Wow...thanks for the preview. Appreciate it.

 

I am tired of losing to Milan, we have to win this game. :boxing:

 

Yes so am I. I'm also tired of the Milan fans' attitude as well, they think they are too good for us and too good to be questioned as a club on any basis of favoritism.

 

hahaha.. very good dude Fenomena!!

but with Milan, I dont suggest an offensive way.. we should play the way they do.. we should concetrate on midfeild and defence and then Offence comes third.. that means we build our tactics on fast counter attacks.. When Milan in Attack If you have a very fast FW like Oba and long through passes specialist Like Veron and Emre, even Nesta and Maldini cant control the defence in such powerful speed counter attack by Oba and midfeild.. I think this is one of the solutions we should take.

I suggest:

---------------------Toldo------------------
Ze Maria-------Matrix-------Miha----------JZ
--------------Cambiasso---CZ--------------
-----Stankovic--------Veron------Emre(Kily)-
---------------------Martins----------------

I know that some (If not all) of you will disagree.. but If Adriano wont play, I wont put the slow Vieri or Cruz the FW that cant control the ball ever!!
If we play with the usual 4-4-2 formation without a REAL POWERTFUL attack force that can effect on thier defence and can slow thier attacks then we ****ed up.

 

I suggest:

---------------------Toldo------------------
Ze Maria-------Matrix-------Miha----------JZ
--------------Cambiasso---CZ--------------
-----Stankovic--------Veron------Emre(Kily)-
---------------------Martins----------------

You know Cordoba is back for this match. I do like your tactics. Vieri cannot control a ball although i do love him but his time has passed.

 

i'd be glad if we can hold 0-0 in the first leg :

 

i'd be glad if we can hold 0-0 in the first leg :

What do u mean 0-0 we are always going gor victory no matter what the circumstances even if Adriano is out injured. I would be very happy with any type of victory but also wouldnt mind a draw but i would be disappointed if we played the way we did against them a few weeks ago and lose or just draw.

 

I would go with 5 man in the mid,that way Stankovic will be close to goal and it would be good thing.

 

Team: AC Milan
Coach: Carlo Ancelotti
Formation: 4-2-3-1

-----------Dida---------
Cafu-Nesta-Stam-Maldini
------Gattuso-Pirlo------
--Seedorf-Kaka-Rui Costa-
-------Shevchenko-------

Has Milan ever played 4-2-3-1? Rui Costa on the left? :eekani:
Nice preview otherwise.

 

Has Milan ever played 4-2-3-1? Rui Costa on the left? :eekani:
Nice preview otherwise.

Sorry, that should have read;

Kaka-Rui Costa-Seedorf

I'll edit. :smileani:

 

Ancelotti prefers 4-3-2-1, a lone striker, supported by 2 creative guys like Kaka, Rui Costa etc.

Sometime back... Berlusconi publicly condamned the ONE striker thing. He wanted TWO strikers... and immediately it was changed to something like a 4-1-2-1-2.

Recently... Ancelotti used ONE striker. Even when Tommasson plays, the positioning shows Crespo up there. I think Ancelotti will be on Single Striker again.

Anything within the 4-5-1, acm would be playing... Mancio will still be on similar lines like 4-5-1, 4-4-1-1 in Europe.

 

Yeah Milan do often play with 4-3-2-1 although on the pitch sometimes they translate that to 4-2-3-1 when they are more attack orientated.

----Flat back four----
Seedorf-Gattuso-Pirlo
---Kaka-Rui Costa---
-----Shevchenko----

 

Righto El F.






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now THAT WAS BEAUTIFULL
A10

i got horny :howler: :howler:

LMAO

 

can't wait for this game...

 

can't wait for this game...

2 weeks ... :scared: :scared:

 

14days

i m gonna have to buy like 10gums
so that ill stay calm

 

We have to score a goal in the first game.

It's a must.

Cuper back in 2003 cost us the tie because he chose to defend in the first leg "away" and play a balanced game at home, in hope of nicking a goal in the process. We didn't score the all important away goal and that's what cost us qualification.

Knowing Mancini, he won't repeat the same mistake again.

Would be fantastic if we manage to reverse the scores that took place two seasons ago.

 

i say we have to play a attacking game in the first 30mins
and if we score
PLAY PERFECT DEFENCE AND ATTACK ON COUNTER ATTACKS
AND TO HOPE THEY WILL BE A PENALTY,OR A MIHA FREE KICK

and if we really can WIN the first away match,we can say we did a good job , like we did 30% job of passing milan

 

Righto El F.






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Wow fantastic can you do that with the Milan Inter 6-0? :dielaugh:

 

that was in serie a so it really doesn't count

 

that was in serie a so it really doesn't count

:thmbup: that was a pretty lame excuse, you gotto admit p

btw, if only CL counts Inter's chances are close to zero...

 

Sorry, that should have read;

Kaka-Rui Costa-Seedorf

I'll edit. :smileani:

His point was that we haven't ever played the 4-2-3-1!!! :tongue: How many Milan games have you seen? It will be a 4-3-2-1 or a 4-1-2-1-2.

-----------------Dida-----------------
-
--Cafu-----Stam-----Nesta------Maldini--
-
------Gattuso---Pirlo------Seedorf-------
-
-----------Kaka-----Rui-----------------
-
---------------Crespo-------------------

OR:

-----------------Dida-----------------
-
--Cafu-----Stam-----Nesta------Maldini--
-
-----------------Pirlo------------------
-
------Gattuso-------------Seedorf-------
-
-----------------Kaka-------------------
-
---------Crespo-------Pippo---------------

 

:thmbup: that was a pretty lame excuse, you gotto admit p

btw, if only CL counts Inter's chances are close to zero...

http://www.uefa.com/Competitions/UC...Statistics/Clubs/ClubsComparison.htmx?Club1=50138&Club2=50058&btnAction=Compare

 

Guys, I know the Porto tie i history but I found the following article which made nice reading. I was going to post it on the Inter - Porto thread but nobody would have taken notice. I thought you might want to have a read.

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Remodeled Porto surrenders crown
Thursday, March 17, 2005

Inter eliminates European champion

MILAN As you watched Inter Milan get all three of its goals from its bullish striker Adriano and put a predictably early end to Porto's run as European champion, you wondered if Jose Mourinho was watching, too.

If he was in front of his television in luxurious environs in London on Tuesday night, he must have felt conflicting emotions. There must have been sympathy for these players he once coached and knew so well, and for the fast-rejuvenating city on the Douro river that they represent. But there also must have been a certain satisfaction in knowing that without his psychological and tactical skills on the bench and on the practice field, Porto could come nowhere near its accomplishments of the past two seasons.

This was no longer the efficient and balanced team that he built in a hurry, the team that overcame adversity and clubs from wealthier nations and more competitive leagues to win the UEFA Cup in 2003 and the Champions League last spring. Now, it is the first defending European champion in a decade to fail to reach the quarterfinals.

It was not just Mourinho who took Roman Abramovich's petropounds and jumped to Chelsea. He took two of Porto's defenders with him: Ricardo Carvalho and Paulo Ferreira. Porto's creative soul, the playmaker Deco Silva, escaped across the Iberian peninsula to Barcelona.

Porto has a large fan base, a grand history and one of the most beautiful and up-to-date stadiums in the world, one that makes Inter's and AC Milan's shared San Siro look like a concrete hulk. But despite all its strong cards, Porto could not keep playing a strong hand. Its starting lineup Tuesday showed only five players who started in last year's Champions League final against Monaco.

"There are so many different players that they are totally different teams, and you can't make a comparison," said Porto's new coach, Jose Couceiro. "The only thing this side has in common with last season's is their name."

For those following in heavy footprints, it is clearly wise to tread carefully, even pessimistically. Though it has been less than a year since Mourinho took his leave and big pay raise, Couceiro is Porto's third coach.

Luigi Del Neri, an Italian, was hired and fired before the season even began, and the Spaniard Victor Fernández did not make it past January. Enter Couceiro, whose diminished team arrived in Milan having dropped behind Benfica in the Portuguese league standings after losing, 4-0, on Friday to CD Nacional. It was Porto's worst home defeat in 30 years, and it was a bad omen.

Porto was not nearly as hapless in Milan. There is still spark on the wings, with Nuno Valente and, to a less enthusiastic degree than before, Maniche. There is still Vitor Baia in goal and a promising talent in Quaresma, who was full of attacking energy when he came on in midfield to start the second half.

But in general, what remains in Porto colors is capable but no longer transcendent, a word that only applied to Adriano in this critical game for his club and his reputation.

The Brazilian's hat trick - a fortunate, deflected goal in the sixth minute and much more convincing efforts in the 63rd and 87th minutes - gave Inter all that it required in this 3-1 victory.

It is always surprising at this stage of Inter's evolution when one of its games does not end in a draw. During the 40-match unbeaten streak that ended late last month with a 1-0 loss to its arch-rival AC Milan, there were 21 draws.

With the quarterfinal lineup of the Champions League complete, Italy is back to leading the way in Europe with three teams still in the mix: Juventus, Milan and Inter. England, with Liverpool and Mourinho's Chelsea, is the only other nation with more than one club in the quarterfinals. The rest of the final eight is Bayern Munich, PSV Eindhoven of the Netherlands and Lyon.

"The best would be to play Milan or Juventus in the final," the Inter coach Alberto Mancini said, aware that Friday's draw could generate a quarterfinal matchup between Italians.

Milan, which leads Serie A, and Juventus qualified for the final eight last week. Inter is third in Serie A, but is 16 points behind Milan. It had to wait a week longer because both teams were drawn to play at the San Siro in the Champions League on the same night.

For the 70,000 in attendance Tuesday, it was well worth the delay to see a victory and an Adriano like this.

Seeing him on the prowl against Porto, full of menace and skill, it was exceedingly difficult to believe that he went nearly three months without scoring.

Before Christmas, the gifted young man who is so often compared to Ronaldo, that other bullish Brazilian who played for Inter, scored 14 goals. But his opportunism dried up in the new year.

It is not as if Inter does not have other attacking options, with the Italian icon Christian Vieiri and the electric Nigerian Obafemi Martins. But despite some reduction in Adriano's playing time, he has the support of Mancini and of Inter's not always steadfast owner Massimo Moratti, who has employed 11 coaches and close to 120 players in 10 years.

"All strikers, even great strikers, have difficult stretches," Mancini said.

Adriano's came to an end on March 6 when he scored his first goal of the new year with a penalty kick against Lecce.

On Tuesday, he needed only six minutes to set the tone, capitalizing on an ill-advised pass from Porto's young playmaker Diego and driving down the left, where his left-footed blast ricocheted off defender Pedro Emanuel, over Baia and into the goal.

After that, each time Adriano touched the ball, a rumble of anticipation coursed through the stands. Porto came out strongly in the second half as Quaresma poked holes in Inter's back line. But Adriano struck again in the 63rd minute when he beat the offside trap that was causing him plenty of trouble and found himself with only Baia to worry about. As Adriano controlled the ball with his left foot, his body language was saying that he was about to shift it to his right. But no - he struck early with the left instead and jabbed the ball into the upper right corner of the goal.

Porto closed the gap to 2-1 in the 68th minute when Jorge Costa took advantage scored following a corner kick. But Inter dominated the rest of the match and could have scored twice or thrice more. Instead, it scored once, as Adriano took a fuller swing with his left foot after shaking free of Nuno Valente and sent the ball low and hard into the lower left corner of the net.

Ronaldo indeed, but only Adriano is in the quarterfinals of this year's Italian-flavored Champions League.

Ronaldo's new club Real Madrid is out and in decline. Mourinho is still in, however, and you wonder whether he was thinking about Adriano on Tuesday along with his former Porto disciples.

Mourinho has made a joke or two this season about scouting the Brazilian in person. Petropounds have bought a lot of talent, including his, and will buy a lot more. Abramovitch reportedly made a big offer to Inter for Adriano at the end of last season. Moratti understandably wasn't selling, and he must be even less interested in selling now. But he must be a little more nervous, too. He once lost Ronaldo to Real against his will, and Abramovitch and Mourinho are clearly willful men.