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Internazionale

  • Mascara 44’ (o.g.)
  • Terlizzi 48’ (o.g.)

Catania

  • Plasmati 42’

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  1. Ten-man Inter hold on for win

    Ten-man Inter hold on for win

    Jose Mourinho's Internazionale scrapped to an unconvincing 2-1 home win over Catania in Serie A. More

  • Live Commentary

    Time:90'
    • Internazionale
    • Catania
    • 90+3 And that is the whistle, Inter win 2-1, a very scrappy result for Mourinho's men and utterly unconvincing.
    • 90+1 Three minutes of added-time being played...
    • 90' More pressure from Catania as Ledesma is denied by a last-gasp Materazzi block. He's been rather good tonight.
    • 89' Silvestri gets forward, he cuts inside and hammers a long-range shot that whistles just over!
    • 87' Two obscene pieces of skill by Mancini, in quick succession. Now Maxwell on the ball surges into the box but shoots well over.
    • 85' Mancini on the left, he stands it up and sends a perfect cross to the far post IBRAHIMOVIC FLIES IN WITH A VOLLEY FOR 3-1 BUT AN INCREDIBLE SAVE FROM BIZARRI! What a stop! That was a certain goal but he somehow flew across to claw it back. Ibrahimovic acknowledges the save.
    • 83' Cambiasso hooks the ball clear, Mancini takes it with an outrageous backheel lob and he races to goal and frees FIGO WHO'S ONE-ON-ONE AND MUST SCORE BUT BLOCKED BY BIZARRI BUT MAICON IS FREE! But the flag is up and Maicon is furious, throwing an arm-flapping hissy-fit so absurd that you can't even really book him for it.
    • 81' Two corners for Catania in a row, but that last one was poor, low to the near post and easily cleared. But Catania come again, only for Materazzi to rescue them again.
    • 80' Catania are starting to make the extra man tell. Inter have been well organised, but they were always going to tire and now the pressure is pretty solid from the visitors...
    • 76' Good run by Ledesma on the left, he drills the ball in low looking for Dica but Materazzi is well-placed to intercept.
    • 74' Yellow card for Dica now.
    • 73' CATANIA SUB: Antenucci on for Tedesco.
    • 71' Zlatan now on the ball, he bustles through the middle and now he can shoot on goal but it's blocked and Catania clear! The visitors really aren't making this extra man count.
    • 70' Maicon is on the ball, he cuts in from the right, he beats one defender, then another, he could go all the way here and he sends the shot on goal but inches wide!
    • 66' INTER SUB@ They're down to 10 men so Jose Mourinho hauls off Balotelli for Cambiasso, to shore up the midfield.
    • 65' Biagianti is the latest player to enter the book after a foul on Balotelli.
    • 62' CATANIA SUB: Plasmati and Martinez are taken off for Dica and Baiocco.
    • 59' Mascara swings the set-piece in from the left and Terlizzi rises but headed over.
    • 58' Vieria picks up a yellow, free-kick to Catania 30 yards out.
    • 56' The corner is swung over to the far post and Materazzi rises with the header and Burdisso flies in with a flick but it spins wide! You wouldn't guess that Inter are down to 10 men...
    • 55' Inter come forward again, Zlatan finds Maxwell on the overlap, he beats the first man and he can shoot on goal but the tackle belatedly arrives and it's a corner.
    • 50' A nasty clash of heads in the Inter box and Burdisso is out cold... Actually he got a kick in the face from Martinez, who wasn't particularly high, just Burdisso was stooping.
    • 48' Throw to Inter on the right, Maicon hurls it in and it takes a touch off the defender's head, beats Bizarri, comes off the post and did that cross the line before Bizarri caught it? The linesman says so, and it's 2-1 and another freak goal for Inter! Lucky lucky boys! Own-goal from Terlizzi!
    • 46' Second half underway!
    • 45' 1-1 at the break and it kicks off again. Inter players are abusing Tedesco, trying to get him to do something silly. If I was the Catania boss Walter Zenga I'd take him off as he's losing the plot himself, barking and snarling at everyone he encounters, inluding officials.
    • 44' One of the Catania players is rolling around on the floor like he's been shot in the mouth, it's Tedesco and to be fair it was a naughty hand in the face from Muntari. The ref is asking him to get up but really, it should be a red card. And it is! Muntari walks in only his second game for Inter! What a fool, it was totally unnecessary. Tedesco made a ridiculous meal of it though, I certainly wouldn't want him on my side in a fight.
    • 43' Oh deary me, Catania concede immediately! Quaresma on the right tries a cross and it takes a freak deflection that sends it past poor Albano Bizarri at the near post! Really unfortunate.
    • 42' ... But Catania still have the ball, it's played to Mascara on the left, he floats over the perfect cross AND PLASMATI RISES WITH A BULLET HEADER INTO THE BOTTOM LEFT FOR 1-0!
    • 41' Terrible corner though, Mascara hits it straight at Maxwell...
    • 40' Catania with a spell of pressure now, first with a goalmouth scramble following a corner that Inter manage to clear, then Plasmati rises with a header that is blocked. Catania then win a corner on the left...
    • 30' Inter come forward again, Quaresma on the left plays a cross with the outside of his right boot and it takes a touch off Balotelli AND MUNTARI MUST SCORE BUT THE FINISH TRICKLES INTO BIZARRI'S ARMS! That could have gone anywhere, Bizarri was fortunate he went the right way in the end.
    • 25' Good strike from Muntari but a save to match by Bizarri.
    • 23' Catania break, and a great run by Martinez sees him on the edge of the box but he loses control and can't get the shot away.
    • 22' Free-kick to Inter around 30 yards out, Zlatan is over it as is Balotelli... but Zlatan sends it low into the wall. The loose ball is crossed in by Quaresma but easy peasy for Bizarri.
    • 20' Quaresma on the right, he sends over a testing cross and Balotelli collides with Albano Bizarri, who drops the ball but nothing is given and it's left for a defender to hoof it clear!
    • 15' Good play by Inter, Figo slips it to Zlatan, who is on the right and sends a superb ball for BALOTELLI WITH THE HEADER but he nods it over!
    • 13' Maicon on the right, he's in space and sends a far-post cross looking for ZLATAN WHO RISES WITH THE HEADER but into the ground and wide!
    • 11' Plasmati is called offside when he's played clean through, that looked a tough one to call!
    • 10' Mascara hammers it well over though.
    • 9' Materazzi is harshly adjudged to have fouled Martinez on the edge of the box, free-kick to Catania around 22 yards out...
    • 4' The corner is sent near post AND ZLATAN WITH THE HEADER BUT JUST OVER!
    • 3' Great run from Maicon, cutting in from the right and sending a low shot on goal that is blocked. Inter still have it and win a corner.
    • 1' Match underway at the Giuseppe Meazza!
    • - Hello and welcome to Inter v Catania on day two of the Serie A season- LIVE from 19:30 UK time!

  • Team Stats

    Internazionale Stats Catania
    59% Possession 40%
    20 Shots 12
    5 Shots on target 1
    0 Saves 4
    8 Corners 5
    27 Fouls 15
    0 Offsides 2
    2 Yellow cards 5
    1 Red cards 0
    17 Tackles 22
    381 Accurate passes 236
    73 Bad passes 31

  • 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 1 0 0
      16 Nicolas Burdisso 0 1 0 0 2 0 0 22 1 2
      6 Maxwell Cabelino Andrade 0 2 1 1 1 0 0 37 16 1
      13 Douglas Maicon 0 3 0 1 3 0 0 33 0 3
      23 Marco Materazzi 0 0 0 1 6 0 0 32 7 0
      14 Patrick Vieira 0 1 0 3 2 0 0 73 4 6
      20 Sulley Ali Muntari 0 3 2 1 3 0 0 33 8 4
      7 Luis Figo 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 24 5 0
      77 Ricardo Quaresma 0 1 0 2 3 0 0 27 6 0
      8 Zlatan Ibrahimovic 0 7 2 2 0 0 0 30 8 1
      45 Mario Balotelli 0 1 0 3 3 0 0 20 6 0
      4 Javier Zanetti 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 25 4 0
      33 Amantino Mancini 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 8 2 0
      2 Ivan Cordoba 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      19 Esteban Cambiasso 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 16 6 0
      1 Francesco Toldo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      10 Leite Ribeiro Adriano 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      9 Julio Cruz 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
    • Catania
      G S SoT F FW O A AP BP T
      1 Albano Bizarri 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 6 0 0
      6 Lorenzo Stovini 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 11 2 2
      4 Matías Silvestre 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 17 0 2
      21 Cristian Silvestri 0 1 0 0 1 0 0 24 6 2
      23 Christian Terlizzi 0 1 0 2 0 0 0 12 1 0
      8 Pablo Ledesma 0 4 0 2 4 0 0 52 6 4
      19 Giacomo Tedesco 0 1 0 4 2 0 1 20 4 5
      27 Marco Biagianti 0 2 0 2 0 0 0 21 3 2
      25 Jorge Martinez 0 0 0 3 3 0 0 15 0 2
      16 Gianvito Plasmati 1 1 1 4 1 2 0 11 4 0
      7 Giuseppe Mascara 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 27 4 3
      10 Nicolae Dica 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 11 0 0
      9 Michele Paolucci 0 1 0 4 1 0 0 2 0 0
      17 Davide Baiocco 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      3 Rocco Sabato 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      2 Gennaro Sardo 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      12 Tomás Kosicky 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
      20 Mirko Antenucci 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 7 1 0

  • Summary

    • 90' More pressure from Catania as Ledesma is denied by a last-gasp Materazzi block. He's been rather good tonight.
    • 89' Silvestri gets forward, he cuts inside and hammers a long-range shot that whistles just over!
    • 85' Mancini on the left, he stands it up and sends a perfect cross to the far post IBRAHIMOVIC FLIES IN WITH A VOLLEY FOR 3-1 BUT AN INCREDIBLE SAVE FROM BIZARRI! What a stop! That was a certain goal but he somehow flew across to claw it back. Ibrahimovic acknowledges the save.
    • 83' Cambiasso hooks the ball clear, Mancini takes it with an outrageous backheel lob and he races to goal and frees FIGO WHO'S ONE-ON-ONE AND MUST SCORE BUT BLOCKED BY BIZARRI BUT MAICON IS FREE! But the flag is up and Maicon is furious, throwing an arm-flapping hissy-fit so absurd that you can't even really book him for it.
    • 70' Maicon is on the ball, he cuts in from the right, he beats one defender, then another, he could go all the way here and he sends the shot on goal but inches wide!
    • 56' The corner is swung over to the far post and Materazzi rises with the header and Burdisso flies in with a flick but it spins wide! You wouldn't guess that Inter are down to 10 men...
    • 48' Throw to Inter on the right, Maicon hurls it in and it takes a touch off the defender's head, beats Bizarri, comes off the post and did that cross the line before Bizarri caught it? The linesman says so, and it's 2-1 and another freak goal for Inter! Lucky lucky boys! Own-goal from Terlizzi!
    • 44' One of the Catania players is rolling around on the floor like he's been shot in the mouth, it's Tedesco and to be fair it was a naughty hand in the face from Muntari. The ref is asking him to get up but really, it should be a red card. And it is! Muntari walks in only his second game for Inter! What a fool, it was totally unnecessary. Tedesco made a ridiculous meal of it though, I certainly wouldn't want him on my side in a fight.
    • 43' Oh deary me, Catania concede immediately! Quaresma on the right tries a cross and it takes a freak deflection that sends it past poor Albano Bizarri at the near post! Really unfortunate.
    • 42' ... But Catania still have the ball, it's played to Mascara on the left, he floats over the perfect cross AND PLASMATI RISES WITH A BULLET HEADER INTO THE BOTTOM LEFT FOR 1-0!
    • 30' Inter come forward again, Quaresma on the left plays a cross with the outside of his right boot and it takes a touch off Balotelli AND MUNTARI MUST SCORE BUT THE FINISH TRICKLES INTO BIZARRI'S ARMS! That could have gone anywhere, Bizarri was fortunate he went the right way in the end.
    • 20' Quaresma on the right, he sends over a testing cross and Balotelli collides with Albano Bizarri, who drops the ball but nothing is given and it's left for a defender to hoof it clear!
    • 15' Good play by Inter, Figo slips it to Zlatan, who is on the right and sends a superb ball for BALOTELLI WITH THE HEADER but he nods it over!
    • 13' Maicon on the right, he's in space and sends a far-post cross looking for ZLATAN WHO RISES WITH THE HEADER but into the ground and wide!
    • 4' The corner is sent near post AND ZLATAN WITH THE HEADER BUT JUST OVER!
    • 3' Great run from Maicon, cutting in from the right and sending a low shot on goal that is blocked. Inter still have it and win a corner.

Live Team Line-Up

  • Referee: Antonio Damato

  • Internazionale

    Manager: Jose Mourinho

    Captain: Ivan Ramiro Cordoba

    Starting line-up

    • S. Julio César
    • D. Maicon Yellow Card
    • N. Burdisso
    • M. Materazzi
    • C. Maxwell
    • P. Vieira Yellow Card
    • S. Muntari Red Card
    • L. Figo Substitution Out (46′)
    • R. Quaresma Substitution Out (79′)
    • Z. Ibrahimovic
    • M. Balotelli Substitution Out (67′)

    Subs

    • 1. F. Toldo
    • 26. C. Chivu
    • 2. I. Cordoba
    • 4. J. Zanetti Substitution In46′
    • 9. J. Cruz
    • 10. L. Adriano
    • 19. E. Cambiasso Substitution In67′
    • 33. A. Mancini Substitution In79′
    • 39. D. Santon

    Injured

    • 5. D. Stankovic
    • 25. W. Samuel
    • 11. L. Jimenez
    • 24. E. Rivas Nelson

    Suspended

    None

  • Catania

    Manager: Walter Zenga

    Captain: Giuseppe Mascara

    Starting line-up

    • A. Bizzarri
    • C. Silvestri
    • C. Terlizzi Own Goal
    • L. Stovini
    • M. Silvestre
    • P. Ledesma Yellow Card
    • M. Biagianti Yellow Card
    • G. Tedesco Yellow Card Substitution Out (74′)
    • J. Martinez Substitution Out (62′)
    • G. Mascara Own Goal
    • G. Plasmati Goal Substitution Out (62′)

    Subs

    • 17. D. Baiocco
    • 10. N. Dica Substitution In62′ Yellow Card
    • 3. R. Sabato
    • 2. G. Sardo
    • 9. M. Paolucci Substitution In62′ Yellow Card
    • 13. M. Izco
    • 15. T. Morimoto
    • 12. K. Tomas

    Injured

    • 24. G. Spinesi
    • 5. E. Carboni
    • 22. P. Alvarez

    Suspended

    None

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