OFFICIAL line-up vs. Valencia (4-3-1-2): Abbiati; Antonini-Bonera-Mexes-Constant; Poli-De Jong-Nocerino; Boateng; Robinho-Petagna.

Milan's bench: Amelia, Gabriel, Vergara, Zaccardo, De Sciglio, Traoré, Muntari, Cristante, Urby, Niang, El Shaarawy

Bringing this over here. Thanks mashie, totally forgot about this one


Match about to start in 10 minutes

Looks like we had the same idea at the same time zed

Merged threads

Wow han, fastest thread creation and deletion ever!

I want to watch this game, but our team doesn't look exciting at all. I'm only curious to see this Petenga (!) kid and to a lesser degree Poli.

Is Zapata injured?

And I would guess Balo and Abate didn't travel with the team because of the injuries they got playing in the confed cup

Balo, Monty, Petenga and Poli 4 players that stand out in a squad of dullness! going to be a long season ahead

Poli wins a penalty

lol, Robinho is just ridiculous

If he can't even score from a penalty then I don't now what else he needs to score

F*cking Robinho, stop shooting penalties!

And he scores.

He scores, at least he's capable of shooting once is a while

Seriously, why is he taking the pens?

Poli has been great so far, in addition to winning the penalty and assisting the goal.

WTF are they doing?

Constant seriously needs to get his act together

Since when are we such fucking troublemakers

Yeah, he's such a different entity to Monto too

Why were Robinho and Prince carded?

Urby coming on, probably for Robinho, seems to have gotten injured

Trying to give him a confidence boost is my guess. He won't take them in real games even when Balo won't play.

And now Robinho gets injured. And Allegri decides to replace him with *drum roll* Emanuelson.

We were clearly playing the ball out due to an injury, i dont mind the reaction.

lol, and we're still completely clueless and incapable of defending setpieces

Called off for offside there

Robinho seems to have pulled a muscle. If this is something long-term we can kiss selling him off at some point goodbye.

Seriously impressed by Poli

poli is awesome

Damn, what a goal that would have been by Boateng, called off for Bonera fouling

Robinho's goal

WHAT A GOAL!!

De Jong!

Super goal De Jong!

Wowww

De Jong!!!!!!!! Holy sh*t!!!!

Great goal

+1

Really wish we'd had Saponara for these friendlies.

Could have seen a clear picture of how we'd play with Prince as part of the midfield 3 and a proper AM

you think Allegri will stay with 4-3-1-2

Good first half

De Jong's goal

Thanks for the links mishie.

Yeah, I think he will, it's certainly better than the ridiculous 4-3-3 with no wingers we were playing last season. Not to mention that Berlu has pretty much insisted on it.

And with Saponara and most likely Honda (now or in January) it's the most logical solution.

I think we'll most likely be seeing this for next season should we have a fully fit squad



Personally I think Honda will be coming this summer. if not, it will be Prince or Saponara in the hole

damn Valencia seem mad..good game so far !

you're very welcome

Jokes aside, De Jong is really going to be like a new signing this season.

He seems to be in great shape and form

I agree with both last post mate, De Jong will be immense this season and the formation is spot on like you said which confuses me about the Ola John possible transfer. just for the record i think Honda is decent but nothing more and i don't see why we're chasing him so hard

By the way, if anyone is looking for a good link, the sopcast one there is working great: http://livetv.ru/en/eventinfo/180023_valencia_milan/

I think John is just a cover for something Galliani is cooking up with Doyen Sports. John's price tag is the usual over inflated Portuguese asking price, I read somewhere that Benfica would ask around 30m for him.

Galliani has basically met with a high official from Doyen Sports for these last 3 nights running, I think it might have to do with a partnership or some other business deal. They have a set of really talented players on their hands, none of which we could afford most likely . Here's their site Link

As for Honda, I think he's a really good player, he's certainly the difference maker at CSKA. Plus the marketing avenues he'll open up for us will not only cover whatever we might pay to get him but his wages as well. That's how big him signing on could be for us. I read somewhere that there's already a potential deal in place for Milan channel to be broadcast in Japan.

And a very impressive Poli is subbed off for a very unexciting muntari.

My only reason for watching is taken off and my reason for cursing is on. Oh Allegri, how I wish we could have gotten rid of you...

Urby is comical when he tries to take people one-on-one.

lol, Muntari actually falls on his @ss while running backwards with no one near him

Why haven't we tried to sell Antonini again?

Such a mediocre player

We seriously need to sell Urby, Antonini and Muntari/Traore

you've answered my question well, also proving my theory it's a business buy rather than a football buy