TEAMS NEWS: Manchester City are without Matija Nastasić and Micah Richards while Milan will have to do without Ignazio Abate, Mattia De Sciglio, Cristian Zapata, Daniele Bonera, Philippe Mexes, Riccardo Montolivo, Riccardo Saponara, Robinho, Giampaolo Pazzini and Mario Balotelli. Kick off time is 18:15 CET at Bayern Munich’s Allianz Arena.
Finished: Manchester City 5-3 Milan
Manchester City (4-3-3) – Manuel Pellegrini
Hart, Richards, Lescott, Garcia, Kolarov; Touré (C), Fernandinho, Navas; Jovetic, Dzeko, Silva.
Substitutes: Kompany, Zabaleta, Milner, Nasri, Negredo, Sinclair, Agüero, Rodwell, Barry, Clichy, Wright, Pantilimon.
AC Milan (4-3-1-2) – Massimiliano Allegri
Amelia, Antonini (C), Vergara, Zaccardo, Constant; De Jong, Traoré, Muntari; Boateng; El Shaarawy, Pentagna.
Substitutes: Poli, Nocerino, Cristante, Emanuelson, Abbiati, Pacifico, Iotti, Pinato, Kingsley Boateng, Vasconcela, Niang.
Referee: Peter Sippel (GER).
1:5 now we strike back haha
5 zero. Galliani i hope you’re watching the match?
vergara has actually been one of our better defenders
just a friendly
milan with a lot of bad players
allegri
the score is just normal….
SES 2 goals
at least el shaarawy is scoring =)))))
SES 2 GOALS!!! Our only shining star for this match at the moment. Petagna held the ball up well in the opposition penalty box to help SES for his second though.
@mulanx1 your comment is completely irrelevant lol, so if we played a 4-3-3 this game with this same squad we would be competing lol? No. Like I said, put our real starting XI out there and see what happens. It took our real back 4 an entire half of a season to mesh well together and now we throw these random 4 guys out there together and expect them to dominate, no.
V need honda n world class CB n pls sell crap players muntari antonini toera amelia boateang mf or sel him too
petagna goal!
Petagna! Cool finish.
The decisions to keep Allegri, go back to 4-3-1-2 and spend no money are reaping their obvious rewards.
Haha agreed! Best comment so far
why cant galliani just sell Antonini, traore, bonera and muntari. and get us a single player which this squad can make use of didnt they say that MR. B wants a 25 man squad . so be it sell this junk at once
aww almost another one for petagna
Man, eff this. Ama warm up and go show Galliani how much difference a good play maker can make.
First hald ends Man City 5 – 3 Milan SES scoring 2 and Petagna scoring last goal of first half. Petagna scored Milan’s third. Think it was slightly offside but great eye for goal either way. Great vision for the pass for Petagna’s goal. He also played a bit part in SES’s second goal. His playing some nice long balls today which is quite surprising as he usually tries to shoot fron long distance and often act selfish near opposition penalty box. Good to see that our young strikers are doing well this preseason game. Petagna, SES, and when Balotelli… Read more »
honestly, most important thing for me, is elshaarawy is scoring
Hope this will serve as a lesson to Galliani that with mediocre players you cant win anything
Please get rid of Amelia, Antonini, Zaccardo, Traoré, Muntari; Nocerino, , Emanuelson,
Our defense looks horrible, im sure Maldini would do a great job if he returns in his actual physical condition…please buy at least 2-3 defenders &and get rid of the deadwood
Muntari and Nocerino is decent squad player as I don’t think we’d be able to buy adequate replacement for them if we sell them this summer mercato. On the other hand last season and this preseason clearly shows that Traore is subpar even as a sub or squad player. He adds no demention or quality to our game and his high salary of 1M+ is undeserved. Selling Antonini will not help much either as this will lead to milan only having three players for full back position (De Sciglio, Abate, Constant) and this clearly isn’t enough for a squad competing… Read more »
What did i just see?
we really started taking control at the end of the first half, makes me hopeful for the second. I have liked what ive seen from vergara, he has been one of the better defenders and none of the goals were really his fault with a weak defence and midfield around him, he is very young also.
we need poli to come in second half. we are really missing players like monty, balo and mexes/Zapata. Honda is a must
Normally, i should say that this would serve as a wake up call to Berlusconi to make cash available for “meaningful” buys, but then i remember that last season we were thrashed by Madrid and yet, we signed nada significant players!
Just hope this time would be different.
Disgraceful… SIMPLY DISGRACEFUL! Players such as S.MUNTARI, B.TRAORE, M.AMELIA, L.ANTONINI DO NOT DESERVE to even play in the PRIMAVERA team (if thats even posible) … Traore…well… atleast he gives is 100% (even if its not enough) unlike MUNTARI who is thinking about that UNDESERVED pay check and what upcoming upgrades he can do to his Lamborghini RATHER than PLAYING WITH HIS HEART LIKE A TRUE PROFESSIONAL FOOTBALLER.
At least this will make galliani to wake up, and buy players, hope we win today anyway, it will be crazy if we win!
Now i knw we are going 2 suffer in d hand of man city but dere is alway hope hm hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhaha
but dis is not d milan i knew b and g have turn the club from the club of star 2 a club of ……………………………. Sum 1 plz complete it for me
Awful midfield awful defence, pathetic going down 5-0… Great comeback El shaarawy and petagna r only 2 good players… 2nd half take off Amelia put Gabriel because Amelia is garbage, keep same back 4 cause we have nobody.. Take off traore and sell him right away he is the worst player to ever wear a milan jersey put poli and even nocerino over Muntari…. Allegri is stupid for starting such a weak line up against an almost starting 11man city, that was hard to watch
Muntari is having a semi decent game. He was part of Milan’s last two goals and he was responsible for the long pass to Petagna for Milan’s third. Surprisingly positive performance from Muntari and I don’t know why you’d want to sub him.
Traore has been -1 of player for Milan. I agree I rather see Cristante and Poli get playing time over this expensive garbage that’s costing our beloved team 1.2m per year warming the bench.
guys this is just a friendly game 90% of our first XI dont play abbiati, abate, de sciglio, mexes, zapata, montolivo, balotell……
vergara could become a good defender, but amelia is the worst goalkeeper ever…i hope to see cristante and poli
We could have leveled the score line before half time with the Petagna’s and SES’s missed chances. I, too, like most of you can find a lot things to criticize in this team, but let’s just keep in mind that this is just a pre-season game and we’re playing with only 2-4 starters.
Ill speak at the end of the game, but if we can keep up with our B squad against their A squad, we can do very well this season with reinforcements such as Honda and hopefully more
-Our back 4 was terrible, not much else I can say about that.
-KPB was horrible, he does not understand the treqarista role. He is a big part of the reason we are struggling. He is making it impossible for us to transition from defence to offence. We began scoring when we decided to surpass him and play balls directly to our forwards. (his attitude also needs improvement)
I dont mind 4312, but it will not work without a proper treqarista.
Amazing, Milan, oh my God! Please? What can i say with this players? Any way is a friendly, but we need qualitative, skillful and dedicated players.
Guys our defense is rock solid…I think we will concede the least goals in the league…We have legends at our back line… with the greats if not legends like Antonini-Zaccardo-Traroe-Emanuelson-NocerinoI am sure we will go on to win Serie A, Champions league, Coppa Italia, Supper Coppa…I mean the sky is the limit here…Guys believe in these legends… They will foreever write the history of milan… Maldini-Nesta-Costacurta will look like youth players next to these guys …. Forza Antonini-Zaccardo-Traroe-Emanuelson-Nocerino
sarcasm here is painful to see… Maldini and Nesta will probably want to punch those guys in front of Milan goal watching them play back home…
Those who gave thumbs down clearly have no sense of humor.
petgna at 18 scoring a nice finish against man city…. looks like we have a new pippo :)
i was gonna switch it off at 5-0 but we got the game back in the open .. shaarawy hat trick soon !!!
If Milan comes back or even win….. Galliani will come out saying that we’re ready and we have more than enought quality players to win the league……
Yeah Zach thats what im frightened of…
niang on for petagna
Gabriel for Amelia, and nocerino for traore
5-3 is respectable after looking dead and buried
damn!, ses should have scored
boating should have scored after some great play from ses de jong and vergara. vergara is so cool under pressure
We are doing well, after a shaky start…
SES must learn to use his left.
KPB is still playing horrible, he is hurting us more than helping us. What a selfish player.
I am just happy that SES is finding the net again and that it stays that way, I knew we were going to have a tough time when I read last night that most of our entire starting line up is broken. But In my eyes this is only a pre season a test to see where we are, but in my eyes at the moment we are meh, hopefully with a proper starting team and also a decent looking bench we could just take the Scudetto, hopefully go for a double… And in the transfer window please sign Honda.… Read more »
emmanuelson in for constant, poli on for muntari, kingsley boateng on for ses
Poli is coming in for muntari, emmanuelson coming on for constant! This is starting!
My review is, just sell amelia, bakaye traore, and maybe zaccardo. Their performance is awful!
And btw gabriel is class!
I’m happy btw, we re using our B team, they re using A team. Btw in this second half we play more solid! We threaten m.city!
Man, eff this. Ama warm up and go show Galliani how much difference a good play maker can make. Damn
Vergara is pretty good to be honest. All of our conceded goals come from antonini, amelia, and zaccardo.
I’m happy el shaarawy is finding net again!
Niang is showing off some pace too.
Take it easy guys, this is just friendlies, and we re not even using our first team! I’ll take it.
It’s unfortunate that petagna, shaarawy, and boateng didn’t score their last chance! If they score, maybe just maybe we can level them up!
Gabrielhas impressed me last couple games with quick reactions and great saves, he should ddefinitely be second choice over Amelia.. Amelia is garbage he can’t stop a beach ball… Also poli has shown he is one of the best passers on the milan team.. He’s solid in the 3 man midfield
Damn they kicked our ass :(
Zaccardo, Boateng, and Antonini —–> f you
My ratings for this match
Amelia 4 (bad bad performance,should be sold immediately)
Antonini 5 (made some mistakes but manage to recover)
Zaccardo 4 (very very shaky performances)
Verger 6 (proves himself to has a bright future)
Constant 5,5
De Jong 6′,5 (commanding midfield)
Muntari 5,5
Traore 4 (should be sold immediately)
Boateng 5,5
SES 7
Petagna 6,5
dont worry boys wait for guiness cup
abbiati
Antonini Zapata Vergara Constant
Montolivo De Jong Poli
Boateng
Balo ELLLL
Never Boateng, at least not in that position.
milan did well for me. we used our second team. not bad for real