Inter KO against Panathinaikos
In the second friendly match of the season played in Toronto, Rafa Benitez's Inter lost 3-2 against Panathinaikos. Eto'o and Coutinho scored.
This was Benitez's comment published on Inter's official website: Losing 3-1 in the first half means seeing if the team knows how to bring out the character and seem to me that we did, immediately after the break. Even with many young players, and this is the most positive aspect of the evening. We knew that the second week of training was the hardest, with long shifts and two races in two days, but those are good experiences, helping the group to grow. We knew - added Inter coach - that against Panathinaikos we would had an hard race , we haven't make the right pressing work. In the first half we did everything negative that we did in Baltimore, even if we did more shots of them.
We know it will be difficult for Inter to repeat the victories of last season, but we are working on - said Benitez -. This was only the second test: we believe we can do better, we want to do well. Many players arrived only recently, so I wait to see at what level they will we be in 15-20 days. Panathinaikos made a good race, but we probably have played better, we created more scoring chances, but they scored three goals and we only two, this is football. Especially in this period, with the desire to make play everyone. In the second half it seems that things have gone better, indeed, good. Zanetti? For him it was just a blow. Coutinho? From left side, tonight, has confirmed its qualities".
INTER: 21 Orlandoni; 4 Zanetti (18' fh 57 Natalino, 28' sh 13 Maicon), 2 Cordoba (1' sh 34 Biraghi, 28' sh Samuel), 23 Materazzi (1' sh 16 Burdisso, 28' sh 6 Lucio), 26 Chivu (28' sh 11 Muntari); 33 Obinna (1' sh 50 Biabiany), 17 Mariga (1' sh 5 Stankovic), 19 Cambiasso (1' sh 29 Coutinho), 20 Obi (1' sh 40 Nwakwo); 9 Eto'o (1' sh 31 Alibec, 28' sh 39 Santon), 27 Pandev (1' sh 30 Mancini, 28' sh 22 Milito).
Subs.: 1, Julio Cesar, 12 Castellazzi, 92 Gallinetta 5 Stankovic, 6 Lucio, 11 Muntari, 13 Maicon, 22 Milito, 25 Samuel, 29 Coutinho, 30 Mancini, 31 Alibec, 34 Biraghi, 40 Nwankwo, 50 Biabiany, 54 Dell'Agnello.Coach: Benitez.
PANATHINAIKOS: 30 Tzorvas; 24 Vyntra (17' sh 25 Seitaridis), 3 Sarieghi, 8 Kante, 31 Spyropoulos (17' sh 18 Bjarsmyer); 23 Simao (45' sh 14 Charalampos), 29 Katsouranis (17' sh 26 Karagounis); 10 Govou (17' sh 22 Marinos), 7 Ninis (35' sh 21 Dimoutsos), 11 Leto, 9 Cisse (35' sh 28 Petropoulos).
Subs: 2 Ioannidis, 27 Karnezis, 1 Galinovic, 19 Dos Santos Rodrigues, 38 Silva Cleyton, 45 Melissis.
Scorers: 12' and 22' fh Cisse (P), 32' fh Eto'o (I), 42' Leto (P), 40' sh Coutinho (I)
