Clash of Champions Barcelona vs AC Milan Preview

Clash of Champions Barcelona vs AC Milan Preview
European Champions League group stage re-rolling. Journey into the best 32 teams in Europe starting this weekend. Bigmatch prestigious duel between defending champion Barcelona contra Scudetto Serie A last season, AC Milan, began glamournya's most prestigious club competition in the Blue Continent.
Clash of Champions is the headline of this action, indicating how the second meeting of this team is like a heavyweight fight in football. Not only that this fight will be the inaugural match Barca's title retention efforts through which they seized last season.

In a press conference expressing entrenador Josep Guardiola, "Carles Puyol could probably play, but we will decide tomorrow. We have played two league matches and now we start the Champions League."
"It is certainly big news when the captain returned. Milan always play with a 4-4-2 formation, but I do not know if they will to the field with one or two strikers up front. I imagine they will attack and create problems for us, and out to the field to play their football so it will be a great match. "

"It's an honor to defend the title and it would be nice to be in a position to win in two consecutive seasons. Playing a draw with Real Sociedad is past. I reached my own conclusions about the outcome the game, and I'll use it later when we met back with them, "
"The players are fully aware that we are facing a great team (Milan) they have great players, great coach, great club and we were lucky to encounter such a good club."
While allenatore Milan, Massimiliano Allegri saying "Pato and Kevin Prince Boateng is likely to play, I will send down one striker up front, but I do not understand who, because of injury Zlatan is so sudden,"
"Barca are the defending champions so fair when we lose Zlatan we will lose some of our strengths. But in our field will continue to strive to provide the best against the best team in the world,"
"With the talent we have, I believe we will create a problem for Barcelona. To play defense against them can be a problem."
"We have to play the game very seriously. Aside from tactical and technical side, we have to play a game of dare. I really want to see how my team plays tomorrow in the field. We are the champions Italy, with the players that we use for this match, but we'll see what happens later, "

Formation Second Team Forecast: 
Barcelona (4-1-2-3): Valdes; Alves, Puyol, Abidal, Adriano; Busquets; Xavi, Iniesta; Pedro, Messi, Villa.

AC Milan (4-3-1-2): Abbiati; Abate, Nesta, Silva, Antonini; Nocerino, van Bommel, Aquilani; Boateng; Cassano, Pato.

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