http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Adriano-c3773 Galliani, the Vice President of the AC Milan outfit, has gone on to comment on his surprise following their tie against the Spanish Champions, Barcelona
AC Milan have got one of the toughest tasks on their hands as they look to perform to the best of their abilities in their upcoming Champions League tie which pits them with none other than http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Barcelona-c38604. The Rossoneri and the Blaugrana will be facing each other
for as many as six times over the calendar year, and no other team, besides Spanish outfits, has faced the former champions of http://www.senore.com/Football-soccer/Spain-c3011 on that many occasions, and the coincidence is baffling for the chief of the San Siro outfit.
He has remarked that it is nothing short of incredible that they have faced the Spanish outfit on that many occasions. The Rossoneri were pitted against the Catalonian outfit in the group stages of last year, where they faced the then Spanish Champions twice,
once at the San Siro and the other at Camp Nou. After the clashes in the group stages, they met each other again, and this time it was in the Quarter Finals of the same edition of the Champions League and the Diavolo outfit did well in the competition; giving
the Catalonian outfit much to worry about in both the legs.
Furthermore, it has to be said that there was a lot to be said about the coincidence in the ties of the Champions League draw. The draws in the actual balloting turned out be exactly the same as was disclosed in the rehearsal session as well. However, Galliani
has refrained from making any controversial statements by mentioning that the team will be looking to perform to the best of their abilities, and remarked:
“It’s incredible, we’ll be playing them six times in just over a year. Barcelona were assigned to us because the other teams could not face each other, so we were the default option. Barcelona play the best football in the world with the best players in
the world. We’ll try and last season we made a good impression.”
The first tie of the round of 16 will be played in the opening week of February.
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