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Sunday September 16, 2007 Finished Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro)

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Internazionale

  • Crespo 14’
  • Cesar 79’

Catania

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Internazionale
    • Catania
    • 90+3' That's it, full time. Inter take a comfortable 2-0 win.
    • 90+2' Ibrahimovic on the break for Inter, he goes past Baiocco and lays it through for Adriano, a short burst of pace takes him a yard clear of his man, and only a superb reaction save from Bizzarri prevented the third goal there!!!
    • 87' Ibra runs all the way across the pitch and cracks in a fierce left foot shot, but it's straight at the 'keeper, who palms it away.
    • 80' Ibrahimovic with excellent vision to spot the run of Cesar on the left, lovely ball from the big Swede, Cesar is clean through, he bears down on Bizzarri....GOAL!!! That will seal it! Fine finish from Cesar above the dive of Bizzarri.
    • 76' Inter seem content to play this one out and take the 1-0. They are packing the defence whenever they lose the ball, and their ventures forward have lost their urgency.
    • 66' Maxwell now tries one from just oustide the area, though sees his strike go comfortably high and wide.
    • 61' Vargas is quite rightly aggrieved to be penalised for doing nothing other than winning the ball with a solid challenge.
    • 59' Ibrahomivic is on for Crespo.
    • 58' it falls again for Spinesi on the edge of the area after a poor touch from Cordoba, Spinesi shoots, but doesn't properly get hold of it.
    • 54' Superb move from Catania. Best of the match so far. Izco played the ball forwards for Spinesi, he dummied and charged into the box, Mascara picked out his run superbly, but Julio Cesar got his angles right and denied the striker with a fine save with his legs.
    • 52' Cambiasso clatters into Edusei and gives away a free-kick on the half-way line.
    • 46' The second half is underway in Milan
    • 45 The angelic Marco Materazzi is in the stands meeting and greeting various fans and signing autographs.
    • 45+1' Figo strides forward and spreads it wide to Crespo, he puts a teasing ball across goal, Bizzarri manages to get a vital touch on it, and palms it clear of Adriano, who otherwise would have had a simple tap in. There's half time.
    • 44' A long range effort from Spinesi takes a deflection on the way through and goes out for a corner. It's hit far too close to Julio Cesar though, and Inter bring it away.
    • 42' Silvestri wins Catania a corner. It's clipped to Zapato outside the area, but his volley is a poor one.
    • 36' The tempo has somehwat dropped out of the game over the last few minutes after an entertaining start.
    • 31' Adriano has the ball in the back of the net, but the referee disallows it. Replays show the Brazilian picked up Edusei and pretty much threw him to the floor as the ball was in the air.
    • 29' That's more like it from the big man. He now bursts through the middle, brushes aside Mark Edusei, and forces a good low save from Bizzarri.
    • 28' Adriano goes charging into the box, and inexplicably heads straight for two Catania defenders. He then wonders why he was dispossessed.
    • 23' Great chance for Adriano after a lovely ball in behind the Udinese defence by ...he takes it down on his chest, but slams his volley into the floor and sees it comfortably saved by Handanovic. Adriano was being played on by Sabato.
    • 18' Martinez goes to ground in the area after tusswling with Burdisso, he wants a penalty, but he certainly won't get it.
    • 15' Adriano was stumbling on the edge of the area but somehow managed to knock the ball on to Dacourt, he knocked the ball across goal and Crespo was on hand at the back post to turn it in.
    • 14' Inter have the lead!!! It's Hernan Crespo with an instinctive finish at the far post!!!
    • 13' Burdisso goes straight through the back of Spinesi in the Inter half and concedes a free-kick.
    • 12' Cracking ball in from Dacourt towards Adriano in the area, he arrives there ahead of his man, but somehow fails to direct the header goalwards. A poor effort from the big Brazilian.
    • 8' Crespo works himself an opening on the edge of the area, he goes past his man and charges into the box, but his cross it cut out by a fine interception from the centre-half.
    • 4' Mariano Julio Izco forces a good low save from Julio Cesar early on!
    • 14:00 Welcome to eurosport.yahoo.com's live text commentary of Inter v Catania.

  • Team Stats

    Internazionale Stats Catania
    54% Possession 45%
    18 Shots 10
    7 Shots on target 3
    0 Saves 0
    9 Corners 9
    9 Fouls 22
    3 Offsides 2
    1 Yellow cards 2
    0 Red cards 0
    37 Tackles 23
    314 Accurate passes 240
    62 Bad passes 42

  • 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
      12 Julio César 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 0
      2 Ivan Cordoba 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 23 1 4
      6 Maxwell Cabelino Andrade 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 39 14 6
      13 Douglas Maicon 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 41 0 2
      16 Nicolas Burdisso 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 22 5 1
      15 Olivier Dacourt 0 0 0 4 1 0 0 25 5 5
      31 Aparecido Cèsar 1 2 1 2 1 1 0 36 9 8
      19 Esteban Cambiasso 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 31 12 5
      7 Luis Figo 0 3 1 2 1 0 0 22 3 3
      10 Leite Ribeiro Adriano 0 6 3 5 2 0 0 22 5 1
      18 Hernan Crespo 1 2 1 1 2 0 0 6 2 0
      8 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 0 3 1 3 0 2 1 12 1 0
      9 Julio Cruz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      24 Nelson Rivas 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      1 Francesco Toldo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      5 Dejan Stankovic 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 17 5 1
      21 Santiago Solari 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      4 Javier Zanetti 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0 1
    • Catania
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Albano Bizarri 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3 2 0
      23 Christian Terlizzi 0 1 1 1 1 0 0 14 0 2
      3 Rocco Sabato 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 23 7 7
      21 Cristian Silvestri 0 2 0 1 0 0 0 28 1 3
      6 Lorenzo Stovini 0 0 0 2 3 0 0 9 0 0
      25 Jorge Andres Martinez 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 13 1 1
      13 Mariano Izco 0 1 1 2 1 1 0 16 4 2
      17 Davide Baiocco 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 40 5 4
      8 Mark Edusei 0 0 0 0 4 0 0 48 10 3
      24 Gionathan Spinesi 0 2 1 0 1 1 0 6 0 0
      10 Giuseppe Mascara 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 19 3 1
      15 Takayuki Morimoto 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 5 1 0
      32 Riccardo Nardini 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      18 Anderson Babu 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Gennaro Sardo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      7 Juan Vargas 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 10 4 0
      19 Giacomo Tedesco 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 6 4 0
      16 Ciro Polito 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

  • Summary

    • 80' Ibrahimovic with excellent vision to spot the run of Cesar on the left, lovely ball from the big Swede, Cesar is clean through, he bears down on Bizzarri....GOAL!!! That will seal it! Fine finish from Cesar above the dive of Bizzarri.
    • 54' Superb move from Catania. Best of the match so far. Izco played the ball forwards for Spinesi, he dummied and charged into the box, Mascara picked out his run superbly, but Julio Cesar got his angles right and denied the striker with a fine save with his legs.
    • 23' Great chance for Adriano after a lovely ball in behind the Udinese defence by ...he takes it down on his chest, but slams his volley into the floor and sees it comfortably saved by Handanovic. Adriano was being played on by Sabato.
    • 14' Inter have the lead!!! It's Hernan Crespo with an instinctive finish at the far post!!!

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Daniele Orsato

  • Internazionale

    Manager: Roberto Mancini

    Captain: 2. Ivan Ramiro Cordoba

    On the Field

    • Julio César
    • Maicon
    • Cordoba
    • Burdisso
    • Maxwell
    • Figo
    • Cambiasso
    • Dacourt
    • Cesar
    • Adriano
    • Crespo

    Subs

    • 5. Stankovic
    • 1. Toldo
    • 21. Solari
    • 4. Zanetti
    • 9. Cruz
    • 8. Ibrahimovic
    • 24. Rivas Nelson

    Injured

    • 14. Vieira
    • 26. Chivu
    • 23. Materazzi
    • 25. Samuel

    Suspended

    None

  • Catania

    Manager: Silvio Baldini

    Captain: 17. Davide Baiocco

    On the Field

    • Bizzarri
    • Silvestri
    • Stovini
    • Terlizzi
    • Sabato
    • Martinez
    • Baiocco
    • Edusei
    • Izco
    • Mascara
    • Spinesi

    Subs

    • 19. Tedesco
    • 2. Sardo
    • 16. Polito
    • 7. Vargas
    • 33. Nardini
    • 15. Morimoto
    • 14. Babù

    Injured

    • 4. Sottil
    • Llama

    Suspended

    None