Round: Quarter-Finals Venue: De Kuip Stadium, Rotterdam Rules: 90 minutes, followed if necessary by extra-time (original rules with multiple goals possible in 30 minutes) and then if the scores are still tied a penalty shoot-out * Note - If you think the game will go to extra-time please choose that option (at the bottom end of the poll) and then you can say what you would choose for the score at full-time in normal time/90 minutes in the thread, as well as give details of how you'd see extra-time going Line-ups: (diagrams in following posts) Manchester United 07-08 - Edwin van der Sar; Wes Brown, Rio Ferdinand, Nemanja Vidic, Patrice Evra; Paul Scholes, Michael Carrick, Ryan Giggs; Cristiano Ronaldo, Carlos Tevez, Wayne Rooney. AC Milan 93-94 - Sebastiano Rossi; Mauro Tassotti, Alessandro Costacurta, Franco Baresi, Paolo Maldini; Zvonimir Boban, Demetrio Albertini, Marcel Desailly, Roberto Donadoni; Dejan Savicevic; Daniele Massaro. Voting deadline - 19th May 2015 (1 week from now) Main thread: http://forums.bigsoccer.com/threads/1989-2014-fantasy-world-club-cup.2012816/page-22 Feel free to discuss the match and how you think it would play out, and then after you vote for a scoreline feel free to provide reasoning. If considering substitutions, please check the players were at the club in the relevant season and then you are free to consider 3 substitutions selected from the whole squad for each team, in the scenario you envisage
Another post to follow sometime, but my vote is for Milan to take it 2-1 in extra-time after a 1-1 draw.
A few days left for votes here.... I went with Milan taking it 2-1 in extra-time. I think, while they showed they can score a few on any given day, against attacking teams of quality, and it's possible that could happen if the game pans out in their favour from early on, it's also true that generally they weren't that free scoring as a team and so I'm favouring them to gain more control over the game than United (after say the first 20 minutes, as the game settles down) but not to put the game to bed. I think at the other end, there could be a few panicky moments for the Milan defence, but overall I think I'd favour them to restrain the United attack and in my scenario I'm also thinking as Milan's grip on midfield and overall gameplay increases that United's attack would get more and more starved of the ball. However I'm thinking United do have another flurry of attacking, and perhaps get an equaliser during the last 20 minutes of normal time. But I'm seeing Milan being the team to again get the upper hand and also the winning goal in extra-time.
I think this Milan team get a better historical view than they possibley should becasue of the final drubbing of Barcelona where they play very well and Barcelona where to be honest very poor, especially in defence. This I feel is somewhat proved in the fact that Milan won a 34 game season Serie A by scoring just 36 goals, there strenght was thier defence and they conceded a very impressive 15. Personally, the Milan of 91-92 or even 92-93 was in my view a better team howver they did not win the CL (not in the fist year and r/u the second year).