AC Milan general spiel 2.0

[RomaShield27]

Zaccardo is a World Cup winner, PM, how dare you speak that way of him. Maybe Milan can bring back Giuseppe Favalli to help out in that position? Or Mauro Tassotti, even, since he's already still on the books.

Milan were really bad and scarcely deserved a draw. I felt sorry for Torino and Cerci, who was excellent, although it was a very clumsy challenge for the peno.

The return of Kaka does pose a bigger problem than just if he is actually still good enough. As we we're discussing last night, he can't play as part of a front three like Boateng did, so that means a change of formation. That doesn't bode well for the likes of El Sharawy and Niang who are better out wide than as a central striker. And with Matri's presence, space for El Sharawy will be limited, which is a shame. Kaka hardly still has the defensive attributes to play as part of a midfield trio, does he?

Kaka's return seems more like a convenience, as he became available for free and so your management jumped to sign him, to please the fans and sell the jerseys, yet it hardly helps Allegri.

[p_maldini_3]

i think that kaka's return boils down to one simple comparision: kaka' vs. boateng? i'd take kaka' all day any day.

but it doesn't matter now, kaka' is injured and probably out for a month. so now, we've got 2 of our first choice fullbacks out (abate, de sciglio) and 2.5 of our starting 4 midfielders (montolivo, kaka' and poli being the '.5'). the squad is stretched thin.

our home game against celtic is probably the least difficult CL game we have, and we are absolutely decimated with injuries. and we have no ball players in the midfield (forza birsa?).

what a shit week this is turning into.

[San Paolo]

let's be fair, a mountain load of injuries is nothing new for us now, it's been happening right back to 2008 when Pato joined up, Galliani should have and probably did see that a few injuries in key areas decimates us yet he chose to do nothing to rectify the problem. hopefully we'll jammy out a result against Celtic but this is a very strong celtic side unlike the ones we faced in the more recent champions league clashes.

[p_maldini_3]

we sure as hell jammy'd out a result against celtic.

what pisses me off the most is that i have to skip watching other games like napoli vs. dortmund to watch the crap that allegri makes me watch.

i'm close to the point of skipping a milan match out of sheer boredom.

[ancient milanista]

That freekick gets even dafter:

http://www.football-italia.net/39656/ab ... ef-told-me

[San Paolo]

what, so if a goalkeeper saves a shot then pounces on the saved shot to pick it up it's a foul? if that's the case i never knew that either. just seen the highlights as i was working during the game. nice shot from Zapata, lucky with the deflection though. lovely freekick from Balo and a nice tidy finish from Muntari although what was the Celtic Keeper doing when he saved that Balotelli freekick, it looked the most awkward save in the world.

[Bagg10]

Anyone else notice Reina take a couple steps off his line (alla Dida 2003 CL final, except not as obvious) before saving the pk?

[p_maldini_3]

they showed a goal-line view, it looked like reina just leaned forward and saved it. regardless, that shit happens all the time and it was a great save.

not a bad game today, besides the result. the team actually/finally showed some fire today. balotelli dropped in and out of the game, but in the second half he made a bigger effort to try to pick and run with the ball from the midfield. he must do that more.

poor result, but improved football. knowing our limitations, i'll take it.

[DCGweez]

http://www.gazzetta.it/foto_del_giorno/ ... iani.shtml

[San Paolo]

Enough chances to win last nights game twice over, we played okay, Balotelli was decent. We can't defend for shit and Abbiati cost us a point with his piss poor goalkeeping.

[RomaShield27]

'It’s Not Like I Killed Anybody’ – Mario Balotelli (Kind Of) Apologises For Intimidating Ref And Getting Himself Sent Off Against Napoli

by Chris | 27th, September 2013
http://www.whoateallthepies.tv/fail/176 ... apoli.html?

The official line is that Mario Balotelli was sent off following the final whistle of Milan’s recent Serie A game against Napoli (shortly after having missed a penalty for the first time in his career) for “intimidating” referee Luca Branti, with anecdotal evidence suggesting that the former Man City striker told the official: “I will kill you, you will pay for this.”

Whether or not that is 100% true will likely never be sussed, but the fact that Balotelli was shown a red card cannot be quibbled over and, for that, he has issued an apology…of sorts.

Speaking to Gazzetta dello Sport, Balotelli sort of apologised for his conduct at the San Siro in a strange, round-about, fleetingly third-person kind of way:

“I’m sorry, particularly for my team-mates, who I have abandoned. I’ve created a mess and it was not necessary. I should not have said certain things, but there is one thing that I don’t get: if Mario commits a bad foul, Mario has to be punished, and if somebody else commits a bad foul on Mario, then he should also be punished.

“It’s not like this in [the rest of] Europe. Red cards are red cards for everybody, like yellows. It’s the same for everybody. I made a mistake and lost control of myself, let’s say because I was provoked many times, and Mario apologises, but let’s not get carried away – I don’t need to apologise to everybody because it’s not like I killed anybody.

“I know playing football means taking knocks, but I don’t want to finish my career when I’m 28. There is no equality of judgement here. But I know that I have to be stronger myself too; more cool. Even Messi and Ronaldo get mad when they are hit, I can assure you. But I realise that if I want to reach the very top, I’ve got to resist certain situations.”

See? Yes, he (allegedly) threatened to kill somebody, but he didn’t actually kill anybody – so everybody just calm down, yeah?

GOD.

[ancient milanista]

I do hate it when people take about themselves in the third person, they either sound unbelievably arrogant or like a 2 years who is still learning to talk.

Yes Balotelli does get fouled, but quite a bit of it will be because his opponent knows he will react. I for his information, it is quite rare to see Messi reacting when he is fouled. And his is only half the size of Balotelli or Ronaldo! Stop falling about and moaning Mario and you will find your get more protection.

[p_maldini_3]

tough win against samp yesterday. again, we had some great chances but made them count for nothing.

good to see robinho getting some games, he's starting to emerge from the shadows and be the player he was meant to be. birsa has impressed me, we knew nothing about him when he came in, but now we can say that he's a legitimate ball player, i think he can probably play as a mezzala although he is a bit of a light-weight.

we'll have the pharoah, balo and montolivo back for the game against ajax, i hope allegri has the balls to start playing montolivo and poli in the same midfield three. although an away game in the CL is always going to bring out the best in allegri...

[p_maldini_3]

as predicted, an away game in the CL brought out the best of allegri. i don't think we had 3 consecutive passes in the middle of the field until the 40th minute. allegri claims that it was part of the overall strategy to sit back and allow the pressure.

that is horse shit. we can't be playing like that to a team that on paper is inferior to us. this is embarrassing by allegri. we have a losing attitude now that is infecting the entire team.

and balotelli is turning into a bitch. it is not worthy of the shirt. somebody needs to sit him down and teach him a lesson. this isn't regarding the pk call, but just his overall demeanor in general.

[ancient milanista]

A lot to live up to - hope he can:

http://www.football-italia.net/40207/th ... dini-milan

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[Bagg10]

Thursday October 3 2013
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Third generation Maldini at Milan
By Football Italia staff

A third generation of Maldini started his Milan career today, as Christian – son of Paolo – trained with the senior squad.

The Rossoneri have been home to Cesare Maldini, who as captain lifted the European Cup in 1963, his son Paolo and now also Christian.

Born in 1996, Christian plays as a full-back and took part in his first senior training session with Massimiliano Allegri’s squad today.

He was one of several youth team players who joined in, as the rest of Pippo Inzaghi’s Primavera side were returning from yesterday’s impressive 3-2 UEFA Youth Cup win away to Ajax.

http://www.football-italia.net/40207/th ... dini-milan

[Bagg10]

[p_maldini_3]

[San Paolo]

Mexes banned for 4 games for "punching" Chiellini. if you're going to get banned anyway he might as well have properly twatted Giorgio then nutted Bonucci for me.