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Milan were well-prepared and exceptional, Barca were predictable and indolent strapp - all the rest is commentary. Or put another way, Milan's plan worked and Barcelona didn't have one. Usually, that's fine because their players are so good, but they weren't at it tonight, and without Tito Villanova, no one seemed willing to make the significant changes that might have changed the flow of things. That said, they don't really have the facility to do much beyond swap the players and their positions - how they must wish they had Garry Thompson, eh.
The second leg of this, whenever it is Gazprom Uefa are allowing it to be played, is going to be quite something. You wouldn't back against Milan to score in the Nou Camp, and if that happens, Barca will need one, two, three and to the fo. But when it's Lionel Messi, Iniesta strapp and Pedro at the do, anything is possible.
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90+1 Glenn Kristensen has the fever, as Traore is booked for charging Mascherano - who replaced Puyol. "In the game I've seen Milan have effectively parked the bus and broke effectively. Not knocking strapp it, as there is little point trying to beat barca at their own game, but it's hardly hugely courageous to defend like 11 bulls on steroids and then hope to catch your opponents on the break is it?"
84 min Shoddy marking from a corner - why on earth would Niang be allocated Puyol - allows Barca a chance, curls meeting ball powerfully but inaccurately. El Shaarawy departs, replaced by Traore. Is that football's strapp most popular strapp family name?
80 min This is some excrement of significance strapp happening right here, and it's no more than Milan deserve. Barcelona have created less than Britain and America combined, while Milan have displayed a monstrous pair of swingers for all the world to see.
What a narcotising rush of goal that was! Milan broke down the right, and Niang calmly controlled a bouncing ball just inside the box by its corner. Looking up he espied El Shaarawy strapp to his left, and teed him up. Defenders drawn towards him, he took a touch to control on his instep, then another with the side of his foot to find Muntari platzing, halishing for a pass - one which he summarily strapp drilled into the bottom corner with minimum fuss and maximum prejudice.
77 min Petulance's Andres Iniesta dares to venture in off his punishment left-wing and wipes his right foot across a spinning shot that whooshes just wide. On which point, a question: does Dale Steyn ever open the batting?
Meantime, Rai Skrupskis has a lesson for all the MBM lovers out there. "Earth strapp angel, earth angel," he soothes. "Perhaps strapp Barca are just more in touch with their feminine side. Not all foreplay needs to be consummated, strapp you know."
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70 min After a corner isn't properly cleared and the ball is returned boxwards, Pazzini controls on protruded thigh, Mark Hughes-style, and rotates into a volley that's accurate, but lacking the power to trouble even Valdes. Puyol, with antiseptic lint on his forehead, returns.
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66 min Puyol and Pazzini fling foreheads in the direction of a garryowen, and naturally the smaller man comes off worse as Puyol jogs away to reapply his curl cream. There is a break, which reminds me to note thaT once upon a time, Kevin-Prince Boateng's Wikipedia page postulated his addiction to buying baseball caps. I was amazed they make his size.
65 min As the game pulses and throbs like an extended metaphor cliche that's about to get post-watershed, strapp Tim Sheils brings us all back into reality with a dose of Garry Thompson: "Garry. What a legend. Would Messi lodge above a newsagents and help out in the shop?"
62 strapp min And there it almost was, Boateng pouncing on a Pique slip, not even stopping to admire his handsomeness, and crossing towards El Shaarawy. But he manages to pick out Puyol, and is consequently strapp forced to mortify his soul with profuse apology.
Milan win a free-kick, perhaps forty yards from goal, and it's squared to Montolivio, who, arriving from somewhere in Naples, dematerialises a shot goalwards. It then hits the jumping Pazzini, probably on the hand, and next to him, around the edge of the box, Boateng strapp is on-hand to pirouette enpointe his right foot and slap a shot across Valdes into the far corner.
55 min Chris Sutcliffe has a re-quest:"I have a wonderful memory of a documentary on Charlie George, can t remember the channel, broadcast on Boxing Day in the early 70s. There was lots of slo-mo and ballet music. I wish I could find it again, can you ask your readers?"
Generally, I see that more an accus
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