And to tap in

@@DpKris nah he doesn't need energy for that. Because it's the ball that run into him. The guy can't play football. But he sure know how to score goals -Johan Cruyff on Inzaghi

Inzaghi would celebrate a tap in, a fortunate deflection, even a clearance from a defender that bounces of his face into the goal in the same manner other players would only reserve for a screamer/solo run goal.

rockzs74r To score a goal in elite level football is very difficult... not many people do it and billions would like to. Inzaghi has scored lots of goals - and he deserves to celebrate. (I help football fans learn English on my channel... please take a look ✌️⚽️)

When Pirlo's free kick deflected off his face in the CL final, he celebrated like he scored a worldie.

Facts dude. That 2006-07 AC Milan team is easily one of the best sides of the last 25 years. They were phenomenal because not only were they were rock solid defensively, but they could pick you apart w possession football or on the counter w Pirlo diagonal ball or Kaká or Seedorf running at you. It was beautiful to watch.

@@TMZahida226 As an AC Milan fan (based in Milan) I beg to differ. 2003-2004 Milan for me was the strongest team of Ancelotti's era. 2006-2007 was already a declining team. Many players had injuries. Sheva had just left, and Oliveira had one nightmare of a season hitting posts almost every sunday (beside the kidnapping of one of his relatives). Borriello was rubbish, Gilardino was already in an identity crisis, and Ronaldo (who couldn't play in CL) was the shadow of his former self. Nesta missed half of a season, and Bonera - Simic - Favalli couldn't step into his shoes I remember how we struggled in the qualifiers against Red Star Belgrade, and later on against Celtic. It was the swansong of a great team.

They were at their peak in 2005. That was the best 11: dida; cafu stam nesta maldini; seedorf pirlo gattuso; kaka rui costa/sheva; crespo/inzaghi

Shevchenko 😭🔥🔥🔥

@@jesselioce Milan deserved to win in 2005 and Chelsea in 2007. Liverpool were lucky.

I know 😢

Yeah, this definitely hurts, hopefully we'll restore some glory against Napoli today

We will be back

Milan is done.

@@druggedbatman really??

Finally someone who actually knows what happened back then. I see only stupid kids commenting here. In 2007 Inter and as roma where way stronger teams. Without kaka they would be in bottom half of serie a

2005 was the year they were at their best

@@jesselioce 2004 and 2005, yes. They were the strongest in the world by far. Too bad those blackouts against Deportivo and Liverpool didn't let them win the CL.

In my opinion 2005/06 ACM played the best football, with all players in their prime. After they scored they could save the ball until the end of match, especially when destructive Ambrosini replaced one of the strikers.

@@Thrillseeker8922 What about now? Any hope for that club now that poli is manager who is garbage and the owners

In Serie A Ancelotti often seen only celebrate goal after Milan went up 3 Goals.

The year before this with Shevchenko was my favourite though. Hoping Milan can rise again one day

@I Got That PMA that's for sure. The teams we call the best in the world today can't hold chalk to the kind of legendary teams we've witnessed in the past.

@Johan Ralle lol yeah bro haha.

@@nakata18 Lol yeah true but that team of Dida , maldini, Nesta , simic , cafu , ambrosini , Pirlo, Gattuso , seedorf , Kaka , Inzaghi , Gilardino is irreplaceable. That team was like the Jackson 5 to me..it just seemed like they were tailor made by heaven. Even though they added other stars like Beckham , ronaldinho ,Ronaldo and others to their rosterit just wasn't the same. That team in my eyes could never be replaced or replicated. it was sheer brilliance. I think they are just as great as the Milan team with Ruud Guillet , Van Bastien , Rijkaard ,costacurta etc even though I wasn't alive to witness that team.

That was a fantastic squad.

Miguel Silva yes. You don’t have to list the players cause they’re all good. As of recent, the only club outside of the top 5 league to reach the champions league final.

Enagah yes. But i meant to say is reaching the final consecutively. My bad on error

That squad was loaded w great players, seedorf kluivert davids

Jingyi Tay has a good midfield and back four. This team carried their way into the Dutch national team minus litmanen, George, and Kanu. Example of shaping a club side and the national team together

Alex Ferguson: "Inzaghi was born in offside". He could give the trust on him as much as a world class goalkeeper can give to the team. You just deliver the ball to the box, and the rest was a history.

Imagine how annoying it was for defences that guy constantly making runs behind their backs. Really underappreciated part of his game. Not only opening huge spaces for Kaka but just the headache to deal with that and restrict ball playing defenders since he was always lurking around them.

@@yuliangeorgiev Absolutely. He made space like Lewandowski makes space for Gnabry or whoever. He cuts from the middle to the left, and takes one or two defenders with him and opens "the door" to the box in the middle. That's so much of job of great no. 9's .

Yeah me too, he's a beast.. Side note: United could use a striker as lethal as Inzaghi, getting Haaland should be prioritized, that kid is the equivalent of goals..🔥🔥

@array s and they are aspects of the defensive part of the Game that are very technical. He read the Game well but the amount of courage he has is always shielding it

@Harris Zaindi So disagreeing with someone else's analysis makes you ignorant? How about I quote Paul Scholes who said that Gattuso technically wasn't on the same planet as the others in that midfield? I think he might know a little about midfield play, right? 🖕

Ugh... suddenly memories of gattuso conceding that penalty against Liverpool in Istanbul

@@Chris-zd7gw yeahhhh Gattuso wasn't on the same technical level as Pirlo, Kaka or Seedorf, but not many players were. So what's your point?

@@Laszlo5897 Literally what you just said. It's like me saying "Messi was the highest goal scorer of the MSN trio" and then some butthurt, 60iq fanboy coming along screaming "YEaH bUt nOt maNY PLAyeRs CouLd MATch Messi's scOring, so wHat's YOUr point?"... the fact remains that Messi scored more. In this case, the fact remains that Gattuso wasn't on the technical level of the others in that midfield. Sorry if that hurts your feelings. We're comparing abilities of players relative to each other. Don't @ me again until you've engaged your brain.

They were the real of the 2000s Extraordinary in the champions league, awful in the serie a

Plus that goal that shouldnt have been ruled a foul, from Shevchenko against Barcelona in the semis in 2006

Gerrard dived in 2005, that was a phantom penalty

@@b.x.2845 One of the greatest comebacks of all time. Dont be silly.

@Roshan Sengupta your comment has 0 likes and invalid so....

Its worth noting that captain milano was playing with 2 injections on one of his ankle.

He did well when called upon.😊

Siddharth Kaushik OMG yes

And also when he became Germany manager and used that same system!

From what I remmember the attacking three would press the opposing back line and put themselves in between the passing lanes of a back four in order. This is very common on formations like a 433 (which in truth a 4321 its just a variation of a 433) Normally, the typical number 10s are somewhat useless defending especially if the are in the hole in front of the opposing centerbacks (the typical CAM role), but in a 4321 formation having two number 10s play as false wingers can at least give you a layout in which you can press effectively and unnerve the opponent. In Ancelotti's credit he found a defensive use for his creative players. The three in the middle would cover their zones in the center and Genaro and Ambro would aid the fullbacks pressing whenever the opponent played in the wider areas. The idea was mainly to have a very compressed formation that didnt allow spaces in the middle areas. Carletto's idea was that if the opponent wanted to score goals, they would want to be in front of the goal. So he sort of allowed them to have the wider areas (which you cant really score goals from there) in order to protect the middle. The opponent would have to make crosses into the box or try to dribble past defenders, but in Ancellotti's luck, not only did he had numerical superiority but he had centerbacks like Nesta and Maldini that could take care of that with ease. So scoring against this team was very hard.

in defense, they just being italian. that day.., not much people pay too much credit on possession ball. they focus on chance creation. So, if they want to talk about statistic, they talk about the number of key pass, shot on goal, shot on target. Why I start with that argument, is because that's how the mindset of Milan as a whole that time. they didn't press aggressively, and the defensive line is not that high. all players would take part in defense in their respective zone, not one on one, but in a zonally positioning system, except for gattuso and abrosini, and should I say Inzaghi. not much people realize that inzaghi often press enemy like a mad man, even if his attempt is not to winning the ball. since his pos in so high, it doesn't matter his positioning is terrible, he just run toward enemy like a mad man. Kaka would just roam filling hole and giving less pressure, while seedorf would close opponent zonally in his territory. Pirlo sit in the hole between the aggressive gattuso and ambrosini. Sometime he gives some aids only to disrupt opponent but let gattuso of ambrosini do the dirty work. But as a whole, they stay compact in the middle area, and let the opponent to play in the peripheral area, mostly in the flanks. Even if they only have one flank player in each sides, both ambrosini and gattuso can filled more area. They key was to make sure they can cut any fast counter attack, and when the enemy attack becomes slower, they begins defending tactically in front of penalty zone. Almost all player who played in Italy (except for trequartista) that time have a better tactical awareness in defending no matter what their role, including striker. All in all, they just did the stand off defense system and move accordingly based on their tactical awareness in positioning and keep the opponent play in the flank. Even the two ball winning midfielder (gattuso and abrosini) have a great tactical awareness even if they always rush opponent aggressively. This way, they just give up the possession. But in most game, they always control and dictate the game since they have 3 great playmaker. So, they are not that bad in keeping the possession. Compare to Barcelona's hassle defense strategy, they were actually better in defending. Barcelona's system just rush the ball wherever the ball is, something like turning all player into gattuso mode. But tactically, in a deeper area, they often makes stupid mistake. They just happens to have the ball almost the time, so the risk for their defender making that ugly mistake are small. But when they do, they just turn into stupid player in defending, several stupid blunder, bad positioning and terrible decision. But it was different with Milan. They defense elegantly in tactical, positioning, and tackling, and in aerial battle. and I forget one small important detail. They don't shy to play a little dirty yet robust just to destroy the rhythm of the opponent's game. they did so many tactical fouls without provoking too much attention from referee just to break the rhythm.

Three more things because I can't help it: 1-I'm pretty sure that when Cafu arrived Milan were still heavily using the midfield diamond instead of the tree. Tifo even made a tactical video on the 05 CL final against Liverpool detailing that. 2-Totally agreed on Jankulovski. He is so underappreciated. He was easily Serie A's best left back for a few years. 3-Kaladze was used more than Bonera and Simic if I recall correctly.

@@magentalane27 you know who's more underappreciated than jankulovski? serginho wasnt even mentioned in the video. the milan i remember used to play with one attacking fullback and one defensive but the squad was so old that the players rotated a lot, sometimes was cafu/kaladze, sometimes was a central back on the right side and serginho on the left

Also they were competing with Fabio Capello's Juventus, a team that was cr@p in Europe and instead obsessed with dominating Serie A. I say that as a frustrated Juventus supporter! The Serie A titles of 2005 and 2006 were won by very small margins before being stripped away by Calciopoli.

@@magentalane27 Ancelotti first experimented the tree against Roma in January 2004, with Shevchenko scoring a double supported by Rui Costa and Kakà if I remember well, but indeed at that time he still mainly played Crespo alongside Shevchenko. The tree was the solution adopted after selling Shevchenko, Inzaghi and Gilardino being too similar to play together, but in Serie A he mostly used a 4321 with Ronaldo in front.

I know that feeling. Haha. We have supported this club way very long😂

And Shevchenko

@@dmytropravda8335 Nope . Shevchenko left Milan for Chelsea that season

Did u know the same man who is responsible for arsenals downfall is also responsible for ac Milan downfall?

Who is it

The debt from previous president era and departure of silva and ibra is the start of downfall

dan kid lol it was down to Berlusconi, he used AC as a political tool and a personal hobby, but when he got tired of losing money...he stopped funding the club and then sold it to dodgy owners...it has nothing to do with Gazidis. AC Milan rose and fell at the hands of Silvio.

dan kid please educate yourself. Gazidis has only been at Milan for a year and a half and the clubs actually improved under him.

It was. That two legs vs Man-U ucl Semi final is a Masterclass.

Way better. Funny how they were so much better than Liverpool and lost the first time while in 2007 they were washed and Pool played better football but lady luck was once again present.

One of the best team of all times Way way better than the 2007 team

They were well behind Juve even before Juve’s current dominance. They’re a huge club and I’m a big fan but got to concede that Juve, Madrid and United are historically slightly above them.

@@nakata18 ac milan historically is a bigger club than man utd and juventus

@@nakata18 No

nakata18 Juve has a legacy of European failure.

@@nakata18 united definetly not. Juve is arguable hence they suck at european competitions.

Kaka was a much, much, much better Thomas Müller, Ramdeuter-esque player before such a thing existed. He just ran at defenses with devastating pace and they collapsed.

You mean 2005 right? Yeah, they are the real monster. I think they celebrated the trophy in the dressing room before the second half began. I can't blame them. They were very superior vs Liverpool in the first half.

@@guzt3680 Yes my mistake.

@@guzt3680 no they didn’t celebrated in the half time. Look at crespo’s interview and you will know

That's exactly what you would want US owners to say.

How I know them , they are always together with German school in major cities, full size football field, with very good premises and equipment and back office. They have their Evokin football school for kids and the future Dortmund coaches are scouting the talents that way locally. That's how they found Lewandowski from Poland. They scout locally the lower leagues, and that's how they get to know Dembele in 3rd league in France.

Also he did double duty by filling the void created by the departure of Shevachenko

Watching the quarter final against Bayern Munich. Seedorf was the crucial player. Watch the final against Liverpool, it was inzaghi.

@@Fitricson Kaká contributed 2 goals, one goal at san siro and an assist away at the Allianz arena. In the final, Kaká was heavily man marked my mascherano and risse but still 2 goals came from him. One he getting fouled and for other he himself provided an assist. So it seems you just watched the highlight, not the full match. Without Kaká this aging Milan wouldnt even have made past the group stage. Milan lost the group game against lille when kaká was not in squad. An extra time winner against celtic, and a goals galore against united made him the undisputed king of Milan. So know facts before you speak

Alberto Gilardino

Pirlo was only 27 back then. He just always looked like he was 46.

Brescia with Pep, Pirlo, Baggio, Hubner, and Toni

@@kidpagronprimsank05 although they didn't play all together

They should have won if VAR was there

Loved in(half) of Scotland for being tough but able to play.

@@jockmackay9582 this makes me even happier. Always loved Scotland and Scottish people.

Hahaha, that's cool. There are a lot of Italians in Scotland, my great grandfather was. Gattuso got booked a lot in Scotland, he got stuck right in but obviously had ability too, which is what made him so popular. I know he is considered an adopted Scot by rangers fans, even though he only played one season. There used to be things in the newspaper like "heart of a Scot, head of an Italian"

Could??barca was going to end up like this

Barca wouldn't be fallen like AC Milan. They might struggle a few years, at worse they still challenge for European spot

MUHD AMSYAR is*

I feel the same. Even Madrid is weakening.

Nope...u will see that after Messi and co go...and font and xavi come