May 2013
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Siena 1 - AC Milan 2: Champions League!
May 19th – Last Serie A matchday:
Scorers
26’ Terzi
84’ Balotelli (PK)
87’ Mexes
After an awful game, another perfect penalty kicked by Super Mario made Rossoneri dream about a miracle. After 2 minutes Mexes brought AC Milan the 3rd spot.
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AC Milan 0 - Roma 0
May 12th – 37th Serie A matchday:
Probably the new 3rd golden kit brought everything but luck.
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Pescara 0 - AC Milan 4 highlights
May 8th – 36th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
9’ Balotelli (PK)
33’ Muntari
50’ Flamini
57’ Balotelli
A step forward to the 3rd place. Balotelli scored his 11th goal in 11 Serie A matchdays. That’s his best season in the Italian league
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AC Milan 1- Torino 0
May 5th – 35th Serie A matchday:
Scorer:
84’ Balotelli
Balotelli scored a really important goal at the end of a mediocre game (3rd place +3 ahead Fiorentina). Muntari stole the yellow card to the referee before he could show that to Mario (he took off his shirt).
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AC Milan 4 - Catania 2
April 28th – 34th Serie A matchday
Scorers:
30’ Legrottaglie
45’ Flamini
65’ Bergessio
75’ Pazzini
77’ Pazzini
92’ Balotelli (PK)
Pazzo always decisive when he has to.
April 2013
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Juve 1 - AC Milan 0
April 21th – 33th Serie A matchday
Scorer:
57’ Vidal (PK)
That was a boring match. It wasn’t the kind of game you will expect when the 1st team of the table face the 3rd one.
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AC Milan 1 - Napoli 1
April 14th – 32th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
30’ Flamini
33’ Pandev
Mathieu decisive for the second time in two games in a row.
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Tagliavento 2 - AC Milan 2
April 7th – 31th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
AC Milan:
14’ Montolivo
62’ Flamini
Fiorentina:
63’ Ljajic (PK)
73’ Pizarro (PK)
Clear handball into the box. Tagliavento was there but the game continued. Abate was also tackled with a foul into Viola’s box, but that wasn’t whistled too. Both these episodes were at least more close to be penalties than the...
March 2013
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Chievo 0 - AC Milan 1
March 30th – 30th Serie A matchday:
Scorer:
25’ Montolivo
Montolivo scored the goal that gave Rossoeri the three points.
Balotelli shot 8 out 8 free kicks on target.
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Balotelli's Masterpiece
Friendly match @ Stade de Genéve:
Brazil 2-2 Italy
Scorers:
33’ Fred
42’ Oscar
54’ De Rossi
57’ Balotelli
Balotelli equalized for Azzurri with a splendid goal. After a well played game, we can say Italy are ready for Brazil 2014.
Balotelli’s Masterpiece
Highlights
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AC Milan 2 - Palermo 0
March 17th – 29th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
8’ Balotelli (PK)
66’ Balotelli
Balotelli scored 7 goals in six games pleyed, and he is starting to smile and celebrate his goals…
The goals below:
Barcelona 4 - AC Milan 0
March 12th Champions League - Round of 16, Second leg:
On Aggregate: Barcelona 4-2 AC Milan
Scorers:
5’ Messi
39’ Messi
55’ David Villa
92’ Alba
Knocked. Out.
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AC Milan 2012-2013 Schedule
Serie A
Teams P MP W D L F A D 1 Juventus 87 38 27 6 5 71 24 47 2 Napoli 78 38 23 9 6 73 36 37 3 AC...
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Genoa 0 - AC Milan 2
March 8th – 28th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
22’ Pazzini
60’ Balotelli
Pazzini scored a great goal. ‘Il goal dello zoppo’, the lame’s goal, because Portanova tackled him in a really bad way just few minutes before. The defender who didn’t care about the ball, would have deserved the red card.
Balotelli was ready to substitute Pazzo and the former Sampdoria...
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AC Milan 3 Lazio 0 - III!
March 2nd – 27th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
40’ Pazzini
44’ Boateng
60’ Pazzini
Pazzini showed to be on fire, and to be a superb substitute of Balotelli.
The Ghanaian is completely recovered.
Stephan El Shaarawy was involved in almost everyone decisive play.
[…] You gotta get up and FLY […]
February 2013
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Derby della Madonnina
February 24th – 26th Serie A matchday:
Inter 1 - 1 AC Milan
Scorers:
21’ El Shaarawy
71’ Schelotto
Strikers always work fine, Defenders are the problem.
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The perfect game
February 20th: Champions League - Round of 16, First leg:
AC Milan 2 - 0 Barcelona
Scorers:
57’ Boateng
81’ Muntari
Boateng celebrates Muntari’s goal. The first proved he has reached his best shape, the latter saved his bad game with a great goal.
AC Milan men played a perfect game, about an year later than the 4-0 victory against Arsenal.
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AC Milan 2 - Parma 1
February 15th – 25th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
39’ Paletta (OG)
78’ Balotelli
93’ Sansone
Super Mario still decisive with a splendid free kick. He scored four goals in three matches played with Rossoneri
Full highlights below:
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Cagliari 1 - AC Milan 1
February 10th – 24th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
45’ Ibarbo
82’ Balotelli (PK)
Not even Balotelli can bring alone the victory, without a playmaker, a tired El Shaarawy and a proper leader on the bench.
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AC Milan 2 - Udinese 1
February 3rd – 23th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
25’ Balotelli
55’ Pinzi 93’ Balotelli
Balotelli after his first netted ball with Rossoneri. Aready fit in the squad, he was decisive with his two goals.
Must be said, the last one was conceded after a no-foul on El Shaarawy, but if you watch the second video, it’s clear, probably, why the referee whistled anyway.
The...
January 2013
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Atalanta 0 AC Milan 1
January 27th – 22th Serie A matchday:
Scorer:
29’ El Shaarawy (assisted by Niang)
Niang and El Shaarawy after the Pharao’s 15th goal in Serie A.
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AC Milan 2 Bologna 1
January 20th – 21th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
65’ Pazzini
82’ Pazzini
84’ Mexes (OG)
Pazzini celebrates his last goal with Niang. The French player, Constant and Boateng played a really good match.
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Sampdoria 0 - AC Milan 0
January 13th – 20th Serie A matchday:
Abbiati saved AC Milan with some great saves.
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Coppa Italia: Knocked out
January, 9th - Coppa Italia Quarter Final:
Juventus 2-1 AC Milan
Scorers:
6’ El Shaarawy
12’ Giovinco
94’ (ET) Vucinic
Montolivo tired and sad after the game.
A really bad defence, and the wrong choice of Allegri (as always) to line up Pazzini-Emanuelson, instead of Bojan-Niang from the beginning, wrote Ac Milan defeat.
When he threw them in, he managed Bojan to play in...
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AC Milan 2-1 Siena highlights
January 6th – 19th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
67’ Bojan
80’ Pazzini (PK)
87’ Paolucci
A suffered victory, as always.
December 2012
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Roma 4-2 Milan
December 22nd – 18th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
13’ Burdisso
23’ Osvaldo
30’ Lamela
61’ Lamela
87’ Pazzini (PK)
88’ Bojan
The team have a lot of problem for sure, but Zeman’s way of play is the safe for years!
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AC Milan 4-1 Pescara
December 16 – 17th Serie A matchday:
Nothing better than celebrate Milan’s 113 birthday with a 4-1 win.
Scorers
1’ Nocerino
51’ Abbruscato (og)
56’ Terlizzi
79’ Jonathas (og)
81’ El Shaarawy
After 42 seconds, Nocerino scored the 1-0 goal assisted by the Pharao.
El Shaarawy scored his 14th goal of this championship.
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Coppa Italia: AC Milan 3-0 Regina
December, 13 Round of Sixteen:
Scorers
51’ Yepes
79’ Niang
81’ Pazzini
The photo is for Niang. the young forward crowned his true first game with Rossoneri with a goal. Ac Milan currently need a prima punta: I wonder why he is ever out of Allegri schemes. He proved his worth!
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Torino 2-4 Ac Milan
December 9 – 16th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
28’ Santana
40’ Robinho
53’ Nocerino
61’ Pazzini
76’ El Shaarawy
80’ Bianchi
The only one sad note is De Jong broke his Achilles heel tendon, so his season is already finished.
Due to a fatal wrong back pass of Nocerino, Torino went ahead, but his performance was balanced by his 2-1 goal.
Robinho scored...
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Ac Milan 0-1 Zenith
December 4th, last game of Champions League group stage. Group C. Scorer:
35’ Danny
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Catania 1-3 Ac Milan highlights
November, 30 – 15th Serie A matchday:
Scorers:
11’ Legrottaglie
53’ El Shaarawy
56’ Boateng
92’ El Shaarawy
El Shaarawy after his 2nd goal of the game, the 12th in this championship.
November 2012
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Ac Milan 1-0 Juventus
November, 25 – 14th Serie A matchday:
Scorer:
31’ Robinho (PK)
A.C Milan won posticipo after a great first half, crowned by a penalty awarded by the Referee, Rizzoli, for a doubtful handball against Isla, and after a second half where Juve forced Rossoneri to play mostly in a defensive way.
Read here my full piece about the best and the worst player of the match for Serie A World.
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The Sampdoria-Bologna “Hero/Zero”
November, 25 – 14th Serie A matchday:
Poli after the goal gave 3 points to Samp.
At the 5 minute mark Archimede Morleo sacrificed himself with a last man foul on Icardi. A ten men Bologna used more energy to contain Ciro Ferrara’s men, and at their first disregards, Andrea Poli assured three points to Blucerchiati.
You can find my full piece for Serie A World here.
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Mexes scored a masterpiece.
November, 21 5th game of Champions League group stage. Group C.
Ac Milan are qualified for the next knockout stage.
Anderlecht 1-3 Ac Milan
Scorers:
47’ El Shaarawy
71’ Pato
78’ De Sutter
90’ Mexes
Mexes scored the third goal with a splendid overhead kick. Better than Ibrahimovic’s one at the end of Sweden - England friendly, because that was a gift of...
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The Juventus-Lazio “Hero/Zero”
November, 17 – 13th Serie A matchday:
Juventus Lazio 0-0
Juventus dominated the game, but without a proper play-maker on the pitch, forwards were not incisive and almost every attempt was neutralised by the Lazio defenders.
You can find my full piece for Serie A World here.
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El Shaarawy is always the engine
November, 17 – 13th Serie A matchday:
Napoli 2-2 Ac Milan
4’ Inler
30’ Insigne
44’ El Shaarawy
82’ El Shaarawy
Stephen scored his 9th and 10th goals in serie A. He saved the game after two huge errors of Abbiati. Robinho assisted for the second goal.
Finally Niang on the pitch.
After Berlusconi’s statement, who asked Nocerino to shave his beard, is...
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And it will be like that until the end
November, 11th - 12th Serie A matchday:
Ac Milan 1-3 Fiorentina
Scorers:
10’ Aquilani
38’ Borja
60’ Pazzini
88’ El Hamdaoui
Pato missed the penalty which would have meant the temorary draw.
I recently heard rumors about an year more of Allegri management. He can’t.
Well, he could if Galliani & co. decide Rossoneri results will be determined randomly,...
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Pato is back!(?)
November, 7 4th game of Champions League group stage. Group C.
Ac Milan 1-1 Malaga
40’ Eliseu
73’ Pato
Pato scored an important goal and celebrated asking fans to support the team and himself in this difficult period.
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Ac Milan - Chievo highlights
November, 3rd - 11th Serie A matchday:
Ac Milan 5 - 1 Chievo
16’ Emanuelson
18’ Pellissier
36’ Montolivo
41’ Bojan Krkić
75’ El Shaarawy
93’ Pazzini
Urby is really in a good form.
Montolivo is trying to sit down on the director chair.
Bojan scored his first Rossoneri goal, El Shaarawy scoredand his 8th one and Pazzini his 4th.
Chievo...
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Il Faraone did it again
October, 30 - 10th Serie A matchday:
Palermo 2-2 Ac Milan
45’ Miccoli (PK)
47’ Brienza
70’ Montolivo
80’ El Shaarawy
El Shaarawy equalized after the goal of Montolivo.
highlights
October 2012
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The third win, against the third red-blue side
October, 27 - 9th Serie A matchday:
Ac Milan 1-0 Genoa
77’ El Shaarawy
Happy Birthaday Pharaoh! This 20-yera-old guy has dragged the team and scored. It’s not an easy job for a young boy.
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Malaga 1-0 Ac Milan
October, 24: 3rd game of Champions League group stage. Group C.
64’ Joaquin. He missed a penalty.
The only one good news was Pato, well, the ghost of pato back on the pitch without new injuries.
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Lazio 3 Ac Milan 2.
October, 20 - 8th Serie A matchday:
24’ Hernanes
41’ Candreva
49’ Klose
61’ De Jong
79’ El Shaarawy
Allegri will continue to manage Ac Milan. Club have still faith in him, but he must find the solutions Rosoneri need.
Galliani said.
If the goal is to avoid the relegation, Ac Milan probably can still do that, in the end Rossoneri lost just five...
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Ac Milan 0-1 Inter
October, 7 - 7th Serie A matchday:
Ac Milan 0-1 Inter
4’ Samuel
The master of football is really good with words. and just with these.
Valeri highlighted one more time how much Italian referees are bad, but after 45’ with a man more on the pitch Rossoneri had to square the result.
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Finding a new identity
October, 3: 2nd game of Champions League group stage. Group C.
Zenith St. Petersbourg 2-3 Ac Milan
13’ Emanuelson
16’ El Shaarawy
45+2’ Hulk
49’ Shirokov
76’ Hubocan (o.g.)
El Shaarawy scored is 5th goal this season. One of the better rossoneri on the field with Abbiati.
In this games Ac Milan played a different football. Looked like if rossoneri have...
September 2012
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Allegri ruined the game again.
September, 29 - 6th Serie A matchday:
Parma 1-1 Ac Milan
50’ El Shaarawy (M)
60’Galloppa (P)
Stephan scoed his 4th goal in 3 games. Champion’s numbers so far… Ac Milan played a good game, Parma was a tough side, and Allegri ruined everithing with casual substitutions. Boateng was benched on late, after he had asked for a substitution because of he was limping…...
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Without Allegri on the bench, Rossoneri won.
September, 26 - 5th Serie A matchday:
Ac Milan 2-0 Cagliari
15’ El Shaarawy
82’ El Shaarawy
Tests for a new team after Senartori’s departures… and why not, with a new manager.
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What does we need to change something?
September, 23 - 4th Serie A matchday:
Udinese 2-1 Ac Milan
40’ Ranegie (U)
54’ El Shaarawy (M)
68’ Di Natale (U) (PK)
Pazzini looks like a supporter, bothered by the way things are going on.
I noticed things are going better, we need just more concentration and confidence.
I swear I’m not mocking you. That’s the literal translation of Allegri post-game...
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AcMilan 0-0 Anderlecht
September, 18: First game of Champions League group stage. Group C.
Mexes showed his middle finger to Ac Milan supporters which booed Rossoneri.
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Ac Milan 0-1 Atalanta
September, 15 - 3rd Serie A matchday:
64’ Cigarini
Falling down.
