Seen the first half, Arsenal are boring without Fabregas & Van Persey, Arshavin is the Player to watch, brilliant vision, control and pass.... AC Milan.... Nothing special
Pirlo, Thiago Silva, Ambrosini, Huntelaar, Ronaldinho were among some of the bigger names not on show. Milan has travelled lightly to this competition which is why most of the subs (except for oddo and zambro) were from our Primavera team
Ya overall the squads were pretty similar in that both were missing many of their main players, like mohsink said all of the above were missing for milan and arsenal had no fabregas van persie song diaby denilson bendtner but overall similar squads
I thought that the Milan's primavera team players played quite well. Galliani and the coaching staff needs to give these guys a run out as much as possible. Allegri I think realises that so the future could be alright (although not the near future with some of the age really showing every now and again!). Still a good friendly match in my opinion
Good game to watch I thought, I would definitely like a GK still and heck even that ac milan backup goalie looked solid haha but not full squads for either team so you can't read too much into it most of the best players for each team are still missing or didn't play the whole game
Abbiati has always been better than Dida on an average performance basis. Dida produces wack saves sometimes and lets in clangers sometimes too. Abbiati is more consistent.
That said I am horribly worried as who the hell is 76? The centre back is terrible - I am thinking it is the Greek defender we signed from Genoa. Where's Thiaquino? Nesta looks like he's just back from his holidays too. But no worries with Nesta, he will get better.
Gattuso looks sharp, they were unfair to him at the world cup as he had really only just recovered from an injury.
Flamini still can't convert himself into a proper goalscorer, still trying though.
Well, at least we didn't get thrashed 4-0 by arsenal and that's always good news.
Maybe we can finished 3rd or 4th next season I hope. Nothing lower because we'd be bankrupt without the money from champions league.
Both teams far from best starting line up gattuso should hang up the boots imo.... Was a good game arsenal dominated but goals are what mattered and milan really did push in the last 10-20mins kudos to them wish them the good luck for their season