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From: antonio@arezzo.oas.olivetti.com (Antonio Maiuolo)
Reply-To: antonio@arezzo.oas.olivetti.com (Antonio Maiuolo)
Organization: Olivetti Research California
Subject: Re: The 'great' Milan

In article <9301221551.AA08857@zeus.physast.uga.edu>,
loris@zeus.physast.uga.edu (
Loris Magnani) writes:
>
>
> Mischa writes:
>
> >These days all the newspapers and soccer-magazines talk (or rather write)
> >about the so 'fantastic' AC Milan. If you look at their numerical
>performances
,
> >29 points out of 16 matches, that seems to be true. But, have you
been >watchin
g
> >some complete Milan-matches this season? They are not that strong on
the >field
!
> >Not like in '89, when they played about the whole match on the half of the
> >opponent. Nowadays they're somewhat lucky to score many goals out of not so
> >many chances... For example the match against Sampdoria recently:
> >Sampdoria far out the best team, but Milan scores twice and Sampdoria once.
> >
> >Strange thing... Don't think they'll loose a single game this year, though!
>
>
> I agree. I've written as much on a few occasions and haven't received
> any comments...The only really good Milan game I've seen on TV this
> year was Fiorentina-Milan 3-7 and that was more due to Fiorentina's
> suicidal tactics. I was less than impressed in their 5-3 victory
> at home over Lazio, their 0-0 tie with Torino was a poor performance,
> their 0-1 victory against Juventus should have been 1-1 had Vialli
> not failed the pk, in their 1-1 tie with Inter, Inter dominated the

      ^^^^^^^^^^^^^ you forget that was absolutely unexisting !

BTW, let me know which other team in Italy, at least 8 points below,
impresses you if Milan doesn't


> first half...What I read in Il Guerin Sportivo and the occasional
> Gazzetta dello Sport also doesn't impress me... In their last 7 league
> games they have scored only 1 goal (5 times) or 2 (twice)...and as
> Mischa points out they no longer take the game to the opposition for
> the entire match - do you remember most of their Euro Cup games
> in 88-89?? they literally would outshoot the opposition 20-2...
>
> I believe that if the current Milan team played the 1989 version, they

   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ This 'if'
is pretty ridicolous! You have to consider the facts, not the 'ifs'. I would
say that a lot of people, Sacchi included, before Capello picked up the team,
were thinkng about Milan as at the end of its cycle bacause of the age of some
of its key players. They are all pissed off now because, with those same guys
Milan has not lost a game in 51 !!!

> (the current guys) would lose handily. When I see Gullit, Baresi, Tassotti
> and Donadoni these days, they are but shadows of what they were...

I think you need a sight check ...

> Ancelotti is gone and
> Lentini, Papin, and Albertini have not picked up the slack...
> The goaltending is easily the worst in the Serie A - my conclusion

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Antonioli and Rossi
got only 14 goals. Only Torino is better, so what ????
Did you see Zenga last week in Inter-Parma ?? Did you see Marchegiani (Torino)
in Italy-Switzerland, when BOTH of the swiss goals were his only fault ???

> is that if this team played the 1989 team 10 times we would probably
> have a 4 W 4 T 2 L advantage for the 1989 guys. I interpret their

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Another if ....

> current win streak as due to the weakness of the Italian teams this
> year...When we talk about the 'great' Milan team, please let's talk
> about the 1989-90 team (even if it didn't win the Italian league...)
> That team showed some awesome soccer...The current guys are more cynical
> and play more for the result than for the spectacle...

You should definitely see more Milan games and also other teams games, and tell
me about anybody playing NOT for the final result and offering a 'marvelous'
show getting seven points (see Fiorentina) into their own goal ...

>
> How do the other netters feel about this??

I just told you ...
CIAO!
Antonio

>
> Loris
>
>
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