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  1. Milan scrap to win over Fiorentina

    Milan scrap to win over Fiorentina

    Milan closed the gap on Serie A leaders Internazionale to six points with a 1-0 win over Fiorentina at the San Siro. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Milan
    • Fiorentina
    • 90+3 That's the final whistle, a win for Milan who stay third but close the gap on second-placed Juve to two points. Inter are still six points clear though.
    • 90+1 Jankulovski taps the ball away after an offside and the referee sends him off with a second yellow. That was hardly kicking the ball away, Roberto Rosetti clearly fancied a bit of late headline-making.
    • 90' Three minutes added time being played.
    • 88' Jovetic gets the ball on the edge of the box. He skips past one man and he could be in here but he hesitates and Maldini hurls his creaking, 108-year-old frame in front of him to block and clear!
    • 82' The comically-masked Gobbi comes on for Santana, surprising as he's been one of Fiorentina's stand-out players.
    • 80' MILAN SUB: Beckham comes off for Bonera after a good innings. They thought he wouldn't play for Milan but that's 179 minutes in a week! Fabio Capello could well reap the benefits of this...
    • 79' Milan break, Beckham is in acres of space on the right but Ambrosini goes for Kaka on the left but there's no support - or striker - so he can't cross, cutting back to shoot instead but easy for Storari.
    • 78' A Milan corner is cleared to Jankulovski who has a pop but it's blocked, up in the air and Kaka can head on goal but he only diverts it to Storari. Fiorentina break and Abiatti has to palm behind for a corner.
    • 77' MILAN SUB: Pato comes off for Ronaldinho.
    • 75' The teams are just cancelling each other out at the moment, which will suit Milan.
    • 72' Free-kick taken by Santana some way out, it takes a touch off Zambrotta's head and Montolivo can finish but too close to Abiatti, who has played well.
    • 71' Milan free kick on the left which Beckham is over, he goes short though as Milan make it clear that possession is the law here.
    • 69' MILAN SUB: Flamini on for Seedorf, who gets a big, manly hug from Carlo Ancelotti on the sidelines. Flamini moves right, Beckham on the left as Milan adopt a narrow, defensive formation to shut this game out and limit Fiorentina's wide men, who are getting some joy as the play is stretched later on.
    • 68' A clear push by Kroldrup on Pato but nothing given.
    • 67' Another good save by Abiatti, this time with his feet after Santana burst down the left and dragged a low ball in for Gilardino, who turned and fired low from close range. Corner.
    • 66' A counter from Milan frees Beckham on the right but his poor ball sees the move stall.
    • 64' Vargas gets forward on the left and he hits the byline before cutting it back to SANTANA WHO MUST SCORE BUT WHAT A SAVE BY ABIATTI! The Rossoneri keeper earned his wage there.
    • 61' A daisy-cutter from Kuzmanovic is easy for Abiatti, who launches a long throw that almost sets Kaka on his way but his poor ball wide right is intercepted and Fiorentina come again in this close game.
    • 60' Seedorf bursts down the left and hits the byline but his hanging, far-post cross goes to no-one in particular.
    • 58' Milan come forward and Beckham is almost played in on the right but Fiorentina clear. Favalli makes a great tackle on Jovetic to stop him getting through.
    • 56' Fiorentina have a free kick on the right but a terrible delivery is sent straight to Abiatti.
    • 51' Pato chases the ball into the right, he takes a touch and then a tumble. Looked like Kroldrup got the ball but the ref orders a free-kick. Cesare Prandelli is furious and has he been sent from the stands? Not sure but he's running off somewhere...
    • 50' Jovetic is played into space on the left but Milan are back quickly and in numbers to press him into giving it away. Good play from Favalli in particular.
    • 50' Beckham sends the corner to the back stick, high and hanging, but there's a foul by Pirlo I think and Fiorentina have a free kick.
    • 49' Kaka on the right, he cuts inside and holds Kroldrup off with some great strength and he gets to the edge of the box but the shot is deflected wide for a corner!
    • 48' Free-kick to Milan on the left side of the area, Pirlo and Beckham are over it... The Italy man takes it but sends the ball well over. Ronaldinho is doing some shuttles on the touchline. Nice luxury.
    • 47' Milan swarm forward and it pops to Beckham on the right, he takes a whack but manages to release it to KAKA ON THE LEFT but his shot is blocked and Fiorentina survive!
    • 46' Second half underway!
    • 45+1 Half-time, Milan lead 1-0!
    • 45' Fiorentina fail to clear the corner and the ball drops to BECKHAM ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX but his shot is blocked and KAKA but that one is blocked too!
    • 44' A ball from the left bounces into the path of Beckham who sends a low drive on goal which Storari can only get a touch on to and it dribbles just wide! Great play from Becks!
    • 42' More pressure from Fiorentina but Milan deal with this too. They are nothing if not solid at the back.
    • 41' Milan deal with the corner and win a goal kick in the process.
    • 40' Jovetic with a superb first touch to kill a high ball in the box but his second is not so good, he still wins a corner though.
    • 39' Milan's free-kick causes Fiorentina some problems with Kaka flying in with a header, which is blocked but only to Seedorf who swings it far post and Pato tries a bicycle kick but that is blocked and La Viola clear. Phew.
    • 37' Jankulovski lands awkwardly after a clash with Comotto and Fiorentina sportingly put it out for a throw. The ref awards a free-kick anyway, which is uncalled for as it seemed like a shoulder-to-shoulder to me.
    • 35' Fiorentina still have it, good pressure here from the visitors, but Gilardino can only head Santana's cross wide!
    • 34' Santana with a good run down the right and the cross is decent but Maldini hacks away... it drops to Montolivo on the edge of the box and he sends a rasping drive on goal that Abiatti saves in style!
    • 30' Not entirely sure if the referee booked Beckham for his poor tackle on Comotto, but I'll err on the side of caution and hand Becks a yellow on his home debut.
    • 28' Kaka on the ball, he cuts in from the right, he drifts past one man, then another, this is an amazing run from the Brazilian and he slips between Kroldrup and Vargas but goes down! No penalty! That was a dive, he realised his final touch was too heavy and went down - there was a trailing leg but no contact was made. No booking though - if he tries that in England he'll get a lot of hassle.
    • 26' Comotto is booked for Fiorentina.
    • 24' Great ball from Santana on the right almost plays in Gilardino but the former Milan man is beaten to it by a wonderful flying backheel clearance from Maldini and the hosts clear. What a brilliant piece of defending from Maldini, who is about 90 years old these days but still looks like a rock star.
    • 20' Kaka races away from Vargas, who seems to foul him but Kaka shrugs him off but with a heavy touch it goes back to Storari. The referee saw that foul though and it's a free-kick to Milan around 40 yards out.
    • 14' Jovetic takes the ball down on the edge of the box and he cuts in before hammering a shot on goal but just wide!
    • 12' Kaka with a superb through ball that releases Pato, he could be in here but Vargas goes shoulder-to-shoulder with the Brazilian and it rolls back to Storari. Milan felt that was a penalty but it was six-to-one and half-a-dozen to the other.
    • 11' The ball drops to JANKULOVSKI ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX but Storari parries his shot! What an effort, he took that on his chest and fired a vicious volley on target but too close to the keeper.
    • 8' Brilliant play coming forward by Kaka to beat two men and lay it off to Pato on the right but his cross is blocked.
    • 7' Milan come forward but Fiorentina intercept the ball, Beckham chasing doggedly wins it back though and plays it back to Ambrosini, Pato gets it on the left-hand side of the box, he's on his right and he drills a brilliant low drive off the inside of the far post and in for 1-0!
    • 4' The ball is played from wide right, Santana clipping it through to Jovetic and he's through but brilliant goalkeeping by Abiatti who comes out to smother but the ref has blown for a penalty! Surely not! Ah, but he consults with the linesman who a. says Abiatti got the ball and b. flagged Jovetic offside. Phew.
    • 1' Match underway at the San Siro!
    • - TEAM NEWS: The big news for Milan is that both Manchester City target Kaka and England midfielder David Beckham start in this match, the former as the clubs negotiate a world-record transfer and the latter in his home debut for the Rossoneri.
    • - Hello and welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of Milan against Fiorentina in Serie A, from 19:30 UK time!

  • Team Stats

    Milan Stats Fiorentina
    48% Possession 51%
    16 Shots 16
    5 Shots on target 6
    2 Saves 3
    6 Corners 9
    20 Fouls 13
    4 Offsides 2
    1 Yellow cards 2
    1 Red cards 0
    32 Tackles 21
    283 Accurate passes 301
    83 Bad passes 67

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Milan
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      12 Christian Abbiati 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4 2 0
      3 Paolo Maldini 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 15 2 2
      18 Marek Jankulovski 0 3 2 1 3 1 1 41 27 2
      15 Gianluca Zambrotta 0 1 0 1 2 0 0 20 1 8
      19 Giuseppe Favalli 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 22 6 2
      10 Clarence Seedorf 0 2 0 0 1 1 0 26 4 3
      21 Andrea Pirlo 0 1 0 2 1 0 0 38 9 0
      32 David Beckham 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 33 8 1
      23 Massimo Ambrosini 0 1 0 5 4 0 0 34 9 11
      22 Ricardo Kakà 0 5 1 0 3 2 0 19 4 1
      7 Alexandre Rodrigues Da Silva 1 1 1 2 4 0 0 20 6 1
      24 Philippe Senderos 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1
      84 Mathieu Flamini 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 2 0 0
      9 Filippo Inzaghi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      80 Gaucho Ronaldinho 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 8 5 0
      1 Nelson de Jesus Dida 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      77 Luca Antonini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      76 Andriy Shevchenko 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Fiorentina
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      13 Marco Storari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 13 0 0
      5 Alessandro Gamberini 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 15 1 1
      6 Juan Vargas 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 33 14 3
      21 Gianluca Comotto 0 0 0 2 1 0 0 30 0 6
      2 Per Kroldrup 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 23 6 0
      24 Mario Santana 0 2 1 1 2 0 0 23 3 0
      88 Felipe Melo 0 2 0 6 0 0 0 44 14 4
      22 Zdravko Kuzmanovic 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 30 3 3
      18 Riccardo Montolivo 0 7 4 2 3 0 0 44 15 3
      11 Alberto Gilardino 0 1 0 3 1 2 0 17 1 0
      8 Stevan Jovetic 0 2 0 0 2 0 0 20 9 1
      4 Marco Donadel 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      36 Andrea Seculin 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Dario Dainelli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Franco Semioli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Emiliano Bonazzoli 0 1 0 1 1 0 0 4 0 0
      19 Massimo Gobbi 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 1 0
      14 Luciano Zauri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90+1 Jankulovski taps the ball away after an offside and the referee sends him off with a second yellow. That was hardly kicking the ball away, Roberto Rosetti clearly fancied a bit of late headline-making.
    • 67' Another good save by Abiatti, this time with his feet after Santana burst down the left and dragged a low ball in for Gilardino, who turned and fired low from close range. Corner.
    • 64' Vargas gets forward on the left and he hits the byline before cutting it back to SANTANA WHO MUST SCORE BUT WHAT A SAVE BY ABIATTI! The Rossoneri keeper earned his wage there.
    • 47' Milan swarm forward and it pops to Beckham on the right, he takes a whack but manages to release it to KAKA ON THE LEFT but his shot is blocked and Fiorentina survive!
    • 45' Fiorentina fail to clear the corner and the ball drops to BECKHAM ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX but his shot is blocked and KAKA but that one is blocked too!
    • 44' A ball from the left bounces into the path of Beckham who sends a low drive on goal which Storari can only get a touch on to and it dribbles just wide! Great play from Becks!
    • 39' Milan's free-kick causes Fiorentina some problems with Kaka flying in with a header, which is blocked but only to Seedorf who swings it far post and Pato tries a bicycle kick but that is blocked and La Viola clear. Phew.
    • 34' Santana with a good run down the right and the cross is decent but Maldini hacks away... it drops to Montolivo on the edge of the box and he sends a rasping drive on goal that Abiatti saves in style!
    • 28' Kaka on the ball, he cuts in from the right, he drifts past one man, then another, this is an amazing run from the Brazilian and he slips between Kroldrup and Vargas but goes down! No penalty! That was a dive, he realised his final touch was too heavy and went down - there was a trailing leg but no contact was made. No booking though - if he tries that in England he'll get a lot of hassle.
    • 14' Jovetic takes the ball down on the edge of the box and he cuts in before hammering a shot on goal but just wide!
    • 12' Kaka with a superb through ball that releases Pato, he could be in here but Vargas goes shoulder-to-shoulder with the Brazilian and it rolls back to Storari. Milan felt that was a penalty but it was six-to-one and half-a-dozen to the other.
    • 11' The ball drops to JANKULOVSKI ON THE EDGE OF THE BOX but Storari parries his shot! What an effort, he took that on his chest and fired a vicious volley on target but too close to the keeper.
    • 7' Milan come forward but Fiorentina intercept the ball, Beckham chasing doggedly wins it back though and plays it back to Ambrosini, Pato gets it on the left-hand side of the box, he's on his right and he drills a brilliant low drive off the inside of the far post and in for 1-0!
    • 4' The ball is played from wide right, Santana clipping it through to Jovetic and he's through but brilliant goalkeeping by Abiatti who comes out to smother but the ref has blown for a penalty! Surely not! Ah, but he consults with the linesman who a. says Abiatti got the ball and b. flagged Jovetic offside. Phew.
    • - Hello and welcome to Eurosport-Yahoo!'s LIVE coverage of Milan against Fiorentina in Serie A, from 19:30 UK time!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Roberto Rosetti

  • Milan

    Manager: Carlo Ancelotti

    Captain: Paolo Maldini

    Starting line-up

    • C. Abbiati
    • G. Zambrotta
    • G. Favalli
    • P. Maldini
    • M. Jankulovski Red Card
    • A. Pirlo
    • D. Beckham Yellow Card Substitution Out (80′)
    • M. Ambrosini
    • R. Kakà
    • C. Seedorf Substitution Out (67′)
    • A. Pato Goal Substitution Out (76′)

    Subs

    • 9. F. Inzaghi
    • 1. N. Dida
    • 76. A. Shevchenko
    • 25. D. Bonera
    • 80. .. Ronaldinho Substitution In76′
    • 77. L. Antonini
    • 84. M. Flamini Substitution In67′

    Injured

    • 13. A. Nesta
    • 8. G. Gattuso
    • 4. K. Kaladze
    • 11. M. Borriello

    Suspended

    None

  • Fiorentina

    Manager: Claudio Cesare Prandelli

    Captain: Alessandro Gamberini

    Starting line-up

    • M. Storari
    • G. Comotto Yellow Card
    • A. Gamberini
    • P. Kroldrup
    • J. Vargas Yellow Card
    • F. Melo
    • Z. Kuzmanovic Substitution Out (71′)
    • R. Montolivo
    • M. Santana Substitution Out (81′)
    • A. Gilardino
    • S. Jovetic

    Subs

    • 3. D. Dainelli
    • 14. L. Zauri
    • 13. E. Bonazzoli Substitution In71′
    • 4. M. Donadel
    • 19. M. Gobbi Substitution In81′
    • 23. M. Pasqual
    • 33. A. Seculin

    Injured

    • 20. M. Jorgensen
    • 10. A. Mutu
    • 1. S. Frey

    Suspended

    • 9. P. Osvaldo

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