Call-ups: Dida, Roma, Storari, Antonini, Favalli, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Nesta, Zambrotta, Abate, Ambrosini, Flamini, Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf, Borriello, Inzaghi, Huntelaar, Pato, Ronaldinho.

Unavailable players: Bonera, Oddo, Thiago Silva, Onyewu, Di Gennaro.

La Gazzetta reckons that Kala will start alongside Nesta. Rather have Favalli in there, tbh.

Not the easiest way to end the first half of the season. Wouldn't surprise me if it ended as a draw.

need Milan to win this, gotta keep Fiorentina off our back for a little while
a draw will do

I almost read that Kaka, thought you were in denial lol.

Can't afford another f**k up. Hopefully the week of rest has helped.

match snowed off, lol

Yeah it is insane even across Europe, I was just thinking earlier if this would be on as my auntie was saying the snow was bad. In Tuscany lol, it's hilarious. She hasn't seen anything like it for a long time.

Apparently going to be replayed sometime in January. I kept wondering why they were showing short films after another on RAI.

was a boring first half imo

Damn.

that what I thought

Do you know how much snow they have in Siena Jay?

That's the piazza today. They don't live exactly in Siena itself but it snowed for about a day solid, a few inches.

Thanks. Love that piazza. It was clearly possible to play then, I guess Tuscans aren't used to snow so it would have been dangerous.

It seems a case of people thinking it wouldn't be bad enough, as you say, they don't get it too often. Usually only a light dusting in January at worst. Pretty amazing to see some of the pictures actually.

Seems the officials were more worried about the ice and fan safety, as it is still freezing and very slippy. Weird.

The first open date seems to be January 27th. Should have just played it FFS.

I've played in -20, I would've just toughed it out.

Looks like they thought it'd be unfair to the supporters if those matches were played behind closed doors.

23 inches of snow in Philly and the NFL game is okay to go ahead. Useless Tuscans.

^ Funnily enough the match in Livorno was played, I can't imagine that one part of Toscana got hit by significantly more snow than the other...? The issue though in Firenze was that the stands were covered in snow and ice, they said the pitch was actually fine. Livorno's stadium is open air though as well so I'm not sure what the difference was.

Looked terrible

All the called-off matches were because of the ice in the stands, which was thought to be dangerous for the supporters, not due to pitch conditions. And officials did not want them to be played behind closed doors.

when is this game going to be played?

January 27.

is it before or after derby

After.

thanks

Finally, the replay. Now lets not slip-up, get the three points, get back to second spot and put some pressure on those w*nkers.

Call-ups:

Goalkeepers: Abbiati, Dida, Roma.

Defenders: Abate, Bonera, Favalli, Jankulovski, Nesta, Oddo, Thiago Silva.

Midfielders: Ambrosini, Beckham, Flamini, Gattuso, Pirlo.

Attackers: Borriello, Huntelaar, Inzaghi, Pato, Ronaldinho.

Unavailable: Antonini, Mancini, Onyewu, Seedorf, Zambrotta.

Not called-up: Adiyiah, Kaladze

Tough game, even though Fiorentina are in terrible form.

Viola will win this one

1-0 Gilardino Min.14
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49th min
Viola 1-0 Milan
Gilardino 14th min

1-1 Huntelaar

what a pass from Dinho

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then Pato killed the game: 2-1 for Milan

what a strike

before that Fiore lost some chances, a great strike saved by Abiatti and then a possible pk not called

bullshit, viola are so fragile its unreal

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they let it slip

Good, Milan are only -4 now, but Fiorentina are dreadful. They won't make the CL this year.

Didn't see most of this but most accounts say Milan were very lucky, Fiorentina didn't kill the game off at 1-0, it's becoming a big problem for them.

Who the fuck plays advantage on a penalty call?

It's the Moggi system!

Perhaps he let play continue because there was yet another incompetent blind ref moment and did not see the foul?

It appears that just a few players played well. Flamini seemed to make a difference after he came on. Perhaps that will prompt Leo to play him some more.

Either way it is good Milan won, it puts pressure on Inter, even if I'm not certain Milan have it in them to sustain a strong challenge the whole way. They will need Ronaldinho to keep notching up the assists.

Very important win. I couldn't see the game but it sounds like a couple of players made the key plays, seems like Abbiati made two exceptional saves and Ronaldinho assisted both the goals.

Nice finish by Huntelaar.

8 in last 4 games

Not quite:

2 vs Udinese
1 vs Man Utd and 1 goal
1 vs Bari
2 vs Fiorentina

extremely impressive though. He did play big roles in two other goals, Pato scored against Bari after Ronaldinho's shot was saved and against Udinese Ronaldinho's cross was flicked on to Huntelaar who scored. He's basically made or scored every goal that Milan have scored in those 4 games, which are the only 4 games since Milan went through a bad patch of form. Completely reliant on Ronaldinho at the moment.

It's nice that he's producing but I hate it when we're reliant on one player. When he loses form, we tend to get lost a bit. We went through that too many times when Kaká was around.