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AC MILAN
It's official arrived the day when Leonardo say goodbye to Milan. It was hard, given all the signals in recent weeks, but it's arrived an important moment for the history of AC Milan and the technician. "Consensually we made that decision. Our relationship has always been very clear, this is the end."
A long 13 years for the Brazilian first as a player, then as manager and finally as a coach. "I can not consider all of 13 years, the most difficult period for a player is the post-career and I've lived here and Galliani gave me these opportunities.

ASTON VILLA
Aston Villa could finish fifth in the Barclays Premier League with victory over Blackburn Rovers who are bidding to secure a place in the top half.
After the 3-1 defeat against Manchester City O'neill is not worried: "Up until they got the penalty, we were in command. We were playing exceptionally well and able to take any pressure they applied."

Team news:

Sneijder and Lucio will miss the game after an injury. Without the dutch Mourinho could use Stankovic and change module: 4-1-4-1

Pizarro, Vucinic and Totti will be available for the Roma side.

It's a very uncertain match as the 2 top teams of the league want to show who is the best despite the points of difference.
While Rome play at home and played few games, Inter come from very close games (Barcelona and Lazio)

It will be a nervous game, it could end with penalities. For me under 2,5 or Internazionale to win

BLACKBURN
Ballardyce dissaponting after the game against Wolves is right: "We had enough chances but failed to finish them off. In this league every position is worth £750,000 and that is like a good down payment on a decent player. We want to finish as high as possible but we slipped up in allowing Ebanks-Blake a free header for the equaliser."

Team news:

EVERTON
After a victory over Blackburn the team is going to meet Fulham to finish in one of the Europa League places.
“We came here and played really well. We looked like we were not going to get all three points after they scored two really good goals. They defended well and put us under pressure but our winner was well crafted” - Moyes
Everton midfielder John Heitinga could miss the rest of the season because of a hairline fracture of the ankle.

LIVERPOOL
Liverpool need a victory to keep alive their hopes of a fourth-placed finish while West Ham United are fighting for survival.
The team is one of the best playing at home with 40 goals scored and just 13 conceeded.

Liverpool striker Fernando Torres is a doubt for the visit of West Ham on Monday.

WEST HAM
West Ham lost the last 3 games at home: against Wolves, Bolton and Stoke. Not Arsenal, Liverpool and Chelsea.
The team lack of motivation and defenders are out of form so Zola is having difficult time trying to save the season.

Gianfranco Zola is expected to have Valon Behrami available after he was injured in the warm-up ahead of last weekend's draw at Everton.

STOKE CITY
Stoke City, safe for another season in the top flight, host a Hull City team looking for a second straight win with the aim to move out of the bottom three.
Great momentum for stoke that is looking for the last points to call themselves safe from relegation: “If we can get to 40 points [Stoke are 10th with 39] that is definitely safe. We finished 12th last year with 45 points. It would be lovely to get 46 points. To reach the quarter-finals of the FA Cup and to beat that tally would be a real good season for us.” - Pulis said.

LIVERPOOL
Last game against Manchester utd was very tight, a boring match with few chances on both sides that a brilliant Park who saved the result for manchester utd.
After all a good performance of Liverpool team who showed personality.

EVERTON
The last game in Birmingham was a missing chanche to reach the 8th place as the team didn't manage to defend the initial 2-0. “I was pleased with the performance but not the result. We played very well at times. We scored two goals and should have been more ahead but for their goalkeeper.” - Moyes.

There are no injuries to worry Moyes and key players like Saha and Osman are back.

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