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Form Guide: Milan (D L D - -) Cesena (L L L - -)

Last season: Milan 2-0 Cesena

Side notes: Last season Milan found it hard to beat Cesena. The away game ended with a shock defeat, while at San Siro Milan won 2-0, but not in a comfortable way. Milan's form is worrying - last time Milan had 2 points after 3 Serie A games was in 1997/1998 with Fabio Capello. Milan finished 10th that season.

So with our 12 injuries, its going to be interesting how we are going to react to this game.


My line up:

-Abate-Bonera-Silva-Taiwo

-Nocerino-Van B-Emanuelson

---------Aquilani----------

---El Sha-------Cassano



I'd give seedorf and nesta a rest.

My lineup:

Abate---Yepes---Silva-----Zambrotta
----MvB----Aquilani---Nocerino
------------Pharaohino-----------
----------------------------Cassano
------------Pippo/Kinglsey----------


I don't know if Zambrotta is up to it...but I hope so. Nocerino's cover for Abate is laughable. I need someone competent on the right side.

I'd like Stephan to be a little deeper than Cassano. He seems quicker at running with the ball and should be able to transition it faster to offence.

When we push up naturally Aquilani will come up to rush the box, while Nocerino and MvB move more centrally to provide cover.


I don't really mind us playing with a youth striker. If our goals come, they will come from the mid-field.

Pippo, Seedorf , Emmanuelson on the bench to make major offensive changes.

Sad..but that's all we got.

Just for shits and giggles

Kingsley is injured, will be out for 3-4 weeks.

Nesta, Van Bommel and Seedorf NEED a rest, otherwise they will die in the pitch. So my line up is this :



Seedorf and Ganz to enter in second.

i don't think Allegri will start Pippo, I think we have a good chance in seeing the same line-up minus Pato plus the Pharaoh.

No matter the line-up, this is a must win by any means. We have Juve away after this and we can't afford lose any more points.

Nesta and Seedorf need a rest, especially since we have a CL game and Juve away coming up.

Hopefully this is our last game in full emergency. We should win this at all cost, hoping for Juventus to make a false step in Catania and thus catch them next week in the direct clash. Hopefully we'll have Ibrahimovic and Boateng available by then.

Abbiati makes a mistake and you want to replace him? That would quite boost his confidence.

I don't think Allegri will be resting anyone, we simply have to win this. Maybe Nesta could be left to sit since we'll mostly be the ones with the ball the entire match, but Seedorf will need to be in there, they'll be tough to break down, so Seedorf, Cassano and Aquilani will need to do better then they have been doing.

Seedorf showed signs of finally getting off the mark yesterday, we can't rest him in this one. I'd rather rest him in the CL game, we'll most likely win that without him, especially if Prince and Zlatan are back. Personally I'd switch Seedorf and Aquilani's positions. Seedorf is comfortable in either area of the pitch, while Aquilani clearly isn't.

+1

Will Zlatan be finally back or what?!

Generally this game should be a given for 3 points

http://www.milanfan.com/forums/index.php?s...st&p=307142

Zlatan's usually good in the first half of the season, BIG BLOW indeed, hope he smashes goals when hes back

is there anyone whos gonna return for this game then from injury ? whats the latest with robinho ?

I agree it would be a risk for a 21yo but abbiati is 31 and understands taking a backseat. I also feel he has been off his game for the past few games.

The probable line-ups according to La Gazzetta dello Sport:

Mediaset has Mexes on the bench. And please play Taiwo!

In theory this should be our first 3 points of the season, but I'm not taking it for granted. Confidence will not be high in the camp after the start we've had.

Everyone laughs at Inter yet we're barely doing any better than them.

Inter don't have 11 players injured. Our poor form is only due to injuries, nothing else.

We miss 2 big players - Ibra and Robinho. Beyond that I don't really see how you can blame all this on injuries. Especially given Ibra played in the Lazio draw iirc.

We did claw back from 2 - 0 to 2 - 2 when he was on the pitch. We didn't against Napoli.

And Boateng? It's not about who we miss, it's about numbers. The fact that so many players are injured makes Allegri play the same line-up over and over. That would be alright, but guys like Nesta, Van Bommel and Seedorf need to be rested every now and then given their age. And our attack right now consists of only Cassano, Inzaghi and El Shaarawy. If Ibra doesn't make it in time, we'll have only Cassano available for the Champions League. Not cool.

Against Lazio, bar the first 25 minutes, we had a great game. We thrashed them and should have won, but luck wasn't on our side.

Allegri said that from our injured players only Ibra and Ambro migt be ready for Pilsen in midweek. Boteng is out.

Pellegatti from Mediaset's Studio Sport announced this line-up for tomorrow:

You really think he'd drop Aqui for Urby? Aqui might not have had the best of games against Udine, but Urby really won't offer us anything, especially in these types of games where we'll most likely be camping in their half for the entire game, Aqui's incisive passing will help better.

Anyways, Pellegati does tend to speak out his @ss at times...

No way - I don't expect either Urby nor Taiwo to start.

I'm ok with Zambro starting and Aqui on the left. I think Zambro will provide Aqui with more stability and peace of mind. And Aqui is clearly not comfortable playing in the hole, so Seedorf should play there

Pellegatti spends his entire day at Milanello prior to every game. I think he knows stuff much better than we do. But yeah, he does tend to speak crap most of the time.

Abbiati, Abate, Thiago Silva, Yepes, Taiwo, Nocerino, Van Bommel, Seedorf, Emanuelson, Cassano, El Shaarawy.

Ravaglia; Comotto, Von Bergen, Rodriguez, Marco Rossi; Martinez, Parolo, Guana; Martinho, Candreva, Mutu.

Urby in the hole? Bleh...

This won't look good, he's such a one dimensional player and won't provide us with any incisive passing in tight spaces

any links for the game guys, whos watching by stream ?

Well fingers crossed anyways, we need a win!

Forza Milan

Come on El Shaarawy!!!

Oh nearly an own goal for Cesena

SEEEDORFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF

SEEEEEEEDORF!!!!

seedorf scores from a cross... good start for us

woo hoo Clarence!!!!!!!

Now sub him hes tired lol

Lol, I don't think he meant to do that

Link Please !

Great goal!

Abbiati has butter fingers lately.

We're shaky at the back

few dodgy moments for us

Like how Taiwo always keeps moving the ball forward instead of sideways

how are you watching

espn are showing napoli :S :S :S provide a link bro ?

These short corners are really p!ssing me off!

I was just about to post the same thing.

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