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Pick Your Inter Team To Play Barcelona
Goal.com invites you to pick your Inter starting XI.
Apr 19, 2010 6:00:00 AM
By Salvatore Landolina
Calling all armchair coaches! The time has come for you to pit your wits against Jose Mourinho and pick your Inter team to play Barcelona in the Champions League.
It's the semi-final first leg clash on Tuesday night at San Siro, and Inter will be hoping to exploit Barcelona's travel problems. The reigning champions travelled to Italy by coach because of the flight restrictions around Europe as a result of volcanic ash in the skies.
Mourinho is without Davide Santon (knee) and Francesco Toldo (thigh). There are no suspensions, but Javier Zanetti, Walter Samuel, Maicon and Dejan Stankovic will all miss the second leg if they are booked tomorrow.
Here is the available squad:
Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar, Paolo Orlandoni, Vid Belec.
Defenders: Ivan Cordoba, Javier Zanetti, Lucio, Maicon, Marco Materazzi, Walter Samuel, Cristian Chivu, Luca Caldirola.
Midfielders: Dejan Stankovic, Ricardo Quaresma, Thiago Motta, Wesley Sneijder, Sulley Muntari, MacDonald Mariga, Esteban Cambiasso, Rene Khrin, Joel Obi, Antonio Esposito, Luca Tremolada.
Strikers: Samuel Eto'o, Diego Milito, Goran Pandev, Mario Balotelli, Marko Arnautovic, Mattia Destro.
We ask you to leave your choices in the comments feature below using semi-colons to separate positions, and working from right to left. For example, here's the side that could line up in a 4-3-1-2 formation:
Cesar; Maicon, Lucio, Samuel, Zanetti; Motta, Cambiasso, Stankovic; Sneijder; Milito, Eto.
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It's the semi-final first leg clash on Tuesday night at San Siro, and Inter will be hoping to exploit Barcelona's travel problems. The reigning champions travelled to Italy by coach because of the flight restrictions around Europe as a result of volcanic ash in the skies.
Mourinho is without Davide Santon (knee) and Francesco Toldo (thigh). There are no suspensions, but Javier Zanetti, Walter Samuel, Maicon and Dejan Stankovic will all miss the second leg if they are booked tomorrow.
Here is the available squad:
Goalkeepers: Julio Cesar, Paolo Orlandoni, Vid Belec.
Defenders: Ivan Cordoba, Javier Zanetti, Lucio, Maicon, Marco Materazzi, Walter Samuel, Cristian Chivu, Luca Caldirola.
Midfielders: Dejan Stankovic, Ricardo Quaresma, Thiago Motta, Wesley Sneijder, Sulley Muntari, MacDonald Mariga, Esteban Cambiasso, Rene Khrin, Joel Obi, Antonio Esposito, Luca Tremolada.
Strikers: Samuel Eto'o, Diego Milito, Goran Pandev, Mario Balotelli, Marko Arnautovic, Mattia Destro.
We ask you to leave your choices in the comments feature below using semi-colons to separate positions, and working from right to left. For example, here's the side that could line up in a 4-3-1-2 formation:
Cesar; Maicon, Lucio, Samuel, Zanetti; Motta, Cambiasso, Stankovic; Sneijder; Milito, Eto.
Keep up to date with all the latest Champions League news with Goal.com and join Goal.com USA's Facebook fan page!
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