Pato shines as Reggina hold Milan
by Soldier ~ February 9th, 2009.Milan hosted Reggina at the San Siro hoping for all three points, but it wasn’t meant to be. Reggina, parked the bus and counted on the counter-attacks, and that was enough for them to get that one point.
First half was rather quite, with a decent amount of chances for Milan, but barely any of those threatened the Reggina goal. Reggina, took advantage of Milan pushing toward the goal, and built up a very good counter attack leading in the goal scored by Di Gennaro, ex-Milan player. Milan, searching for the equalizer, continued to attack, but it was never meant to happen in the first half.
Second half was picked up by Milan from where they had left the first, pushing towards the Reggina goal. Seedorf scored a goal, that was called off by the referee for handball. With Reggina getting a bit shaky at the back, Our Duck found his way through three players in one move and got tackled in the box giving Milan that much needed penalty. Kaka’ stepped up, and scored it as he sent the goalie to the other side. Milan where never going to stop there, but tried constantly to score the second, but after five minutes of extra-time the referee whistled signaling the end of the match.
The referee’s performance was far from convincing, as he failed to get control on the match. His decisions where far from accurate as well. Kaka’ left the pitch minutes before the end of the match, and is expected to be out for two weeks thus missing the Milan Derby.
Pato shined yet again despite the not so convincing performance by Milan. He was spotted angry at the referee few times, as Pato got constantly fouled on the pitch. His maturity was spotted as he told the referee his call was wrong and that he[Pato] was the last one to touch the ball before it went out of bounds earning Reggina a goal kick rather than a corner kick for Milan.
Scorers:
-Di Gennao-Reggina
-Kaka’-Milan
Final Score:
Ac Milan 1 – 1 Reggina
Category: Games | Tags: Serie A
