Full Version: Who will be Champions of Europe, AC Milan or Liverpool?
Who will be Champions of Europe, AC Milan or Liverpool?
What scoreline do you predict?
Who will be the goal-scorer(s)?
Will Milan exact revenge for the humiliation in Istanbul or will Liverpool prevail once more?
My prediction: AC Milan 2 (Kaka, Pirlo); Liverpool 1 (Crouch).
Who will be Champions of Europe, AC Milan or Liverpool? Liverpool
What scoreline do you predict? 2-1 AET
Who will be the goal-scorer(s)? Gerrard, Kuyt - Kaka
Will Milan exact revenge for the humiliation in Istanbul or will Liverpool prevail once more? They'll try. If we keep Kaka at bay then we're half way there.
What scoreline do you predict? 2-1 AET
Who will be the goal-scorer(s)? Gerrard, Kuyt - Kaka
Will Milan exact revenge for the humiliation in Istanbul or will Liverpool prevail once more? They'll try. If we keep Kaka at bay then we're half way there.
QUOTE(zoroaster @ May 20 2007, 07:39 PM) 
Who will be Champions of Europe, AC Milan or Liverpool?
What scoreline do you predict?
Who will be the goal-scorer(s)?
Will Milan exact revenge for the humiliation in Istanbul or will Liverpool prevail once more?
My prediction: AC Milan 2 (Kaka, Pirlo); Liverpool 1 (Crouch).
** bows **
Not bad for a Yank, eh? I didn't get the goal-scorers right though.
I must say that my boy Mascherano completely shut down Kaka, arguably the best player in the world atm. It took only a few minutes after Mascherano was taken out for Crouch for Kaka to set up the winning goal. Milan's first goal was pure luck, with Pirlo's free kick hitting Inzaghi in the arm and misdirecting into the goal. Mascherano is the real deal, and he's only 22.
Liverpool could have used Tevez as well -- they should get him.
I have to admit that I find AC Milan more distasteful than I find Liverpool.
I was actually rooting for Liverpool to beat Milan.
Kaka, Pirlo, Gattuso, Nesta and Maldini are all brilliant, top shelf players (though Nesta and Maldini are over the hill), but Inzaghi is so tough to stomach that he makes the entire side easy to hate.
Many would say Inzaghi is the consummate poacher, which he may be, but it's his incessant diving and theatrics that make him a pussy.
It has to sting Liverpool -- and especially Gerrard, who plays like a man -- to lose owing to a brace by that pussy Inzaghi.
Question now is who will Rafa send packing? I would get rid of Zenden, Agger, Gonzalez, Hyppia, Bellamy, Arbeloa, Kewell, Sissoko, and Kuyt.
I think a healthy Chelsea side would have beaten Milan.
Bugger!
We wuz robbed
We wuz robbed
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You know, having seen the replays and having just read the following, I have to agree with you:
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Updated: May 24, 2007
First goal was no fluke, says Milan striker Inzaghi
ATHENS, May 23 (Reuters) - The first of Filippo Inzaghi's two Champions League-winning goals for AC Milan on Wednesday was a fluke according to Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez.
'It was luck but that is football,' the Spaniard said of the goal that deflected off Inzaghi from Andrea Pirlo's freekick.
Most of the Olympic Stadium crowd would no doubt have agreed with him but the scorer had an alternative viewpoint.
'It was something that we rehearsed in training,' said Inzaghi with a grin. 'I scored with it against Empoli. Sometimes it just comes off.'
Whether it was deliberate or not, there is little doubt it was the turning point of the match, which Milan won 2-1, and it was fitting that Inzaghi was involved.
Link: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...117&cc=5739
First goal was no fluke, says Milan striker Inzaghi
ATHENS, May 23 (Reuters) - The first of Filippo Inzaghi's two Champions League-winning goals for AC Milan on Wednesday was a fluke according to Liverpool manager Rafa Benitez.
'It was luck but that is football,' the Spaniard said of the goal that deflected off Inzaghi from Andrea Pirlo's freekick.
Most of the Olympic Stadium crowd would no doubt have agreed with him but the scorer had an alternative viewpoint.
'It was something that we rehearsed in training,' said Inzaghi with a grin. 'I scored with it against Empoli. Sometimes it just comes off.'
Whether it was deliberate or not, there is little doubt it was the turning point of the match, which Milan won 2-1, and it was fitting that Inzaghi was involved.
Link: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/news/story?id...117&cc=5739
In other words, Inzaghi admits that Milan practice scoring with hand balls.
This from a side that was docked points for match-fixing.
And what about the referee blowing the final whistle earlier than the 3 minutes injury time announced, especially given that Milan had made a substitution during injury time? In this particular case, it does emit a foul odor.
Horrible, diving, dirty wankers, the lot of them.
I knew we could keep Kaka at bay, wasn't ever in any doubt about that, I just think our defence had an off day and allowed Inzaghi to run riot where we all expected Kaka to.
Kick in the teeth.
I knew we could keep Kaka at bay, wasn't ever in any doubt about that, I just think our defence had an off day and allowed Inzaghi to run riot where we all expected Kaka to.
Kick in the teeth.
i think the first goal was a fluke but if it was liverpool that got it just think on what you'd be saying . liverpool did do enough to win the game exept score goals 
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