Milanello Corner

It looks like a day of unique things in this year's UEFA Champions League hasn't ended yet as the latest news on the drawing sparks another romantic memory with the meeting of Milan against Man United and Chelsea versus Inter. Milan who has a good memory in their past meetings with United especially the latest on in 2007 looked set to face the English champions once again next year with a special guest, David Beckham . It will be a special moment for Becks, who after parting ways with the Red Devils hasn't had the chance to play against them again and the reunion at Old Trafford would definitely bring some old memories. Despite all of the tactical things, lots of people would believe that the meeting against United would really something that suits Milan as not only they have a good record against them but the fact that the English giant's style of play that is comfortable for Milan players. However, Milan must not get over carried away as this time, their condit...

The Fun fearless Milan under the new Leonardo regime, has finally put a little break in their last two games, a draw against Zurich and a shocking defeat against Palermo has really stop the Rossonerri good runs in a few months. Seeing the team play, the new formation does make Milan improves a lot, they started to entertain the crowd but there's a hint of imbalance in the squad that makes them somehow vulnerable at times. On their day, Milan can really trashed their opponents but at times they can have lots of troubles breaking dawn defenses or defending a counter attack. Those two effect can be seen from the latest two games, against Zurich they were unable to break down Zurich's park the bus kind of defending despite the Swiss team ends the game with 10 men. Than against Palermo who was playing a similar style of Milan, not only the rossoneri failed to put one goal on the opponents net, they we caught twice on the counter. Off course there is a reasonable arguments for ...

 January is about to come and the winter break is probably what Ac Milan needs at the moment to save up their energy, regroup and get new reinforcement as they will be facing difficult and tighter games in 2010. Especially with the current problems in their defense and rotation system, Milan looks that they should do something this January, aside from two confirmed transfers ( David Beckham and Dominic Adiyiah ), I round up some other names that are currently possible enough to come this winter.  Here are some Winter transfer rumors for Milan: Cedric Mongoungu (As Monaco): 20 years old and highly rated French defender, that currently playing at AS Monaco, Cedric has been approached by Milan's management because of his versatility in defense as he can play as wing back and also at CB. The young player has expressed that he won't reject the chance in playing for the Rossonerri, however no official news regarding any deal has surfaced yet. Davide Astori (Cagliari): The 22 ...

Milan goes through from Uefa Champions League group stage with a minus note as they only got a draw against Zurich. The Rossoneri needs a bit of aid from rival Real Madrid which in the other game manage to beat Marseille 3-1 to give Milan a path to the next round. The Rossonerri were playing below par, arguably with some important players such as Ronaldinho , Ambrosini and Thiago Silva were not actually match fit yet. The latter even had to leave the field early, however Milan that played poorly in the first half and were a goal down, managed to shape up a bit in the second half to equalize via Dinho's penalty after Marco Borriello was hacked down in the penalty box. The Brazilian superstar doesn't make any mistake in converting the penalty and made the scoreline 1-1, however with a man advantage (as Zurich player who gave away the penalty been send off) Milan still unable to take advantage and missed out on few chances to win the game. Here is the highlights of the ga...

Ac Milan has announced Leonardo 's called up players for the upcoming final Uefa Champions League game against FC Zurich in Swiss here are the names as written at Ac Milan.com: Here are the 23 called up Rossoneri players by coach Leonardo for Zurich-Milan: Dida, Storari, Roma, Antonini, De Vito (n°56), Jankulovski, Kaladze, Nesta, Pasini (n°57), Thiago Silva, Abate, Ambrosini, Flamini, Novinic (n°55), Pirlo, Seedorf, Borriello , Di Gennaro, Huntelaar, Inzaghi, Pato , Ronaldinho , Verdi (n°58) Unavailable players: Oddo, Onyewu, Gattuso. Suspended players: Zambrotta

Here is the Highlights of Milan v Samdoria last saturday!!! Enjoy:

Just heard and exciting news from Milannews.it , stating that two currently injured Milan defenders Daniele Bonera and Marek Jankulovski are set to join the team as soon as possible. Both players that have been missing for sometime, reportedly have been doing well on their recovery program and it won't take a long time before the two can finally play again. Regarding Bonera, who has been absent from the latter part of last season, the news revealed that he already managed to follow all the training session with the team. Which surely means that he will be at Leonardo's disposal as soon as possible, maybe even in the near serie A game against Sampdoria, Bonera will be filling the bench. Meanwhile as for Janku, it might take a little bit longer as he is currently still undergoing a special program to recover his fitness after the removal of a plat on his left ankle. However, it is still a question mark about Janku's future in Milan as previous rumors stated that he w...

Many words are swerving on Milan 's camp and media commenting Klaas Jan Huntelaar latest goals for the team against Catania, some people are finally suggesting that the Hunter could be compared with Milan's previous legend Marco Van Basten . However, understanding the legendary status of his senior, Huntelaar calmly denied the news about his being compare to Van Basten by stating that he is just a player that only scored two goals and not yet on the level of the legendary Milan bomber. Speaking to the press, Huntelaar stated his few about people's comparing him to Van Basten , "Don't make comparisons between myself and Van Basten. He is part of the history of Milan , I just scored a nice goal," Huntelaar said. The Hunter also said that he loved the appreciation and support that his teammates gives him after scoring against Catania, stating, "The embrace from my team-mates was both exciting and beautiful. However it remains a question as would the H...