Brazilian Adriano headed in just before half-time to give a pedestrian Internazionale a 1-0 win over Anorthosis Famagusta. More
FT Cann has called time on this match and Anorthosis have been unlucky not to grab a point from this match - Inter have been lax and wasteful with their chances and are lucky to take the 1-0 win
46' Anorthosis get the match back underway ...
HT There is the half-time whistle in Milan and it's been a frustrating 45 minutes for Inter - they could have been four or five up but they've had to settle for just the one
45'+2 Inter almost make it two just before the interval as Mancini's cross is met by the head of Cordoba ... but the shot misses just past the right post
44' GOAL INTER!! The ball is whipped across from the left wing to Maicon on the right ... Maicon takes one touch to control the ball and lobs it up towards the penalty spot where Adriano is waiting to head home into the top left hand corner of the net.
33' Ibrahimovic tries to feed a through ball to Adriano ... but the Brazilian is caught offside and the move breaks down
11' Mancini receives the ball on the left wing from Zanetti and decides to go for glory from 40 yards but it is high and wide and Mancini might have been better off asking for some support
6' Ocokoljic from the corner! Ooo! That was not far away ... Ocokoljic's header from the right hand side of the penalty spot drifts slightly wide and high but not by much and Toldo would have been beaten by that
5' Dellas forces a fantastic, diving save from Toldo as he unleashes a shot from just outside the area. A great start from both teams - real end to end stuff in the opening five minutes
3' Mancini whips a cross into the area for the goalward-bound Maicon ... but the sight of Beqaj diving across his goal is enough to put the Inter man off and the chance drifts just wide
1' Inter get the match underway ...| Internazionale | Stats | Anorthosis Famagusta |
|---|---|---|
| 63% | Possession | 36% |
| 24 | Shots | 10 |
| 4 | Shots on target | 1 |
| 0 | Saves | 1 |
| 13 | Corners | 2 |
| 13 | Fouls | 22 |
| 3 | Offsides | 8 |
| 0 | Yellow cards | 1 |
| 0 | Red cards | 0 |
| 16 | Tackles | 15 |
| 480 | Accurate passes | 232 |
| 86 | Bad passes | 35 |
| G | S | SoT | F | FW | O | A | AP | BP | T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Francesco Toldo | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 0 |
| 2 | Ivan Cordoba | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 1 | 1 |
| 13 | Douglas Maicon | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 53 | 3 | 2 |
| 26 | Cristian Chivu | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 8 | 2 |
| 33 | Amantino Mancini | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 9 | 0 |
| 19 | Esteban Cambiasso | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 62 | 6 | 1 |
| 20 | Sulley Ali Muntari | 0 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 35 | 12 | 5 |
| 4 | Javier Zanetti | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 58 | 22 | 2 |
| 5 | Dejan Stankovic | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 50 | 5 | 2 |
| 8 | Zlatan Ibrahimovic | 0 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 7 | 0 |
| 10 | Leite Ribeiro Adriano | 1 | 4 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 34 | 6 | 0 |
| 16 | Nicolas Burdisso | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 |
| 77 | Ricardo Quaresma | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 7 | 1 |
| 12 | Julio César | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 45 | Mario Balotelli | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 9 | Julio Cruz | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 |
| 39 | Davide Santon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Marco Materazzi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| G | S | SoT | F | FW | O | A | AP | BP | T | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Arian Beqaj | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 0 |
| 4 | Nicos Katsavakis | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 0 | 2 |
| 33 | Traianos Dellas | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 2 | 2 |
| 12 | Jeffrey Leiwakabessy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | 7 | 2 |
| 22 | Predrag Ocokoljic | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 |
| 24 | Andreas Constantinou | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | 1 |
| 17 | Savio Pimentel | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 18 | 3 | 0 |
| 6 | Sinisa Dobrasinovic | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 28 | 1 | 1 |
| 20 | Vincent Laban | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 8 | 2 |
| 9 | Lukasz Sosin | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 2 | 0 |
| 27 | Cedric Bardon | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 19 | 3 | 2 |
| 19 | Hawar Mulla Mohammed | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 5 | 1 |
| 67 | Giorgos Theodotou | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 16 | Klimenti Tsitaishvili | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 |
| 30 | Zoltán Nagy | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 11 | Nikolaos Frousos | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 |
| 23 | Constantinos Samaras | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 21 | Giorgos Panagi | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
45'+2 Inter almost make it two just before the interval as Mancini's cross is met by the head of Cordoba ... but the shot misses just past the right post
44' GOAL INTER!! The ball is whipped across from the left wing to Maicon on the right ... Maicon takes one touch to control the ball and lobs it up towards the penalty spot where Adriano is waiting to head home into the top left hand corner of the net.
11' Mancini receives the ball on the left wing from Zanetti and decides to go for glory from 40 yards but it is high and wide and Mancini might have been better off asking for some support
6' Ocokoljic from the corner! Ooo! That was not far away ... Ocokoljic's header from the right hand side of the penalty spot drifts slightly wide and high but not by much and Toldo would have been beaten by that
5' Dellas forces a fantastic, diving save from Toldo as he unleashes a shot from just outside the area. A great start from both teams - real end to end stuff in the opening five minutes
3' Mancini whips a cross into the area for the goalward-bound Maicon ... but the sight of Beqaj diving across his goal is enough to put the Inter man off and the chance drifts just wide
InternazionaleManager: Jose Mourinho
Captain: 4. Javier Zanetti
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Anorthosis FamagustaManager: Temur Ketsbaia
Captain: Nicolaos Katsavakis
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