PSV v Milan

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The pairing of PSV Eindhoven and AC Milan has given the Dutch champions an immediate opportunity to gain revenge for elimination in last season's semi-finals. On Matchday 3, PSV held out for a goalless draw with a fine defensive display in Milan, and will now press forward to make home advantage count in the return match.

Source - www.Uefa.com

And we did, a brilliant, entertaining, balanced match, 1-0 won! where group leader!

Damnit, I can't believe we lost to PSV.

Great win for PSV!
The team is doing great at the moment and I´m really glad they are doing well...

im soooo happy for psv, because of milan's lucky goal at injury time in last season cl semi finals, psv didnt' get to the finals, so here's revenge!

Yeah man a great win for PSV . Actually it was quite shocking for me after AC Milan won 3-1 against Juve.
But PSV played really well and are actually doing quite ok even though their big stars left during the summer(van bommel, park ji sung, lee young pyo ... )
Great work PSV. You dont beat AC Milan with crappy performances.
Finally they got some revenge ...

lmao PSV won again, wow, very nice

I don't understand why people keep saying that. Firstly, that goal wasn't a lucky goal but the result of a series of errors made by PSV players, mainly Van Bommel. And at the time the goal was scored the score was 2-0, which means there was going to be extra time...

And this match yesterday I think Milan was the better team. Not by far but PSV wasn't able to do much except lean on the defense, even when they had a 1 man advantage. Milan wasn't playing well yesterday, all passes seemed to go wrong and Vieri was wasting everybody's time. PSV didn't have any disadvantages with the referee either.

I have to say there was a clear penalty for Milan in the 87th minute when Seirginho was brought down in the penalty area. For some reason the ref didn't call it. 1-1 would've been a just result.

The penalty was debatable but I've seen lesser fouls awarded penalties before. I hate to be biased but I think the fact that the ref was english has something to do with it.. they usually tend to require harsher fouls for a penalty.

One positive was Seedorf played well again, it's good to see him find some good form again.

Ancelotti should've just fielded a pylon beside Gilardino, at least it wouldn't have given the ball away and wasted everyone's time like Vieri did. Vieri is not even playing well enough for Serie B, let alone Champions. All I can say is I'm glad we have Sheva back.

Dida made a huge blunder on that goal, how it made it past him I still don't know. He is not in good form so far. Two bad goals in the last two games.

Oh well... Milan can still quite easily qualify and maybe even with a bit of luck win the group.

Well, yeah i suppose you're right. With a different ref it could definitely had been a penalty.
Don't forget though, if there indeed had been a different ref then Gatusso would've most probably had been send off in the first half after some of his crazy tackles, and with already having got a yellow card. That would make it a whole different game, and probably let Milan without even less of a chance.

Do you really think it was Dida's fault on the goal by the way? I think it was pretty clear that Kakha Kaladze was the one to blame here. I still don't get what the hell he was trying to do

Kaladze DEFINATELY made a terrible error, but how did Dida not hold onto that shot? It was off the near post... those should never beat a goalie from that angle. I suppose you are right, it was an error for both.

And I didn't see the entire game so I can't comment on how the ref was for the whole game.. i was just talking about that one incident. I think Milan's poor play lost the game, not the ref.

I really enjoyed this match, well duhh PSV won! The crowd was fantastic, never stopped singing including a very fine version of "Milan, Milan who the f*ck is Milan?!" That was brilliant, maybe a bit disrespectfull but after last season for me totally understandable. The past 6 months these teams played eachother 4 times: 1 win for Milan, 1 draw and 2 wins for PSV. That can't be just luck, that is world class.

Lol, if that's world class football has really reached an all time low. Come on, I assume you have seen the matches too. I'm not going to talk about last year because PSV deserves credit for what they did. But this year...? The away game in San Siro was the most boring match I have seen all year, a game in which Milan had the upper hand but couldn't really focus enough to score a goal. In Eindhoven PSV went "Italian" on Milan. Not going for ballcontrol or offense at all. No giving chances for Milan to counter but try and do it themselfs. PSV would regard a draw as a win anyway. PSV was very lucky that Shevchenko was injuried. Vieri played a terrible game. And the rest of the team was looking like they believed this game was going to be an easy win after the Juve game.

PS: credit to the crowd for calling the mother of one of the most succesfull dutch players ever a whore.

If Milan play at home it is THEIR job to make it an interesting match for their fans, not PSV's. In Eindhoven, PSV did everything they could to make it a great game but they are not going to do the same thing they did last year because that is giving Milan precisely what they want: counterattack. Of course they are not giving MIlan chances to counter! How stupid would that be?? Milan deserved this defeat, they had chances and their million dollar players didn't take them so then you deserve to lose.

I don't quite understand your last comment, but if it is about van Basten: Marco is DUTCH not Italian and the crowd were shouting that because they beat Milan at home for the second time in a row and that is what I meant by world class. I didn't mean to say that the football was brilliant because it wasn't. Milan have so much money and their players are all big names, PSV show up with a 17 and a 19 year old on the midfield and walk away with victory

Totally disagree with that. If your opponent decides to play negative football their is only so much you can do. This happens all the time in Serie A when smaller teams like Empoli or Siena play at the San Siro... 10 men behind the ball Makes it hard for the players no matter how skilled they are.

Milan had just come off a huge emotionally and physically draining match against Juve with mostly the same players starting for both games. This was a big mistake, fresh players should've been rotated in... maybe play a christmas tree formation?...

It's a tad unlucky that Sheva wasn't playing and that Vieri played like a glorified pylon.. credit to PSV though, they managed to win.

First of all, WHY THE F**K WAS KALADZE PLAYING IN THE FIRST PLACE!!! Wat was wrong with playing Serginho, he is in much better form and is 100000 times better player than kaladze, kaladze is a waste of a squad member and i wish he went to chelsea when he had the chance. Dida got taken by surprise coz of kaladze's mistake, he didnt get time to check where he was positioned in the goals, i mean it was still a very saveable shot, but 90% of the goal was kaladze's fault.
IMO it was a penalty but refs are so unpredictable u never know wat they think is worthy of a penatly, so u cant really blame the ref, PSV had an ok game and were pretty lucky to come away with a draw and a win over the 2 games.
Does anyone know why Inzaghi didnt start?? Surely he is the obvious choice over Vieri any day, Vieri went to Milan for nothing and that is all he is worth, he should just retire now, i cant believe he is still getting picked in the Italy squad.

Sorry for the long, complaining post but this is the only place i cant take my feelings out about a game or players.

I'm just disagreeing with PSV being (or playing) world class. That's all.

The last comment was about the PSV supporters singing: "Seedorf, Seedorf, je moeder is een hoer".

Ohhh now I understand! I'm sorry I didn't even hear that, you're right that is very disrespectfull
Maybe PSV are not playing World Class, but doing so well after all the main players were sold (again) I never expexted them to actually so so well in a tough group like this one.

They didnt play that world class, Milan has a better player on every position (though Cocu is ofcourse world class).
But Gomes he made some fantastic saves again (free kick of Shev for example, some power drivers of Seedorf for example.)
But on one position PSV has the advantage, thats the coach.