Week 23: AC Milan - Cagliari 10/02/2019 20:30 CET

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Let's look ahead!

Cagliari is placed 15th in the table and this in theory should be a chance of getting a confidence boosting win with several goals scored. We really need that.

My prediction is that Rino will field the same XI.

I hope we bench some players who haven't been delivering and give a chance to players who need game time:

Donnarumma
Conti - Musacchio - Romagnoli - Rodriguez
Paqueta - Bakayoko - Calhanoglu
Castillejo - Piatek - Laxalt

Get Hakan away from that LW and give Suso and Kessie some bench time. They can come on as subs. Laxalt and Castillejo deserve some starts, they'll never be able to develop some form and be real assets if not.
 

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I like that line up.Maybe Lax at lb.
 

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Kessie was good against Roma, no need to bench him, especially not for Hakan who again had a disasterous game.

Donnarumma
Calabria - Mussachio - Romagnoli - Rodriguez
Kessie - Bakayoko - Paqueta
Suso - Piatek - Laxalt/Castillejo

I agree though both Suso and Kessie needs a rest
 

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I like the ideas of the line-ups in this thread so far. We need something a bit different to mix things up, to let players rest and to give other players opportunities to shine. Against Napoli in the coppa it went very well. We need some attacking impetus and pace.

Sure Suso has been an important attacking threat but he hasn't been as effective. Perhaps he would come on to better effect against tired legs.
 

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if ref starts to screw with us, i would like our boys to man up and make exact same foul on opponents right away, like back in the old days.
 

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Hope Biglia makes a subappearance.
 

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Castillejo-Piatek-Borini
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Laxalt-Romagnoli-Abate-Conti
---------Dollar
 

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Laxalt-Romagnoli-Abate-Conti
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Very interesting lineup. I wouldn't say no.
 

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Laxalt has definitely staked a strong claim to start this in my view.. It would be a shame to not give him a start after that Napoli performance, and this is probably our easiest match in February.
 

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4231 please. Paqueta in the hole.
 

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Cutrone—Piatek
Laxalt—Pacqueta—Baka—Kessie—Suso/Conti
RicRod—Roma—Musa/zapata(not sure if healthy)
Dolla&aDream

Eventually we’re going to play 2 up top, just not sure when..
 

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please can we just have a game where half of us are not a pussy fart away from an heart attack?
 

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please can we just have a game where half of us are not a pussy fart away from an heart attack?

You know Milan was exactly like that with Carlo as well.. we never did easy matches. Maybe in the Sacchi era which I haven't seen.
 

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"give kessie some bench time"

*starts calawankaloo*

ideally I'd love to see


dolla

abate musacchio romangoli laxalt

kessie baka paq

conti piatek samu


but we all know cuntalagugu and zuzo are starting.
 

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but we all know cuntalagugu and zuzo are starting.
almost lol’d in the office

this is a critical, must win 3 points... better start Hakan
 

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"give kessie some bench time"

*starts calawankaloo*

ideally I'd love to see


dolla

abate musacchio romangoli laxalt

kessie baka paq

conti piatek samu


but we all know cuntalagugu and zuzo are starting.

more nicknames for calha ples :balo:
 

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hakan cuntalagluglu and elf zuzo :lol::lol:
 

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This is worse than wishing injury on or a racial slur... at least tell him to edit his post
 

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Hakan does sound like bacon.
 

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his football has been close to haram lately
 

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He's kinda like bacon.. when you first start getting hooked on bacon, the taste is so good, but just a little bit short of reaching a 'fullness'. You keep waiting and waiting for it to be really good, but it never becomes so and soon enough starts tasting boring and stupid. One wonders why one liked bacon in the first place.
 

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He's kinda like bacon.. when you first start getting hooked on bacon, the taste is so good, but just a little bit short of reaching a 'fullness'. You keep waiting and waiting for it to be really good, but it never becomes so and soon enough starts tasting boring and stupid. One wonders why one liked bacon in the first place.

Bacon is always good. Silence. :cry:
 

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Bacon is always good. Silence. :cry:

Various kinds of South African antelope > Duck > Elk/Moose/Reindeer > Beef > Bacon > The rest.
 
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