MILAN VS MANCHESTER UNITED, San Siro - Milan

First Leg Man U VS Milan 3:2.
Milan only needs to win 1-0 or 2-1 to go to the final, but the word only seems to undermine Man United capacity to pull a surprise in Milan tonight.
Milan will miss the service of Paolo Maldini for the second leg.
Genaro Gatusso will be joining the team in the mid field along with Seedorf, Ambrossini, Kaka. and Pirlo. Super Pippo will likely play as the lone striker, while the back four consists of Oddo, Khaladze, and Jankulovski.
The brilliance of the managers is much needed tonight to concoct the correct formula of a winning team. Ancelloti has described reaching to Final in Athens as Utopian Dream.
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Back in the autumn, Milan were languishing at the wrong end of Serie A. A league points deduction and a shortened pre-season had affected form and confidence; Athens looked a long way off. Now, though, the resurgent Rossoneri stand third in the table and one match away from booking their third final in five years. "At the start of the season I said that getting to Athens was a Utopian dream," said Ancelotti. "But now this dream is becoming a reality. This side showed great unity through the tough times. That has brought them this far and now we're confident because we're playing well and we're close to our objective."
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Milan has indeed shown great unity through tough times.They started the Serie A campaign with 8 points deduction over the Calciopoli Scandal, but have shown great Champion mentality to reach the Semifinal (they are the only Italian Club left amongst the EPL Clubs). Their home form in Serie A read 12:2:3 28:14. The 3 losts have been to Palermo, Inter and Roma.

Manchester United needed to defend their 1st leg advantage, but position isn't safe yet for the Red Devil. Ironically, both teams have the same nicknames of being the Red Devil. Which shall be the true Red Devil in this competition shall be proven tonight......or should I say the lesser of the 2 evils? ha..ha..puns very much intended, guys...
Man U shares the same away record in EPL of 12:2:3 36:15. The 3 lost was to Arsenal, Westham and Portsmouth.
Vidic and Ferdinand might join the team for this game but Evra is suspended. Heinze might resume his post at the left back, with Wes Brown/ O'Shea on the right flank should Vidic and Ferdinand both play. Center-field would have Fletcher, Giggs, Scholes, Ronaldo, and Carrick.
Leaving Striker Rooney solo. It is almost similar with Milan.

I was much impressed with Man U bounce back over the weekend from a deficit of 2 goals in the first half against Everton, and winning it back by scoring 4 goals in the second half to end the game 2-4 at Goodison Park. This is sort of Mentality that Man U has shown that make them a true fighter. Man U can hold out Milan and forced them to a draw 1-1 or 2-2.

Should Man U strikes the goal first, that will force Milan to launch attack and opens up their defense. If this scenario happens then, there will be lots of goals to watch and this would be a great game to watch. Fearing the worst would be if Milan scored first and they would clam up to hold to that 1 goal then this would be the other scenario. Hope the first would turn into reality, for the sake of the people who actually stayed up for the game in Asia. : )