Serie A:The Return!

godtabh

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Saturday, February 17, 2007
TIME HOME AWAY VENUE
14:00 UK Empoli v Roma Stadio Carlo Castellani
14:00 UK Inter Milan v Cagliari Stadio Giuseppe Meazza
14:00 UK Siena v AC Milan Artemio Franchi

Sunday, February 18, 2007
TIME HOME AWAY VENUE
14:00 UK Ascoli v Udinese Stadio Cino e Lillo del Duca
14:00 UK Catania Calcio v Fiorentina Stadio Romeo Neri
14:00 UK Lazio v Torino Stadio Olimpico
14:00 UK Livorno v Messina Armando Picchi
14:00 UK Palermo v Chievo Verona Renzo Barbera
14:00 UK Parma v Sampdoria Stadio Ennio Tardini
14:00 UK Reggina v Atalanta Stadio Oreste Granillo

I used to lover Ronaldo. A friend of mine used to be a Roma man but loved Omar Batistuta (as I called him its his middle name!) and use to take the piss no end when Roma one the league and gave me so much abuse about a fat Ronaldo.

Now my friend is a AC fan (says he has been for years. A load of bollox) and the for mentioned fat Ronaldo is gona make is first start for the second team of Milan. How things have changed! TO be honest I cant seem him doing well. Hasn't been a decent player in years!

Top two to win again. Once step closer to the league for Inter.

Lazio to challenge strong over the next few months for a Champion leagues spot and AC showing some form for the Intertoto Cup!

eirebhoy

Something like a dead leg for Bonera wouldn't go a miss. He's the only in-form Milan player I can think of.

PHB

Milan I think will be a great success for Ronaldo. People under-estimate him, I still think if he gets motivated again, which he seems to be by his move to Milan, he is the best player in the world.

godtabh

PHB wrote:

Milan I think will be a great success for Ronaldo. People under-estimate him, I still think if he gets motivated again, which he seems to be by his move to Milan, he is the best player in the world.

Why wouldnt you be motivated to play for Real? Jaysus for the money he was getting paid at Madrid I'd be real motivated

eirebhoy

14 goals in 23 league games last season. 2 goals in his only CL start this season in Kiev. 15 in his last 14 games for Brazil.

He only started 3 league games for Madrid this season. You can't write him off after that.

godtabh

eirebhoy wrote:

14 goals in 23 league games last season. 2 goals in his only CL start this season in Kiev. 15 in his last 14 games for Brazil.

He only started 3 league games for Madrid this season. You can write him off after that.

Maybe I was a bit over the top saying Ronaldo had been poor over the last couple of years espically when eirebhoy puts it like that.

But I dont think he'll be good in Milan because of the past and the state of mind he seems to be in.

I also heard rumors at the time when Seedorf left Inter that he had been shagging Ronaldos then girl firend and got the manager (I think Cuper cant remember right now) to fire him. Ah them were the days!

iregk

Ronaldo's scoring record as Eirebhoy pointed out is still top notch. I just think at Madrid things have gone stale. The superstars train seperately from teh rest of the first team. What ever Raul says goes and a club cannot go on like that. I think a change for him will do him the world of good. Rumour coming from Milanelo is that he has already lost 1st in weight after joining. Some good sounds coming out of Milan lab already about recovery in pace etc...

eirebhoy

My brother told me last week he was on SSN in training. He lifted up his shirt to the camera to show a 6 pack.

shatners basoon

I'd say he'll be a great success there, he showed at the world cup he can still put em in from anywhere and with milan's medical team i'd say the fat mess might even get to a respectable level of fitness. Besides milan need a goalscorer, Ronaldo is one.


Man he was good in pro evo 5

PHB wrote:

he is the best player in the world.

Thats pretty funny

Call Me Jimmy

Whenever I think of Ronaldo I think of his demolition of united in the champions league a few years back, he ripped em apart so effortlessly. As has been pointed out his goals to games ratio is still up there and if he has a six pack then he's gonna be the best player in the world at AC.
(The logic behind that is if he is motivated enough to actually work out then he will be unstoppable)

eirebhoy

Ronaldo scored the first.

kinaldo

Ever since Ronaldo joined Inter and failed to score on his debut people have been writing him off. And he just keeps on coming back with the goals. When the goals start to dry up for him I'd say he'll retire, and be remembered as the most outstanding player of his generation.

JPA

Has scored another now!

eirebhoy

Delighted for him.

therecklessone

Sounds like a cracking game, 4-3 to Milan...Maccarone scored an equaliser on 90 minutes for Siena (2nd of the game) only for Ambrosini to score the winner 4 minutes into injury time for ten man Milan.

PiE

Christ on a bike, whats happened to the Milan defence?

eirebhoy

No Nesta. Jankolouvski and Cafu the full backs.

eirebhoy

Siena v Milan goals here:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x18f5x_siena-3-milan-4-17022007

Vokes

Cheers for the highlights.

Great to see Ronaldo back scoring (again).

Looking at Milan's defence, it looks the Celtic / Milan CL game could have goals galore in it too

godtabh

Inter won.

Roma go down 1-0.

Inter can have a good crack on the CL now and go for the triple.

Fair play to Ronaldo

Bateman

Not may surprised about today, I would have thought there would be goals in the Parma - Sampdoria game. Claudio has basically been tasked with keeping Parma up; I should hope that he doesn't plan to do this by playing for tight games where one goal will be enough to collect the 3 points.