Inter Milan Home 2009/2010

Inter Milan Home 2009/2010

The club had the greatest season in their history, winning Serie A for the fifth consecutive season on the final matchday, the Coppa Italia, and the UEFA Champions League for the first time in 45 years, completing a historic treble. The Nerazurri became the sixth European club to complete a treble and the first and only Italian club to achieve this feat to date.

Season overview
The main transfer move was an exchange with Barcelona, as Zlatan Ibrahimović and Samuel Eto’o swapped clubs. From a tactical point of view, the line-up was not made up from this fact: Eto’o was himself a centre-forward. His partner was Diego Milito, acquired from Genoa, like the midfielder Thiago Motta. There were also the arrivals of the centre-back Lúcio and the playmaker Wesley Sneijder. Inter unveiled the season losing the Supercoppa Italiana, due to a 2–1 knockout against Lazio.

During the brief pause in September, Inter had four points in the league, which became 16 before the October pause. Meanwhile, the side had started its European adventure drawing in the first part of the stage. It was renamed the “group of death” due to the presences of only national champions, Barcelona, who was the European defending champion, Dynamo Kyiv and Rubin Kazan.

Inter retained the first place in Serie A without obstacles and managed to recover the Champions League gap, finishing the group in second place behind Barcelona. In the round of 16, they defeated Chelsea (the club that José Mourinho coached from 2004 to 2007) via a 3–1 aggregate; in the quarter-finals, CSKA Moscow was beaten 1–0 in both legs. The last obstacle toward the final resulted – once again – Barcelona.

Four days before the first leg, Inter won 2–0 over Juventus. The Spanish side lost the first leg, despite having scored the first goal (with Pedro): the final score was 3–1, enough for Inter to progress to the final despite a 1–0 loss in the second leg, and down to 10 men with a red card to Thiago Motta. As result, Inter went to their first UEFA Champions League final in 12 years since the 1998 UEFA Cup.

Prior to the final, Mourinho added two trophies to the season. The Coppa Italia and the second consecutive Scudetto, both won due to Milito’s goals and leaving Roma behind. Milito was also man of the match for Champions League final. Scoring both goals in the 2–0 victory whereby Inter defeated Bayern Munich. Winning this trophy for the first time since 1965, and for the third overall. Inter became the first Italian club to achieve the Treble.

This was manager José Mourinho’s second and final season with the club, before his departure to Real Madrid.

The Shirt
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