| Minute | Text commentary |
| 46' | Juventus lead Inter 1-0 at the break, thanks to Diego's goal in the tenth minute. |
| 45' | One minute of injury time. |
| 44' | Penalty claim turned down. Thiago Motta gets into the box from the right and his cross is handled by Felipe Melo. Referee Antonio Damato waves away the protests. |
| 43' | Amauri wriggles past Lucio on the by-line but can't find a way past Materazzi. Inter break and win a free kick after a foul by Chiellini but nothing comes of it. |
| 42' | Maicon gets a yellow card for tripping Diego. |
| 41' | Maicon effortlessly bursts past Grosso down the right but De Ceglie gets back to tackle the Inter defender and concede a corner. |
| 37' | Grosso sends a dangerous shot on target from 25 yards. Toldo redeems himself for that mistake in the tenth minute, getting down at his right-hand post to make a brilliant save. |
| 36' | Santon wins us a free kick 30 yards from goal after a foul by Candreva. Sneidjer's curler is more a cross than a shot, but Buffon gets off his line and punches away. |
| 35' | Sneijder looks for Pandev in the box but overhits his through ball for the Macedonian. |
| 32' | Balotelli is barged off the ball by Chiellini on the right wing. Sneijder's outswinging free kick is headed clear by Amauri and Maicon pounces on the loose ball, firing wide from distance. |
| 31' | Thiago Motta gets on the end of a loose ball and fires high over Buffon's bar. |
| 30' | Diego's 20-yard free kick is over the wall and into the arms of Francesco Toldo. |
| 29' | Candreva combines with De Ceglie and serves Amauri, who is sent clattering to the ground by Materazzi just outside the area. Free kick. |
| 24' | It's three versus three as Sneijder dispossesses Sissoko and runs towards goal. He has Pandev on his right and Balotelli on his left. He serves the Italian who shoots straight at Buffon from the edge of the box. |
| 20' | Inter chance. Maicon does a defence-splitting one-two with Pandev, blazing over his angled effort from the return pass. |
| 19' | Balotelli tries to punish a defensive error by Grosso but his long-range effort is well off-target. |
| 17' | Free kick to Juve after a foul by Cambiasso on Diego out on the left wing. The Brazilian playmaker's curling free kick is saved by Toldo. |
| 13' | Juve's masked men Grygera and Cannavaro exchange passes and work the ball back to Buffon to deny the onrushing Pandev. |
| 11' | Inter pour foward in search of a quick reply and Balotelli controls a long pass from Cambiasso before forcing a save from Buffon. Nothing comes from the corner. |
| 10' | GOAL. Diego takes on Cambiasso on the left edge of the area, cuts inside and rifles a low shot on target that goes through Toldo's legs. He really should have saved that. INTER 0-1 JUVENTUS. |
| 7' | Balotelli gets past Grosso on the right and pokes into the box for Pandev. Cannavaro intercepts. Moments later Sneijder fires high and wide. |
| 5' | The Mali midfielder is okay to continue. |
| 4' | Sissoko requires medical attention after landing awkwardly following an aerial duel with Thiago Motta on the halfway line. |
| 3' | Balotelli races on to a long ball down the left and muscles past Chiellini before seeing his shot spin off Grygera. |
| 2' | Toldo is quick off his line to beat Diego to Cannavaro's long through ball. |
| 1' | Juventus were hoping he wouldn't play. But that two-match Serie A ban for the red card in the derby means José Mourinho won't rest his talismanic playmaker in tonight's Coppa Italia clash. When Wesley Sneijder plays, Inter don't lose. And the Dutch maestro averages a goal every three games, with 6 goals (all decisive ones) in 18 games for the Nerazzurri. |
| 1' | Inter kick off. FORZA NERAZZURRI!!!! |
| 1' | The prize for the winners tonight is a two-legged semi-final encounter with Fiorentina, who ousted Lazio in their quarter-final. The first leg will take place next week with the return match seven days later. |
| 1' | Juve have a certain Filippo Boniperti on the bench tonight. Filippo is the grandson of Bianconeri legend Giampiero Boniperti, who hung up his boots in 1961 after a 9-1 win against Inter. On that occasion the Nerazzurri famously played their Primavera team in a protest against the Italian FA. Sandro Mazzola made his debut in the same game. Doesn't look like we'll see a similar result tonight. |
| 1' | This is the seventh Coppa Italia quarter-final between the two teams. As it stands it's three victories apiece, the most recent last-eight meeting coming in 2007/08 when Mario Balotelli burst on to the Italian football scene with a famous brace in a 3-2 return-leg victory after a 2-2 draw in Milan. |
| 1' | Inter: 1 Toldo; 13 Maicon, 6 Lucio, 23 Materazzi, 39 Santon; 4 Zanetti, 19 Cambiasso, 8 Thiago Motta; 10 Sneijder; 45 Balotelli, 27 Pandev. 
Subs: 12 Julio Cesar, 2 Cordoba, 7 Quaresma, 11 Muntari, 22 Milito, 25 Samuel, 89 Arnautovic. <br> Juventus: 1 Buffon; 21 Grygera, 5 Cannavaro, 3 Chiellini, 6 Grosso; 22 Sissoko, 4 Melo, 26 Candreva, 29 De Ceglie; 28 Diego, 11 Amauri. 
Subs: 13 Manninger, 15 Zebina, 27 Paolucci, 32 Yago, 33 Legrottaglie, 39 Marrone, 43 Boniperti. |
| 1' | Sneijder takes his usual place at the tip of a diamond midfield, with Zanetti and Thiago Motta either side of Cambiasso who will protect an Italo-Brazilian back line of Maicon, Lucio, Materazzi and Santon - who continues at left-back after his impressive Milan derby performance. Francesco Toldo makes his second appearance of the season between the posts after his clean sheet against Livorno in the last sixteen. Up front it's firepower galore with Balotelli and Pandev. |
| Minute | Text commentary |
| 50' | Full time. Inter come from behind to beat Juventus 2-1 and seal a place in the Coppa Italia semi-finals. |
| 47' | Ciro Ferrara replaces De Ceglie with Paolucci. |
| 45' | We're into stoppage time at the Meazza. Three minutes of it. |
| 44' | GOAL!!!!!! Buffon parries Thiago Motta's 20-yard drive and Mario Balotelli steals in to fire past the hapless Bianconeri keeper. INTER 2-1 JUVENTUS. |
| 40' | Five minutes left before extra time and penalties. |
| 39' | Buffon parries Sneijder's free kick and Milito is closed down as he pounces on the rebound. |
| 38' | Chiellini fouls Balotelli in Sneijder territory about 30 yards from goal. |
| 37' | Milito creates space for an angled shot, but Buffon is equal to the Argentine's low effort. |
| 35' | Another substitution in the Inter ranks. Sulley Muntari comes on for Goran Pandev. |
| 35' | Toldo rises in his six-yard box and saves Diego's left-wing corner. |
| 34' | Buffon comes out of his area and makes the clearance as Milito plays through for Balotelli. |
| 32' | Candreva holds his head in despair after watching his long-range shot whizz inches wide. |
| 31' | Cannavaro is yellow-carded for kicking the ball away after a foul by Grosso on Balotelli. |
| 31' | Balotelli blocks and clears Diego's corner at the near post. |
| 29' | Sissoko handles Maicon's cross just outside his own area. No free kick given. |
| 27' | GOAL!!!!!! It's game on in Milan. Wesley Sneijder's free kick takes a wicked deflection. Buffon is stranded and Lucio steals in to poke home with an outstretched leg at the far post. INTER 1-1 JUVENTUS. |
| 26' | Free kick to Inter right on the edge of the area and yellow card to Felipe Melo after a foul on his countryman Maicon. |
| 25' | At the other end Buffon pulls off a fine block from Mario Balotelli's driven shot. |
| 25' | Candreva finds De Ceglie with an inch-perfect through ball down the left and the Juve winger crosses for Diego, who controls with his chest and tries an overhead kick. |
| 23' | Pandev's volley ricochets off an opponent and it's a corner for Inter. |
| 22' | Balotelli wriggles past Sissoko and Grosso before going down under a challenge from Chiellini in the box. |
| 20' | Juve work the ball to the edge of our box and Materazzi makes an acrobatic interception to deny Amauri. |
| 19' | Milito is flagged offside as he runs to meet Pandev's through ball. |
| 16' | Inter substitution: Diego Milito replaces Esteban Cambiasso and the Nerazzurri go from 4-3-1-2 to 4-2-1-3. |
| 15' | Clever stuff by Wesley Sneijder. He exchanges swift passes with front men Pandev and Balotelli but the Bianconeri regroup and win the ball back. |
| 12' | Sneijder blasts over the bar after Grygera's loose headed clearance from Maicon's cross. |
| 11' | Sneijder plants his corner on to the head of Thiago Motta, whose effort is off the mark. |
| 10' | Diego plays a one-two with Grosso from a corner and crosses to the far post where Chiellini heads on to the outside of Toldo's left-hand post. |
| 9' | Cambiasso's header from Thiago Motta's floated cross is wayward. |
| 7' | From one end to the other, Diego sends a low snapshot just wide of Toldo's right-hand post. |
| 6' | Inter surge forward on the counter and Mario Balotelli hits a fierce shot into the side-netting. |
| 6' | Grygera looks for Amauri in the box. The Brazilian misses the ball but it falls to De Ceglie, who sees his shot blocked. |
| 5' | Chiellini's name is scribbled in Damato's book after a foul on Sneijder. |
| 4' | Pandev latches on to Sneijder's ball to the edge of the box and swivels but his shot is blocked at close-range by the Bianconeri defence. |
| 3' | Nice try by Sneijder. The Dutchman receives Maicon's square pass and tries to chip Buffon but the Azzurri keeper saves. |
| 1' | Juve get us restarted at the Meazza. |