Werder Bremen bagged a place in the UEFA Cup knockout stages
after Claudio Pizarro and Markus Rosenberg struck to seal a 2-1 win
over Inter Milan in Champions League Group B on Tuesday.
Werder deserved their victory and finish third by leapfrogging
Anorthosis Famagusta, who lost 1-0 at group winners
Panathinaikos.
Inter, who had already qualified, must be content with
progressing as group runners-up after another lacklustre European
performance.
Inter coach Jose Mourinho, whose team are six points clear in
Serie A, said his side merited a tough test in February's last 16
having stuttered so far in the Champions League.
"Now we deserve one of the strongest teams. Manchester United,
the European champions, or Barcelona, currently the best in Europe,
to really judge our potential in the Champions League," he told
Sky.
"I wanted to rest some players but I think the team still
underperformed."
Pizarro, who scored in the 1-1 draw at the San Siro in October,
netted from close range on 63 minutes after an unusually shaky
Julio Cesar could only parry Mesut Ozil's drive.
Strike partner Rosenberg added a similar second nine minutes
from time after more poor Inter defending before substitute Zlatan
Ibrahimovic blasted in a consolation for Inter from just outside
the area.
Inter talisman Ibrahimovic started on the bench with his side
already through as the Italian champions and Werder, without the
suspended Diego, lacked creativity in the first half.
Wingers Mancini and Ricardo Quaresma again underperformed for
the visitors, who lost 1-0 at home to Panathinaikos in their
previous group game.
Pizarro had two other good chances for the hosts, already out of
contention for Champions League progression before the game.
it seem mourinho isnt doing such a fantastic job at inter
afterall.
i check his teamsheets. it isnt such a understrength side with
stars name all over his lineup.
1 Tim
Wiese 12 Julio
César 15 Sebastian
Prödl 23 Marco
Materazzi 29 Per
Mertesacker 2 Ivan
Cordoba 22 Torsten
Frings 16 Nicolas
Burdisso 2 Sebastian
Boenisch 13 Maicon
8 Clemens
Fritz 19 Esteban
Cambiasso 11 Mesut
Özil 20 Sulley
Muntar 14 Aaron
Hunt 4 Javier
Zanetti 7 Jurica
Vranjes 77 Ricardo
Quaresma 24 Claudio
Pizarro 10 Adriano
9 Markus
Rosenberg 33 Alessandro
Mancini Substitutes 6 Frank
Baumann
Zlatan Ibrahimovic 8 33 Christian
Vander
Mario Balotelli 45 5 Dusko
Tosic
Luis Figo 7 25 Peter
Niemeyer
Davide Santon 39 3 Petri
Pasanen
Maxwell 6 20 Daniel
Jensen
Paolo Orlandoni 22 17 Said
Huseinovic
Luis Jimenez 11 Substitutions
Peter Niemeyer for
Jurica Vranjes (89)
Maxwell for
Marco Materazzi (45)
Daniel Jensen for
Mesut Özil (90)
Zlatan Ibrahimovic for
Adriano (45)
Mario Balotelli for
Sulley Muntar (71)
Yellow Cards
Torsten Frings (28)
Sulley Muntar (69)
Clemens Fritz (84)
Mario Balotelli (88)
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