My view on the final

[futbol>>>IRAN]

First off I would like to congradulate the Milan fans on their 7th CL cup, well deserved and well played. What a fantastic club it is , even with so many aged players they are able to still play attractive football and get results.

Now some points on the game:

I was puzzled why the whole of the 3min of injury time wasn't played, it seemed a bit odd!!

It was a good match but definately not as good as the encounters in the last two editions of the CL Final.

Dirk Kuyt is overrated BIG TIME why does he start every Liverpool match?!!

Harry Kewell and Craig Bellamy should have started the match and maybe things would have been different.

The first half reminded me of the Australia Italy match where Australia had possesion most of the time but the Italians manages to get a winner through a lucky incident. Liverpool today clearly lacked finishing which probably was a result of lack of finishers.

The Italians really know how to defend , I was watching Milan defend throughout the whole match and it was just inpenetrable with the way players were organized and knew their defensive roles so well! The world can learn a thing or two about defending from the Italians.. especially us Iranians

Milan proves that you dont need a whole team of stars to win tournaments and games but proper tactics and cohesian.

Kaka was just great, that pass to Pipo was magnicent and sealed the match for Milan. Pipo proved all his critics wrong especially the great Johan Cruyff who once said he cant play football.

Thats all from me for now, once again congrat to milan supporters and condolences to liverpool fans.

[186forever]

I agree with most of ur post
but I just hate it when a goal like that happens in Chanpions league final, at the end of 1st half also.....For me it was a very boring final. Of course I wanted liverpool to win, but my comment is not bias....Liverpool had more of the ball and it was almost a nuteral game....
and yea wtf was that 2:40 extra time all about?

[persiangodfather]

babab i will admit we did not play acmilan football and untill we scored at 45 mins my balls were at my throat i was so worried (but never showed it to any1) anyways once we got that goal which was a hand ball i knew milan wud settle down and play milan futball.. we got robbed in 2005 so now i guess we are equal.. becauseliverpool was better in the first 45 mins.. id say in the 2nd half was about even.. but liverpool still created alot of danger.. and dida what a stop on gerrard eh i cant believe he turned nesta wen i saw that i was shitting myself but he made me say.. BUFFON WHO? dida is back.. also that 2nd goal was pure genius.. look at how kaka was any other player in the world wudhave had a strike but that was str8 from the training ground.. he knew inzaghi was guna run in and inzaghi made liverpool defence look like a bunch of 10 yr old kids.. forza milan we r the champs

[186forever]

babab i will admit we did not play acmilan football and untill we scored at 45 mins my balls were at my throat i was so worried (but never showed it to any1) anyways once we got that goal which was a hand ball i knew milan wud settle down and play milan futball.. we got robbed in 2005 so now i guess we are equal.. becauseliverpool was better in the first 45 mins.. id say in the 2nd half was about even.. but liverpool still created alot of danger.. and dida what a stop on gerrard eh i cant believe he turned nesta wen i saw that i was shitting myself but he made me say.. BUFFON WHO? dida is back.. also that 2nd goal was pure genius.. look at how kaka was any other player in the world wudhave had a strike but that was str8 from the training ground.. he knew inzaghi was guna run in and inzaghi made liverpool defence look like a bunch of 10 yr old kids.. forza milan we r the champs

I don t think they got robbed in 2005
They got C-ocky
what excuse can u have for leading 3-0 in halftime?

[persiangodfather]

I don t think they got robbed in 2005
They got C-ocky
what excuse can u have for leading 3-0 in halftime?

****y? we were not ****y in 2005 look at the experience on that team of 2005 u really think the likes maldini costacurta cafu and shevchenko would let the team get ****y and over confident? liverpool scored 3 goals in 6 minutes.. they came out and played hard and milan was not expecting it.. they made a mistake and we did get robbed because 84 minutes of the game we dominated the other 6 was you guys.. right u cud say liverpool got robbed yesterday cuz they sort of did they were the better team.. but now we r even for 2005

[Darvish11]

props to dida

[186forever]

****y? we were not ****y in 2005 look at the experience on that team of 2005 u really think the likes maldini costacurta cafu and shevchenko would let the team get ****y and over confident? liverpool scored 3 goals in 6 minutes.. they came out and played hard and milan was not expecting it.. they made a mistake and we did get robbed because 84 minutes of the game we dominated the other 6 was you guys.. right u cud say liverpool got robbed yesterday cuz they sort of did they were the better team.. but now we r even for 2005

if u agree that liverpool got robbed this year, then it s all good
But they didn t score a handball lucky bounce goal
and it s a lot harder to come out being 3-0 down as appose to 0-0 and maybe they weren t Co-cky in 05 but as u said with that much experience wth the likes of Maldini and Castacurta ....then why should they lose a 3-0 game......so Getting robbed is when someone does some lucky shlt to win the game or a lucky goal like yesterday...not when u come and score 3 goals....that needs credit

[persiangodfather]

i would not compare our robbery to yours.. it is getting robbed when u r beter for 84 mins of the game and then loose in PK milan deserved thast game 100% but the game last night i dont know.. id say liverpool was the better team possesion wise.. but their finishing was poor.. milan created little chances but did finish.. liverpool didnt deserve to win cuz they cudnt finish.. they defence was very poor as well.. id say lpool was better in the mdifield which was a shcok to me cuz usually milan dominates the middle.. my point is u cant compare the shock factor from 2005 to 2007

[Sherwin]

babab i will admit we did not play acmilan football and untill we scored at 45 mins my balls were at my throat i was so worried (but never showed it to any1) anyways once we got that goal which was a hand ball i knew milan wud settle down and play milan futball.. we got robbed in 2005 so now i guess we are equal.. becauseliverpool was better in the first 45 mins.. id say in the 2nd half was about even.. but liverpool still created alot of danger.. and dida what a stop on gerrard eh i cant believe he turned nesta wen i saw that i was shitting myself but he made me say.. BUFFON WHO? dida is back.. also that 2nd goal was pure genius.. look at how kaka was any other player in the world wudhave had a strike but that was str8 from the training ground.. he knew inzaghi was guna run in and inzaghi made liverpool defence look like a bunch of 10 yr old kids.. forza milan we r the champs

Congragulations on winning but this is why I don't like Italian clubs or the Italian NT. Once they score a goal they sit on it and play anti football. They stick 9 in a box and it just ruins the game. I know they won so I can't talk trash on them but they just turn the game into a big snooze fest. I wanted to fall asleep at one point watching the game.

Oh I also agree that the ref did blow the whistle a little too fast, but anyways congragulations Milan fans. Hey they proved to be the better team and deserved the win. Looks like it's a clean sweep for the Italians first theywin the world cup and now AC Milan wins it.

[Vestvood Vizard]

Congragulations on winning but this is why I don't like Italian clubs or the Italian NT. Once they score a goal they sit on it and play anti football. They stick 9 in a box and it just ruins the game. I know they won so I can't talk trash on them but they just turn the game into a big snooze fest. I wanted to fall asleep at one point watching the game.

'Catennacio' is the spectacle-sucking philosophy employed by these Italian juggernauts.

Unfortunately it's making a comeback again.

While Italians celebrate their trophies, the rest of the world contemplates changing the channel.

[milad]

to ac milan fans: just because you get humilated and end up losing after being up 3-0 with 45 mins left, does NOT mean you got robbed. it means you got outplayed and outclassed, and beaten fair and square.

[persiangodfather]

sherwin how can u say something like that man? italians didnt play 10 man back.. in the 82 min we scored? we were attacking 2nd half as well.. in the world cup sow me 1 time we sat back to defend our lead? NEVER catenaccio is dead for italians.. gattuso said that liverpool plays like an italian team of 10 yrs ago.. kick the ball and chase it.. i have not seen squadra azzzuri play catenaccio for a long time and milan has not played that style for the last 20 years..now maybe if some other italian teams like inter or juve or roma or lazio do then i dont know i dont follow them too closely to know.. but i can assure you squadra azzuri and milan will never play lke that so every1 please stop hating on the campione del mondo and campione d'europa !!!

[milad]

sherwin how can u say something like that man? italians didnt play 10 man back.. in the 82 min we scored? we were attacking 2nd half as well.. in the world cup sow me 1 time we sat back to defend our lead? NEVER catenaccio is dead for italians.. gattuso said that liverpool plays like an italian team of 10 yrs ago.. kick the ball and chase it.. i have not seen squadra azzzuri play catenaccio for a long time and milan has not played that style for the last 20 years..now maybe if some other italian teams like inter or juve or roma or lazio do then i dont know i dont follow them too closely to know.. but i can assure you squadra azzuri and milan will never play lke that so every1 please stop hating on the campione del mondo and campione d'europa !!!

gattuso should stop talking! liverpool was attacking the whole game. i guess gattuso got so excited after "winning" that he forgot about the match!

[VivaItalia]

My thoughts as a hardcore Milan fan:

I expected the game to be a boring game for the nutral football fans, and it was! Although I was on my toes for the whole 92.43 minutes!

I have no idea why Bennitez didn't use Crouch. It remains a mystery.
We were lucky that it was one of Dida's good days! I think we should get Gigi before Dida gets sick again!
Liverpool played another defensive football. Before jumping at me, just look how many defenders and midfielders they had:9! and only one stricker. They had 4 defenders in the back who never moved up! whereas Oddo and Janko were going back and forth all the time. They closed the game, put pressure on Milan's defense to utilize the lose ball. They succeeded for several times. 3 players were on Kaka's face for the whole 90 minutes. That's what I call catanacio. that's the difinition of Catanacio. man-to-man defense.

anyways...

and Thank god that referee blow on his whisle 17 seconds early! otherwise the Liverpool fans did not have any excuses to moan about!

[milad]

My thoughts as a hardcore Milan fan:

I expected the game to be a boring game for the nutral football fans, and it was! Although I was on my toes for the whole 92.43 minutes!

I have no idea why Bennitez didn't use Crouch. It remains a mystery.
We were lucky that it was one of Dida's good days! I think we should get Gigi before Dida gets sick again!
Liverpool played another defensive football. Before jumping at me, just look how many defenders and midfielders they had:9! and only one stricker. They had 4 defenders in the back who never moved up! whereas Oddo and Janko were going back and forth all the time. They closed the game, put pressure on Milan's defense to utilize the lose ball. They succeeded for several times. 3 players were on Kaka's face for the whole 90 minutes. That's what I call catanacio. that's the difinition of Catanacio. man-to-man defense.

anyways...

and Thank god that referee blow on his whisle 17 seconds early! otherwise the Liverpool fans did not have any excuses to moan about!

liverpool plays a very smart and tactical game. defensive and offensive. when ac milan did a rare attack, liverpool defended well and hard, however, every time liverpool had possession all players moved up and played an attacking game. however, after the deflection goal, ac milan played keep away instead of football. they tried to keep the ball away from liverpool players by passing it around and not forming any attack. liverpool, playing an attacking game, had all offensive players running at the ac milan players and when they got close, milan players kicked the ball to liverpools half for the liverpool defenders, and this went on for a good 30 mins before ac milan started forming some attacks for about 10 minutes.