AC Milan - FC Bayern Munich Match Review
This is the first Match Review on SoccerSpeech. I know that reviewing this particular match is a hard thing, as it was a great and big game, no doubt.
Ok, first lets take a look at the match stats:
| Milan | Bayern | |
|---|---|---|
| 2 | Goals scored | 2 |
| 1 | Yellow card | 2 |
| 0 | Red card | 0 |
| 4 | Shots on goal | 5 |
| 4 | Shots wide | 4 |
| 10 | Fouls committed | 11 |
| 3 | Corners | 5 |
| 1 | Offsides | 1 |
| 30' 26'' | Ball. Poss. (time) | 34' 12'' |
| 47% | Ball. Poss. (%) | 53% |
AC Milan - FC Bayern Match Statistics from uefa.
Well, first you can see from the table that it was a clean game with only 3 yellow cards, but with some harsh contacts along the match.
Points to discuss:
Some Referees’ decisions:
1- I believe that the hard tackle in the first half on Kaka by Lucio was illegal and it deserve a penalty on it!
2- Gilardino wasn’t in an offside position at the 53′ of the match and the goal must be counted.
3- The penalty given to Milan against Lucio was incorrect. You can see easily that Lucio hit the ball before reaching Kaka.
Formation and Substitutions:
I think that Carlo Ancelotti did a big mistake by choosing this formation (4-5-1 or 4-4-1-1). I mean he didn’t take the advantage -of the Bayern`s missing midfielder Mark Van Bommel- and starts the game with two strikers. Instead, he starts with Gilardino alone.
It was obvious that Bayern was struggling in the midfield and Ancelotti missed a big opportunity by his gingerly playing! Although Milan made a lot of chances in the first half and the youth goalkeeper done a great job saving his goal till the last 5 minute of the first half.
On the other side, Ottmar Hitzfeld was very clever and handled the match as it should be. Makaay and Podolski weren’t in form which made things harder on the away team. By pushing the 22-year-old RWB, Christian Lell added a lot to the right side and starts to create lots of danger on the home team by his moves. Together with the second clever substitute, Bayern scores the equalizer from a great cross ball. Again Ancelotti`s position-by-position substitute was useless, and the fitness of the team was falling dramatically, even with the second goal..Milan couldn’t maintain the match and from another cross with a bad positioning from the Milan players, Van Buyten scores the second goal for him as for his team in the last seconds of the match!
This way, Milan waste a possible -but not easy- win in home side, leaving a lot of worries for the next game at the Allianz Arena next week!
Quick Summary:
Anyway, both teams played carefully with a little impetuosity from the home side team with a lot of missing chances. Wrong strategy and lack in fitness in the last 5-10 min with a great performance from the Bavarian team made the result of this game somehow fair!
Finally, I think that Milan has a tough game next week, but they still have a chance to pass the German team.
What`s your thoughs?!
Was it a fair game? and…..Can Milan snatch the away game from Bayern?!
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Do you mean that (for example) something in the background turns red when I speak about….Liverpool?
If this is what you mean then it would be an easy work but I don’t think I can do it in the mean time.
Hi Man! Nice site! I’m wondering how you made that table/game stats like that? It’ll be great if you can help me out because I’m really stuck with some table problems. Im using tinyMCE editor and I can’t place any contents under a table once I’ve created it…
Thanks man
hi sunny, it’s done by a great plugin called WP-Table
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