PRE-REVIEW: AC MILAN VS LAZIO

PRE-MATCH REVIEW: AC MILAN VS LAZIO
The title race for us is nearly out of our reach once again this season,what is so frustrating is the unconsistensy by the veteran players we have in the squad.For me the times have arrive for Seedorf to hanging his boot and let Milan's youngsters takes his place.Last 2 weeks have been a roller coaster ride for Seedorf because his lack of consistensy that have cause the team a vital point to close the gap between us and the leader of the Serie A,in the match againts Bologna he have played a wonderful 90 minutes and score our first goal that see Milan flew pass Bologna 4-1 but his midweek performence have been the worst showmanship i have seen from him for a long time.By a worldclass players standard he should have been drop from any top flight football team.

Lets face it we are not in great form for the passed 2 season and most of this fatal decline of performence is due to the failure of the veteran players at San Siro,not just frustrating for us as a fan to see such poor show from the players and but the management of the club is not helping the team either.Silvio Berlusconi's reluctant to make big buy to add more pace and power have restricted Milan's ability to compete with the Europe's top club and at the moment the European best club probably is not consider us as a nightmare anymore.Qualifying back to Europe is important not just for the pride but the money we will generate from the vass exporsure we will recieve.

The match againts Lazio this sunday will determained whether we still have any chances of winning the Serie A or we will slip behind and find ourselves only fighting for the Champions League spot,but beware if we keep struggling to get the remaining place for Europe the journey will only get harder because of Uefa intention to only give 3 spot to the Europe top 3 league that's Italy,Spain and England.Againts Lazio Milan have to be extra careful and the strategy of depending too much to the old players will fire back to us,we should go with the balance 4-5-1 formation Carletto have introduce with a proper winger in Becks and Jankulovski.Don't play Janku at the defend but play him as left winger and beck on the right,play Zambrotta in left back while Antonini at the right back.

Carletto have the option to play a fast player at the midfield to ensure a much better penetration to the opponent defense nut we all know how stupid he can be when it's down to the selection of players.Let's put Inzaghi along side Pato at forward,Kaka at the Attacking midfielder position and Ambrosini at defensive midfield position.The debate about our old legs will not going to stop if the management is not doing what's best to the future survival of youth players and we as a fan have to continue the best support for Milan...
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AC MILAN VS. GENOA

AC MILAN VS. GENOA
At first i was surprise to see the almost same line up againts Bologna started the match for us,Favalli is on the team and some of you might curses when you see his name but Carletto have his own reason of why to include Favalli.Carletto insist that Favalli's pace and good judgement is the main reason for his inclusion in the starting line up,he did poorly in providing crosses but efectively prevent any treat that come his way.At the early minutes I find Genoa players tend to breaks any forward run made by Kaka and Pato by hard tackling and quickly closedown Pato and Kaka's attack.Genoa play a fast counter attack and long passes to their hitman Diego Milito,the best chances for us is when Pirlo hit the crossbar at 15 minutes of the game.Lead by Thiago Motta,Genoa closes Milan attacks with three players and they are successful at it.Biava is probably the best defender of the match,constently made great tackles that see Milan loses a lot of chances to slip through their penalty box.In other hand we have Zambrotta in the right hand side,his superb effort is limiting Genoa's opputunity to even test the excellent Abbiati on the goal.

Pato is being targetted all the time by Genoa's defenders with silly challenge that resulted in a freekick for Milan at the right hand side of Genoa half,Becks takes the honor and scores with his trademark 'Bend It Like Beckham' style that curve in and hit Genoa's net with great accuracy.We once again came close with Pato,he get an open opputunity by failed to capitalysed it,Kaka have a lot of time with ball on his feet but no one is available for him to link up with and Genoa with ease takes the ball back to their possesion.I see a terrible thing when Milan is moving too slow and hold the ball at our own half without any idea of how to penetrate Genoa's good defensive control,when building the attacks we aren't able to run beyond Genoa's penalty box and things is looking very ugly for us.The problem keep growing when Jankovic is being introduce to the game,Genoa attacks becoming more lively,fast and they are brave enough to begin attacking us.Abbiati is being keep quite for long period until Jankovic come in,I have been so impressed with his performence in the last 4 games for us.Everytime we hold the ball the players is not responding when at time we look like starting to defend although we are not even in the 2nd half of the game.At the last minutes of 1st half Pirlo once again with his freekick hit the crossbar despite The Genoa keeper might able to save the kicks.

I predicted at the 2nd half Carletto might want to change Seedorf who looks so tired at the end of 1st half but he stick with Seedorf for the 2nd half,the tempo change for Genoa and they turning from defending to attacking us at the 2nd half.Genoa is pressing us so intensely and advances to our half of the pitch with almost 4 players at every attempt to breaks our good defense while they put 3 players covering every attacks Seedorf,Becks and Pirlo try to initiates.Again we aren't making the best out of the possesion we have when we completely paralysed at the center of midfield,we keep passing the ball around and only inviting Genoa's defenders to crash us with effective challenge.It would have been different if Ronnie takes Seedorf's place and his creativity perhaps will gave a much better start for 2nd half.Becks and Seedorf is tired at 60 minutes of the game but no moves made by Carletto to replace them,Genoa passing is improving with tidyness and accuracy.They switches the Strategy brilliantly but Milan is getting slower and slower as the match progress.It is not just that,we missed pass the ball countlessly through the closing minutes of the match but one plus point for Milan is The Favalli and Maldini combination at the defend.

They are absolutely amazing with plenty defending works they have done.The 70 minutes came and Carletto decides to defend by exchanging Becks with Flamini,he injected a much needed pace at the midfield.Carletto commit suicide when he bring in Ronnie and withdrawing Pato,the main pace we have upfront.Since Pato goes out we become much more hasitated with posession we have,Genoa coming closer and closer when Milito header is save by Abbiati who have been in great form at 80 minutes of the match.We became more complesent with the ongoing match that appears to have been decided,but at 87 minutes they score with great team goals that leaves amazing abbiati with no chance of saving it.We started attacking Genoa at the dying minutes but not able to penetrate their defense who in my opinion Biava deserve to be inducted as the Man of The Match award.

The summary of overall performence by Milan is easy,at the starting line up what on earth is Carletto thinking by including the same line uo that play just 3-4 days ago?,sometimes the rotation policy is good to ensure everybody is happy and avoiding exaustion.He should have started Ronnie over Seedorf who plays a full 90 minutes last week and obviously tired,Carletto should have pick either Becks or Pirlo to be the main provider because of the similarity of the position they played and play Jankulovski at the midfield rather than as defender.We lacks fast player that can penetrate better when they have the possesion and we only depending on Janku,Kaka and Pato's pace to move the team.At the end Carletto missjudging of last week performence have brought us even further behind in the title race,last week we won not base on a fair 11 vs 11 but 11 vs 10,so He should consider resting some players and trusting the youth players to deliver the goods for us.Overall we have completely failed this time.
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