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Internazionale

  • Adriano 43’

Anorthosis Famagusta

  1. Inter battle to win

    Inter battle to win

    Brazilian Adriano headed in just before half-time to give a pedestrian Internazionale a 1-0 win over Anorthosis Famagusta. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Internazionale
    • Anorthosis Famagusta
    • 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
    • 89' Anorthosis, again, looking for a late equalisier and Taher shots from nearly 40 yards out but the ball whizzes over the cross bar and it looks as though Anorthosis will be frustrated tonight
    • 85' Quaresma finds Ibrahamovic, who again lets rip from just outside the box but his shot is saved at the bottom right hand corner of the goal-line
    • 79' Anorthosis now are trying their luck from distance desperate to snatch an equaliser as Laban fires one goalward from 35 yards out. But the shot drifts wide of the left post
    • 75' Substitute Quaresma teams up with Maicon shot from the right side of the box is head and wide to the left of goal
    • 70' Stankovic's left-footed shot from the centre, edge of the box is blocked and another Inter move breaks down without success
    • 68' Adriano slots the ball through for Ibrahimovic, who is one-on-one with the keeper .... he takes the keeper out wide before slotting home with the outside of his right foot ... except that he doesn't slot home - he pushes the ball just wide of the right post! Ibra has done that a million times before and it's symptomatic of Inter tonight that he missed
    • 59' Muntari disposses Constantinou on the left wing and tries to find Ibra in the box but the ball gets caught under his feet and there goes the chance once again
    • 49' Muntari's header from the centre of the box, from a Mancini cross, just flies over the right hand corner of the bar and yet another chance goes begging for Inter
    • 47' Savio whips a free kick into the box to be met by Katsavakis's head ... but the shot is from the right of the six yard box is slightly too high and if Anorthosis start taking these chances they are in with a great chance of getting a great result today
    • 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.
    • 35' Dellas's shot from outside the area misses just to the right of goal but Anorthosis are doing brilliantly well so far to hold on here against a surprisingly wasteful Inter side
    • 33' Ibrahimovic tries to feed a through ball to Adriano ... but the Brazilian is caught offside and the move breaks down
    • 27' Ibrahimovic with another long-range shot but Beqaj is again equal to the task and he collects the ball in the centre of the goal
    • 22' Ibrahimovic finally gets involved in the action and lets off a long-range shot but he pulls the ball across the goal and it misses the left post
    • 17' Inter are definately looking for the glory goal tonight as Adriano becomes the latest player to let rip from outside the box ... again though he might have been better holding on to it and the ball goes out
    • 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
    • 7' Adriano finds Stankovic as Inter break following the corner ... Stankovic unleashes a shot from outside the box but his shot whizzes just past the top left hand corner of the goal
    • 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 ...
    • - The sides top the table after two matches, with four points apiece; below them Werder Bremen have two points and Panathinaikos zero.
    • - Temuri Ketsbaia's surprise package Anorthosis welcome back Predrag Ocokoljiae, Georgos Theodotou and Nikolaos Frousos from injury. Ioannis Skopelitis and Stefanos Voskarides are still out.
    • - Jose Mourinho's Inter spanked Roma 4-0 at the weekend - in Rome - and welcome back veteran defender Marco Materazzi, with Adriano expected to partner Zlatan Ibrahimovic in attack. Experienced midfielders Luis Figo and Patrick Vieira are out injured. Veteran shot-stopper Francesco Toldo will play instead of regular goalkeeper Julio Cesar, who is being rested.
    • - Welcome to Internazionale's home clash with Cypriot minnows Anorthorsis Famagusta in Champions League Group B.

  • Team Stats

    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

  • Player Stats

    G =
    Goals
    S =
    Shots
    SoT =
    Shot on Target
    F =
    Fouls
    FW =
    Fouls Won
    O =
    Offsides
    A =
    Assists
    AP =
    Accurate Passes
    BP =
    Bad Passes
    T =
    Tackles
    • Internazionale
      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
    • Anorthosis Famagusta
      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

  • Summary

    • 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

Live Team Line-Up

  • Internazionale

    Manager: Jose Mourinho

    Captain: 4. Javier Zanetti

    Starting line-up

    • F. Toldo
    • D. Maicon
    • I. Cordoba
    • C. Chivu
    • J. Zanetti
    • E. Cambiasso Substitution Out (82′)
    • D. Stankovic
    • S. Muntari
    • A. Mancini Substitution Out (63′)
    • L. Adriano Goal Substitution Out (83′)
    • Z. Ibrahimovic

    Subs

    • 23. M. Materazzi
    • 9. J. Cruz Substitution In83′
    • 16. N. Burdisso Substitution In82′
    • 77. R. Quaresma Substitution In63′
    • 12. S. Julio César
    • 45. M. Balotelli
    • 39. D. Santon

    Injured

    • 7. L. Figo
    • 14. P. Vieira
    • 6. C. Maxwell

    Suspended

    None

  • Anorthosis Famagusta

    Manager: Temur Ketsbaia

    Captain: Nicolaos Katsavakis

    Starting line-up

    • A. Beqaj
    • P. Ocokoljic
    • N. Katsavakis Yellow Card
    • A. Costantinou
    • J. Leiwakabessy
    • S. Dobrasinovic
    • T. Dellas
    • .. Laban
    • C. Bardon Substitution Out (75′)
    • B. Savio
    • L. Sosin Substitution Out (46′)

    Subs

    • G. Theodotou
    • N. Frousos
    • K. Tsitaishvilli Substitution In75′
    • Z. Nagy
    • C. Samaras
    • G. Panagi
    • H. Taher Substitution In46′

    Injured

    None

    Suspended

    None