Associazione Calcio Milan vs Tottenham Hotspur
(UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, 1st Leg)
(UEFA Champions League, Round of 16, 1st Leg)
Today, our lads will be travelling to the San Siro again, but this time facing the red-black half of the city of Milan.
This will be an entire different Milan-based team from the one that we faced a few months ago.
For this game, I will begin with our opponents first.
Sitting pretty at the top of the Serie A on a 10-match unbeaten run, AC Milan could prove to be our toughest opponent yet. They even bought a series of good players such as van Bommel (whom Redknapp admitted that we should have signed for), Cassano, Emanuelson, etc. The good thing is, these players are all cup-tied. Still, the Rossoneri could pack a punch up front against us, especially with the likes of Robinho, Pato and Ibrahimovic as their strike-triumvirate. Notable absences for them would be the defender Zambrotta, midfielder Pirlo, captain Ambrosini and our ex-guy Boateng.
Spurs will be going in without our San Siro talisman Bale (back) and Modric (recovering from appendicitis surgery), though the latter is on the trip. With key players rested from the Sunderland game, Redknapp will likely field Lennon and Van der Vaart in the midfield, along with Sandro and Palacios (Jenas is suspended), and maybe we might see Krancjar, who had saved our past 2 games, sneaking in a place. Defence wise, we have Dawson, Gallas (provided he wear the correct boots this time), Hutton/Corluka and Assou-Ekotto. With a 4-4-1-1 combo, up front would either be Defoe/Pavlyuchenko/Crouch, but the latter is having a bit of a back problem and might sit on the bench.
For this game, I would like to invoke the "Spirit of '72", where in the inaugural UEFA Cup we knocked AC Milan out of the semi-finals and proceed on to win the cup.
COYS!!!!!
This will be an entire different Milan-based team from the one that we faced a few months ago.
For this game, I will begin with our opponents first.
Sitting pretty at the top of the Serie A on a 10-match unbeaten run, AC Milan could prove to be our toughest opponent yet. They even bought a series of good players such as van Bommel (whom Redknapp admitted that we should have signed for), Cassano, Emanuelson, etc. The good thing is, these players are all cup-tied. Still, the Rossoneri could pack a punch up front against us, especially with the likes of Robinho, Pato and Ibrahimovic as their strike-triumvirate. Notable absences for them would be the defender Zambrotta, midfielder Pirlo, captain Ambrosini and our ex-guy Boateng.
Spurs will be going in without our San Siro talisman Bale (back) and Modric (recovering from appendicitis surgery), though the latter is on the trip. With key players rested from the Sunderland game, Redknapp will likely field Lennon and Van der Vaart in the midfield, along with Sandro and Palacios (Jenas is suspended), and maybe we might see Krancjar, who had saved our past 2 games, sneaking in a place. Defence wise, we have Dawson, Gallas (provided he wear the correct boots this time), Hutton/Corluka and Assou-Ekotto. With a 4-4-1-1 combo, up front would either be Defoe/Pavlyuchenko/Crouch, but the latter is having a bit of a back problem and might sit on the bench.
For this game, I would like to invoke the "Spirit of '72", where in the inaugural UEFA Cup we knocked AC Milan out of the semi-finals and proceed on to win the cup.
COYS!!!!!
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