This week, returning leg, at Camp
Nou Barcelona will be facing the Italian giants AC Milan. Milan has an
advantage of 2:0 with the goals of Saley Muntari and Kevin Prince Boateng. 80
thousand fans will be booing the 11 Milan players to stop them from scoring
again because away goal advantage is the worst thing that could happen to a
team in the Champions League. Tuesday at 20:45 local time in Barcelona, one of
the greatest matches in the world is happening. All football lovers will be
watching this match.
Since Milan last met Barcelona three weeks ago in Milano,
Barcelona lost to Real Madrid twice in five days. So even beating the bottom of
the table Deportivo La Coruña 2-0 on Saturday can’t have given them all of
their confidence back. On the other hand, Milan beat Genoa on a late
Friday night with the 2 goals from Pazzini, who is not going to be available to
coach Massiliano Alegri. Same thing with Mexes, he sustained a muscle injury on
Friday’s game and had to be substituted. Allegri tried to rest Abate and have
him prepared for Tuesday’s match, but because of Constant’s direct red card,
Allegri was forced to make a change and put in Abate in play. He played for
about 20 minutes, which isn’t that much, but still, he didn’t rest the whole
game.
The bad thing about AC Milan is
that Barcelona has all their stars rested, well, without any injuries and ready
to get back at AC Milan in order to continue in their fight for the European
title. I hope that Allegri will put something out his sleeve to retain that 2
goals advantage. A win, a tie or even a 1 goal difference loss will send Milan
through. Milan don’t have the best line up for this match, without Balloteli
ruled out due to the cup-tie he has since he played for Manchester City in the
first half of the season, but are still not that bad. Looking back at October,
who would’ve thought that Milan would be knocking on Barcelona’s door and
trying to get them knocked out of the Champions League. Milan has had luck this
season, getting back in 3rd place in the Serie A. Let’s just have a
little more luck in this game so we see AC Milan in the quarter finals. Let’s
give Barca fans something they can wine about.
Tuesday, 20:45 local time, Camp
Nou, FC Barcelona – AC Milan
Forza Milan!
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