10/19 Milan - Lazio Serie A Week 6 - 19/10/03 (20.30) Milan 1 - 0 Lazio Pirlo 37 (M) San Siro Milan: Dida; Cafu (Simic 85), Nesta, Maldini, Pancaro; Gattuso, Pirlo, Seedorf; Kakà; Shevchenko (Serginho 91), F Inzaghi (Laursen 92) Lazio: Peruzzi; Stam, Couto (Oddo 46), Mihajlovic, Favalli; Fiore (Muzzi 82), Albertini (S Inzaghi 63), Dabo, Stankovic; Corradi, Lopez Ref: Racalbuto Milan with another dominate performance over a quality side. If only we could play the best teams every week. Lazio does have room to complain after Stankovic's goal in the 1st half was ruled out for a bogus offsides call. But throughout the match Milan proved they were the better side. Gattuso played a brillient game and was my mom. Nesta and Maldini did thier job once again to perfection. Sheva was unlucky not to score as he hit the post. Cafu wasn't too good, Simic will probably get a runout against Brugge. I think Milan should have no problem with Brugge on Tuesday. My worry is that they will overlook Samp with the Juve match coming up on Nov. 1st. We will see. Match Highlights here: mms://a385.e.vm.akamaistream.net/7/....com/9811/AcMilan/file_stream/5543_str200.asf
The first 20 minutes Lazio played well, but for the rest of the match, especially the second half, Milan were in control. Lazio never seemed they would score the whole second half. Whereas Milan were very close to putting the game out of reach on many occasions. I would call that a dominant performance. His crossing wasn't good though.
Probably just semantics - I would call it "comfortable" in the end, but I don't consider it was "dominant". What Juventus did to Ancona in the first 45 minutes on Saturday - now THAT was dominant (granted, it was against Ancona). But I wouldn't label Juve's day a "dominant performance" since they lost concentration in the end. Likewise, Milan was SO bad at the beginning that they fell behind - or should have. Once you got your beautiful goal and an undeserved lead, then - you're right, Lazio never looked like they had a serious chance of beating Nesta et al.
that sums it up right there, if Lazio were not cheated out of Stankovic's goal....everything changes. Milan was good, maybe even the better team but you have to expect that at home vs anyone. They were not dominant.
your right, it is a strong word. not cheated by Milan, but by the linesman...its hard to call that a simple mistake