The Fact Between the Big Match-Ac Milan Vs Manhester Unied

Man Utd v AC Milan

Champions League semi-final, 1st leg
Date: Tuesday, 24 April
Kick-off: 1945 BST
Venue: Old Trafford
Referee: Kyros Vassaras (Greece)
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Manchester United have been hit by an injury crisis ahead of Tuesday's Champions League semi-final first leg against AC Milan at Old Trafford.

*Only 10 outfield players were able to take part in full training on Monday.

*Defenders Rio Ferdinand, Gary Neville, Nemanja Vidic, Mikael Silvestre and Craig Cathcart will definitely miss the game, while Patrice Evra is doubtful.

*If Evra misses out, Darren Fletcher is set to fill in at right-back, with Wes Brown and John O'Shea in the centre.

*Left-back Gabriel Heinze is United's only other fit defender.

*Midfielders Ji-Sung Park and Kieran Richardson will miss the game, along with striker Louis Saha.

*Ole Gunnar Solskjaer was unable to train on Monday but is expected to be fit to take his place on the bench.

*In contrast to United, AC Milan were able to rest a host of players for their league match on Saturday.

*Manager Carlo Ancelotti has a virtually fully-fit squad available, with striker Alberto Gilardino returning after suspension.

*Keeper Dida has been included in the squad but is a doubt with a shoulder injury, while Ronaldo is cup-tied.

*Ancelotti was encouraged by the news that Ferdinand will not feature at Old Trafford but is wary of United's attacking threat.

"Ferdinand is a very important player for their defence," he said.

"But we will have to be careful and keep possession of the ball but that could be a two-edged sword, because if we do not do well our opponents could hit us on the counter-attack."

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Man Utd (from): Van der Sar, Kuszczak, Fletcher, O'Shea, Brown, Heinze, Evra, Ronaldo, Scholes, Carrick, Giggs, Rooney, Smith, Solskjaer, Eagles, Dong, Lee, Marsh, Barnes, Burns.

AC Milan (from): Dida, Kalac, Fiori, Storari; Bonera, Cafu, Costacurta, Favalli, Jankulovski, Kaladze, Maldini, Nesta, Oddo, Serginho, Simic; Ambrosini, Brocchi, Gattuso, Gourcuff, Kaka, Pirlo, Seedorf; Gilardino, Inzaghi, Oliveira.

Head-to-heads

Manchester United and AC Milan have met six times before in European competition, United winning two and AC Milan the other four. The Italians have always knocked the Red Devils out when the two clubs have met in Europe.

The Old Trafford club have hosted Italian clubs on 12 occasions, winning eight, drawing two and losing two. Their last home defeat in European competition was against AC Milan in February 2005. That was AC Milan's sole victory in England in 10 visits. Four English clubs have knocked them out of Europe - Liverpool, Manchester City, Tottenham Hotspur and Chelsea. The last to do so over two legs was Manchester City in the 1978-79 Uefa Cup.

European history

Manchester United are playing in their 31st season of European competition and their 12th in the Champions League. They have won all three European finals they have reached, the 1968 Champions Cup final, 1991 Cup Winners' Cup final and the 1999 Champions League final.

Milan are taking part in the Champions League main competition for the 11th time. They are two time winners of the Champions League and have added these to four Champions Cup triumphs.

Current European form

Manchester United have won their last five CL home matches and are undefeated in their last eight since losing to AC Milan in 2005. They have won all of their home matches in this year's Champions League.

AC Milan are unbeaten in the last four Champions League games. They have not conceded a goal in their two away matches in the knockout phase of this season's competition.

Player and disciplinary info

Patrice Evra, Gabriel Heinze, Cristiano Ronaldo, Paul Scholes (Man. Utd) and Paolo Maldini (AC Milan) will be suspended for the second leg if they receive another caution.

Edwin van der Sar, Michael Carrick and Wayne Rooney have played in all 10 of United's Champions League matches this season. Only Van der Sar is yet to miss a minute. Kaka and Marek Jankulovski are the only AC Milan players who have played all 10 Champions League matches this season. Midfielder Kaka has scored seven of the 13 AC Milan goals in this year's Champions League.

Other miscellaneous facts

AC Milan head coach Carlo Ancelotti has reached the Champions League semis for a record fifth time. Sir Alex Ferguson has taken Manchester United to this stage for the fourth time.

The Old Trafford club need to score one more goal to record 350 in the Champions Cup/Champions League.-taken from BBC News.

author-now is about 11 hour left to the game, but my adrenaline rush now, so excited to watch the game...