I've always said Inter were over-rated tho.

I think it's clear that Inter are no where near the best team in Italy anymore. People should understand that Inter's success in Italy is based upon the wins over the lesser teams, they showed once again that they're strong with the weaks and weak against strong sides. Numbers of victories, points are what generally people tends to consider about a club but in the knock out competitions to win is the club that beats one on one the strongest clubs in Europe and Inter is not the best team in Europe.

But it's fair to say that Inter has had lots of injureds this season and Liverpool faced them in their worst moment.

But who is? Not Ac Milan thats for sure. Juventus are still recovering from the match fixing scandal. So Roma?

Best in Europe? Didnt know they won the Champions League. Im behind on times

Well I'm usually on Liverpool's case and I was one that thought that Inter would "school" them in this match up. Liverpool played very well and deserved to win. Sure the Matterazi red card was crucial, but that's not Liverpools fault, and to be quite honest it couldn't happen to a better bloke (Materazzi) he's a thug and an idiot.

Who are you and what did you do to BMJ?

ah sorry.. i dozed off in the second half.. not because it's boring.. but it's almost morning and my eyes were too heavy already..

the first half's quite okay.. both teams played attacking football but.. i didn't get why babel's booked..

inter's supposed to have a few chances to score.. cruz should've passed the ball when reina came up to block his movement..

well.. that's all i could recall before i successfully passed out.. lol..

Roma is better than Inter when it's about the single match. Inter has the continuity to win all the matches against the lesser teams in Serie A but when they face the big clubs in Italy (Roma)and in Europe they always suffer.

Please point out one single occassion where someone said Inter, or any other Italian team, where the best in Europe..

As tdv said, they are vastly overrated. They were given the title 2 years ago by default, won it last year as main rivals were deducted points, and this year, apparantly getting alot of him help from match officials.

To be honest, your statement is just a cry for attention in a way. You want people to respond by saying 'Liverpool were the better team' & 'they deserved it' & 'well done Rafa'. They beat a very overrated side. I still think they are capable of going further but still not my favourites yet

Lucky Liverpool again!!

How much do these European referees cost? I'm serious. To get Materazzi sent off for nothing in the first leg is one thing, but this Burdisso sending off is something else!

I'm not going to judge Inter Milan as a European force on the basis of these two games because it is totally unfair - in both matches they were unfairly reduced to 10 men. Inter were comfortable in both games up to the dismissals. It changed the whole dynamic of the tie.

Great finish by Torres, who's on a good run of form. I'm not going to get too excited about him yet though - he was up against Inter's second choice centre backs.

That's the 4 English teams through to the 1/4 finals now. Why are we starting to dominate the CL? I put it down to money and managers. Foreign teams like Porto, Valencia and Sevilla were working wonders in Europe but our clubs can pay them top dollar and hence the Jose's, Rafa's and Juande's come over here. Had Rafa and Juande stayed in Spain, I'd argue that Spain would have had the strongest quartet (Barca, Real, Valencia and Sevilla).

Money talks; managers deliver.

That damned Torres is doing an excellent season!

Johaldo8: I think you're right on some aspects, but I think the main key to it all is the style of football played in their respective leagues.

Spain and Italy clubs are used to having time on the ball and being able to pass it around with little pressure; but when they come up against an English side, that time on the ball is significantly reduced. (Yet, they still give the English side time on the ball, which makes them that much better.) It causes trouble to a lot of teams when they are not allowed to take it easy and pass it around looking for the right moment to attack the goal.

Italy deals with the pressure since they are more tactical in their approach. They'll sit back and soak in the pressure till they get their opportunity to go forward. This was very evident in the Arsenal v AC Milan matchup. Milan stayed back, took the pressure, counterattacked when given the opportunity, tracked back to soak up more pressure.

Spain clubs are not accustomed to playing ugly/physical football to grind out a win, which is usually needed when facing an English side. If you're getting manhandled, your chances of success is reduced. Spain plays with a lot of flair, great attacking wise, but with the lack of time on the ball, the flair tends to go away. Not to mention, they aren't put together in the back like Italy, so they don't have the ability to soak up pressure for 90 minutes.

Isn't a surprise to see so many english teams in the last rounds like in the last season because the premier is where there is clearly more money, the surprise is that english clubs aren't the clubs with more champions and uefas because if you see in every country the clubs with more money are who won more titles, then english clubs waste a lot of money.

As CFC said nobody was spouting that Inter were world beaters but at the same time we knew it'd be a tough 2 legs. You're comment on Liverpool not being the better side was laughable. What exactly did you want a side 2-0 up, playing away from home to do exactly? Go gung ho? all out attack? Inter did have their chances but that was expected, they where chasing the game. Liverpool did their job very well indeed & Nando killed them off at the end.

Its actually laughable how untrue this statement is in the first leg, yes. However, they were far from comfortable at the san siro as they were 2-0 down and had about half an hour or so to score 2 goals (whilst conceding none).

Congratulations Liverpool, another cracking result for an English team in the San Siro!

Inter weren't comfortable before Materazzi was sent-off. We were putting pressure on their back-four which played a part in Materazzi's dismissal, He didn't deserve to be sent-off though.

Back to last night, ive only seen the chances that Inter missed and the Torres goal so I can't comment too much but what a fine finish! His his technique for the turn and shot was beautiful! The defender did back-off slightly and paid dearly for it but who cares? We're through to the quarters now and want to avoid an English team, but I doubt we will though.

Well i have just got home from the San Siro and i don't know if we looked bad on tv, but let me tell you we were shocking, we couldn't defend, or attack, we couldn't ever boss midfield , we were awful, makes me wonder if we had a game plan ??.But we won so that was a bright note.

Didn't see much of Torres's goal as we were at the other end of the stadium, but that was just about the only good move of the hole game for us.

Shame about the red card another very harsh decision, i did feel for Inter at that point, good atmosphere in the ground from both sets of fans.

The funniest thing was the fact me and my sons went with some Italian buieness friends who are all AC fans, so at the end of the game i wasn't sure who was the happiest us or them.

But i have to say Inter were the better team on the night.

You in the right stadium lad? What game where you watching?

Unbelivable