[football] Inter Loses Super Cup to Lazio 1-2

Despite producing great piece of attacking football, Inter Milan lost the Super Cup match played against Lazio in the "Bird's Eye" stadium in Beijing. Inter dominated the proceeding throughout the match but they could not score the much needed goal. Eto'o and Milito attacked relentlessly throughout the first half and the beginning of second half. But Lazio goalkeeper Muslera stood like a wall in front the goalpost. Eto'o came closest to scoring when he intercepted a backpass to goalkeeper but could not control the last tap on the open post.

On 63rd minute Lazio got a freekick from a counter attack which got deflected by the wall to Matuzalem whose shot towards goal ricocheted off the goalkeeper Julio Ceaser but hit his head and got in. 3 minutes later Rochhi got a through ball that caught Inter defence unaware and shot it past Ceaser to tilt the match in their favour. However Inter coach Jose Mourinho put more stress on attack as he put in Balotelli in place of Stankovic and Viera for Thiago Motta and they got the result at the 79th minute when Samuel Eto'o scored a goal. They almost got their second goal when Diego Milito's shot went to the net but was disallowed because it touched Eto'o who was offside. The amount of pressure that they put can be inferred from the number of corner kicks which was more than 12. Hwever inspite putting all their effort they could not break the defence of Lazio once more and lost the match.