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UCL SF Second Leg Barca - Milan Wed. Apr. 25

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#1 ·
I cant wait for this game!
I am quite sure that we will see the same barca as we have seen against chelsea...

calm, ball possesion and waiting for the chance...

Milan will do something, but in the 2nd half...they will wait...

its a night to suffer, but hopefully we have a good end...

Visca el Barca!
 
#2 ·
its going to be a spectatcle and im sure the crowd is up for it :thumbsup:

Is Larsson certain to return for this match?
 
#7 ·
Milan just hit some of our bad luck. If Kaka and Nesta is out, its a really big blow for them.
 
#8 ·
I see there game now, I don't see them having too much problem really!

they are leading 2 - 1 against Messina

and I've seen them playing with Roi Costa, no Kaka and no Nesta.

still they are playing with back line of..


--- Cafu ------ Stam ------- Kaladze ----- Serginho

is that what they'll face Barcelona with, or do they gonna show Nesta in the last moment befor they travel to Barcelona ? I wonder?
 
#9 ·
BK, Milan had three injuries in the first 30 minutes, Kaka, Nesta and Ambrosini, that´s the bad luck im talking about.
 
#10 ·
Sonic18, I ment in defence, to judge their defending power so far, they won the game 3 - 1 and Juve just draw with Lazio 1 -1

that will make them 3 points away from Juve, and I think this will play with their heads a lot, specialy if they see that they can't face FC Barcelona with all these injuries!!

right ?
 
#11 ·
It depends on how attacking Ancelotti whants to approach this game. It should be the lineup you posted IMO, but maybe Maldini will play and replace Cafu but im not sure. He could also play this if Nesta is out:

Stam-----------Kaladze-----------Maldini----------Serginho

Costacurta could also take the RB spot.
 
#12 ·
I think if he is going to attack, he'll use something like this


-------------------- Dida --------------------
Cafu ------ Stam --------- Kaladze ----- Maldini

------ Pirlo ------------- Gatusso -------
Roi Costa--------------------------------- Serginho

------------ Sheva ----- Gilardinho/ Inzaghi

I don't think anything else will work with him, if he's missing Kaka, Nesta and Ambrosini, and he wants to attack, this is the option I see him use, and note this is what he played the last 20 minutes of the last game with, after sending in Maldini and Ambrosini.

I don't think he'll risk using Cafu, still I don't see any other option in attacking RB than Cafu, Stam isn't doing the right job in attack as Cafu, and in Camp Nou, he'll get a lot of room to run up and down the left side of us!
 
#14 ·
IMO I don't think we should play the same way we played Chelsea. Its not the same score line and def not the same team. Milan need a goal to be back in it, Chelsea needed two.

We should start by looking for the goal that will make life easier for us. Then we can pass the ball around. Milan need one goal and they're back in it, and I dont wanna play more than 90 mins against Milan.
 
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#20 ·
Kaka doubt for Barca clash Saturday 22 April, 2006

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Kaka, Massimo Ambrosini, Alessandro Nesta, Andriy Shevchenko and Marcos Cafu are dealing with injuries ahead of Wednesday’s Champions League semi-final with Barcelona.

Milan were forced to make three substitutions in the opening 28 minutes of today’s 3-1 win at Messina’s Stadio San Filippo.


Kaka bruised his knee after a tough tackle from Alessandro Nocerino and was stretchered off, while his replacement Ambrosini suffered a muscular problem soon after.


Nesta also limped away with a groin injury, while Cafu was hacked down in stoppages by Salvatore Aronica, a tackle which sparked the brawl that saw Aronica and Clarence Seedorf sent off.


There are reports that Shevchenko was seen limping away from the locker room after the match, so there are also doubts over his full fitness levels.


Johann Vogel, Filippo Inzaghi and Paolo Maldini were absent for this trip to Sicily due to minor injuries, plus Andrea Pirlo was suspended.


“We’ll see what condition I’m in after consulting with the team doctor on Sunday,” explained Nesta on the official Milan website. “Now we must focus on Barcelona and the Scudetto race will come later.”


The Rossoneri face an uphill struggle to reach the Champions League Final, having lost 1-0 on home turf in the first leg.


Inzaghi is on the road to recovery after a bout of tonsillitis, but the biggest doubts for Wednesday’s Nou Camp encounter would appear to be Kaka and Ambrosini.
 
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#22 ·
this is a different website from soccernet.com

Milan suffer triple injury worry

MILAN, April 22 (Reuters) - AC Milan's preparations for Wednesday's Champions League semi-final return at Barcelona suffered a blow with three players taken off injured in the first half of their Serie A match at Messina.


The six-times European champions said later on their website that Brazilian defender Cafu had also picked up an injury at Messina and that all four players would be examined on Sunday.


'We will see how they are on Sunday because at the moment we can't say anything,' said Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti.

Brazilian Kaka and Italy defender Alessandro Nesta were both substituted with injuries and then midfielder Massimo Ambrosini, who had replaced Kaka, also had to go off in the 28th minute of Saturday's match.

Milan were already without striker Filippo Inzaghi who has been struggling to recover from a virus which kept him out of the 1-0 first-leg defeat by Barcelona at the San Siro.