Milanello Corner

Milan is known as a club that always give fair chances and amazing treatment to their players, those things that makes them one of the destination for many top soccer players. Even until these days, many ex-players loves the club for all the magnificent treatment they have had. Unfortunately a few days ago the pride of Milan have been injured by one of their ex-player, Alberto Gilardino, who said that the years he had in Milan was the worse years. It is a truly painful and disrespectful words for Milan especially to the fans that has been supporting him throughout those years. Why i considered Gila's words was inappropriate? Simple, what he considered as the worse years wast not all Milan's fault but most of it was his!!!! The club has payed a lot of money to take him Parma, they hope a lot of him, the club has given all the chances in the world, but he waste a lot of them. It is very obvious that his poor mentality was the main key for all the problems he had in Milan, he just...

The Serie A competition is having a break and will resume next year starting on January, all teams are set to prepare their squad right after the Christmas holiday with different purposes. The big three, Inter, Juve and Milan are definitely preparing themselves to win the Scudetto, while others are aiming for Champions League zone, UEFA spot and escaping relegation battle. Concerning the race for the Scudetto, though some pundits claim that the battle will only be between Inter and Juve, but never loose eyes on Milan as the Rossoneri would give a Shockwave for the two teams above them. Despite trailing 9 points behind Inter, Milan are only 3 points away from Juve and with many games still left to play, don't back them out as just yet. However, it won't be an easy ride for the 7 times Champions League winner to catch Inter as they will face a tough schedule after the break, which is playing Roma and Fiorentina. That's why, the Red and Black squad must do very well on their p...

This weekend would be another important week for the Rosoneri as they hope that their recent negative results would finally end certainly by beating Catania at San Siro. The red and black squad would definetely won't want to lose more ground on the title race, specially knowing that they are now 6 points away from league leader Inter. However many would predict that it won't be an easy job for Milan knowing that ahead of the clash against Catania, the Rossoneri are in the bak of two loses against Palermo (Last Week in Serie A) and agaist Lazio (Wednesday on Italian Cup), mentally it won't be easy for Milan players to bounce back immideately. Fortunately, for the 7 times Champions League Winner, aside from the negative aspect, preparing for the game, they also have some positive boost that could help them grab the three point on Sunday. Sheva's Return The first aspect would be their will to win,the fact that Milan have fail to win on their last four games in all competit...

Well it was another negative episode for Milan as for the second time in a row they faces defeat. After being humiliated by Palermo last weekend, this time it's LAzio's turn to put dirt on Milan's face as the Biancoceleste defeated the Italian giants 2-1 after extra time at the quarter final of Copa Italia last night at San Siro, Milan. It was Goran Pandev, who scored the ultimate blow for Milan, on the 93rd minutes. It was once again a weird match for the Rossoneri, who has to play without lots of their main man such as Pirlo, Gatusso, Pato, Borrielo and Ambrosini, as they was force to left the field empty handed despite not playing that bad. On the contrary Milan could have win the match, if not for some miss chances in the first half and also Emerson's sending off on the second half. Despite the missed chances and the sending off, Milan did manage to score first through Andry Shvechenko's amazing strike, unfortunately just minutes from taking the victory, Favalli...

Many fans maybe wondering, what happened to Milan in these past few weeks as they went front 1 point above Inter and suddenly ends up 6 point a drift in less than a month. Well my analyzes for the cause it's all about mentality, not that Milan doesn't have a strong character but obviously the team is having trouble in determining their focus and concentration in the title race. If you guys realize, Milan's recent negative result emerged right after they take the Serie A table (after defeating Napoli), the next weekend they have to loose their top spot after only drawing against Lecce and from then on Milan's form started to decrease and reach its peak on last Sunday's game against Palermo, which ends their 11 match unbeaten record, after two horrible defeat at the start of serie A. This fact shows that after more than 2 years absence in the title chase, it seems Milan players are still feeling the chill (just like a mediocre team that have just lead the table) as th...

Haven't post for a few days now, so I'm happy to post again... Today I'd like to give a preview for Milan's upcoming match, another tricky features against Palermo at Renzo Barberra. Coming there after three straight draws on their away matches (including the UEFA cup ) match, Milan would certainly hope that they would grab all three points against Palermo in order to keep their point closer to Inter. Not only coming from not a poor away result, Milan would also miss out some players through injury and susspension, such as Nesta, Borriello and Kaka so it would probably effect them a bit, however with the amazing squad that they have this season it is actually downs to Ancelotti on how would MIlan approach the game. Palermo is a good team, but Milan usually plays pretty well against a good team this season, especially when they play an open football, it should be easier for the likes of Dinho and Pato to accelerate the gaps on Palermo defense. Without Kaka, Milan might l...

Haven't post for a few days now, so I'm happy to post again... Today I'd like to give a preview for Milan's upcoming match, another tricky features against Palermo at Renzo Barberra. Coming there after three straight draws on their away matches (including the UEFA cup ) match, Milan would certainly hope that they would grab all three points against Palermo in order to keep their point closer to Inter. Not only coming from not a poor away result, Milan would also miss out some players through injury and susspension, such as Nesta, Borriello and Kaka so it would probably effect them a bit, however with the amazing squad that they have this season it is actually downs to Ancelotti on how would MIlan approach the game. Palermo is a good team, but Milan usually plays pretty well against a good team this season, especially when they play an open football, it should be easier for the likes of Dinho and Pato to accelerate the gaps on Palermo defense. Without Kaka, Milan might l...

It might be a little late to review this match, but here is my version of Milan's player rating. nb: my rate is around (5-9) Abbiati (6,5): Not really troubled expect from one long range shot and some dead ball situation but he play a secure game that day bonera (6): Not particularly a good game by Boner, as he did not help a lot in offense and wasn't convincing in defense as he really had to thanks Flamini for covering him most of the time (where is antonini???) favalli (6,5): Favalli actually did pretty well on the game, but I'm not at all convinced by him as he almost make one or two horror mistake Kaladze (6,5): Not a great game by Kala as he was caught in a few occasion by pellisier, but overall he play a save game for Milan Jankulovski (8,5): My man of the match, the only Milan player that looked so lively on the pitch for the whole 90 minutes, his forward runs troubled the Chievo defense and if not for Sorrentino he could have score a hattrick on the game Gattusso (8...

Milan's 1-0 victory against Chievo, last week is important indeed but it is also left lots of milanisti with huge disappointment as the team still fails to deliver the magical performance that the fans craving and has been expecting. The fans expect a hungry Milan that pour opponent's defense with lots of goals and honestly seeing Milan's roster it is not to much of an asking for. Unfortunately up till now, especially the past 3-4 games the Rossoneri cant seem to score more than 1 goal in a game though they had tons of chances on those matches. This fact brings forward a new debate among the fans and press about Milan's forward, with a pack of world class attacker, the rossoneri seems difficult to brake the deadlock, many speculation emerged but i find some issues that causes the situation. Rotation Policy One of the causes that i believe became the source for Milan's goal drought is the immense rotation that Carletto do upfront, he often changes the strikers from p...

After a disappointing season, the Italian giants looks set to start a new beginning this season as they have already prove it by taking the top spot in Serie A last weekend. Although they haven't really play with all of their potential, personally i believe that their just on their way to built a new edition of the Dream Team. Not just becauseof my background as i die hard Milanisti, the reason i said that Milan will be ruling Europe and Serie A is purely based on the facts that occurred, just as i said the team hasn't been performing magic or the kind of performance they should normally play with the quality that they had but the team still manage to earn lots of points. People may say that Milan gets lucky in some occasion, well it's true because you do need luck to win matches, but aside from it i think that the team have something more at the moment that gives them the edge, those things are spirit, psychical aspect and freshness. Spirit After four years wandering the l...