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Fiorentina

Internazionale

  • Jimenez 10’
  • Cruz 45’
  1. Inter march on, Roma win

    Inter march on, Roma win

    Internazionale continued to establish their title credentials with a 2-0 win at Fiorentina in Serie A while Roma laboured to a 2-1 home win over nine-man Udinese. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Fiorentina
    • Internazionale
    • 90+3 And that is the end, a comfortable win for Inter which could have been massive if Zlatan had found a way past the inspired Frey.
    • 90+1 In three minutes of stoppage time.
    • 90' Fiorentina break as Mutu swings a cross in from the right and SEMIOLI WITH THE HEADER BUT A GREAT SAVE BY JULIO CESAR and the danger isn't clear as Pasqual swings it in AND VIERI FLIES IN but the flag is up.
    • 86' Fiorentina aren't giving up as Pasqual tries a through ball which is intercepted...
    • 82' INTER SUB: Materazzi makes an entry for Jimenez, no doubt to shackle Vieri.
    • 78' Maicon almost put through but the flag is up...
    • 75' Maicon leads an Inter charge on the right and he's in loads of space with Zlatan free at the far post but a poor cross evades the Swede!
    • 71' Zlatan gives the ball away a couple of times, the second almost seeing Inter punished as Semioli hammers over.
    • 68' Inter have pretty much killed this game off now. They still have most of the possession and Fiorentina are the ones sitting deep and trying to counter.
    • 63' Maicon with a cynical trip on Semioli, who was in on the left, yellow card.
    • 58' Flick on by Jimenez after Maicon got forward and ZLATAN WITH A WONDERFUL HALF VOLLEY BUT ANOTHER SUPERB SAVE BY FREY!!
    • 55' Cruz plays it in to Zlatan on the left where the defenders are static and he hammers a first-time shot on goal and a superb one-handed save by Frey but back to Zlatan who shoots with his right but parried again by the Frenchman and Zlatan blasts the third effort over! Great goalkeeping but Zlatan should have made one of them count.
    • 53' Liverani in the middle lofts a ball slightly diagonal to the right-hand side of the box where Vieri has made a run off the defender and can volley on goal but he drags it wide with his weaker right foot!
    • 52' Cruz comes forward on the left, fairly laid-back now as Fiorentina have not managed to change the face of this game early on the second half and Inter will be pleased.
    • 46' Mutu lets the ball slide to Vieri but he's not ready for it and the chance goes.
    • 46' Second half underway!
    • 46' Double sub at half-time for Fiorentina, Denmark winger Martin Jorgensen and big old Christian Vieri, everyone's favourite random Aussie.
    • 45+2 Half-time, Inter lead 2-0.
    • 45' In two minutes of stoppage time...
    • 44' Great play by Zlatan sends Cruz through and he drills the finish low past Frey into the bottom right for 2-0! Hammer blow before the break, Inter in Cruz-control, ahem.
    • 42' Yellow card shown to Cambiasso for preventing a free-kick from being taken.
    • 39' Semioli one-on-one with Mawell, now Donadel on the ball but Cambiasso is back to block. Decent pressure from the hosts but Inter standing tall...
    • 33' Maxwell bursts forward on the left after good work from Jimenez and he hammers it on goal but blocked by Frey at the near post! He could have found Cruz but smelled blood and had a crack.
    • 32' Julio Cesar is equal to Pasqual's free kick, up and over the wall but too close to the Brazilian.
    • 31' Bad foul by Chivu on Semioli after over-running the ball, late and diving in, yellow card. Free kick ten yards outside the box on the right.
    • 30' Cambiasso plays a super ball wide to Maxwell on the overlap and he hangs a cross into the box but Jimenez can't get his head on it and Fiorentina clear.
    • 29' Corner to Fiorentina sent in for Ujfalusi but he misses it and headed over by Dainelli.
    • 26' Jimenez finds Zlatan on the edge of the box and he rifles in a brilliant shot but saved expertly by Frey! Corner Inter.
    • 23' Great play by Fiorentina as Pazzini is found on the edge of the box by Mutu but his shot is tipped behind by Doni! The one touch football of the hosts almost pays off.
    • 21' Fiorentina really pressing for an equaliser here as Pazzini has a pop but Julio Cesar saves.
    • 17' Injury to an Inter player who is carried off... Looks like Dacourt, Maxwell on in his place.
    • 15' Liverani on the left, he tries to curl a cross in for Semioli but Julio Cesar is well-placed to claim.
    • 13' Mutu finds Semioli who is free just inside the box but he air-kicks and the chance goes! He gets another bite at the cherry but Inter hurl themselves at him, no less than four defenders converging and they survive.
    • 11' Maicon with some great defending to head away from just under Mutu's nose...
    • 10' Great ball by Zlatan through to Jimenez on the right hand side of the box and he hammers a ferocious drive past Frey for 1-0! Inter take the lead!
    • 3' Good play on the right by Fiorentina as the cross is swung in from Donadel on the right and Kuzmanovic with the header but he sends it over.
    • 1' The game in Florence kicks off a bit late on account of the crowd, stadium staff and both sides applauding Prandelli on his return.
    • - INTER TEAM NEWS: Marco Materazzi is back from injury but likely to remain on the bench as he regains match fitness, experienced midfielders Luis Figo and Patrick Vieira are injured. Maxwell is tipped tom replace Santiago Solari, while Zlatan Ibrahimovic should return for David Suazo up front in the only expected changes from the midweek win over Atalanta.
    • - FIORENTINA TEAM NEWS: Boss Cesare Prandelli returns after the death of his wife. Left back Manuel Pasqual is back from suspension, while Adrian Mutu has defied medical advice to be fit for this game to replace the banned Riccardo Montolivo. Fabio Liverani also returns as does Zdravko Kuzmanovic.
    • - Hello and welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's LIVE coverage of Fiorentina v Inter, part of Sunday's 2pm double-header that also includes Udinese's trip to Rome to face Roma.

  • Team Stats

    Fiorentina Stats Internazionale
    47% Possession 52%
    20 Shots 13
    6 Shots on target 7
    0 Saves 0
    4 Corners 7
    19 Fouls 21
    2 Offsides 5
    1 Yellow cards 3
    0 Red cards 0
    20 Tackles 19
    281 Accurate passes 322
    43 Bad passes 68

  • 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
    • Fiorentina
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Sebastien Frey 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 5 0 0
      23 Manuel Pasqual 0 1 1 0 3 0 0 18 9 3
      6 Alessandro Potenza 0 2 0 3 0 0 0 31 0 5
      21 Tomas Ujfalusi 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 9 2 0
      5 Alessandro Gamberini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 17 0 1
      7 Franco Semioli 0 2 2 0 3 0 0 27 1 2
      11 Fabio Liverani 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 26 7 0
      22 Zdravko Kuzmanovic 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 15 5 3
      4 Marco Donadel 0 4 2 5 2 0 0 50 2 3
      29 Giampaolo Pazzini 0 2 1 1 1 1 0 14 1 1
      10 Adrian Mutu 0 4 0 4 0 0 0 34 7 1
      3 Dario Dainelli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      9 Pablo Daniel Osvaldo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      32 Christian Vieri 0 2 0 0 3 1 0 7 1 0
      19 Massimo Gobbi 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Mario Santana 0 2 0 2 2 0 0 7 0 0
      20 Martin Jorgensen 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 21 8 1
      12 Cristiano Lupatelli 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Internazionale
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      12 Julio César 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0
      2 Ivan Cordoba 0 0 0 1 1 0 0 20 1 0
      4 Javier Zanetti 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 45 3 0
      25 Walter Samuel 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 26 10 2
      13 Douglas Maicon 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 38 1 3
      26 Cristian Chivu 0 2 0 2 3 0 0 35 14 3
      15 Olivier Dacourt 0 0 0 0 3 0 0 5 0 4
      19 Esteban Cambiasso 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 58 8 4
      11 Luis Jimenez 1 1 1 3 3 0 0 35 7 1
      8 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 0 7 4 5 1 2 2 15 3 0
      9 Julio Cruz 1 2 1 0 5 0 0 20 6 1
      18 Hernan Crespo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      30 Vítor Hugo Gomes Paços 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      23 Marco Materazzi 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 1 0
      29 David Suazo 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 5 1 0
      6 Maxwell Cabelino Andrade 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 18 13 1
      16 Nicolas Burdisso 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      22 Paolo Orlandoni 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 90' Fiorentina break as Mutu swings a cross in from the right and SEMIOLI WITH THE HEADER BUT A GREAT SAVE BY JULIO CESAR and the danger isn't clear as Pasqual swings it in AND VIERI FLIES IN but the flag is up.
    • 75' Maicon leads an Inter charge on the right and he's in loads of space with Zlatan free at the far post but a poor cross evades the Swede!
    • 58' Flick on by Jimenez after Maicon got forward and ZLATAN WITH A WONDERFUL HALF VOLLEY BUT ANOTHER SUPERB SAVE BY FREY!!
    • 55' Cruz plays it in to Zlatan on the left where the defenders are static and he hammers a first-time shot on goal and a superb one-handed save by Frey but back to Zlatan who shoots with his right but parried again by the Frenchman and Zlatan blasts the third effort over! Great goalkeeping but Zlatan should have made one of them count.
    • 53' Liverani in the middle lofts a ball slightly diagonal to the right-hand side of the box where Vieri has made a run off the defender and can volley on goal but he drags it wide with his weaker right foot!
    • 44' Great play by Zlatan sends Cruz through and he drills the finish low past Frey into the bottom right for 2-0! Hammer blow before the break, Inter in Cruz-control, ahem.
    • 33' Maxwell bursts forward on the left after good work from Jimenez and he hammers it on goal but blocked by Frey at the near post! He could have found Cruz but smelled blood and had a crack.
    • 26' Jimenez finds Zlatan on the edge of the box and he rifles in a brilliant shot but saved expertly by Frey! Corner Inter.
    • 23' Great play by Fiorentina as Pazzini is found on the edge of the box by Mutu but his shot is tipped behind by Doni! The one touch football of the hosts almost pays off.
    • 13' Mutu finds Semioli who is free just inside the box but he air-kicks and the chance goes! He gets another bite at the cherry but Inter hurl themselves at him, no less than four defenders converging and they survive.
    • 10' Great ball by Zlatan through to Jimenez on the right hand side of the box and he hammers a ferocious drive past Frey for 1-0! Inter take the lead!
    • 3' Good play on the right by Fiorentina as the cross is swung in from Donadel on the right and Kuzmanovic with the header but he sends it over.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Stefano Farina

  • Fiorentina

    Manager: Claudio Cesare Prandelli

    Captain: 21. Tomas Ujfalusi

    On the Field

    • Frey
    • Ujfalusi
    • Potenza
    • Gamberini
    • Pasqual
    • Liverani
    • Donadel
    • Kuzmanovic
    • Semioli
    • Mutu
    • Pazzini

    Subs

    • 20. Jorgensen
    • 32. Vieri
    • 12. Lupatelli
    • 19. Gobbi
    • 17. Balzaretti
    • 24. Santana
    • 9. Osvaldo

    Injured

    • 2. Kroldrup

    Suspended

    • 18. Montolivo

  • Internazionale

    Manager: Roberto Mancini

    Captain: 4. Javier Zanetti

    On the Field

    • Julio César
    • Maicon
    • Cordoba
    • Samuel
    • Chivu
    • Dacourt
    • Zanetti
    • Cambiasso
    • Jimenez
    • Ibrahimovic
    • Cruz

    Subs

    • 22. Orlandoni
    • 23. Materazzi
    • 18. Crespo
    • 29. Suazo
    • 16. Burdisso
    • 6. Maxwell
    • 30. "Pelé"

    Injured

    • 7. Figo
    • 14. Vieira
    • 1. Toldo

    Suspended

    None