AC Milan match review

By: j | September 14th, 2008

With Genoa’s extraordinary 2-0 victory over AC Milan behind us, I’m going to cut right to the chase and reaffirm my earlier comments that I felt this was a very opportune time to play them. Not only have their new players not gelled as a team but they were obviously dealing with tremendous fatigue from international duty. Respectfully and I do wish to stress that point, it seemed that some on the pitch lacked passion in defending the honour of the Rossoneri.

With that now said Gian Piero Gasperini put forth a brilliant tactical plan, respected AC Milan’s attack and dictated their offense by fortifying defensively and sprung upon weaknesses with patience. It was brilliant coaching and a lesson in tactical play. Giuseppe Sculli gave the home squad the lead at the thirtieth minute mark with a strike within the area to the lower corner of the net. Through the balance of the half Genoa controlled the majority of the play with AC lacking the legs to really attack. Primarily, it appeared that Kaká and Ronaldinho were far from one-hundred per-cent and questionably match-fit. Marco Borriello and Clarence Seedorf were brought in after the break to spark the Rossoneri’s attack but they had only modest success at challenging Rubinho and I would still contend this match was won by Genoa because of greater desire and tactical play. To complete the day and his triumphant return to Genoa, Diego Milito added a penalty strike in added time after he was tripped up in the area by Paolo Maldini.

Time to turn to next week in which Genoa faces Palermo.

Match Details
Genoa
Rubinho, Matteo Ferrari, Giuseppe Biava, Francesco Modesto, Domenico Criscito, Andrea Gasbarroni (Raffaele Palladino 85′), Giandomenico Mesto (Marco Rossi 53′), Omar Milanetto, Ivan Jurić (Anthony Vanden Borre 66′), Diego Milito,Giuseppe Sculli
Substitutes not used:
Rubén Olivera,Salvatore Bocchetti,Sokratis Papastrathopoulos, Alessio Scarpi,

AC Milan
Christian Abbiati, Daniele Bonera, Giuseppe Favalli, Paolo Maldini, Gianluca Zambrotta,Andrea Pirlo, Massimo Ambrosini, Kaká, Mathieu Flamini (Pato 69′), Andriy Shevchenko (Marco Borriello 45′), Ronaldinho (Clarence Seedorf 45′)
Substitutes not used:
Dida, Marek Jankulovski, Kakha Kaladze, Emerson,