Milan players called up for the game :
Abbiati, Amelia, Abate, Antonini, Nesta, Papastathopoulos, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta, Yepes, Boateng, Emanuelson, Flamini, Gattuso, Merkel, Seedorf, Strasser, Van Bommel, Cassano, Pato, Robinho.

Injured :Bonera, Jankulovski, Ambrosini, Inzaghi.

Not invited: Pirlo.

Inter players called up for the game :
Goalkeepers: 1 Julio Cesar, 12 Luca Castellazzi, 21 Paolo Orlandoni;

Defenders: 2 Ivan Cordoba, 4 Javier Zanetti, 13 Maicon, 15 Andrea Ranocchia, 23 Marco Materazzi, 26 Cristian Chivu, 55 Yuto Nagatomo;

Midfielders: 5 Dejan Stankovic, 8 Thiago Motta, 10 Wesley Sneijder, 14 Houssine Kharja, 17 MacDonald Mariga, 19 Esteban Cambiasso, 20 Joel Obi, 29 Philippe Coutinho;

Forwards: 7 Giampaolo Pazzini, 9 Samuel Eto'o, 22 Diego Milito, 27 Goran Pandev.

Great stuff

Frogley Andrew?

Chivu is playing for Inter? Wasn't he out?
Im scared to.. Rizzoli as ref, rather have Tagliavento

If there was a reason for motivation. It is that Milan know how to play a final; such as this fixture. But Allegri; God help us!

+1

Gazzetta has Zambro starting instead of Antonini

I see no one cares that the ref will be Rizzoli de Merda

Rizzoli is a good ref, stop acting like a bunch of pussies.

Inter's got a terrible defense so we should be looking to exploit it.Chivu sucks really hard,so does Matrix.Cordoba is even worst,only decent player is Ranocchia,and he's coming back from an injury.Only question is:Should Cassano play,and Boateng be pushed to the midfeild,or should Boateng play in the trequartista role?

We're gonna lose.

♫ Hello darkness, my old friend! ♫ Not really feeling too good about this one, myself.

me neither.. i feel we're gonna put in a 'last year' performance =[

DAMN IT I DONT WANT US TO LOSEEEEEEEEEEEEE

You guys aren't really excited about this .

1-1. Take early lead, sit back and get hammered all game until they equalise.

My prediction 1-0. We score from a counter attack

I'd gladly take that

As for that Boateng question above, I'd want him in the midfield, but sportmediaset have him starting in the AM position, and they're usually right...

At least we'll have options like Flamini, Cassano and Urby who can come off the bench

We didn't say Rizzoli was a bad ref, just that I dislike him and the way he referring.
I would like to play Boateng behind Pato

2-1 Both Pato patinho goals !!

You said we should be worried because of Rizzoli. I replied saying Rizzoli is a good ref, so there's no need to overreact about it. Simple English.

I hope it doesn't come down to a bad refereeing decision. Espeially if it goes Inter's way, the forum would go into meltdown.

(Most) probabile line-ups:

MILAN (4-3-1-2): 32 Abbiati, 20 Abate, 13 Nesta, 33 Thiago Silva, 19 Zambrotta, 8 Gattuso, 4 Van Bommel, 10 Seedorf, 27 Boateng, 70 Robinho, 7 Pato.

INTER (4-2-3-1): 1 Julio Cesar, 13 Maicon, 15 Ranocchia, 26 Chivu, 4 Zanetti, 19 Cambiasso, 8 Thiago Motta, 27 Pandev, 10 Sneijder, 9 Eto'o, 7 Pazzini.

I wish Boateng played in midfield and Seedorf as trequartista.

Bad feeling about this game. The good thing is that my intuition when it comes to football is often wrong.

Let's hope you and me are wrong. I've got a bad feeling about this one too.

I would have liked Urby in this one instead of Gattuso,but I know Allegri will never grow old of this midfeild.

Or,you can play Boateng in midfeild as a box to box,with Dorf as a playmaker,and MVB as the defensive midfeild,with Cassano playing behind the strikers or Robinho.But,the setup of Gattuso and Seedorf in a 3-man midfeild will see us get dominated in the midfeild area.

But,Our defense look really solid!I just wish Allegri for once could fix the midfeild.

Gattuso helps avoiding getting dominated in midfield. He plays a very good season, defensively he is a rock, and that's needed in the tough games, against Inter.

Derby AC Milan vs Inter Milano, Formazioni Ufficiali/Official Line-ups:
MILAN: Abbiati, Abate, Nesta, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta, Gattuso, Van Bommel, Seedorf, Boateng, Pato, Robinho.
INTER: Julio Cesar, Maicon, Ranocchia, Chivu, Zanetti, Thiago Motta, Cambiasso, Sneijder, Pandev, Eto’o, Pazzini.

Really CHU? You sure you haven't been watching old champions league reruns?

Maybe,but he doesn't help us create anything,so we go for long balls or we lose possession.If we're playing with him,and 2 more attack minded midfielders,I wouldn't mind.Anyway,Van Bommel can defend better than Gattuso and has an attacking aspect in his game.


Al Jazeera preview started!Cesare has a surgery;he won't be able to make it,dam.Get well soon.
Pato looking handsome in that tuxedo ^ .

Van Bommel can defend better than Gattuso? Come on, that's not true. Van Bommel is good at it, but Gattuso is best at it.

Worrying, to say the least.

From Stefano Gabbana's Twitter



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already lost the midfield battle IMO

Fixed for ya ;D.


Let's just disagree .

On paper, definitely. But then games aren't won on paper, especially derby games. We gotta make sure we keep XI men on the pitch, keep our cool in midfield and not make stupid mistakes.

The level of defetism is amazing.

Ok 20mins until the game starts heres to winning !!!!

FORZA MILAN !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Forza MilaN!

The past week I have had i think it is better for milan if i not watch the game so am atleast not plannig to watch first half and do dissertation instead

Forza MILAN!!!!

I would like to see:


Boateng could come in for Cassano would be great or Seedrof and see Boateng at the midfield instead.
Abate had a argue with Pandev last time, that was why he got send out, I think.
Luckly Eto'o is playing on left side (Abate's side anyway) . Zambrotta can handle Pandev

Whats the display they have?? Like the banners or wtv

Isn't it? Shame I never had Allegri's email address because I could have told him not to bother turning up because their midfield is better than ours!

Forza Milan!

At least we don't have to watch Lucio rolling around 48984894 times and pretending he's got cramp.