Apperantly we could be facing a major situation in terms of available players for this game. Cassano sick, Boateng with a knock, Pippo and El Shaa not in the list, Seedorf might be still out.

We'll have to wait and see, but we could be looking at Urby behind the strikers for this one if Boateng and Cassano are not fit

Called up:

GOALKEEPERS – Abbiati, Amelia, Roma.
DEFENDERS – Abate, Bonera, De Sciglio, Nesta, Taiwo, Thiago Silva, Zambrotta, Yepes.
MIDFIELDERS – Ambrosini, Aquilani, Boateng, Emanuelson, Nocerino, Seedorf.
STRIKERS – Ibrahimovic, Robinho, Ganz.

Allegri: "Ambrosini will play from the start tomorrow. Van Bommel needs to rest, which is why I haven't selected him for this match."

Bleh, at least we're facing a terrible team and he should (used loosely) be able to handle it

From that list it has to be



Pretty sure Allegri would go with this although I'd like to see Boateng in the midfield 3 and Seedorf starting as well. Really go for an attacking line-up that can easily control the tempo and possession. But we all know Allegri will choose the rough and tumble line-up against a 3rd rate team

I think Seedorf will start.

I'm hopping for it. But if he does, it would be in place of Aqui and not Noceino, which would make sense seeing as an extra DM is an absolute waste in this one

IF Seedorf starts, I think as AM, because I don't think Boateng can start this one.

I don't think he would have been called up if that were the case

I'd be amazed if Boateng didn't start seeing as he's suspended for the league games.

Since we're resting our players...

wasn't he injured?

I'd rest Nesta, not Thiago

Wouldn't have thought we'd include him in the match squad if he was.

oddly enough though, Silva is much more injury prone. And i would hate if we lost silva to BATE...

So I was just reading the stats page kurt updates (thanks for that btw kurt ). And these guys are on a yellow

- Nesta, Nocerino, Van Bommel

Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't that mean that another yellow for those guys would equal a suspension? And guess who we play next in the CL after BATE...

I say none of those should be played, especially not Nesta, VB we already know won't be playing, but I really don't want to see Nesta get suspended for the Barca game, neither Nocerino because we'll need him big time as well for that one

Allegri:

"Ambrosini, Abate, Nesta, Boateng, Ibrahimovic and Robinho will definitely start vs. BATE Borisov."
"I’m not sure about whether Seedorf, Nocerino and Aquilani will play from the start."
"I still have to decide whether it's going to be Taiwo or Zambrotta, who will play the left back position."

Wonder why he would risk losing Nesta for Barca over this game. We can easily make it with Yepes next to Thiago

Crap, I didn't notice we were playing at 18:00 until now.

Anybody know the UK kick off time? Our clocks went back at the weekend, not sure if Italy's did or not.

5pm for us mate.

I know this might be a weird timing, but I like this one actually. It comes at around 10 pm Indian time, which is just perfect.

Does anyone have sopcast links? I couldn't find nothin'.

They'll start cropping up closer to kick-off

line-up: Abbiati, Abate, Nesta, Silva, Taiwo, Nocerino, Ambrosini, Aquilani, Boateng, Ibra, Robinho

I like it! I want Aqua to shine! Come on you cross-eyed son of a gun!

any english streams? my russian's a little spotty...

interesting fact, BATE play their CL games in Minsk...

any streams??

120 seconds in and it's 0-0, what the hell is Allegri doing?

I found some good but they are spanish here

Oh what a play there! Great effort from Ibra

Ambro just looks aweful, even against this opposition!

A player is wide open to his left, he passes to the marked player instead and we lose the ball

Cheers. I do miss Myp2p.eu. The alternates aren't nearly as good.

http://www.vipbox.tv/

Give that one a go.

Classy goal.

IBRA!

clever play by ibra

OMG....Robinho....how do you miss so many one on ones???

Oh dear, Fuori-Robi strikes again

Poor miss from Robinho, gotta put that in.

Abate sure has come a long way in 2 years

Is Aqua even an average player? I consider Taiwo average for Milan. Aqua? What has he been doing since joining us? I can almost predict what he is going to do every time he gets the ball... Make a long pass to the opposing team and then act like nothing bad just happened and jug around... I guess this is why no one wanted him and we were able to get him for 20 bucks...

I just had to stop watching (). we're back on track IMO and from now on we can only get better. turns out it was just a bad start

Have you seen the assist sheet?

Gee, these sure are harsh words for someone who has the 2nd highest assist count in the league. I mean, Aquilani directly resulted in 5 goals, and only Cassano has two more. Sure, you can say that Cassano is in a bit of a "Goldrush Zone" with the way everything passes through him, but Aquman can still cut it.

More than a certain someone, I may add, who is injured currently. I'll take an average player with 5 assists.

Or that. No wonder Han's got a big post count. He says in one line, what I take a paragraph for!

Can one you clarify against which teams those 5 assist were created?

I don't know why Fillipo says Aquilani is painfully mediocre and [our] Max thinks he's below average. he's as much guilty of making sloppy passes as pretty much every one else in our team bar the CBs. at least he makes up for it by making a lot of assists. what do you guys expect from him, to play like Zidane or Xavi?

I don't know man, teams are teams. You can not create assists against smaller team, and bam! A team like Milan comes out with a draw or a loss. It's that fickle. I mean, sure bigger tests will come and he may not turn out to be a player who we can always count on, but Aquilani is not a bad player to have. By any means.

The only bad thing in all of this is if the B&G think that having a player of his calibre is enough to conquer the world.

robinho elbow if anyone noticed could earn him a ban by uefa