Milan 1- Parma 1, Game Recap
By: Gianfranco | September 23rd, 2007I know it’s early, but the scudetto is a delicate race that can easily be lost before December rolls around. It is especially easy to lose it when your are tying teams that you are supposed to beat, Parma and Siena, if you only get one point in those games are you going to three from the big boys. Probably not, and that’s why this first month of the campaign is looking a bit in crisis.
I knew that the team was going to have a hard time competing in all competition due to the collective age and lack of depth, but what makes matters worse is the absolute lack of creativity on offense and in the starting elevens. In games that start Brocchi and Emerson it is hard to distinguish where on earth the passes to the forwards will come from, I will give credit to Ambrosini who has really picked up his game as of late but he and Pirlo really need Seedorf and Kaka back to their old selves again. Kaka has looked rusty and has struggled to work his way into games. He may be the best player on the pitch in the Champions League, but Serie A is not his thing. Seedorf started almost identically last season, so he should heat up in January, but until then can we afford the poor form and poorer results, NO!
Yesterday was also a true testament of the old adage, “If you do not score, you cannot win.” More importantly if you do not finish, you cannot win. I know Pippo scores one of six chances on net, but yesterday was a travesty. He had a handful of serious gaffers against a Parma team that really had no business being down only 1-nil. The finishing has to get better, it lacks the ruthlessness in the box that makes teams win five nothing, and the sad part is it will not get any better with Ronaldo or Pato. Can someone please call Chelsea and order one Didier Drogba please?
I am not pressing the panic button already but two straights draws against teams that should be demolishing is a bit unnerving to me. The results have to get better fast or else the only thing the tifosi will be rooting for is the Champions League, but if you play like yesterday in the CL, that place will not last long either.
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this was just plain terrible. Horribly disapointing… Especially the final few minutes when Milan couldn’t capitalize on 17 shots. This match left me screaming, smashing and seething with rage…
And I for one, am pushing the panic button.
I’m very worried…Posted from
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Remember the start of last season was like this as well…the scudetto may fall quickly out of reach. I am just worried that CL will go the same.
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You made a great point,
“He may be the best player on the pitch in the Champions League, but Serie A is not his thing.”
At what point does Kaka realize this and start thinking maybe it is time to move on? He could be a certifiable whirlwind of talent in Lal Liga or the EPL. I know you wouldn’t be too unhappy about taking a quick 80m or so, but that leaves a big hole.
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i think seedorf and kaka’ were really good yesterday. they kept the ball moving and were terrorizing the parma defense all over the place, especially seedorf.
we are just missing the midas touch in our strikers. our build up play as breathtaking, its our finishing that makes me gag…
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Seedorf played OK, subpar for his standards, but Kaka was a ghost yesterday. His touches or passes were niether meaningful or pretty. He spent more time on his ass than CRonaldo, Serie A is a tough physical league and guys like Kaka just cannot hack on a week in week out basis which is why he disappears at times…I can’t wait to see how Pato deals. A Serie forward needs size and strength, finesse does not always work here.
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Chris I think if Kaka wants to play till he is 35 he will have to leave Serie A, he can talk to Marco Van Basten about that.
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yeah kaka wasnt at his best.. but the thing is even when he isnt at his best, he still manages to set up a few chances and is always dangerours on the ball…
had inzaghi put away a couple of the few hundred million chances he had… i think people wouldnt have said that kaka had a bad game.. coz i think he would have set up atleast one of those…
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yeah, i agree with k, until we have striker(s) that can worry the defenses of serie a on a regular basis, kaka, seedorf and pirlo will simultaneously have all the creative and scoring burden, not too mention all the defensive focus. if teams stay organized and defend deep, then that just makes it that much harder.
also, it’s not like the epl is less physical, it’s actually more so, so i don’t know if that is valid, either. check out some of the fouls in cl competition. the english sides have trouble adjusting as things which are clean over there, are cards on the continent.
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Jamie La Liga is the perfect softy league for Kaka, in fact I have a strong belief that is why Henry went there instead of Milan.
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henry only went to barcelona because they doubled his wages.
he is to arsenal what shevchenko is to us; a sellout.
we just need a striker who can finish, either that or kaka needs to be playing along the opponents’ D-line not their midfield line.
we need a little more shots on goal as well, there were plenty of times where pirlo or seedorf were 20/25 yards out, but they didnt take the shots. we should atleast start testing the keeper..
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yeah, i agree with Jamie, until we have striker(s) that can worry the defenses of serie a on a regular basis, kaka, seedorf and pirlo will simultaneously have all the creative and scoring burden, not too mention all the defensive focus. if teams stay organized and defend deep, then that just makes it that much harder.
plus if milan are going to remain with these old guns like inzagi, then thay need to produce something much much more. Plus milan should put on some young guns like gourcuff and train them up, because we cant last on old people for ever…
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One common issue that is glaring in Milan’s matches this season is the goal production. I don’t want to talk about Gilardino as he has not proven anything of great significance since he joined the Rossoneri. I’m sorry Gilardino fans but my patience is running thin. If Ancelotti keeps on saying that he’s playing great by assisting or creating spaces for the other players to score, shouldn’t he be relocated to another position on the field? Isn’t it a bit ‘amusing’ (for lack of better word) that Inzaghi is the only striker that seems to be producing the goals lately? Ronaldo, no comment. Ditto to Pato.
The talk of Seedorf and Kaka being “not their old selves” is a bit ‘amusing’, I think. They’ve played their roles brilliantly last season. They’re adapting to the Serie A pace a bit slow this season, true, but they’re doing well in the other tournament namely the Champions League. But this is still not an excuse for the lack of goals from the strikers in Serie A or Champions League.
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“Remember the start of last season was like this as well…”
I beg to differ with this. The irony is this: last season, Milan was in crisis even before the ball was kicked. But they marched on in the Serie A and Champions League as if the Calciopoli scandal or points deduction didn’t exist.
If we compare the first four Serie A matches last season and this season, there is a stark contrast between the two with the latter statistics being a bit worrying. And this, remember, is going into the season without any scandals, points deduction, etc.
2006-07 season first four matches: Milan collected 10pts by beating Lazio (2-1), Parma (2-0), Ascoli (1-0) and drew Livorno (0-0).
2007-08 season first four matches: Milan collected 6pts by beating Genoa (3-0) and drew Fiorentina, Siena and Parma by 1-1 each.
If it so happens that Milan wins the next two Serie A matches on a trot, then we would end with 12pts after six matches to emulate last season’s point collection at this stage of the competition.
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Nice point Langkau
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Yup I feel the same way about this. The scudetto is a race where you can’t afford to drop points in matches which you should be winning. It is not good and unacceptable for the European Champions.
I am glad I am not the only one criticising Kaka, I love the guy pf course, but man he has been rusty and him and Seeorf really need to get back into the swing of things. I know Kaka is struggling from a knee injury, but if he continues to play he might just screw it up fruther and in the most important part of the season.
Pato is a long way away and we can’t wait for him and ROnaldo to return. Granted we did land up like this at the begining of last season but it would be good to challange for scudetto once more.
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