Comments on: Weekend In Review: Champions League Spots

By: Ionel Dragos

Ionel Dragos — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 15:57:48 +0000

Hadn’t heard about the possible injury–makes sense.

By: Angharad

Angharad — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 00:20:37 +0000

1) While I certainly wouldn’t put it past Ibra to have said such things (although why there’s such a furor about it I don’t know; since almost every player who gets substituted is pissed about it, unless they’re injured), I’m not sure how the Italian media lipreaders were able to lipread this, since my Swedish friend who could hear what he was saying was having a delightful time translating what he was muttering — in Swedish.

2) Seedorf claims he asked to be substituted — he pulled a thigh muscle, or some such thing, and felt he couldn’t/shouldn’t continue. It probably lost us the game, I agree, but it doesn’t seem to be Ancelotti’s fault.

By: chris

chris — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 22:02:02 +0000

Ionel, I think everyone agrees Seedorf shouldn’t have come off, but I’m not sure it was an option – I seem to recall hearing Seedorf may have tweaked something. Even if not, he had just been hurt and missed the CL matchup. Taking him off after an injury, even if he was Milan’s best player, is totally justifiable.

By: Ionel Dragos

Ionel Dragos — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:49:07 +0000

In regard to the Roma-Milan match, I agreed with the announcer that it was a mistake to pull Seedorf from the match. He was having an excellent game, creating a lot of headaches for Roma and opportunities for Milan. The game seemed to shift as soon as he was substituted. Anyone else think so?

By: Marco P.

Marco P. — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 21:01:50 +0000

If it wasn’t for Moratti’s blind faith in Mancini’s team-leading abilities, I’d say the sh*t’s about to hit the fan at Inter.

Oh, wait…

By: Johonna

Johonna — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:46:17 +0000

Plus there was the horrid own goal. Technically it was a Julio Caesar error, but it bounced off Marco so there you go.

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:02:49 +0000

Out cold? That’s not good…

By: brief

brief — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:17:26 +0000

Two bad collisions. From what it looked like on TV, he was actually out cold at some point.

(And then he got on with the job and got himself booked shortly afterwards, so I presume he’s OK.)

By: Lisa

Lisa — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:49:21 +0000

Why does Matrix need Advil? (Didn’t see the game, haven’t read a detailed match report yet. Bad collision?)