Both teams are on a tough run in their respective domestic leagues. In the first leg though, it was the Italians who came out victorious of this titanic encounter that was played at the Santiago Bernabeu.
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The nine-time European winners Real Madrid will host Carlo Ancelotti’s former club AC Milan.
There will be no Cristiano Ronaldo for Los Blancos but the clash still promises to be titanic as Ricardo Kaka will reunite with the Rossoneri.
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He told Marca on Friday:
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But it will be the first derby without the players that were the symbol of the two teams for many years. For the first time in fact both teams will be without their most influential players: Ibrahimovic and Kakà. The Swedish, in the first year career at Inter, he scored two goals in Milan derby. He was helping his team to win both first leg that the return. Even the Brazilian had a special feeling with the derby. In fact he, on 2003, marked the first goal with the Rossoneri shirt own against FC Inter Milan. The next year conduced, scoring a goal, the comeback of Milan to Inter. In fact the Rossoneri were losing 2-0 at half-time. Return from the locker Milan scored 3 goals and won 3-2. Kakà made a total of 5 goals against cousins Neroazzurri.
The past is past, though. The match that will be played on Saturday it will be the derby of the new course. It will be the derby of Nesta, Thiago Silva, Pato and Ronaldinho. It will be the derby of Lucio, Thiago Motta, Milito and Eto’o. It will be the derby of Leonardo and Mourinho. The Brazilian manager will live indescribable emotions, emotions that you can feel in only in certain matches. But on the other hand Mou will try to be cold and hard as usual for to bring home the first three points of the new season.
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