We really opened up some chances, you could see it would take something special to beat inter, constantly caught scrambling toward the end of the first half. Guys, you can’t say we were terrible, there were some monstrous tackles. Malouda being blocked by Samuel as he pulled a sure trigger, Cesar caught napping and just tipping malouda’s shot out for the corner. Drogba was simply cut off from the team but he muscled his way through once or twice, one in particular, he skinned samuel, only for lucio to charge in and save inter. Heck, Anelka even had a shot cleared off the line.

I dont agree that we were shut up. I think that at half time, Mourinho saw what was going wrong and just upped the tempo between midfield and attack, the ball moved that extra bit faster, midfielders got foward quickly to create more passes, it frustrated us and by the time we won the ball back, we had to fight through hordes of inter players and even when we did get the ball upfield, we had anelka who couldn’t burn anyone for pace, drogba who couldn’t win enough of the ball to make anything count and malouda who could at best push inter back into their box but then unable to pick out our own open men. We didnt cross the ball as much as I’d of liked, the 4-3-3 we played looked like it was protecting mikel, not releasing lampard. Inter made it hard but Lampard was rushed and rarely got a chance to look at the goal net.

Defensively we were savvy until about 60+minutes when sneijder started playing with his back to the defence and milito began overlapping. We had two good penalty shouts and it seems silly Drogba could be yanked down in the box un noticed but can rake a player so subtly and get caught out. As the game wore on, we stopped pushing, the defenders tried pressuring the midfield more and Alex switched off, that extra metre closer to the goal meant eto’o could start his run in front of ivanovic, brani was never going to catch him, the shot was quick and powerful. I was satisfied with turnbull, not impressed, but satisfied.

The season is not over, two trophies is more than respectable. It may be ones that we have won, but I think peeps need to acknowledge, the teams that win the champions league, tend to do well domestically first (that does not include liverpool as they were assembled by scouse sorcery, nothing else explains their flukes) and I think…..just throwing this out there…….once we do start bossing the league, results in europe will follow. It was two premiership titles over the course of three years when we made the final. Barcelona stepped up their game over a few seasons. Ac Milan did it a while back. I feel that we are still lacking the extra edge. Easily solved, a few choice signings will sort us. In respect to Turnbull and the devleopment of his career and in light of his last 3 appearances, we don’t REALLY (begrudgingly said) need a keeper. A winger and defender would do us well enough. We have youth players coming through to fill future holes.

I think peeps need to back of maysom, he/she may have an opinion you guys dont like, but I disagree with alot of comments. Maysom is not Sunny and by my calculations means they aren’t a twat. Maysom may have a strange opinion but you can’t argue it. Chelsea could slip up as could man utd but for anyone to say Man utd have an easier run of fixtures is wrong, to say Chelsea are playing poorly is true, to say Arsenal can nick the title is the funniest thing I’ve heard. Fair play to Arsenal for catching up but Chelsea and Man Utd will be in a separate class to the rest of the league for a long time.

Back to the game. Ancelotti needs to sit down and gather himself together again. Carlo should have known mourinho would look to close down the openings we had in the first leg, he knew shots from the edge of the box could kill inter easily. Ballack should have done better, at least get the shot on target but the block on drogba was immense and you could see from cesar’s movement and where drogba struck the ball, it was destined for the net. To be fair to us, it wasn’t our strongest line up but even still, 4-3-3 was a stupid choice. When Mourinho was looking to end the tie in the last leg, he switched to 4-2-2-2. I had a feeling he would at least stick with the 4-2 part and tinker the rest to win. So I expected Carlo to at least go with the 4-3-2-1 or diamond to create that extra header for ballack, the through ball for anelka, the ball over the top for drogba and the lay off for lampard. I think for all our strengths, Ancelotti did not utilise them properly. I see what he did, I think I understand what he did, I wouldn’t of done it, then again, im just a 19 year old kid from the UK, what would I know.

This is a fan blog-site. and by your comments i can tell, you are not a fan, but a pure glory hunter. There is a big reason why fans are called the 12th man; it because they never give up and stay behind the team, and give them hope from outside the pitch. They don´t abandon like you fucking bastard, who says “i´ll not be supporting this team for 12 years”. WE DON`´T NEED GUYS LIKE YOU, who no more suuports when team stops to win!!!

And we lost yesterday simply because we were unlucky in both of the legs, we were unlucky to have Jose as our opponent. There were couple of shots that would have gone-in in normal matches. They just happened to save it in extraordinary way.