Problem with full backs is it's a total rarity to find one who excels in both attack and defence. Most often they excel in only one.

It's the absolute best in the world who are great at both.

What a loss Abate will be tonight!! Their left side is where we could have hit them hard with Abate's runs, and instead we have Bonera...

Reading from left to right, i saw Grosso and Pepe and got exited as well...only to find out we're countering with Nocerino and bonnera...

I hate how we have adopted Inter's old tactics of defending behind Ibra but i guess it's not like we have a pacey, mobile squad...

Krasic vs Zambrotta. Oh dear.

Krasic sucks...

Al Jazeera just put an emotional Pirlo short vid ;(

I'd rather have Zambro on him then anyone else tbh.

Zambro might have lost his legs, but defensively, he's still our best FB and the one that I trust blindly out of all of them

Chiellini might start as LB and Bonucci will partner Barzagli.

Juventus (4-2-3-1) – Antonio Conte
Gianluigi Buffon; Stephan Lichtsteiner, Andrea Barzagli, Leonardo Bonucci, Giorgio Chiellini; Andrea Pirlo, Claudio Marchisio; Miloš Krasić, Arturo Vidal, Simone Pepe; Mirko Vučinić.
Bench: M. Storari, F. Grosso, E. Giaccherini, M. Pazienza, A. Del Piero, A. Matri, E. Elia.

AC Milan (4-3-1-2) – Massimiliano Allegri
Christian Abbiati; Daniele Bonera, Alessandro Nesta, Thiago Silva, Gianluca Zambrotta; Antonio Nocerino, Mark Van Bommel, Clarence Seedorf; Kevin-Prince Boateng, Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Antonio Cassano.
Bench: M Amelia, L. Antonini, M. De Sciglio, A. Aquilani, U. Emanuelson, F. Inzaghi, M. Ambrosini.

Like our lineup

I wonder why Conte moved Chiellini to LB and left the two meatballs in the center to handle Zlatan... Doesn't really make any sense... And it's not like we have Ronaldo or Messi playing on our right side

Anyways, hope it works in our favour. We simply have to win this!!

Taiwo and El Sha not even on the bench...

No Yepes and Taiwo on the bench.

Anyway, I hope this turns out to be a decent match, and we witness some good football.

FORZA MILAN!!!

What if we win it complicatedly

Aquilani is warming up with the team Boateng seems to have back pain ...

UPDATE:

Boateng is back with the team !

Well that matter would be completely out of my hands


Well at least we know Aqui is first choice for the sub instead of Urby

Any one noticed that if we win, we will be the first to beat them in Stadio Juve?

Nervous, but looking forward to it!!!


FORZA MILAN!!!

Can't believe we're still messing around with the short corners

Cassano looking up for it

nesta making some awful passes from defense.

Oh! So lucky there not to conceed. off the bar!

We're not playing well at all atm. Juve are overunning us, Seedorf is a no-show, same goes for Boateng

Vucinic is killing us :S

this is painful, we have NO pace ANYWHERE!!! Even when we try to press, it doesn't even show...

Can't believe we're letting Pirlo do whatever he pleases. We should be one of the teams able to stop him and we can't get near him! Ridiculous!!

What the hell is this? We can't seem to be making more than two consecutive passes. Our game is slow and we don't press the opponent. It's Barça all over again.

i have always defended Allegri, but this is ridiculous...

Seedorf and Boateng need to switch places. They're obviously double teaming Seedorf as he's our only threat from the midfield

Seedorf gave up on defending, he moves up and the tactical setup remains the same... leaving Krasic the most space he will ever see. Seedorf is beyond flop of the match.

Horrible first half. Allegri needs to change something quick or we're losing this for sure!!

Seedorf is just not there today, and Boateng is clearly struggling to get back into any sort of rythm.

Nesta is making mistakes playing out the ball because Juve are pressing a lot, while our players seem to have weights attached to their feet.

I know they're tired because they played in midweek while Juve didn't but this is aweul and just not acceptable

don't give him too much credit he walks upfield and the RM follows, not fearing a run by zambrotta.

Seedorf is beyond flop of the match. Naaah...

Allegri is beyond flop. 45 minutes without even a shot on goal is disgraceful. I'm really ashamed of our display - only luck saved us so far. Allegri's mistakes...I don't even have the strength to talk about them; it's every game the same story.

Antonini for Bonnera
and
Aquilani for Seedorf

1) Make a change after the first 45 minutes: happens almost every time
2) Why is Seedorf tired? Why is Ibra tired? We don't need guessing...
3) The trequartista position is a riddle Allegri won't solve in the next 10 years
4) Looking at Pirlo, his passing and distribution - I ask my self over and over again - why did we let him go???

Juve starting to dominate there, thank god whistle went. Why no El Sha in squad, he gives us options!

Their midfield has taken control and with the way we are passing we wont get it back. Allegri just seems so one dimensional/pig headed/clueless???? I dont know, but he cant seem to plan for different opposition, or have a plan B/plan C. MVB was on his own defending, the wide two mids were not involved at all unless giving away possession. Allegri needs to do something at half time.

I would be tempted to go 4-4-2, switch nocerino in beside MVB, have Prince wide right, possibly sub seedorf with Urby for width, Ibra/Cassano will drop back into space to collect ball (they do this regardless of if we are playing a treq role). Its either something like that or assign boateng to kick pirlo out of the game erm cough i mean man mark pirlo out of the game

While i agree, the players are not doing anything... the only passes we have managed to complete are between the back 4. Leadership also plays a part, we might have the laziest captain in Serie A. I am willing to admit allegri has no creation or hallelujah-esque solution to the apathy on the field, but i mean surely we, AC milan, can pretend to be more exited to play...

I'm a it worried about pushing Aqui on the left in this one. If he does he needs to cover the spaces, even while playing aweful Seedorf always does that.

I don't get why we don't have VB on Pirlo's @ss or at least Boateng since he's playing in the "Pirlo Zone" it's ridiculous how he's being left to run the show. It's as if we don't know what he can do.

Why are we not pressing the danger men, we all know who they arre yet the central mids and Vucinic are being left to pass it freely through huge gape in the center, We should be exploiting Juve's defensive weakness in the center, not letting their offensive strength get to us by giving them space in that area

+1
I like the idea of going 4-4-2, but i do think that cassano would have to drop back a little to help MVB2 and Nocerino with possession so it would look more like a 4-4-1-1 which at this point, i'm willing to try.

Has Seedorf even reached a full sprint once?

Exited to play? Laziest captain? Well, Seedorf is 35 and Allegri is playing him like he's 25. He can't fire up the midfield that much - Nocerino could do it, but he's a total DM with no initiative or dynamic. Ibra and Cassano are cut off - all because Allegri won't understand that by positioning Seedorf on the AM and Aquilani or Boateng on the LM we get the best out of everyone: Seedorf is more static, yet has more space to pass around and can go around more freely, while Boatengs dynamic gives us an alternative on the flank. But no...he won't do it. He'll just drop in Aquilani for Boateng and we'll see the same story.

1. Agreed
2. Agreed
3. Agreed
4. Because Allegri is an idiot who doesn't know how to include creative players into his system unless they're Seedorf

We can usually tell within a hlaf is Seedorf is going to care or not about said game. Today is a no, so i wouldn't even mind swapping him with De Sciglio... The old guard have been complacent for far too long

Juve is playing Katy Perry over the loud speakers. Its over now, they'll win.

Agreed, this is my biggest issue.

Boateng playing behind the strikers is one of my biggest pet peaves, and this season it's not working AT ALL. He's not an AM, stop playing him there FFS!!! He doesn't support the strikers, doesn't make the incisive passes needed when playing that position and his running is fruitless!

He needs to change it up

I'd even say he needs to srop Nocerino from the right side, move Boateng in that position and give Seedorf the AM role. Aqui can play the left side

Don't go to far

Oh! What a save from Abbiat1!!

What are they doing???!!

I would view him as you do, Allegri's victim, had he not complained about not starting and not being offered a contract last autumn when he was competing with bonnera for worst player. I would view him as a Pippo, but he thinks highly of himself, and for him to feel he deserves top dollar, he must back the club's faith.

i get carried away sometimes...

Oh what a save from Gigi there

Boatang looks injured, was he rushed in or completely cleared?

Short corners are pissing me off!!!!!!!!!!!! sorry