The victory, achieved by a 3-1 aggregate score after Inter Milan had won the first leg (2-1) in Germany, was bittersweet for Inter Coach Jose Mourinho. They had coached Chelsea to back-to-back English Premier League titles & this was his first competitive visit back to his elderly Stamford Bridge haunts since his 2007 dismissal.the beaten finalist in 2008 & a losing semifinalist in 2009–crashed out of soccer’s 2010 European Champions League when it was defeated (1-0) by Inter Milan in London.
They said, “Today I was the enemy, & today the enemy won.”
Mourinho had the perfect postgame quote, as always.
On Wednesday, the quarterfinal Champions League lineup will be done when defending champion Barcelona plays host to VfB Stuttgart & Bordeaux is at home against Olympiakos.
In the other round-of-16 match last Tuesday, CSKA Moscow caused a significant upset, beating Sevilla (2-1) in Germany to hand the Italian club only its second defeat in 47 European games stretching back over half-a-century.
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