FFFT

Keita starting over Fabregas, that was unexpected. And Seedorf...

Well, let's hope the good Seedorf would show up. IIRC, he wasn't bad against them in the group games.

bench: Amelia, Mesbah, Yepes, Emanuelson, Aquilani, Maxi Lopez, El Shaarawy.

Boateng will need to work hard here, he'll need to drop back a lot or we'll get eaten alive in midfield, same for Robinho

Regardless of the hard work, the void left by Seedorf will be too huge to cover. I mean, did you guys see him against Juventus? That was probably his worst Milan game, ever! And now he plays from the start against Barcelona??? If we lose this (which we will) I will only blame Allegri, and nobody else.

I can't blame a simple loss on Allegri, as it's pretty much expected no matter who was playing, but if we lose shamefully then some of the blame has to be shouldered upon Allegri. Never mind. Let's see what happens, it's pointless to talk about it now

He was absolutely horrible against Juventus. For the sake of this game I have to hope that it was just a case of him not showing up because it was only a Coppa match.

Let's see what experience brings to the table for Senior Seedorf. At times like this if I were Seedrof, I'd have asked the coach to bring me on after the 60th minute, just for sanity's sake. Then again, if we are talking sanity sanity, I'd definitely have retired last season at most.

Moral of the story: Thank heaven I'm not Seedorf. Best of luck to the man, now that he's starting!

Anyone have a english/italian stream?

Wearing the white kits.

I'm sure Galliani was the one that came up with the idea

Yeah, must be Galliani and his superstition.

Boa and Robinho with big misses

wtf missing sitters

Robinho starts with the first big miss....

Had a really good chance for an early goal here.

Ambro's stupid mistake almsot cost us.

Stupid foul given away...

Ambro already with a yellow, he'll get sent off at this rate!

Why did he make the foul?? They were walking into a brick wall

that was a PK for barca

Starting to dive

Nice, they'll get a yellow for that BS

Are we finally going to see an un-biased ref?

Off side goal for Barca

if you are referring to the penalty incident then imo that was a pk

Yeah I though it was a dive from first glance. The reason why I thought that is because of the theatrical fall, I guess the ref thought the same thing

F@ck! Ibra, you gotta fucking score that!!

ahhh ibra could not finish damnnn

Missing chances will come back and bite us in the @ss

It was a good pass by Seedorf. Should have been an assist.

VB would have been the difference here. Ambro is just clueless, he'll get sent off here 100% sure. Seedorf has made more intercetions then he has FFS

They need to force a set-piece, it's the only way I can see us scoring

Nesta the best player on the pitch.

How could anyone question the class of this man.

They need to lay an extension in front of him ASAP

The moment we touch their players it's a foul

Alexis should go to Hollywood.

At least he fits right in with the others...

Funny, even the English commentators have been saying he's done well.

Considering the opposition

But he's been giving them free-kicks in dangerous areas, got carded early in the game and now he has to play with shackles on

ht 0-0 havent seen much of nocerino or kpb... all four defender did ok while ibra io was quite good as well.. i am afraid we hve missed the chances. I will take 0-0 gladly

HT

Decent stuff considering the defending alone, but they need to do better on the ball when we actually have it. They should stop trying to loft it over, we lose it every time

I think we'll get at least 2 more good ones, but we simply cannot afford to miss them. Robinho's chance was golden.

What card?

What an embarrassment! Just parking the bus, zero pressure on their attacking midfielders. We are so lucky not to have conceded thus far.

He wasn't carded. Seedorf got the only yellow in the game.

He's on a yellow isn't he?

When he lunged in on Messi at the edge of our area?

Defending Level: Sandro Nesta.

I don't care how it's done tbh.

I'm more p!ssed about the 2 missed chances

I'd take a 0-0 gladly,we all know if we had scored,we'd see another Barca.

No, only Seedorf has been booked so far.

We are playing the right way - fast counters to catch them off guard. And we had two almost perfect chances to score but we are being sloppy. We can't match them with that midfield.

Oh sorry then, my mistake, could have sworn I saw the ref showing the yellow

But we are not pressuring them, only their defenders, which is where those two chances came from. But whenever Messi, Xavi or Iniesta have the ball, we just look at them like a bunch of d!cks without even trying to steal the ball. Pfffff...