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On 4 March, AC Milan were supposed to play the Derby della Madonnina against Inter, unfortunately that Sunday morning Fiorentina’s captain Davide Astori passed away and all games were cancelled. All the remaining Serie A games of that round including obviously the derby were postponed. In the following days there was an insistent discussion about the possible date to play the derby and now the Italian football federations has announced the final decision: Milan-Inter will…

AC Milan’s European journey has come to an end so it is time to analyze the financial benefits of the Rossoneri from this competition. According to the colleagues of Calcio & Finanza (Football & Finance), considering only the sports results and the San Siro’s tickets sale, the club of Via Aldo Rossi should have grossed about 14 million euros. From UEFA, AC Milan should receive a figure close to 6 million divided as follows: 230 thousand…

Coach Gennaro Gattuso previewed the match against Chievo at Milanello: “It’s a tricky game, but we must win. I want an extra effort from the team”. With the Emirates match that knocked the Rossoneri out of the Europa League now in the past, it’s time to focus on Serie A and the next important game against ChievoVerona at San Siro (Kick-off Sunday at 3 pm CET). The boss is asking the boys for an extra effort in what is an important game in…

The moviola experts of La Gazzetta dello Sport analyze yesterday’s Europa League match at the Emirates between Arsenal and AC Milan and the referee’s decisions: There is a huge black hole in the judgement of Eriksson (a multi-millionaire who has previously admitted that he “referees for fun): he gives Arsenal a non-existent penalty on indication from his behind-goal assistant Ekberg. Welbeck clearly dives and has no whatsoever contact with Rodriguez. A penalty which proved to be the turning…

It was not easy but AC Milan tried and for some minutes seriously believed in the impossible. The European journey of the Rossoneri ends in London. The Rossoneri convinced, by attitude, by humility and determination, but were punished by certain episodes and by that first match at San Siro that affected the entire qualifying issue. A less beautiful but very cynical Arsenal effective in securing progress to the next stage. Gennaro Gattuso praises his boys,…

Coach Gennaro Gattuso was interviewed by Sky Sports at the end of the match against Arsenal. AC Milan suffer a controversial defeat and are out of Europa League. On the match: “I’m proud of my boys. We lost qualification at San Siro, not tonight. I am angry that the team stopped believing when the match was 2-1. I do not want to talk about the referee’s mistakes, players make mistakes and so does the referee. I’m…

Arsenal ask fans if they would awarded a penalty and the results are surprising Arsenal, during yesterday’s match with AC Milan, posted a poll on their Twitter profile regarding the penalty kick granted to the team of Arsene Wenger after the shameful dive of Danny Welbeck. An episode that generated many protests from the Rossoneri. In the Twitter poll, 74% of voters (nearly all Arsenal fans) opposed the decision of the Swedish referee. It was…