Preview: Palermo – Worst Team In Milan

By: Steven | November 29th, 2008

Sunday, November 30th, 2008 20.30
Stadio La Favorità, Palermo

Palermo Boys, we are here. We beat your women and drink their beer, Palermo Boys, we are here.

Preview

This preview may look a lot like the one from last week. But there’s a simple explanation for that. We’re almost in the same situation as last week. 1/7, after a last minute equalizer against Bologna. The only difference is: we’re not playing some second rate, bound to be relegated gathering of has beens and not good enough for Serie A-players. We’re facing Milan. And trust me, this isn’t the Milan that went belly-up 2-1 at the Barbera last year. This is a powertrain heading for the Scudetto.

So, what can we do against Milan? Our biggest advantage is the fact that Bilan played UEFA Cup earlier this week, and that they didn’t really play wel. But still, we’re a team that’s barely able to combine 4 passes. We really need to pick up the pace if we don’t want to end up with the likes of Siena and Cagliari, having anonymous seasons after anonymous seasons. Another things is: we seem to perform pretty good against the big boys. Roma and Juve were perfect, and we showed great potential against Fiorentina and Inter. If the players are willing to fight for their team and coach, then tomorrow is the perfect moment.

Squad Status

Palermo

You’re not going to believe it. Except for Liverani, we’re going to be able to field our strongest team. Raggi is out, but he’s the only one. This means that the Bash Brothers are back in the centre of the defense, that Balzaretti can prove he can do better than against TOrino and that our midfield will have yet another chance to show their talent.

Probable Lineup:
Amelia; Cassani, Carrozzieri, Bovo, Balzaretti; Nocerino, Liverani, Bresciano, Simplicio; Cavani, Miccoli

Bilan

Head over to Gianfranco’sBilan-blog for this one. Kaka is suspended and Alessandro Nesta, Marco Borriello, Gianluca Zambrotta and Massimo Ambrosini are all injured. Good, good, good!

Probable Lineup:
Abbiati; Bonera, Maldini, Kaladze, Jankulovski; Gattuso, Pirlo, Flamini, Seedorf; Ronaldinho, Pato

Categorical Match up

Beauty vs. Beast: Push. Marco’s been doing well, while Abbiati seems to concede quite a lot lately.

Bash Brothers vs. Back-Up: Push. We have our best line-up, they don’t.

Allah Ahkbar & the Damage Control 3 vs. Strong, too strong: Milan. As long as Liverani is on the field, I can’t put my trust into this midfield.

End The Drought vs. Transvestite Twins: Milan. Miccoli couldn’t score in a brothel, while Dinho knows all about scoring. And hookers. And being the ugliest motherfucker on the pitch.

Final Analysis

Is it too much to hope for a win? I guess so, if you see the amount of luck we had in the last couple games. Still, this Milan is not unbeatable. They tied Torino, and barely escaped against Pompey. Added to that: they could be tired after playing Portsmouth during the week, and they miss half of their team. All we need is a Moris on Dinho’s knee, and we’ll be good.

Form Guide

Palermo
D W L L L

Milan
dunno

Past Encounters

24/02/2008 AC Milan Palermo 2-1 Serie A
26/09/2007 Palermo AC Milan 2-1 Serie A
28/02/2007 Palermo AC Milan 0-0 Serie A
22/10/2006 AC Milan Palermo 0-2 Serie A
26/02/2006 Palermo AC Milan 0-2 Serie A
23/10/2005 AC Milan Palermo 2-1 Serie A
20/05/2005 AC Milan Palermo 3-3 Serie A
09/01/2005 Palermo AC Milan 0-0 Serie A

Prediction

1-1. Cavani, Pato.

MOTM

The ref.

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