Are you seeing me trying to put them down?

I'm just saying that I'll take this score. There's no doubt they are the better team by miles, but the fact is that we scored a goal against them and kept the scoring to 1 from open play

Especially after the kamakhazi defending we saw last weeked. I'll take this as a positive.

I always said that this being the opening game for us will hurt us, we're simply not ready. Not making any excuses, but I expected us to do worse then this to tell you the truth and that is why I'm ok with it

Nope, Gattuso

I was being genuine when I said that man, not sarcastic! I'm not a lover of Barca, at all I'm sure a few will let you know that here.

I agree

GETTTTT INNNNNNN

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

YES!

THIAGOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SILVAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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

GET IN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sorry... I got distracted

No, I do agree. I was quite happy with 2-1 as it stood then, obviously I'm pretty ecstatic now!

YES!

I'll take that! Super Max!

F********************** YEAH!!!!!

Lol Max?

Good one!!!

Well that settles it. We're at least better then United

He puts the team out there. He takes the **** when we don't win. He's damn well gonna get the praise when we pull out a good result.

The first minute and the last minute...that's the only thing anyone ever remembers, right?

Wow, great way to finish. We were thoroughly dominated for about 89.5 minutes so I'm very happy to come out of here with a tie. Barcelona are beatable and I think we have a decent chance at that at the San Siro. We need to do better when we have the ball and not give away stupid fouls around the box (Cassano... ) and they can be beaten.

We are on par with the best in the world

great result imo... now need to win against napoli....

Love the get in bit!!

I know that you're no Barca lover

But what I was tring to say with that and I think you misunderstood, when I mentioned the difference being the set-piece

At the end of the day Barca can stuff all their posession up their @sses. We still held them to a draw in their back yard while missing key players.

The entire defence imo was amazing, I don't see the Messi assist as a mistae from Abate.

VB, Nocerino and Seedorf also desrve credit. Though they should have pressed more, that's more Allegri's fault more then anything else.

HA HA. We had two chances all game - in the first minute and 90's minute and both in. Now we can take the first place in this group with a win at San Siro or a 0-0, 1-1 draw. Not dropping points vs Pilzen and Bate is a must, of course.

Yes, Barca had all the possession and we did almost nothing offensively all game, but Barca havn't created shitload of chances. It's not like they had one one situations every five minutes. We defended well.

What matters is the result! You can have the ball for 89 minutes of the ball possession all you want, but what matters is the scoreline ... terrific result ... Forza Milan! Forza Thiago! Forza Allegri!

my god what an ugly and sneaky performance that was. Nesta makes me want to cry (fullstop)

I strongly agree ... Lion Heart

You gotta learn that over here Allegri is always guilty of something, no matter if we win or not.

We could have lost this by 4 or 5 if it wasn't for some good luck and top notch finishing when he chances presented themselves.

We need to do better, next leg in the San Siro I want the team to show some balls, not act like we're a Serie C team trying to avoid a loss at all costs.

We should have pressed better, used the ball better and the line-up chosen should have been different (Cassano) that was the bigges mistake imo. Cassano everyone could see beforehand that playing him was futile in this type of game, flooding out the midfield was key and we basically let them do whatever they wished for the entire 90 minutes.

They might be better then us (a lot) but we're not as bad as we were made to look. And I'm sure of this.

Next match I want to see a completely different mindset, and a better gameplan

FORZA MILAN!!!!


Agreed Kurt, GRANDE MAXIMILLIANO!

Post that sums it all up

Well, to win in the CL you need luck sometimes

Better to be lucky than good, sometimes.

+1

If we manage to actually win this group then we could make it past the last 16...

Hopefully we don't do well in the second game and then f*** it up against the Czech team

To be honest, it doesn't matter where we play them.

Our teams just are not on par in terms of quality.

We got lucky today and managed to grind out a draw.

A spectacular result for us in this fixture.

This is the best result we could get from this fixture, I mean did anyone expect anything more? Yes, things could've been better but things could've also been a lot worse.

+1

You can't ride it throughout an entire competition either

I'm vry happy with the reasult don't get me wrong, but I believe we can do better then this, come the San Siro tie I want to see us really tear into them. They're not unbeatable, this more then proves this, and had we had a better gameplan then to punt it at nothing then we could have sneaked a win here especially when they were so vulnerable at the back.

But in terms of fitness we'll be in better shape come the 2nd leg, we'll have more solidity in defence and we'll do better in possession.

After the Lazio game I thought we could see a hammering with that kind of defending. But that was the best aspect of our game. Nesta shut his critics right up. Just amazing stuff from him. Seeing him schooling Messi, when the supposed best in the world like Vidic wasn't capable of it just left me in awe of the great professor once again

Also this result will be a huge boost for the team who started the season a bit shaky against Lazio. We'll be missing Ibra against Napoli most likely so going to the Nou Camp and getting this kind of result will reallydrive the team on.

And Napoli face a horror against Man City I believe which again could turn even more into our favour.

I see your point and agree with you slightly, despite the scoreline, post-match analysis seems to point towards Cassano being the deployed upfront to hold up the ball for Seedorf, Pato, & the attacking movement.

That said, Allegri had his ideas upfront ... He also had ideas in stretching Barca's compactness and forcing them to play wide for the majority of the fixture. I have to give him credit at the end of the day, he had ideas and was brave in applying them, despite the odds ... He just lacks experience in these nights.


EDIT: Lets not forget Milan played 1 official game, however Barca played 5 offical games. Bravo Milan!!

Oh look, Barca play 2 straight games against 11 men and win neither!

Barca should have been down to ten as well!!!!

You that's the general consensus in London too

I'm SOOOO Happy. This is great result !

People credit Barcelona for being the best offensive team in the world, but you can't take anything away from our defending, a few mistakes led to the first goal, but overall it was an impressive display of defensive football.

+1





Agreed.
Ambro is no longer up to par, he needs to be used a little as possible. An absolutely horrible display. Embarrassing!








Agreed. + infinity!

Grande Allegri!


We shouldn't get ahead of ourselves just yet, the win was one gathered with luck.

Be it at the San Siro or not, Barca's quality will not drop due to being in an away fixture.

Don't get me wrong, I'll remain optimistic as well, but we can not exclude the possibility of a win for Barca in the return leg, because of our moment of ecstasy.


LOL

Nesta was brilliant! It moments like this that make me thoroughly understand what my friend (who is a 'Die-Hard' Barca fan) mean when he says Nesta is the best damn defender he has ever seen play!


Aint that the truth...


Fully understand where you're coming from!!

Alessandro Altobelli is giving credit to TS's goal by referring to the Italian team of '82, which taught Brazil how to defend

Let's not be whiners now.

The same could be said for us in the past thanks to the likes of Gattuso, Ambrosini, Flamini and many more.

These sort of things happen in football. Luckily Nocerino wasn't injured.

F<vk it!!

Alves you should have been off. You dirty SOB!!

The defense won us the point. Not only because it was Thiago Silva who equalized, but because if it wasn't for our amazing defense, we would have crumbled all over the place. Kudos to Nesta, Thiago, Abate and Zambro. They really held well against the strongest team in the world.

Midfield was pathetic. Van Bommel tried his best to prevent further damages, but Seedorf, Nocerino, Boateng and then Ambrosini didn't press Barça's players at all. They just sat comfy waiting for the opponent. What kind of messed up strategy is that? Our counterattacks were unproductive as well. Cassano was merely a shadow on the pitch. Kudos to Pato for that amazing goal, and his continuous efforts to create something all alone up front, but there wasn't much he could do when the rest of the team was nowhere to be found.

However, we must look more thoroughly into this and realize that neither us, nor Barcelona took this game very seriously. I don't think our display tonight is a genuine proof of our capabilities. We've only played one official game so far, we had plenty of injuries (Mexes, Taiwo, Flamini, Robinho, Ibrahimovic) and we still have to gain a better understanding of how we'll be playing this season.

So, all in all, bad game, not important, good draw. That's my two cents on the match.

That was awful... we never deserved to leave there with a point but I'll take it.

We were scoreless for a full 90 minutes between our goals.