inter teknik direktörü jose mourinho, takımının luzhniki stadı'nın zemininden etkilenmeyeceğini söyledi.
portekizli teknik adam, cska'nın gücünü bildiklerini ve suni çimin kendileri için ilk olacağını belirterek, "oyuncularımla çocukken yollarda nasıl top oynadığımızı hatırlayıp şakalaştım. yolda top oynadıysan niye suni çimde oynayamayasın ki" dedi.
defender aleksei berezutski does not feel pfc cska moskva are at any great disadvantage even though they go into their quarter-final decider against fc internazionale milano 1-0 down.
a fine second-half strike from diego milito denied cska a clean sheet in milan last week, but the 27-year-old's spirits are far from crushed as he looks ahead to the quarter-final decider. "we are staying positive as we have nothing to lose," said the russian international. "i really don't see any problem in going down 1-0 in italy. we need to score, but we would be playing for a win anyway as we are at home. even if we managed to get a 0-0 draw away, we would still push forward in moscow."
dangerous from set pieces, defending nonetheless remains berezutski's priority, and he is not blind to the threat the nerazzurri can pose. "inter have a very unusual attacking formation," said berezutski, who plays alongside his twin brother vasili at cska. "sometimes they play with four men up front. all of inter's forwards are world-class players, and for me the most dangerous is wesley sneijder, who is in superb form. it's extremely difficult to play against any of them."
however, while he has nothing but respect for his opponents, berezutski feels positive about cska's chances overall. "ok, we lost away from home, but the chances are still 45% to 55%, not in our favour," he said. "we were not very successful defensively in the first match, while our attack was below par as well, but we have one game left to make amends."
cska's premier-liga game against fc zenit st. petersburg at the weekend was postponed due to police concerns in the wake of the terrorist bombings in the russian capital, but a bit of extra rest was not unwelcome for berezutski. "we did not ask for the match to be postponed as we were ready to play, but frankly speaking it's a good thing for us to be able to have couple of extra days off," he said. "the return flight from italy was a little bit difficult, so it's really nice to have had more time to get ourselves right."
sneijder strike takes inter into semis published: tuesday 6 april 2010, 20.30cet
an early free-kick from wesley sneijder effectively settled the tie and sent inter into their first semi-final since
wesley sneijder's early free-kick was the key to fc internazionale milano ending their seven-year wait to return to the uefa champions league semi-finals.
already a goal down from last week's trip to milan, pfc cska moskva were left needing to score three after sneijder, a doubt before kick-off with an ankle injury, found the target. a cska comeback never looked likely, especially after substitute chidi odiah's 49th-minute red card, and inter take on familair opponents from the group stage, holders fc barcelona, on 20 and 28 april with the first leg at home.
the suspensions of evgeni aldonin and the hugely influential miloš krasić meant starts for mark gonzález and alan dzagoev with keisuke honda moved into a defensive midfield position but that did not stop the japanese international having an early effort just wide. however, just six minutes were on the clock when inter broke the deadlock, sneijder sending a low free-kick beneath the leaping honda and past the bamboozled igor akinfeev.
that was a cue for an early cska change with odiah replacing vasili berezutski, who had hurt his leg in the warm-up. odiah had the freedom to push forward and found tomaš necid on the edge of the box to put a shot just past the post.
cska were certainly pressing an inter defence strengthened by the return of lucio after a first-leg suspension and restricting their hosts to long-range efforts, notably several honda free-kicks that sailed over and an odiah effort that júlio césar was forced to tip wide. one flowing move set dzagoev free in the box but he slipped, allowing inter to break and first-leg goalscorer diego milito to test akinfeev.
only four minutes into the second half, cska's task was made harder when odiah's foul on samuel eto'o earned the substitute a second yellow card. still the home side were doing more of the attacking and they came close when honda cross from the right just eluded the overhead kick of dzagoev but fell nicely to gonzález, whose effort was matched by júlio césar's save.
gradually, though, the ten men of cska seemed to tire and inter began to have chances. akinfeev denied sneijder from distance and moments later produced an excellent diving stop to block dejan stanković's swerving drive. milito then shot straight at the goalkeeper and soon after was sent clear only for akinfeev to again stand firm.
mario balotelli replaced milito as inter became more and more dominant, cska coach leonid slutsky trying to refresh things by bringing on elvir rahimić for honda. stanković shot fractionally wide and sergei ignashevich's last-gasp tackle denied eto'o as he jinked into a goalscoring position, but the tie was already secure for the visitors.
yardımcı hakemler: eric dansault (fra), laurent ugo (fra)
4. hakem: antony gautier (fra)
uefa delegesi: armen minasyan (arm)
uefa hakem gözlemcisi: leslie irvine (nir)
cska moskva: igor akinfeev (gk) (c), deividas šemberas, sergei ignashevich, aleksei berezutski, alan dzagoev, pavel mamaev, mark gonzález, keisuke honda (dk. 77 elvir rahimić), vasili berezutski (dk. 14 chidi odiah), georgi schennikov, tomáš necid (dk. 71 guilherme)
yedekler: sergei chepchugov(gk), kirill nababkin, nika piliev, sekou oliseh
teknik direktör: leonid slutski (rus)
internazionale: júlio césar (gk), javier zanetti (c), dejan stanković, lúcio, samuel eto'o, wesley sneijder (dk. 86 sulley muntari), maicon, esteban cambiasso, diego milito (dk. 74 mario balotelli), walter samuel, goran pandev (dk. 63 cristian chivu)
yedekler: paolo orlandoni (gk), iván córdoba, ricardo quaresma, marco materazzi
teknik direktör: josé mourinho (por)
goller: 0-1 wesley sneijder dk. 6
sarı kartlar: dk. 63 pavel mamaev (cska moskva) dk. 16 dejan stanković (internazionale)
kırmızı kartlar: dk. 38, 49 chidi odiah (cska moskva)
moskovada yaşamaya başlıyalı 1,5 ay oluyor, önümde daha yıllar var burada geçirmem gereken.türkiyede stadların tadını kokusunu tozunu almış bir insan olarak rusların maç kültürünüde, stadlarınıda, tepkilerinide görebilmek için bulunmaz bir fırsattı.
hem ilk kez rusyada bir maça gitmeye karar vermişim ve bu maç şampiyonlar ligi maçı olmuş, hemde çeyrek final, hemde şimdilik finalist kuvvetle muhtemel kupayı alan takım gelmiş ayağımıza. aynı zamanda maç daha önce şampiyonlar ligi oynanmış bir stad olan lujniki de.
lujniki park'a maç için ulaştığımda ilk yaptığım, şampiyonlar ligi oynanmış bir diğer stad olan olimpiyat stadıyla karşılaştırmak oldu. olimpiyat stadı düzeninde yapılmış olsada lujnikinin mükemmel bir futbol stadı olduğunu gördüm. türkiyede olimpiyat stadında en az 5 kere maç izledim, bütün tribünleri denedim fakat berbattı görüş, futbol keyfi olarak. lujnikide gerçekten iyi bi futbol ambiansı, harika bir akustik oluyor.
maça gelirsek zaten kimin tur atlıyacağı daha eşleştikleri anda belliydi, beklentim cska nın kazanmasından yanaydı (sonuçta tur atlasa barcelonayı lujnikide izleme fırsatım olacaktı) ama çok rahat bir şekilde maçı kazanmasını bildi inter. ilk yarı biraz varlık göstermeye çalışsada cska ikinci yarı iyice teslim oldu, hatta inter uyku moduna aldı maçı rahat bir şekilde kazandı maçı. gözlemlediğim kadarıyla rusların futbol kültürüde bizimkine yakındı, bilet 300 rubleydi (yani 15 tl) aynen türkiyedeki gibi ucuz trübünler ayakta pahallı tarafla oturarak, bizim trübün hep ayakta, merdivenler dolu, başka bir numarada izledik. olimpiyat stadına göre en büyük fark ise, maç bittiğinde 60.000 kişi rahatlıkla stadyumdan çıktık 5 dakika sonra metroya binmiş evimizin yoluna çıkmıştık.
