Needless to say, this is a must-win.

Hopefully Allegri puts out the best 11, that means no Bonera, no Muntari and especially no Niang

Juve and Inter play against each other before Juve have the CL game, so this could be a huge opportunity for us to close in on them by at least 2 points if that ends in a draw

Boateng is not 100% fit and might be forced to miss this game.

Chievo-Milan Story

Just great!

That means Niang up there, thus a completely dead right side

I've missed this

Abbiati, Amelia, Gabriel, Abate, Antonini, Bonera, De Sciglio, Mexes, Salamon, Yepes, Zaccardo, Ambrosini, Constant, Flamini, Montolivo, Muntari, Nocerino, Traore, Balotelli, Bojan, El Shaarawy, Niang, Robinho

So Boateng, Pazzini & Zapata all are not fit for this game.

F*ck!

That means one calamity for sure. I really hope Allegri tries out Zaccardo. Not that I expect any major difference, but Bonera and Yepes proved themselves so many times as unreliable.

Boateng and Zapata massive misses for this - as Pippo says I'd start Zaccardo and neither Yepes or Bonera but I'd be stunned if either is not the replacement.

As for Boateng, the front 3 will probably be El Sha left, Balo middle and Niang right.

My prediction for the team:

--------------Abbiati

Abate----Bonera----Mexes----Constant

----Flamini----Monto----Muntari

------Niang---Balo---El sha

Zaccardo's better than those. He's not a top class defender, but whenever I watched Parma play he just seemed realiable. I think it'll be Bonera though.

Regardless of the line-up, any ten spearheaded with Balotelli should work

Fiorentina lost so we can increase the gap from 4th place to 6 points.

Great, Inter though were so bad, still can't believe we didn't manage to win that game against them!

Abbiati_Abate-Bonera-Mexes-De Sciglio_Montolivo-Ambrosini-Muntari_Robinho-Balotelli-El Shaarawy.

Better Robinho than Niang, that's for sure

But WTF is it with Ambro? Especially when you're playing him next to the perrenial f@ck up that is Muntari.

Nocerino, whatever happened to him?

There must be some story behind the scenes going on.

With Allegri you never know.

The pitch is terrible

Balotelli is such a child.

Robinho is terrible

Pretty unfair since everyone looks terrible right now. The players look like they're trudging in sand

MONTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

BALO!! What a freekick

MONTO!!!

MONTOLIVOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

True, the horrible pitch conditions really don't suite his game but he looks way out of it right now.

That's expected though considering he hasn't played any games in these last few months.

But still, when he drops down behind Balo you can see that he has that touch of quality that Boateng doesn't have, and certainly not Niang

I really don't understand what purpose Muntari has on the pitch. Misplaced passes, sloppy tackling, lazy attitude. Might as well be playing with 10 men.

Yep, like usual, he's our biggest enemy on that pitch. But Allegri plays him for a "reason" people say

Really? I haven't seen any of that quality. Just give aways and lazy defending.

I love De Sciglio.

Montolivo is excellent. We really need to get a midfielder worthy to partner with him instead of shmucks like Muntari.

That made me LOL.

Why the f@ck does Muntari keep lifting the ball up when passing wide??? He always overhits the sh!t out of it without fail

Ambro has no idea how to take a shot.

Stop messing around and score the second goal already!

Finally a red for Chievo

Butchered our players today

Today's been free-kick galore for Balo.

Yeah, the red was long time coming.

Balo won't stop till he scores one from free kick.

Balo is unstoppable 1-on-1.

Should have taken the shot.

FT.

Super-important win.

Terrible stuff, but 3 points + 2nd place (for now at least)

Yeah, why did they take it short? Totally stupid move. Balo could have gotten another crack at it

With that pitch and the rain, plus our tired players from the NT break, I think this was the most we could get from this match.

Galliani's face expressions when he celebrates are always so funny.

Yeah, the pitch made it worse, but it looked like the only one motivated to get the second and seal it was Balo (mostly for his own glory). At times there were acres of space to brake into and instead of quickening it up to hit them on the counter, Ambro or Muntari would just keep hold of it for ages.

That's because Ambro and Muntari are clueless on the ball. I got the impression that the team really wanted to win tonight.

Great display from Balotelli. And a dominating display in the midfield battle with both Ambrosini and Muntari, the former with his experience provided cover to the defence while the later provided wide passes spraying left and right to open up the play.

Notable recognition to both our GK Abs and DS.

Forza Milan!!