Milan will be playing their first Coppa Italia game of the season on Thursday (in the round of 16) against Bari.

Pirlo could possibly make a reappearance (after his injury lay off).

So um... yea - See Sig. <Forza Milan!!!>


EDIT: Oh Yeah, and Amelia was injured in training (estimation 1 month out)

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So, Roma (our 3rd keeper) will be making his debut for us in an official competition after signing for us in 2009.

i hope bonnera doesn't play LB, Alvarez will have a FIELD DAY!!!

this would be a good oportunity to get Cassano fit and give him a good run out 60 mins or more it is Coppa after all

Pato - robinho



Flamini - Strasser - Ambrosini - Merkel


De Vito - Yepes - Sokratis - Abate

Amelia

Amelia is out for a month so Roma will play. I think Bonera will start and Yepes as centre at centre backs and Sokratis or Oddo on the right to rest Abate. Antonini playing wingback.The mid field will most likely be Ambrosini and Pirlo with Strasser or Merkel, but most likely Merkel and and the player behind the strikers will either by Merkel thats if Strasser plays mid. It will be a good chance to get Cassano back fitness so we can play him in these crucial Serie A games from the start. With Pato and Robinho as the strike partner ship but i think he might rest Pato and play Oduamadi instead which is a good choice imo Pato does'nt need to play this game it is Bari after all. A good time for the youth to get some playing time.

Cassano probebly will start. Ibra and Pato should be rested so I think it will be Robinho-Cassano

I think Allegri will be resting only a few of the usual starters i.e Nesta, Ambrosini, Seedorf, Ibrahimovic. I think the rest will be regularly played.

http://www.milannews.it/?action=read&idnotizia=43254

According to milannews.it, Silva and Yepes will start at CB and Oddo at RB.

Since it seems that Allegri won't paly Sokratis even if his life depends on it, it might be a good idea to send him on loan for the rest of the season (didn't Bari wanted him?).

I don't see the point in resting Pato. At the moment is he not more important than Robinho, and he hasn't played too much lately, so...

Agreed, I think Pato should play. We need him scoring goals....

Terribly unfair to Papa. What's the worst he can do, it's Coppa and it's Bari, as a first team player, he at least deserves a start. I absolutely hate coaches who freeze out players. Sure a guy may not be in the coach's plans, but to completely shut him out is just meh.

If Papa does not get to play at all in this game then something that wasn't leaked has happened between him and Allegri. It just cannot only be a case of falling out with him at this point.

Papastathopoulos is suspended.

Even so, Allegri sees him at training every day, so his judgement is far more trustworthy than ours. Now, I know Allegri makes stupid choices every once in a while, but perhaps Sokratis is simply not that good.

isn't he a fullback aswell maybe he doesnt fit into Allegri's tactical plans i mean hes more of a RB back then Wingback like Abate hopefully he can play CB , i'm sure we will see him play soon Nesta or Thiago need a rest sooner or later.....

His main role is CB. He can also play as RB, but from we saw in pre-season, he's not particularly good at it.

i still think you start Robinho & Pato up front because neither have been particulary sharp so far this season. oduamandi should see the field at some point im a huge fan of his!!

Milan or Bari will play with Sampdoria in next round of Coppa Italia.

Probabile line-up:



Pirlo should play a few minutes in the second half.

Edit: After watching StudioSport, we should be playing like this:



Weird line-up.

No Silva and wb Abbiati

Why would he risk Ibra for this cr@p?

Robinho and Cassano should start. Robinho didn't play on the weekend, and Cassano needs to get his match fitness

I think Pato-Robinho and behind them Cassano would be a decent trio.The cb's shouldn't be starters,and oddo can play as a full back,and Antonini isn't any tired,so it'll be good having him.The important thing is that we have a midfeild that will be able to support the trio.I think Strasser-Flamini-Merkel(or someone else) combo could do us good.Pirlo entering the match later if needed.

That's good. Last thing we need is another needless Silva injury.

Silva isn't there because it's said that he had a stomach bug of some sort.

FFt,the injuries that are happening this year are weird.I wonder whats next... ;p


Ps:I read on football-italia that Nesta is not 100 percent fit,Bonera is most likely to start with Yepes :3

it's official sokratis was making moves on Mrs Allegri

I agree and he could use some rest.
And great to see Merkel play even though he didn't impress that much against Cagliari.
AC Milan is starting to get Inters injury list from last year.

MILAN: Roma; Oddo, Nesta, Yepes, Antonini; Gattuso, Ambrosini, Merkel; Robinho; Ibrahimovic, Cassano
BARI: Padelli; Raggi, Rossi, Glik, Parisi; Alvarez, Pulzetti, Donati, Romero; Kutuzov, Castillo.


Very strong linup shame about pato though, will like to see oddo and yepes perform

Now let's see what this one will bring us...

Heaven only knows why Ibra and Gattuso play.

yea it seems we want to do something in coppa but even in that case I think ibra should have been rested

MMM, we started good.

the attack looks good

1-0 Ibracadabra!

1-0 ibra

That Zlatan goal reminds me exactly of one Sheva scored against Lazio a few years back. Quality.

Look extremely good so far.

yeaand oddo over any other available full back rite now i feel much more confident with him

I never really got the hatred to Oddo.

Yes sometimes his end product is a bit off, but for work rate and defensive capabilities he's better than what we currently have, certainly above Antonini and Abate.

Why didn't we play like this against Lecce?

Well, Bari looks much worse in defense, granted. Still.

seedorf imo with him we can t play like this i think with pirlo in for merkel and KPB/flamini for Rino will be our best linup with current player

Merkel 2-0!!

merket 2-0 nice

The most illegal goal we've ever scored.

Antonini was offside, but hey, bravo Alex!

Oddo looks great. We should really consider him a starter.

i think robinho was ofside as well

Robinho was offside and Ibra also commited a foul

Oddo was great,I agree.So was Merkel,and Yepes got us a few important challenges.

Gattuso is useless,I don't know why isn't Strasser is playing.He just running from box to box,he isn't being efficient at defending,and we has the ball,he loses it.

i wonder if the Bari would be as pissed off if we had'nt scored that goal , but hey they just had a very good chance before the end of the first half and pushing the ref is'nt going to land you anywhere except his book.

What was that?! The only way that could have been more blatant that it shouldn't stand is Dida suddenly appearing out of the stands picking the ball up and throwing it in the net.

Ah well, 2-0.

They had every right to be upset there.

Lovely ! Good by Merkel, I knew he had it in him, kinda impossible for the ref to see if it was offside actually