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[IzzyC08]

Our players didn't seem to mind they all still had smiles on their face. That shows how much they really cared.

[pUsHa]

wow we got the biggest loosers in the world .. to loose 2 penalty kick-outs in 2 days and this one in sucha manner is disgraceful ..

[pUsHa]

I hope we never get to penalties in the CL ...

[IzzyC08]

Audi Cup Exit = Disgraceful :?:

[pUsHa]

Audi Cup Exit = Disgraceful :?:

The way we loose penalties all the time is disgraceful ... My favourite team always looses on penalties ...

[IzzyC08]

True, except for CL final against Juve....

[pUsHa]

True, except for CL final against Juve....

Yes , that was like 8 years ago ...

[M99]

Milan infected by the Brazil Syndrome thanks to Pato, Robinho and Silva.

[Chagur]

CALENDARIO SERIE A 2011/12

1) Atalanta Cesena
Bologna Roma
Cagliari Milan
Inter Lecce
Lazio Chievo
Napoli Genoa
Novara Palermo
Parma Catania
Siena Fiorentina
Udinese Juventus

2)Catania Siena
Cesena Napoli
Chievo Novara
Fiore Bologna
Genoa Atalanta
Juventus Parma
Lecce Udinese
Milan Lazio
Palermo Inter
Roma Cagliari

3)Atalanta Palermo
Bologna Lecce
Cagliari Novara
Catania Cesena
Inter Roma
Lazio Genoa
Napoli Milan
Parma Chievo
Siena Juve
Udinese Fiorentina

4)Cesena Lazio
Chievo Napoli
Fiorentina Parma
Genoa Catania
Juve Bologna
Lecce Atalanta
Milan udinese
Novara Inter
Palermo Cagliari
Roma Siena

5) Atalanta Noivara
Bologna Inter
Cagliari Udinese
Catania Juve
Chievo Genoa
Lazio Palermo
Milan Cesena
Napoli Fiorentina
Parma Roma
Siena Lecce

6) Cesena Chievo
Fiorentina Lazio
Inter Napoli
Juventus Milan
Lecce Cagliari
Novara Catania
Palermo Siena
Parma Genoa
Roma Atalanta
Udinese Bologna

7) Atalanta Udinese
Cagliari Siena
Catania Inter
Cesena Fiorentina
Chievo Juve
Genoa Lecce
Lazio Roma
Milan Palermo
Napoli Parma
Novara Bologna

Bologna Lazio
Cagliari Napoli
Fiorentina Catania
Inter Chievo
Juve Genoa
Lecce Milan
Parma Atalanta
Roma Palermo
Siena Cesena
Udinese Novara

9) Atalanta Inter
Cesena Cagliari
Chievo Bologna
Genoa Roma
Juve Fiorentina
Lazio Catania
Milan Parma
Napoli Udinese
Novara Siena
Palermo Lecce

10) Bologna Atalanta
Cagliari Lazio
Catania Napoli
Fiorentina Genoa
Inter Juventus
Lecce Novara
Parma Cesena
Roma Milan
Siena Chievo
Udinese Palermo

11) Atalanta Cagliari
Cesena Lecce
Chievo Fiorentina
Genoa Inter
Lazio Parma
Milan Catania
Napoli Juventus
Novara Roma
Palermo Bologna
Udinese Siena

12) Bologna Cesena
Catania Chievo
Fiorentina Milan
Genoa Novara
Inter Cagliari
Juventus Palermo
Napoli Lazio
Parma Udinese
Roma Lecce
Siena Atalanta

13) Atalanta-Napoli
Cagliari Bologna
Cesena Genoa
Lazio Juventus
Lecce Catania
Milan Chievo
Novara Parma
Palermo Fiorentina
Siena Inter
Udinese Roma

14) Bologna-Siena
Catania Cagliari
Chievo Atalanta
Fiorentina Roma
Genoa Milan
Inter Udinese
Juventus Cesena
Lazio Novara
Napoli Lecce
Parma Palermo

15) Atalanta Catania
Bologna Milan
Cagliari Parma
Inter Fiore
Lecce Lazio
Novara Napoli
Palermo Cesena
Roma Juventus
Siena Genoa
Udinese Chievo

16) Catania Palermo
Cesena Inter
Chievo Cagliari
Fiorentina Atalanta
Genoa Bologna
Juventus Novara
Lazio Udinese
Milan Siena
Napoli Roma
Parma Lecce

17)Atalanta Milan
Bologna Catania
Cagliari Genoa
Inter Parma
Lecce Juventus
Novara Fiorentina
Palermo Napoli
Roma Chievo
Siena Lazio
Udinese Cesena

18)Catania Roma
Cesena Novara
Chievo Palermo
Fiorentina Lecce
Genoa Udinese
Juventus Cagliari
Lazio Atalanta
Milan Inter
Napoli Bologna
Parma Siena

19) Atalanta Juventus
Bologna Parma
Cagliari Fiorentina
Inter Lazio
Lecce Chievo
Novara Milan
Palermo Genoa
Roma Cesena
Siena Napoli
Udinese Catania

[BiasedMilanFan3]

Who gives a f**k about the Audi Cup
It's no big deal, even if we won it. Barcelona won't be going "in the past year we have won the Champions League, La Liga, Audi Cup..."

Allegri is just seeing whats working and what isnt. Admittedly, Bayern are far better than Internacional but Milan played much better today anyway

[Ganso]

there is no shame on losing to inter,they held barca down yesterday to a draw

[BiasedMilanFan3]

Ibrahimovic-Pato-Robinho trio is being dubbed 'Zla-Pa-Ro'
...I like it

[Brigate Rossonere]

Ibrahimovic-Pato-Robinho trio is being dubbed 'Zla-Pa-Ro'
...I like it

The great Milan trio's (Gre-No-Li) for example, were all champions and all were indispesible parts to the team. Zla-Pa-Ro is a combination that we will see maybe once all year. Allegri has not placed Robinho as CAM since the first rounds of last season and I don't think he will do it this season. Expect Boateng or Seedorf to be played as CAM. Therefore, Zla-Pa-Ro does not exactly work. Milanista must always be politically correct

[M99]

I prefer the Ga-Pa-Zla

[IzzyC08]

"England is the most physical, Spain the most technical and Italy the most tactical."

Clarence Seedorf makes his comparison of footballing cultures while enjoying a rare dry spell of an unseasonably wet summer's day at AC Milan's pre-season training camp.

Seedorf is reclining on the veranda of the pioneering Milanello training complex, the place where Italian football's reputation as the most scientific was formed. Here, the club's MilanLab of scientists, doctors and specialist coaches is world famous for an ability to extend the top-level career of players beyond the usual thresholds of fading legs and ambitions. Seedorf, at 35, bears little sign of the wear and tear of ageing or a lack of motivation.

He is a model pupil for the MilanLab's devotion to personalised nutrition for each player, and is happy to spell out his interpretation of their ideas on the subject.

"With top sports, it's like you have a car, a Ferrari Formula 1," Seedorf says. "Those engineers need to make a difference on a car that's already perfect. We are very healthy people already and to make the difference you have to search deep and look to find what can add value.

"For anybody in life, they should focus on nutrition. Listening to my body, making sure you don't do strange things with it. Drinking alcohol? I don't use alcohol. Smoking? I don't smoke.

"The most important thing is to personalise your diet. We all have our own system that reacts in a certain way." On Milan's doctors' practice of constantly monitoring the nutritional levels of their players, he says: "That's why they test."

Milanello, hidden away in Varese's hilly countryside, was the progenitor for the futuristic training complexes that every wannabe superclub must possess. It was first built in 1963, the year the Rossoneri won their first of seven European Cups. Its clubhouse walls are bedecked with photos of glory years which continue until the present day - Milan celebrated their 18th Serie A title in May.

Of six pitches, one allows up to 4,500 people to watch a public training session. Up a flight of stairs, the MilanLab itself lies between a hi-tech gym and a swimming pool, opposite a set of outdoor punchbags where Rino Gattuso can no doubt take out his aggression. A now rarely-used walled pitch was once a vital tool in instilling the "pressing" game that Arrigo Sacchi used to power the team of Gullit, Baresi and Van Basten to European titles in 1989 and 1990 - a philosophy still followed to this day by England boss Fabio Capello.

The Lab was established in 2002 as a reaction to the ill-fated signing of Fernando Redondo from Real Madrid in 2000. Redondo, key to Real's Champions League wins in 1998 and 2000, played just 16 games in four years at Milan. By the time he arrived at Milanello, his physiology had failed him and Milan vowed to increase their scientific ability to prevent such expensive flops. Since then, the extension of the careers of Paolo Maldini and Billy Costacurta into their 40s and the longevity of players at San Siro has made the Lab's reputation. Of the players who lifted the Champions League at Old Trafford in 2003, five of the squad remain in the first-team reckoning, with Andrea Pirlo a very recent departure.

"The opportunity to have use of the MilanLab is great because it gives a player who is old an opportunity to extend their career," French midfielder Matthieu Flamini says. "These players, they are legends but you want to follow their step."

During the first of his two loan spells at AC Milan, David Beckham found himself having a hole in a tooth fixed to cure a back problem that was ailing his running ability. He also shed half his body fat in rapid succession.

"On the basis of data we make interventions and we see if this has any effect, and we have been working like that for ten years, since the MilanLab was founded, " Daniele Tognaccini, project leader of the MilanLab, says at a press event held jointly with Nutrilite, the club's official nutrition supplements provider. "We have a really huge database of dietary habits.

"We deal with three elements - biochemical, physical and psychological. This is like the ID of a player. If a player has physical or psychological stresses, all these are included in their assessment."

Tognaccini then fields a number of questions on two players against whom questions of physical fitness persist. "Ibrahimovic arrived on July 1 and he was fit. Antonio Cassano was not so fit," he says.

Despite winning eight titles in eight years, Zlatan Ibrahimovic is still to convince that he has the robustness to last a full season but AC Milan think they may have found a solution. "Ibrahimovic was not having breakfast, and since he started having breakfast, his performance has improved," Tognaccini says. "Breakfast for an athlete is important, especially when they have several training sessions.

"He's an extraordinary athlete, he's a top performer, but then his weight is 100 kilos and he moves as quick as someone with 60 kilos, and this requires a high energy consumption. You see this quite often at the end of the match: he's exhausted. He vomited once. At the end of a season, he arrives at similar condition to that, so he won't play as much this season."

Later, Cassano, who once admitted that his time at Real Madrid heavily featured a hotel waiter bringing him "three or four pastries after I had sex", looks leaner than in those years and contents himself with a strong coffee or two ahead of training as Flamini tucks into a healthy bowl of fruit, eschewing the homemade ice-cream on offer.

Alessandro Nesta, meanwhile, reveals himself as a barista of some note behind the Milanello coffee counter, a skill perhaps gained during the long injury absences that look to be over when many had predicted the end of his career.

Like many a predecessor, Nesta, a veteran at 35, has signed on for one more season at the top. "A champion is a champion," Seedorf suggests. "The thing that will die is his motivation, but winning adds motivation."

And Tognaccini spells out the ultimate aim of the deep science of the MilanLab: "Our objective is to make the team win."

[BiasedMilanFan3]

El Shaaraway will be unavailable for the Inter clash

Torn.
How on earth will our attack function without the Pharoah?

[uzonero]

El Shaaraway will be unavailable for the Inter clash

Torn.
How on earth will our attack function without the Pharoah?

too bad

i was actually hoping to see him pawn the entire inter defence

[IzzyC08]

24 players have been called up for the Italian Super Cup in Beijing:

Abbiati, Amelia, Roma, Abate, Antonini, Bonera, Nesta, Taiwo, Thiago SIiva, Zambrotta, Yepes, De Sciglio (52), Ambrosini, Boateng, Emanuelson, Gattuso, Seedorf, Van Bommel, Valoti (57), Cassano, Ibrahimovic, Paloschi (43), Pato, Robinho.

[M99]

Cassano always tears Inter up, might be just the thing he needs to get his confidence back

[uzonero]

I'd love to see him do that but i doubt he will

[BiasedMilanFan3]

24 players have been called up for the Italian Super Cup in Beijing:

Abbiati, Amelia, Roma, Abate, Antonini, Bonera, Nesta, Taiwo, Thiago SIiva, Zambrotta, Yepes, De Sciglio (52), Ambrosini, Boateng, Emanuelson, Gattuso, Seedorf, Van Bommel, Valoti (57), Cassano, Ibrahimovic, Paloschi (43), Pato, Robinho.

If we can get 2 or 3 goals ahead with like 20-30 minutes to go, I'd love to see Valoti get a go
This kid has come out of nowhere

[arabprince]

Just to confirm, the game is 8pm china time yes? So 8am eastern?

[Brigate Rossonere]

Just to confirm, the game is 8pm china time yes? So 8am eastern?

I'm not too sure. It is in exactly 5 hours from now.

[arabprince]

Just to confirm, the game is 8pm china time yes? So 8am eastern?

I'm not too sure. It is in exactly 5 hours from now.

Kk, thanks. So I was right. I'm just wondering because I'm waking up early just for this, so I don't want it to be in vain.

[milanfan7]

Is allegri frakking crazy? Did he forget who destroyed inter last season? Why did he bench pato?

[Ganso]

wheres patooooooooooooooooooo

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