Lets start with this mornings match against OM. Milan were lucky. There were questions of offside and they looked terrible in parts, but to their credit the team battled through poor weather in the south of France and were clinical enough with their opportunities to take all 3 points in a crucial match.
During the week VP Adriano Galliani claimed "Real Madrid will presumably finish in one of the two top spots [in the group], therefore Milan and Marseille will presumably fight it out for the other one. And that is why tomorrow’s game is very important.” 3 away points versus Marsielle does give Milan alot of early breathing space, especially as Marseille travel to Madrid on the next matchday, while Milan host Zurich. If results go our way, we could be 6 points up on OM after just 2 games.
Now to league matters...
Milan slumped on the weekend, only managing an away draw against Livorno who had managed to collect just 1 point in their opening two matches.
Ronaldinho took a lot of the slack and, although he deserved it perhaps, as usual, he got more than he deserved. The fact is that if you have two playmakers (Pirlo and Ronaldinho) who are tremendously skillful but about as quick as a two-legged elephant, you need to build speed around them.
Ownership management and coaching staff, both past and present, need to take the blame for a very poor transfer policy that has too often lead to buying a player with a big name rather than a player with a lot to offer the team. We are left with a team full of talent that don't complement each other or the formation they've been bought to play in.
But we are getting into the guts of the season now and their is not much use complaining about what resources we have, we just have to hope that Leo and co. can make the most of what they have.
On a positive note, Inzaghi and Seedorf played well and Oddo wasn't half the disaster the media have made him out to be during preseason.
On a positive note, In the league we have 4 points from 3 games, one more point than last season. If we continue to get 4 points for every 3 we got last season, we will get 98 or 99 points. So on that sound and reasoned logic, we are on course to win the league this year. Woot!
Wednesday, 16 September 2009
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It was all about getting a result on Tuesday night and that job was done. I think Mauro Tassotti summed it up best when he said that win would be worth nothing if they don't put together a run of positive results.
And, as Super Pippo pointed out, he has had plenty of goals chalked out for offside when he was not so why grumble over a decision going his way this time? And Seedorf for Dinho was a no-brainer at this stage of the season.
Ginkers,
I agree decisions even out, but Milan need to be aware that it was far from a dominant performance, that it easily could have been a loss and that there is plenty of work to do.
And im sure they know that.
I was very pleased to see them scrap a win tho
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