MASSIMILIANO ALLEGRI wants Milan to get back on winning ways despite the many injuries.
Milan will meet Novara on Sunday noon for the second time within a week after beating them in the Coppa thanks to a 100′ minute goal from Alexandre Pato – who got injured in the game and is out for a month.
Pato is just one of 10 players who are unavailable for the last game of the 1st round of the Serie A (9 injuries + 1 suspension), but Coach Massimiliano Allegri wants to win again after last week’s derby loss.
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“If Juventus don’t win, we can end the first half of the season on top of the table but it won’t be easy tomorrow. We’ll be playing on a synthetic surface that we’ll train on today for the first time and we’ll be up against a team that played well on Wednesday evening and as such will be confident of doing well, but we have to get back winning,” said the former Cagliari Calcio boss on Saturday in the press conference.
“Last year we had important players coming in. This year we have important players on the way back. Flamini should be back with the team shortly, Pato’s injury shouldn’t keep him out for long, Boateng will be back in about 2-3 weeks but in the meantime we’ve big games in the league and the Champions League.
“Sunday is in the past now and we can’t change the result, now we have to win in Novara. It won’t be easy, they‘ll be looking to play the game of their lives at home looking for points to get away from relegation. It’ll be a very fast game on the synthetic surface and so we’ll have to play a very technically adept game.”
The 44-year-old Rossoneri boss continued: “Tomorrow I want to see Milan win more than anything else. To get that result we’ll have to put in a good performance. We’ll have to adapt immediately to the game.
“It’d be hard for Seedorf to play from the start. On the left it’s more probable that Antonini starts ahead of Mesbah. “Emanuelson has always performed well. We could see Ibra, Robinho and El Shaarawy together but El Shaarawy played 120 minutes on Wednesday and he may be useful coming off the bench.
“Analyzing the first half of the season, the progress has been more or less the same. If we win tomorrow, we’ll have performed like we did in the second half of last season. It all depends on ourselves. Our adversaries are the same and it won’t be easy to equal last season’s form,” the Scudetto holder concluded.
I don’t see any reason why we can’t! We beat them a couple days ago 2-1, but we had so many chances it made my eyes bleed. That was all with a “less than full strength” line-up, too. We’ll steamroll Novara. Forza Milan!
kip SES on d bench bt can cum off in d second half coz we nid more attackin opt on d bench,play merkel plsss,it a must he starts
Select the right players. Forza milan
By now, Allegri should have talked to his players. Bury all your chances.
We need this game badly.
the problem is we don’t have backup players for prince and also we need a striker.if we do not get those backup,then we should forget about the seria a and cl
Yeah we must kill the game in the open 30 minutes. Forza Milan!
Milan 3 novara 0
Wow Big TALK before the game against Novara, AC Milan the greatest club in the WORLD doesn’t need a pep talk before playing a low table team ,This kind of underdog appearance could have been better if done against Inter. For Novara game its like Milan is playing on synthetic and Novara will play a fast game and try to get maximum points, When Milan played Inter ,the talk was about Kicking Inter out of the race , then burying them alive, Boa wanted to bite them, somebody wanted Ibra to eat Lucio for Breakfast.Now go and play decent Football… Read more »
anyone watching the Roma game? I kind of wish we’d snapped up Luis Enrique instead of Allegri, you can guarantee El Shaarawy would be playing most games and Emanuelson would be playing left-back. We’d also be playing beautiful football most likely a 4-3-3. We’d have much more flair players in the team than we do now and the senators wouldn’t have gotten much of a look in.
We do basically play a 4-3-3 when Boateng isn’t the trearquista. It’s just not as wide, and the strikers don’t track back like wingers might.
If we wanted to play 4-3-3 and nonstop attacking football we could have just kept Leonardo. But in that case we’d never had won the Scudetto, because in Serie A all-out attacking is not enough…
Yeah but we wont have been where we are . I like wat he is trying to do but he has a long way to go . N we also can play great football (against barca ) n dorf n ambro re d only senators who get decent playin time .
yeah for sure they still do have a way to go but they’re putting in great football week after week at the moment
So you want Enrique now, right? Where is Roma? Compare to Milan. Allegri came in last season and he promoted two youngsters. MERKEL and STRASSER. And he has done the same this season. The two ELYS.
no it’s not a knee-jerk reaction thing I’ve actually thought it for a while, I just don’t like Allegri filling our midfield with grafters and insisting on square pegs in round holes
Do you think you can just come, flush all the Veterans and bring in Youngsters, then you will start winning? Its a gradual thing. Which he’s obviously doing.
Compare this Milan to Milan under Ancelloti and Leonardo.
And you seem to forget Inter you are hailing 2day, lost to this same Novara at San Siro earlier in the season.
This teams you regard as small teams can be very very Frustrating.
By the way, Atalanta are holding up against Juventus. Still 0-0 55′ gone.
juventus up 1-0 thanks to some brilliant vision from pirlo…i miss him
here we go again
Its Over!
Emanuelson has always performed well? Is it a joke? He’s been invisible so far, but I still want him to start this game , he needs to play to have more chemistry with his teammates.
Emmanuelson was Invincible cause he was match rusty, but since he has been playing, he has been Impressive, he just needs to be more decisive with the ball.
El Shaarawy > Emanuelson
They don’t play the same position, so don’t compare.
What about play El Sharaawy in Leftback and see.
Allegri says he want trio Binho-Ibra-SES. But he can do it coz SES still recovering after Novara Coppa Italy match.
I’m can’t wait that happen, maybe against Lazio or Napoli.
Anyway I read some news, that said boateng will be ruled out 4weeks. And the reason why iss.. Because of he’s having too much sex in a week. Her girlfriend told media that they can have a sek 7-10times a week?
And now boateng has become injury prone now.. Oh God pls help!
We all praise stephan so much . I hope we leave room for a bad day . Im just sayin cus most of us want him playing immediately . He is great but i tink he is a bit flambuoyant n can be outmuscled easily .
people talking about bringing back youngsters, only merkrl seemed fit to come back and bow he is here…Strasser (the next essien or yaya toure in my opinion) and didac has huge talent but they still need ti develope more onloan to even be atleast bench ready for milan….paloshci on the other hand is a disappointment 3rd season on loan and as yet to make an impact at any of the clubs loan to.
Guys Guys stop talking about youngsters being sent out on loan for experience and they should develop till they start playing for Milan in Serie A, Fabregas Nasiri, Theo Messi,Iniesta,all these guys started at a very young age and were exposed to the bad big boys to rumble it out,and now slowly they have made it to the senior teams and are still learning, that said I don’t mean Theo is a great player,If the same discipline is instilled in Italian youngsters don’t we think we will be able to produce better footballers. Milan Scouting to begin with his bad… Read more »
The Milan youth system is actually really good. People simply don’t realize it, because we don’t have a youth team starter every year. What you need to realize is that not even Barca does that. No team can afford to give more than 3 raw youngsters decent playing time in one season, and Milan have a very large squad to start with. Which is why we have 2-3 young players in our squad every season. Last season, they were Merkel and Stra-sser, this season we had de sciglio, valoti, el shaarawy, and now we brought back merkel, too. Those who… Read more »
Also we are a big team . Competing in all fronts lets not get carried away or we mite end up like ajax or arsenal . We need results quickly .
you must make substitons
Milan fan here seems to say that KAKA SILVA PATO SES, KAKA is not from Junior Milan ranks , he is from Sao Paulo PATO is not from Junior Milan ranks , he is from Internacional. Silva is not from Junior Milan ranks , he is from Fluminese. El Shaarawy is from Genoa. My dear Milan fan u need to get my point straight up. I mean to say we do not have players from AC Milan academy like the ones in Barca RM. Arsenal in the EPL are getting raw talents and nourishing them. MAN U LIVERPOOL are doing… Read more »