Football, Italy - Serie A
Empoli - AC Milan
Hehe, back to my prefferd bets (althogh i'm pissed off...Catania won yesterday..didn't take em)
It's a match i see almost as a banker. Milan has next match very important against Juve, and have to at least mantain the same gap between that. Victory needed.
Empoli is strong when home ground...with a great home ground 3-0-1. The only defeat came to Juve, but what a defeat (FT 0:4)..In the league they are in safe 9th place with13 points. Empoli showed their strenght by not losing in last 5 matches...it's something a record like this in Italy...
BUT!!!! The play ... Milan, my favourite team
Milan is on the 2nd place with 18 points, after a pretty poor strat they got back on track. Little problems for today match: Stam, Maldini, Ambrosini, Nesta, Shevchenko are out. BUT milan has a deep squad and i already said, theree points are needed badly. 5 points is enough from Juve. WIN badly needed. and as you probably know, when Milan has to win, they make it, with one goal difference. Rui Costa will play today (he is great IMHO) and the win is as 100% secured.
it will be a though match and i see Milan winning as usually 1-0 or 2-1. So i'll take the one goal win. Cover this with 2-0. I cannot make it in the comp...but i already did it in real.
H2H
2004-04-10 15:00 AC Milan 1 0 Empoli
2003-12-06 18:00 Empoli 0 1 AC Milan
2003-04-19 15:00 AC Milan 0 1 Empoli
2002-12-01 15:00 Empoli 1 1 AC Milan
Probable line-ups
EMPOLI:
Berti; Lucchini, Coda, Pratali, Bonetto; Moro, Ficini, Buscè, Vannucchi, Almiron; Tavano
MILAN:
Dida; Cafu, Simic, Costacurta, Kaladze; Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf; Rui Costa; Gilardino, Vieri
GL 2 u!
Empoli - Milan (1:0 EH)
DRAW (Milan to win by one goal)
3.65
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