaps Zamb isn't 100%?

meh glad to see T.Silve back in there

This game could either go to Milan 5 - 0 Catania or Milan 0 - 3 Catania.

I'm more hopeful simply because I see the name Nesta in there

http://www.acmilan.com/LM_Match_Stats.aspx?idIncontro=3255

He's not on the bench so yes he's injured.

Bonera surely is happy that we have a new coach. So far he's starting in every game.

I really hope it's just to keep Zambro fresh and we are not going to make Bonera our starting RB.

Pippo + Ibra should be interesting to see.