AC MILAN 1-0 CAGLIARI (AT LEAST WE WIN)

Clarence Seedorf struck a second-half winner to give AC Milan a 1-0 victory over Cagliari in Serie A action on Sunday.The Dutch midfielder pounced after a defensive mix-up in the Cagliari box and sidefooted home from 12 yards in the 65th minute. Though Seedorf's strike proved decisive, England midfielder David Beckham put transfer talk and a recent calf injury behind him and was Milan's most creative player on the day.Fiorentina returned to the Champions League places with a 2-1 win at home to Chievo Verona, whilst Genoa maintained its pressure with a 1-0 win at Napoli.
Inter, which beat Bologna on Saturday, leads the standings with 59 points. Juventus, a 2-0 winner at Palermo on Saturday, is second on 50, Milan has 48 in third place and Fiorentina is fourth with 45.Milan appeared tired after its UEFA Cup match at Werder Bremen on Wednesday night and Cagliari had the better chances early in the match."It was a difficult match and we have a lot of problems in attack," coach Carlo Ancelotti said. "We did what we could. We tried to push for the win and we tried to keep going till the end. We had to play the way we played, we couldn't do anything else."
Beckham was Milan's biggest threat, with Filippo Inzaghi and Marek Jankulovski both narrowly failing to connect with crosses from the England midfielder in the first half.But it was Cagliari's Andrea Cossu who came closest to scoring in the first period after Robert Acquafresca laid the ball into his path and his long range effort forced Christian Abbiati to tip the ball over the bar.Cossu went even closer in the second half with a low shot that rebounded off the inside of the post.Courtesy of The Canadian Press.

My summary of the match is quite long so for those are willing to read it i say thanks,the line is worriying and its scary to see there's no Pato,Ronnie and Kaka three of the most talented attackers to support Pippo upfront.But see it once again and we know that Carletto is trying his hardest to put the most balance players for the match,although im a lil bit sad to not see the youth talent that have so much hype surrounding them on the pitch.Darmian,Viudez and Mattioni is not given a chance by Carletto so we have to surrender to the fact that this match will be a lil bit slow.Janku play on the left wing and it's something I hope Carletto have done long time ago and hey! it works.Lucky for us that Carletto don't play Kaladze given his poor performence againts Inter,we started up nicely with good passing but after Cagliari start to press and control Seedorf we failed to penetrate their defense with conviction.One thing Im sure you Milanista notice is the joy we all get to watch Maldini in his final season with us,he is not showing any lack of form and continue to dominated the opponent strikers,leaving them flat footed with their attack.

The 2 wingers implementation that a wing and wingback have gave us a little bit of pace we have lose when Kaka and Pato is playing but the different is this time the pace come from the wiing not the central midfield.The Becks and Zambro's combination is very effective in blocking any forward move from Cagliari leftside,Becks will defend and Zambro will do the overlap.The same goes if Becks attack and Zambro is ready to defend.The build up from the wings or central midfield is very slow and it have allow the Cagliari players to compose themself back while all their attackers is helping the defensive work.Janku in other hand is doing extremely impressive when he attack and defending,we are untidy in our attack since there's no real muscular striker to hold the ball like Nistelrooy and Toni resulting in Inzaghi being bullied by Cagliari defender.Pippo is looking rather vulnerable as a lone striker despite a few good chance in the 1st half.2nd half kick start with a poor showmanship,we failed again and again to penetrate Cagliari defend and things is started to look ugly for us.

I imangine if we can put Viudez or Pato to company Pippo in attack we certainly will have the penetration power we have lack in this game,Pato or Viudez can take one of the Pippo's controller and run the show behind him like what Sheva use to do but Carletto don't see it that way.He continue with Pippo alone and Seedorf who play an anoynomus figure is not helping the attack at all,after masturbate himself for so long Seedorf is finally doing something and he score giving us the edge over Cagliari.When he score I kiss the TV,hahaha..in the 2nd half Becks don't look as great when he playing deep in the right wing and constantly cut inside from the wing to the central midfield limiting his quality crossing for Pippo.Favalli overlaping run is useless and he sit deep in the leftback giving Janku a free space in the leftwing.Cagliari looks secure in defend with 2 of their defender keep the guard tight at Pippo,Sanderos comes in with Bonera limping around and is playing perhaps one of his best game for us.We never look him as the replacement of Nesta but he's doing great along side the El Capitano,Flamini is not looking as flashy as Gattuso is but he's effective and hardworking for Milan.Play a defensive role very well,Carletto turn comedian when he put Ambro as the Striker withdrawing Pippo in the proccess.As I said earlier the lack of real mascular targetman have probably be the reason of such move,he is doing ok for me.HahaFinally,we're Itallian club playing authentic Itallian style of football.We might not play as good as we(the fan) hope but we still win and drew most of the match troughout this season.As a Milanista sometime we want to be entertained and Carletto have to beware of the future match with injured players list is as long as San Siro pitch,he maybe need to starts believing in the youth again but we can certainly can accept this performence given the trouble above.

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