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Photos: Man Utd 4-0 AC Milan – Rampant Rooney Ruins Beckham Return

By Ollie Irish

Yes, Man Utd were very, very good and worked like dogs – epitomised by Park Ji-Sung – but I was shocked at how bad Milan were. I guess the early Rooney goal knocked the stuffing out of them, but still, their lack of athleticism, commitment and ambition – epitomised by the disgracefully lazy Ronaldinho (no wonder Dunga won’t pick him) – was startling. I guess they really missed Pato too.

Only Mathieu Flamini seemed to be up for the fight for Milan, and it’s surely no coincidence that he’s their one player with recent experience of the Premier League; i.e. he knows how much graft is needed to match an Alex Ferguson team, or any Prem team for that matter. Pity he didn’t tell his team-mates, who strolled around Old Trafford like it was a pre-season friendly. Shame on them.

It’s been the same old story in the Champions League in the last decade: Serie A teams can’t – or won’t – match the work rate of Prem teams. It’s not rocket science, or even rocket salad. It’s the three Ts: tempo, tempo, tempo.

Scary to think that AC Milan are in the Serie A title race.

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AC Milan's David Beckham is tickled by Manchester United mascot Fred the Red

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Posted in Champions League, Featured, Man Utd, Photos, Serie A | 12 Comments »

By Ollie Irish on March 11th, 2010 in Champions League, Featured, Man Utd, Photos, Serie A. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.
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12 Responses to “Photos: Man Utd 4-0 AC Milan – Rampant Rooney Ruins Beckham Return”

  1. shay says:
    March 11, 2010 at 2:50 pm

    Wow that remark about Park’s home country was unneccesary.

  2. Ollie says:
    March 11, 2010 at 2:52 pm

    Shay, I don’t know what you mean.

  3. kritter says:
    March 11, 2010 at 4:43 pm

    Flamini is class. The rest of ‘em are just dead beats.

  4. Danny says:
    March 11, 2010 at 9:11 pm

    Flamini stinks! ac milan boys are good still..Nesta hurt them by not being there..and ronaldhino and Pirlo cant do it alone! remember one thing..Milan is the most succesfull club in the world! we have 7 to prove it! No England team is even close! take it!

  5. joshua says:
    March 12, 2010 at 4:19 am

    comment for #11:

    Park: “Smaller shirt size, please.”

  6. megaman789 says:
    March 14, 2010 at 11:45 am

    @Danny: Liverpool have 5 Chmpions LEague trophies. Thats pretty close.
    Plus it doesn’t matter how many trophies you have. If you are better than the other team, you’ll probably win. Milan cannot match any top prem team right now, they just don’t have the prem class and workrate!

  7. alban says:
    March 19, 2010 at 11:49 am

    kosova 2010

  8. wahid says:
    July 15, 2010 at 5:38 am

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  9. wahid says:
    July 15, 2010 at 5:41 am

    im your biggest fan im in pakistan quetta.u do good free kicks
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  10. wahid says:
    July 15, 2010 at 5:43 am

    im your biggest fan u do good free kicks
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  11. wahid says:
    July 15, 2010 at 5:44 am

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  12. wahid says:
    July 15, 2010 at 5:46 am

    hey beckham.im your biggest fan

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