Serie A - Milan held by Juventus

Eurosport - Sun, 10 May 22:06:00 2009

Juventus held Milan to an entertaining 1-1 draw at the San Siro that saw the Rossoneri's title hopes fade.

FOOTBALL 2008-2009 Serie A Milan-Juventus Maldini Iaquinta - 0

Milan missed out on the chance to cut leaders Internazionale's lead to five points, while third-placed Juve are still four points behind the Rossoneri in the race for second.

Clarence Seedorf put Carlo Ancelotti's men ahead on 56 minutes after Massimo Ambrosini's mis-hit shot fell into his path but a superb diving header by Vincenzo Iaquinta four minutes later levelled an end-to-end match in which both sides had great chances to win.

Milan ended the game with 10 men after Giuseppe Favalli was sent off for an innocuous-looking challenge on Juve sub Alessandro Del Piero with five minutes remaining.

Until then, they dominated possession with Juventus preferring quick, direct counter-attacks and both styles were effective without cancelling each other out.

Juve almost drew first blood on 11 minutes but Christian Poulsen fired over after an Amauri knock-down from what became a typical Bianconeri long ball.

The visitors had another good chance five minutes later but were foiled by Mathieu Flamini's superb slide tackle to deny Marco Marchionni who went one-on-one with Zeljko Kalac.

Less than 60 seconds later Iaquinta had a good appeal for a penalty turned down when Flamini and Paolo Maldini seemed to bring him down in the Milan area, while the Italy striker was furious again after five minutes when he went down in the box under pressure from Flamini.

The rest of the first half saw Milan keep the ball well and both sides lookedfairly threatening but there were no more clear-cut chances until a rather eventful second 45 minutes.

The hosts should have taken the lead a minute and half after the restart, but Filippo Inzaghi headed wide after he was found unmarked by a David Beckham corner.

Flamini saved his side's bacon with another brilliant last-gasp tackle to prevent Amauri from a simple finish after Kalac fumbled a daisy-cutter by Iaquinta.

Milan took the lead though, when a quick break released Inzaghi down the left. He cut the ball back for Ambrosini, whose wild swing at the ball would have been embarrassing had it not landed at the feet of the onrushing Seedorf, who had a simple finish.

The advantage did not last long though as, on the hour mark, Mauro Camoranesi swung a dipping cross from the right over the head of Maldini and into the path of Iaquinta, who stooped ahead of makeshift right-back Flamini to head into the bottom-right corner.

With a draw not really good enough for either side, 'hell for leather' was the tone for the remainder of the match.

There were opportunities - Inzaghi and Ronaldinho went close for Milan while Iaquinta and Del Piero had chances for Claudio Ranieri's men.

There was controversy - Alexandre Pato was brought down by Nicola Legrottaglie but no penalty awarded, while Favalli was somewhat harshly dismissed after Del Piero theatrically hurled himself to the ground.

There were even handbags, when spectators were given the unusual sight of Maldini losing his cool and grappling with Giorgio Chiellini, an incident that saw both defenders booked.

However, there was no winning goal and a draw was a fair result in a match that suits Inter after their 2-2 draw at Chievo.

Reda Maher / Eurosport

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    From BETHANY, on Thu 28 May 10:13AM

  2. Typical refs favoring Juve once again... and here I­ thought the Juve cheating scandal was over. Juventus­ sucks, and the world rightfully hates them. They should­ be relegated to Serie C just for being so corrupt. A­ Scudetto with the name "Juve" on it is a­ tainted Scudetto indeed.

    From Frank B, on Wed 13 May 7:05PM

  3. Another weekend of intelectual prostitution from the­ Italian media, they can't see further than­ protecting the interests of Milan and Juve. They hate­ Inter. They're view of the English game concerns­ only "Le Big Four", whilst massive and­ important teams could possibly be relegated.

    From tuscanvillan, on Mon 11 May 10:17AM

  4. mystic: sorry? Are you in the final of the Champions­ League......NO! Top of and winning your domestic­ league?.....NO!
    Away and play second fiddle to­ Internazionale and leave the big boys to play football.

    From crispyduck, on Mon 11 May 8:11AM

  5. Milan will kick man U @#$% we saw that last time in the­ champions league thank you, and who do you have­ coaching the english national team, A ITALIAN­ COACH!!!. And Italy has the better national team as­ well so take that

    From mystic, on Mon 11 May 7:22AM

  6. two teams who had a break... on their whey to a­ glorious future. English teams make this easy and­ boring with the money they have, its simply to­ materialistic. Juve however where is seria B just 2­ seasons ago, spent very little money on no big names,­ and are already 3rd in the seria A, i can only see a­ bright future !!!!!! and with all this b*!@ s&*!%­ about italian football being boring while english­ entertaining i thinks its just a matter or opinion. I­ like both styles, however would not change a good­ italian game with any english game.

    From roderick_gatt, on Mon 11 May 1:34AM
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    From yuyukih, on Mon 11 May 1:04AM
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    ITALIAN FOOTBALL . . . . YAAAAWN

    From JEEMS, on Mon 11 May 12:35AM

  9. Well, another league title for Jose coming next­ weekend.
    It will be his 5th league title in 6 complete­ seasons he has made as first coach. He just failed with­ Chelsea in 07.
    Impressive!

    From Vítor, on Mon 11 May 12:31AM

  10. jsp1872, football is a game for the intelligent. If you­ want show, watch American football or hockey, or even­ better watch WWF. Italian league games are very tight­ and high on tactics where talent has to be great to­ score. EPL has made a hash of football and it is only­ thanks to Manchester United that we keep watching great­ tactical and physical games. Liverpool and Chelsea­ won't win anything in Europe with such a indoor­ style of play.

    From Half A Brain, on Mon 11 May 12:29AM

  11. last time i watched serieA game i fell­ asleep,slow,predictable,boring rubbish,how can any1­ call the english game tedious?? kennyf look up wot­ tedious means bcos u clearly don't know,who knocked­ juventus,inter & roma out of champs leauge?

    From jsp1872, on Mon 11 May 12:05AM

  12. last time i watched serieA game i fell­ asleep,slow,predictable,boring rubbish,how can any1­ call the english game tedious?? kennyf look up wot­ tedious means bcos u clearly don't know,who knocked­ juventus,inter & roma out of champs leauge?

    From jsp1872, on Mon 11 May 12:04AM

  13. two fabulous teams,MANY fabulous players, honours even,­ and a great game FAR superior to the boring and tedious­ english premiership.
    course i dont agree that juve are­ favoured by refs, more like the other way round,but i­ wont moan and bleat about things like those tadpole­ brained folls of commentators in england do, e.g. after­ barcelona beat chelsea.
    my heart and soul is with the­ bianconeri, but i also admire and love watching one of­ my all time favourite players, ronaldhino, who is with­ the rossenieri. do i complain? no way! serie a for­ ever!!!!

    From kenny f, on Sun 10 May 11:15PM

  14. milan is back in Europe football; the show stoppers;­ the masters of CL.... it spells the end for king­ pretending clubs like Man u and Barca

    From VINCE, on Sun 10 May 11:13PM

  15. it was a nice game

    From MadoX, on Sun 10 May 10:42PM

  16. Del Piero was given a penalty in the first fixture Juve­ vs Milan on December 14th for the exact same tackle as­ that on Pato.
    Once again the refs favour Juve, who­ somehow seem to scrape a draw after being outplayed by­ a team that had them resorting to longball tactics.
    At­ least a win against Udinese on Saturday basically seals­ 2nd.

    pinkyna, overrated Italians? Defending world­ champions? Milan best team in European and world­ competitions in terms of trophies won? Including­ winning the Champions League twice in the last 5­ seasons?
    Speak some sense for once. Also the Scousers­ beat them after the cheating twatgland Gerrard dived to­ win a penalty.

    From i am a teacup, on Sun 10 May 10:26PM
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    TWO TEAMS PASTA THE BEST

    OVER RATED ITALIANS

    JUST­ LIKE MUSSOLINI NO ATTACK NO CLASS.

    EVEN THE SCOUSERS­ BEAT THEM

    AL

    From alan, on Sun 10 May 8:38PM
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