Barcelona it is

First match at San Siro. Discuss.

We showed our grit and teeth during the group stages, but we need to kick it up a notch. Hopefully we have a full squad available.

Thoughts?

We need our full squad against us,Pato,Boateng.Aquaman need to hurry the f*** up.
with our strongest starting 11 we can give them a tough time IMHO,

(Obviously) We got the worst draw possible!

Oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

Best thing about it is we play at home first.

Let's do this.

Van Bommel out sucks though.

If we win,we go the distance...We go out,we go out with our heads held high :queen:

I don't really see a huge chance for Milan progressing, but there is always hope. I always thought only a good Italian team can stop Barca's play, so Milan better show them how is it going in Italy
I'm really gonna support Milan here. (too bad Napoli crashed out they could have got Benfica.. whatever)

Forza Rossoneri wrote:Van Bommel out sucks though.

which Barca players are suspended for the 1st leg?

uzee wrote:

Forza Rossoneri wrote:Van Bommel out sucks though.

which Barca players are suspended for the 1st leg?

None , though Puyol is one yellow card away from suspension, but thats it.

Would be epic if Gattuso returns in time by the first leg and contains the barca midfield

Ibrapatinho wrote:Would be epic if Gattuso returns in time by the first leg and contains the barca midfield

not in CL squad

Do we have any *bleep* luck?

This CL draw makes it so obvious.

Real as usual have an easy draw as do Chelsea.

While its obvious a final El Classico is being set up.

I really do not see us getting any luck this time around.

Not even Allegri will be able to pull anything out of this.

Can we just not have one *bleep* draw in which we can look forward to facing instead of soiling in our pants?

Failure of a day.

I'm not gonna worry about Barca until gameday. Until then, lets just think about the Scudetto

Inter managed a draw and a loss in the group stage against Barcelona before springing their surprise.

It's Volcano time people.

is flamini in the cl squad

Flamini, Gattuso and Muntari aren't in the CL list.

The midfielders we can call upon are: Ambrosini, Aquilani, Boateng, Emanuelson, Merkel, Nocerino, Seedorf, Van Bommel.

Van Bommel is of course suspended for the home leg though.

You guys should have known it was going to be Milan or Arsenal vs Barcelona that's the way it is, never easy. The amount of time Arsenal and Milan have faced Barcelona is just ridicules.

I will be cheering for Milan and I hope you guys win it, cant stand the Madrid and Barcelona fans.

Guys I think it's better this way, I would rather lose to Barca (as long as they don't humiliate us) then lose to a smaller team.
Arsenal had to be a wake up call, If they don't score at san siro we win.

If we beat them we can win this CL

I don't know about the rest , but i am happy we got Barcelona . After a small shock-catastrophic-delusional-vision of Messi scoring against us , i couldn't be more excited. For starters , we and Real were the 2 teams that Barcelona wanted to avoid the most. That means a lot to me.

And 2nd , what's better than a Champions League night with Milan-Barcelona ? I am honest here , i am really happy. That's what the CL is all about , playing the best. Also , what Superpepe said.

Seriously , i can't wait .

I haven't posted here in a while(im keshavrajam from the old forums), but i think i ought to make a post now.

Yes, I was disappointed with Barca. But we had to beat Barca and/or Madrid along the way if we are going to win the competition. Losing in the quarter finals or the semi's or the final is the same to me. You either lift the trophy or you don't.

Milan are playing their best football of the year, and we are getting our injured players back. Look at it this way-

if we beat barca, we have a GREAT chance to actually win the champions league. That would be quite something.

If we lose to barca, we can focus on the serie a and win that instead. So this isn't the end of the world.

Barca beat so many teams because teams are afraid of them. We are AC Milan, the most successful side of the modern football era. Rest assured, it will be a close game

That being said, we absolutely need Abate back... mesbah and antonini against messi and sanchez...not good

I was really sad by the draw, I love both teams, but I love Milan much more as I have supported them longer, I mean they where basically the only team I wanted to avoid, really wanted to see our level against Bayern or Madrid over two legs, and was hoping that even if we get Barca and as exiting as it is, I was hoping it would be in the semis or the finals...

You never know though, we certainly have a chance to win, and if we do win Barca, then I can really see us winning the CL...As when Barca get to the finals they really raise their bar...

UEFA setting up for a clasico final? We can ruin that for them. I really have faith in our Milan side if we are all fit to beat Barca. You have to beat the best to win this trophy and if we can beat Barcelona I truly see us going all the way. This is the most difficult matchup we can get in the draw, I saw it coming. Ofcourse by the luck Real had all year they would draw APOEL. Anyways, I am really excited for this and I hope we can give it our all and win this! Milan always tend to raise the bar the highest playing big teams, so lets hope they can do it again.

Allegri-"These games against Barcelona will bring out the best in Milan. Let's look at it from the bright side; we have a great chance to reach the final if we eliminate them."