****!!!

Stan with a great shot. VdS saves. if this continues, Inter will score. they've had more scoring chances than Man U already

If Sporting has a defense with more holes than Swiss cheese, that's their problem. They sure as hell found that out the hard way last night. Bayern can't be blamed for that in the slightest.

Anyway, it seems weird that this discussion has been drawn out for this long. If Milan were in Bayern's shoes instead, we wouldn't be having this sentiment of evil demons running up the score.

HT 1-0. Inter were easily the better side (had more chances). they deserved at least one goal. hope they manage it in the 2nd half!

United-Inter is a very good game. Zlatan, Balotelli, Stankovic and Maicon are playing superb. Vieira has done nothing at all though!

Zed: You actually want Inert (and Moanin' Ho) to progress?

Watching Roma-Arsenal. Roma should've had a penalty after Motta was brought down by Clichy...

I'm dying to see how this turns out, but I have to mail a package and turn in my tax return, so duty calls. Later.

Great first half very entertaining. United could have scored again if it was not for the worst attempt on a one-on-one in the history of football by O'Shea but Inter could also have scored in more than a couple of occasions.

United's defense has been really tested tonight and it proves they're not as rock solid as we all thought. On the other end, Santon has been Inter's weakest cog in defense.


I've always felt this way, even when Milan are winning by lots of goals I feel we must slow down. The worse thing here is that this was the second leg of a tie that ended 0-5 in the first leg... this is not like United beating Roma 7-1, I never said anything about that match. But when you've managed to get a result like the one Bayern got in Portugal well... it's in my eyes shameful to humiliate them again. Don't tell me Sporting's performance was shameful, of course it was, I'm just looking on the other side now.


I don't agree. Vieira has done very well in allowing Vidic to... oh wait, you mean he has done nothing for Inter, yeah...

Yes.



Wow... Balotelli is crazy

Adriano hit the bar

wtf

Luck is not on their side tonight

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@ Ronaldo's unnecessary tricks

Mou made a HUGE mistake by subbing Stankovich and Balotelli. I wanted Inter to progress, but I'm obviously not upset that they went out one bit. I'm just wondering which team to support! every team I supported has been eliminated! Real, Juve and now Inter.

Now there's only Roma. I'm not supporting them so maybe they progress to the next round!

Very good game that, Inter were unlucky. That's the first time in 14 games in which Sir Alex has managed to score more than 1 vs Jose.

Roma-Arsenal is going to ET. Not too bothered who wins that, but if Arsenal go through I hope all 4 English teams avoid each other in the QFs.

(yes this is predictable just like your comment would be had Inter progressed so shut up) ha-ha! Bravo Mourinho you're just as special as Mancini! (I'm sure that had Inter gone through no Mou fan here would say it's Mancini's team like you said it was Mou's Chelsea that Grant reached the CL final with last season... oh the irony)

Figo was awful, he destroyed Inter's game trashing their chances at the same time... special substitution...

Theres's your answer. As Benitez would say, that is a FACT.

@ dst

You really can't see the difference between Mancio and Mou's Inter in the CL, can you? have you forgotten how they went out of the competition three seasons in a row?

I honestly saw a different Inter. a bit unlucky, a bit naive, but certainly nowhere near as embarrassing as they were in the past 3 seasons under Mancio.

Yes. Inter played well, probably didn't even deserve to go out. The fact they were playing the best team in World football doesn't really help. I don't think anyone can beat United at the moment, Inter are easily the 2nd best team around for me, far better than Barca.

Ah penalties... I feel Roma will go out too.

Answer to what? I did not ask any questions.


I too saw a different Inter... but only for one half! They played much better than they did against Liverpool in both legs last season. But what about the other three 3x45 minutes? They looked like the usual European Inter at San Siro where they were outclassed and they were very lucky not to lose and they pretty much gave up after United's second goal tonight even if they had 40 minutes to do something...

It was indeed an improvement from the European Inter of the last few seasons but still... this is a team coached by Mourinho... I'm sure everyone expected something a bit more... well... let's say... special.


They were unlucky tonight but they had their share of luck in the first leg. I think, looking at both games, United deserved to go through.

I agree.
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How's the Roma-Arsenal going on???

last penelties all square

arsenal score the 5th

totti takes it to sudden death

3-3 on penalties atm...1 miss each...

kolo toure scores

aquallini scores 5-5

WTF!!

6-6

it's gonna be down to GK's eh?

come on!!

arsenal win

Tonetto missed. Roma are out, Arsenal go through.

Waiting for the headlines tomorrow...

Bah
I swear to god I knew Totti would miss.

totti didnt miss

Vucinic and Tonetto did, Eduardo for Arsenal.

Oops . sorry!


I am soooo not going to open any football related websites tomorrow. I already know what's going to be said about all this, and well, it's warranted. they walked the talk and defeated every Italian side one way or another.

(from mediaset)



[All of Italy will now be happy because Inter was eliminated. I don't care; I've already won it.]

Utterly charming postgame comments by the cugini's coach.

Poor Roma, they played well enough to win even with all their injuries, they even had to resort to Riise playing CB and Arsenal didn't score.

So... the last 8 are
Barcelona
Bayern
Sevilla
Chelsea
Porto
United
Arsenal
Liverfool

These are the teams I don't want to see win it in very particular order:

Liverfool

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If they don't win I'll be happy and if United fail too I'll be even happier. Well I can't be happier because the happy bar would already be full but yeah you get what I mean. I want Barcelona, Chelsea or Arsenal to win. Please no all-English (or all-Spanish but that does not look very probable) final. I want to see a Barcelona Vs Chelsea final. If it was an all-English final I'd like it to be United vs Liverfool... cause it would be so ****ing painful for the Scousers if they lost!! And then I want the two set of fans to go kill each other inside the Colosseo!


Inter are eliminated and their coach comes up with "I don't care"... there will always be a reason to laugh at them!!

What a clown. Yeah, I'm sure the team will love that one.

"Screw you guys; I've already won a CL." Yeah, but you didn't do jack s--t with Chelsea, so it kinda evens out.

Damn, tough luck for Roma. Tonetto's going to have a lot of sleepless nights for awhile.

sigh and italy is going to get laughed at again. We need to be in this competition to save some face for italy. Damn you carlo!

Any reason to throw in a Carlo bash, I guess.

bashing carlo never gets old. But i should be saying damn you injuries! If I wanted to make sense....

Well, Jose has proven that he can't win a CL with Chelsea OR Inter. It's making the one he won with Porto look more and more like an aberration.

Even if Mou was as special as he claims to be, it's not enough... to win the CL with Inter you need to be God... and thankfully God's on the other side of the town...

Cover of today's Gazzetta dello Sport.

Inter deserved to go out. They played some good football between the 20th and 45th minute and would have deserved the equalizer then. But after ManUnited scored their second (why did no one attack Rooney before he crossed?) Inter played like they already gave up. And Figo....it was hard to see a player like him in that shape.

About that Bayern thing. I really don't see the problem. Haven't you guys ever played a match when everything you did worked? It's great and you could play on forever....I guess that's what happened to Bayern. Plus, who could accuse a player like Müller because he played his best football? He's 19 and needs to use every chance he gets to show his skills. (Gosh...can't believe I actually defend Bayern)

C4 quoting Gazzetta. can anyone find the Gazzetta link for me, please?

Zeddie, I'm not seeing it in the online edition, but it's clearly referenced as being on page 20 in Miz's image of the cover above. The online edition doesn't have all of the content that the print edition does, unfortunately.