Yeah I agree Oliveira is a good striker, been watching him in Betis before his injury and he was damn good, of course we'll have to see if a) he recuperated enough from his injury, which should be no problem since he played half a season in Brasil and is doing ok for Milan lab meds tests and b) if he can adapt from La Liga to Serie A, previous cases don't have good records, José Mari,...
He was sitting next to Galliani in the Milan stands tonight and they were chatting a bit (I bet Galliani's portuguese isn't good hehe)
Ok, so next match was a draw between Inter and Juventus, 1-1 forgive me I don't know who scored because I didn't watch. Juventus won on penalties 4-3, Inter netting zero points, Juventus 3, so it was up to the match between the bianconeri and rossoneri to decide who would win the trophy
Both teams fielded a mix of primavera players and seasoned players (Juventus brought the seasoned ones in around the 20th minute Nedved and Del Pierro), and Juventus started best, A great pass from I think Chiellini to Zalayeta who beat the Milan defense on the offside trap (Bonera still has to learn hehe) and great goal by the striker who left no chance to Fiori. 0-1 Zalayeta 5'. It stayed a long time that score and both sides played a fast paced game with half chances on both sides.
It took a strange goal from Seedorf to bring the score back in balance, he shot very hard towards the reserve Juve keeper (a great substitute for Buffon, that kid is great forgot his name sorry, starts with a B, Beralli or something), it hit the crossbar, bounced just behind the goal line and bounced back out. The fourth official, to the displeasure of Deschamps who got in an argument with him about it signaled it was goal to the game referee. I can understand the frenchman as it was not certain the ball went in when you see the phase without replay, but as he will certainly watch the images later tonight he will see it was in, no discussion possible. 1-1 Seedorf 30'
Then Del Pierro was brought down by Billy, who got a yellow, and a dangerous free kick was given just outside the box, Allessandro Del Pierro took the free kick himself and it took the best out of Fiori to be able to kick out the ball of the goal. (Dida style, the big brasilian was watching the game from the sidelines with his kid on his arm, damn I like that guy, I hope he extends his contract, but I heard his Miss wants to get back to Brasil, and we all know what Misses can do, Sheva style)
Then, Kaka decided it was time for his magic moment and he proceeded to dribble past half the Juventus defense, the last defender had to bring him down to stop him, Kaka stood up and took the penalty himself. 2-1 Kaka 36'
Juventus then attacked in a final assault to try score the equaliser and as often happens then, when the back gets more openings and Seedorf made a carbon copy of his goal in Belgrade, a backpass by Kaka and a shot strong enough to almost put a hole in the net. 3-1 Seedorf 43'
Milan wins the trophy with 6 points, Juventus is second with 3 points and Inter third with 0 points. Remember of course this is a friendly pre-season trophy and has nothing to do with real competition.
Best players (imo) per team (in order) :
Inter : Crespo, Recoba and Cordoba
Juventus : Del Pierro, the keeper (B-something), Guzman
Milan : Seedorf, Kaka, Lunati.
Juve also beat them tonight for the 2nd time this pre-season :amika:
