FT Udinese 0 - 3 Milan

FT 3:0

WE BACK BABY!!!

edit: oh and galliani.. when i say that, don't get too excited

I think all the games where played tonight we are in 13th spot I think

We're 12th still 6 pts from the 4th place!

I'm extremly happy for the win and I'm even happier for goals of Gila and Oli.
But thats a sad news about KAKA, coz as I saw he got angry when he was substituted :S.

1. Inter Milan 18 48 15 3 0 38 15 23
2. Roma 18 41 13 2 3 40 15 25
3. Palermo 18 35 11 2 5 35 23 12
4. Catania 17 26 7 5 5 25 31 -6
5. Lazio 18 25 8 4 6 29 17 12
6. Sampdoria 18 23 6 5 7 28 26 2
7. Udinese 18 23 6 5 7 19 21 -2
8. Empoli 17 22 5 7 5 14 17 -3
9. Livorno 18 22 5 7 6 18 24 -6
10. Torino 18 22 5 7 6 14 20 -6
11. Atalanta 18 21 5 6 7 27 29 -2
12. AC Milan 18 20 7 7 4 22 16 6

Great win!
Grande Gila et Grande Milan, we're back for good

Good to see the 3 pts and another cleansheet.

By the way, 34 goals were scored today in Italy's Serie A, impressive!

Catania can be 9 pts before

Kalac made a great display today !

Now, how Serie A's ends the 2006:

Let's hope there will be continuity

Great!
By the way, where did you get the smileys?

The table looks good, very good. Two last matches have been perfect, 6 goals and none conceded. Kalac was impressive today, he saved our @ss more than once. Also great performance by Cafu, Pirlo and Seedorf. Now let's all have some good holidays and get back in 2007 for the conquest of the 4th place. FORZA MILAN!

http://www.coolsmileys.net/

.. The smilies r crazyyy

Definitely, thanks

Serie A Report: Milan Knock Stripes Off Udinese

A second three-goal win is the perfect tonic for the Rossoneri to bid farewell to a fraught 2006 in the best manner possible. Talk of a crisis at Milanello has now been put on the back burner so that a relaxed Xmas break will see the Diavolo raring to go in the New Year.


The Stadio Friuli maintained it’s talisman feeling for the needy visitors who have laid critics low with today’s and Wednesday’s 3-0 wins plus Gilardino's rebirth with a triplet of goals in the past two games. Kalac was called upon early on as Di Natale he slapped an effort wide for a corner.

The Aussie sticks man was tested by Di Natale again, this time the stopper defusing the Bianconeri man’s rocket but was left at the mercy of Vincenzo Iaquinta who – fortunately for Milan’s interests – failed to tap in from five metres.

A Kaká combo with Pirlo was rudely hacked short by Pinzi and the subsequent spot kick was slapped in by a cool and collected Kaká (28 min) who is growing closer to becoming a Rossoneri eternal idol with each passing matchday for his reliability and no-frills hard work as well as the princely natural flair with which he autographs the ball at each touch.

The match had barely restarted when Gilardino (35 min) tipped in a Jankulovski cross with his outstep to make it an uphill struggle for the already floundering hosts. Cafú almost made it 0-3 as he rippled the exterior of De Sanctis’ nets but the action careered to the other end.

Udinese finally put Kalac under consistent pressure, the keeper pulling off a series of timely interventions against Pinzi, Di Natale, Chris Obodo and Paulo Barreto. Kaladze went off injured, Pirlo metamorphosing into an awkward looking centre-back for the rest of the game.

It’ll be a special Xmas for Ricardo Oliveira (76 min) as the much-criticised Brazilian bagged his first Serie A goal since Round 1 with a cold-bloodedly precise drive that was celebrated with no small glee by the man who has broken the longstanding goal jinx.


UDINESE (0): De Sanctis; Zenoni, Coda, Zapata, Dossena; Eremenko (Siqueira 46), Obodo, Pinzi; Barreto (Virtanen 90), Iaquinta, Di Natale

AC MILAN (3): Kalac; Cafu, Simic, Kaladze (Ricardo Oliveira 69), Jankulovski; Gattuso, Pirlo, Brocchi, Seedorf (Antonelli 85), Kaka (Gourcuff 52); Gilardino

Yellow Cards: 16' R. Eremenko 30' G. Pinzi 63' C. Seedorf 80' G. Gattuso

Goals: 31' [0 - 1] Kaka (pen.) 35' [0 - 2] A. Gilardino 76' [0 - 3] R. Oliveira

goal.com

merry xmas everybody!

wow, what a great game

after a VERY depressing 2006 year, I am glad I can now look forward to 2007 with some optimism. let's hope this newfound form keeps going!

FORZA MILAN!

What did I say guys?
Okay, Pirlo didn't score, but we won!!!
Merry Christmas !!!!!!!!!

My sentaments exactly

today was his wedding anniversary ^^

MILAN ON CRUISE CONTROL

A Kaka-inspired AC Milan cruised to a comprehensive victory over Udinese at the Stadio Friuli on Saturday.

The Brazilian star produced a virtuoso midfield display to put the game out of Udinese's reach before half-time.

He handed the Rossoneri the lead after 31 minutes with a coolly-taken penalty after he had been hauled down in the area by Giampiero Pinzi.

And the visitors doubled their advantage just four minutes later when Alberto Gilardino scored with a stunning acrobatic volley.

The imperious Kaka was withdrawn just seven minutes into the second period, but the damage was already done.

But there was still time for Milan to score a third, though, as Ricardo Oliveira took advantage of some casual defending from the home defence to seal the three points late on.

Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti was without the services of Daniele Bonera, who was serving a one-match ban, while Dutch midfielder Clarence Seedorf was recalled to the starting XI after being rested for the 3-0 win over Catania in midweek.

Udinese chief Giovanni Galeone was without key duo Raffaele De Martino and Sulley Muntari. De Martino was serving a one-match suspension after being sent off during Wednesday's 2-1 win over Atalanta, while Ghanaian midfielder Muntari was serving the second game of a three-match ban.

Milan, buoyed by their first win in four games against Catania on Wednesday, started brightly and were only prevented from taking the lead after seven minutes by a brilliant piece of goalkeeping from Morgan De Sanctis.

Seedorf unleashed a stinging drive from the edge of the box that looked destined for the top corner, but De Sanctis acrobatically clawed the ball away for a corner.

The Bianconeri struggled to get a foothold in the game in the opening stages and only had Antonio Di Natale's long-range strike down the throat of Zeljko Zalac to show for their efforts.

But Milan's dominance was rewarded just after the half-hour when Kaka scored from the spot.

And Milan had to wait just four minutes before doubling their advantage.

Marek Jankulovski produced a scintillating run down the left wing and his cross was tamely cleared by Cristian Zapata into the path of Gilardino.

The Italian striker produced an outrageous piece of skill to send a thundering half-volley flying past a shellshocked De Sanctis.

Udinese were on the ropes and they nearly went even further behind before the break but Gilardino and Cafu both missed clear openings.

The closest Galeone's side came to pulling a goal back was through Antoniotheir prized asset Vincenzo Iaquinta. The powerful forward, who has been linked with a January move to Milan, struck a fierce free-kick from 25 yards, but if flew narrowly over Zeljko Kalac's crossbar.

Udinese started the second half with renewed vigour and twice came close to dragging themselves back into the game.

Firstly Giampiero Pinzi was denied by an athletic save from Kalac, and then Paulo Vito Barreto could only shoot wide from eight yards after being teed up by Di Natale.

And they were made to pay for their profligacy as Oliveira broke free to net a third for Milan after 76 minutes.

A stunning long pass from Christian Brocchi was brought down on the chest by the Brazilian forward and he calmly lotted the ball past De Sanctis to wrap up a convincing win for Ancelotti's improving side.

A great game.

Congrats to Gila and Oliv for showing their form.

This shows that Milan still has it in them to make things happen. The problem is consistency.

A couple more days and hopefully we'll see some new signings and I think we can at least qualify for the UEFA cup.

FORZA MILAN!!!!

A couple of pics from today, not that good but something is something ... Feliz Navidad a todos!!!!

Look at Seedorf, almost like a baby

Look at Broochi !! He's pouncing on all three of them, like a rabbit




Great to see the team win !! Hope they continue with this form in 2007

no actually pirlo was playing as a CB for the rest of the game hahaha pretty werid to see that

no actually pirlo was playing as a CB for the rest of the game hahaha pretty werid to see that

I was reading the comments on the offical site and Pirlo said he used to play as CB when he was at Lecce.

Brocchi turned to DeNiro or what?

Hehe, Pirlo's never been at Lecce. He actually said he was forced to play as CB when Milan was playing Lecce in January 2005. Nesta got sent off, we didn't have any substitutions left and so Carlo put him in the centre uphold Maldini. Remember the match? It was the match when Sheva lifted the Golden Ball around San Siro, and in the end we won 5-2. Ah, memories...

OHH

The official site is just bad when translating



And I thought it was strange cause I was certain that Pirlo never was a Lecce but I thought maybe they made a mistake and instead meant to say Brescia

I like the formation. THat's how to play these teams from now on, especially away. We've been sussed out for sooo long, so the teams now in seria A know they only need to sit back, absorb the pressure and hit us on counters. So "choking up" the midfield is like playing them at their own game It only took CA so long to discover that cos he's dumb. Yeah, I know Berlu always insisted on 2 strikers Anyone know why Kaka got annoyed when CA pulled him off?. He got angry and stormed right past the bench and into the dressing room. I don't like seeing such scenes, 'specially now that Real sniffing around My MoM? Pirlo. For playing central defence when Kaladze went off. I would never have believed it posiible. And Oli got his goal.
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I think it was his injury that was still bothering him, Carlo never takes Kaka off, he took a long time to come out on the pitch after half time (I assume he was recieving treatment) and I suppose couldn't carry on. He was playing through the pain barrier also against Catania. And if it was anything like a row or something like that he would have been followed by Tassotti or no one at all for that matter, but when he went into the dressing rooms someone from the medical staff followed him in

I guess Kaka was just pissed about the ache. Coz he knew he was playing well.

Sort of the way you are pissed off at ur head ache after 8 hours straight of fraggin a$$ in Unreal Tournament.

And here is where I hit you on the counter attack



hope you feel better



It wasn't really a storming out as some are making it out to be, I hadn't watched the footage before and then I saw it this afternoon and all that happened was Kaka first went near the subs bench and talked to some of the other players then he went to the dressing rooms with one of the members of the medical staff following him, and he was also limping during the game. So it's safe to assume he was getting treatment for his injury. It's not like he went off the pitch kicking and screeming

Like someone named Shevchenko used to do when Carlo changed him.

Sorry for making you sick


Yes that one. "I was angry at myself" PLEASE!!!!!

Oh come on now, don't go there

Well he did do these things didn't he?

He did more than that .. He made a promise to all Milan fans, he captain to the team last season !

He turned his back on us to kiss a blue shirt.


Kaka .. Well, it's not like he owes us anything, he can leave whenever he wants to ... But he knows he is still young and see witnessing what has become of Shevchenko ..

I think he will remain with us for sometime to come, as he is idolised in Milan and could be on his way as to become a Legend for this club .. Nah he wont throw that away, at least not yet.

That is why I said don't go there, cuz Kaka was aware of the Madrid interest and yet confirmed his alligence with Milan by signing a new contract.