wow pow pow!

Have to say Cesena are horrible. They're not exactly making this difficult.

What a first touch there from Urby. impressive pace too. Wait a minute, the shot was amazing too... Good on you herb!

1000 injuries won't stop us

Great finish Urby!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We look like we have some pace overall today. Kind of Premiere League like and makes the game more attractive.

he really didnt leave anything with that shot. put his laces right through it. great goal. he has looked lively from the get go

Really hpe El Shaa gets a run out here. Could run riot through their defence

Mesbah has been very impressive on the defensive front ever since he came, not just here. Really impressed with how cool he is when recovering a ball

Simply put, this half was perfect for us given the circumstances.

Who do we have on bench?

Anyone know why VB has been warming up practically all half?

HT

Well Cesena are just terrible, but given that we're practically playing with our second choice attack, second choice midfield and Bonera at CB, you'd never notice it. A couple of weeks ago, we'd probably have made a meal out of this game. Great to see how we've shrugged them aside.

Muntari surprised me a little, but his yellow card was pretty stupid.

ht 2-0 we played quite good muntari will be used like nocerino imo and coud be quite handy.. emaulson and robinho do have a chemistry and mesbah atleast is solid against serie a teams which is a step upward

ht 2-0 we played quite good muntari will be used like nocerino imo and coud be quite handy.. emaulson and robinho do have a chemistry and mesbah atleast is solid against serie a teams which is a step upward

Stupid? He did nothing wrong there.

Muntari: "It's easy to play with these players and it's also impressive. We're doing very well."

Pippo and El Shaarawy warming up

van Bommel IN, Ambrosini OUT

Ambro off mvb on

ROBINHOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Robinho. 3-0

Robinho 3-0 he is back on form

There's the Abate assist Filippo

Only match this season easier than this was Arsenal! Cesena have been absolute walkovers. Not complaining mind you.

One more

Great team play in the build up to Binho's goal.

Goal Cesena

No clean sheet here...

They score poor header by bonera

He could have made more of an effort to block it as well.

Who's **** do we have to suck to see El Shaarawy come in for the ineffectual Maxi pad?

Please someone tell me thta Mexes will be ready for the Juve game...

big miss ... o well

iaquinta hits the post. defense caught sleeping.

Iaquinta off the post!

pippo coming on in injury time. thats a little insulting.

First thing I thought too. I feel really sorry for him - 2 and a half minutes he gets.

He's not being treated with the diginity with which he has acted in the past 2 years or so.

+1
Very insulting even. Glad I'm not the only one that feels like this

Yeah,insulting imo

good night everyone. very good game considering our injuries. the real test will come next week against juve

3 minutes for a Milan legend. Classic Allegri stuff.

It was Pippo's 200th 'game' for us as well! Would have been better to leave him on the bench rather than humiliate him like that IMO.

Told you atht even that line-up would be enough, Cesena is just not a team that can hurt us too much. The first half was great.

Loved how Robinho celebrated Urby's goal, he was more happy than him. Seems like there's a very good atmosphere inside the team.

First half was spectacular. In the second we showed a more laid-back attitude, but the game was sealed anyway. Very important three points. Now let's hope we recover some injured players for Juventus.

I read that Muntari made the most passes(65) and in the first half Mesbah made the most tackles(5). Also with Muntari and Urby scoring today that makes 17 different scorers for us this season which is a league high! And I thought we were Ibra dependent??????

It's a bit funny to read comments on how stupid and typical-Allegri playing Muntari was in pre-game, only for him to play so impressively on his debut it's like, every moves Allegri makes is wrong and shitty unless proven otherwise. not digging it.

I'm sure you thought it was a brilliant idea

And let's not flatter ourselves too much, Cesena were complete sh!t today and practically let us walk all over them in the first half.

We have a hard test on Saturday, the hardest yet this season imo. And I do fear that the recent games have given us a sense of misplaced confidence, simply because neither Arsenal, nor Cesena were even a challenge for us. I hope that the players don't take it too lightly now. As we've seen it happen in the past.

Also, some of Bonera's clearances were shocking in that second half, a decent team would have punished us more than just with one goal. Will both Mexes and Nesta be back or is it another huge set-back? Also what about Pato, was today only a precaution?

I found out about the result after the game ended. came to this thread and read the posts and, like I said, was amused by the usual pre-game Max lineup bashing routine.

Don't take it personal han boy

I'm not taking it personal, but as I said, don't read too much into it. It was no masterstroke from Allegri as Cesena were basically non-existant in the first half.

Pulling that BS againstJuve though would be unacceptable, as we'd get slaughtered like we were in the previous 2 games. The fact that Urby had room to run says it all, Cesena gave us a lot of space something that no other Serie A team, especially Juve would do

Maybe that's what Allegri thought, that the shitty Cesena was the right place to give Muntari his debut? why does it always have to be him pulling masterstrokes? these little decision can make a difference too.