| Minute | Text commentary |
| 48' | Half time at the Artemio Franchi. Fiorentina 0-0 Inter (aggregate 0-1). |
| 48' | Maicon's free kick is cleared. |
| 47' | Balotelli is barged off the ball by Felipe on the right-wing by-line. Free kick. |
| 45' | Two minutes of injury time. |
| 45' | Nothing comes of the first corner, but there will be a second one. Maicon's cross is headed away by Kroldrup. |
| 44' | Eto'o and Maicon combine down the right. The Cameroon striker gets into the box and sends in a low cross for Balotelli. Montolivo intercepts and concedes a corner. |
| 43' | Jovetic makes a darting run towards the area and cuts inside Zanetti before arrowing a low shot wide of Julio Cesar's right-hand post. |
| 42' | Julio Cesar makes a punched clearance from Vargas' inswinging right-wing free kick, awarded after a Chivu foul on Marchionni. |
| 41' | Javier Zanetti blocks a long-range shot from Montolivo. |
| 40' | Maicon closes down Vargas and blocks his shot from Marchionni's square pass. |
| 39' | Fiorentina win a free kick close to the left-wing by-line after a Maicon foul on Jovetic. Marchionni's whipped cross is cleared by the Inter defence. |
| 36' | Montolivo crashes a low swerveshot on target from 30 yards. It's too central and Julio Cesar makes a comfortable save. |
| 34' | Jovetic heads a Vargas throw into the path of Gilardino and rifles wide his shot from the return pass. |
| 31' | Cristiano Zanetti picks out Gilardino in the box but Cristian Chivu makes a brilliant sliding interception to block the Italy striker's shot on the turn. |
| 28' | Mario Balotelli is booked for what Nicola Rizzoli adjudges to be a foul on Felipe. |
| 28' | Gilardino can't manage a shot on target from Vargas' corner. |
| 25' | Another clearance by Lucio - a more important one this time. Gilardino acrobatically controls a cross from the right and shoots through Julio Cesar's legs but fortunately Lucio is on the goalline to make the clearance. |
| 25' | Lucio blocks and clears Vargas' dangerous cross from the left channel. |
| 22' | Chance for Maicon. Chivu crosses from the left and the Brazilian hits it first-time with the outside of his right foot. Wide. |
| 21' | Inter close as Mario Balotelli takes advantage of a mistake by De Silvestri and gets into the box before sending a low shot wide of the far post. |
| 20' | Muntari fails to connect with another low right-wing cross from Maicon. |
| 18' | Back at the other end, Julio Cesar makes a punched clearance from Marchionni's cross. |
| 17' | Inter break down the right. Balotelli sweeps wide to Maicon who advances down the wing and delivers a low cross for Eto'o, who is closed down by De Silvestri before he can get a shot in. |
| 16' | Cordoba blocks a fast left-wing cross from Vargas. Corner for the Viola. |
| 15' | Cristiano Zanetti floats into the area for Vargas. Cordoba intercepts and makes a headed clearance, with Jovetic blasting wide his effort from the loose ball. |
| 13' | Marchionni and De Silvestri have two right-wing crosses blocked by the Inter rearguard. |
| 12' | Samuel Eto'o fires over Frey's crossbar after dribbling three players during a run into the area from the left. Nice move by the Cameroonian. |
| 11' | The second booking of the game goes to Cordoba for a foul on Jovetic. |
| 10' | Fiorentina launch a counter-attack after clearing Balotelli's right-wing free kick. Zanetti regains possession for Inter just inside his own half. |
| 8' | Lucio needs treatment for a nosebleed after an aerial duel with Gilardino. Inter momentarily down to ten. |
| 5' | Natali commits a foul on Cordoba in the box as the Colombian makes a diving clearance from Vargas' left-wing corner. |
| 3' | Vargas is booked for a rash two-footed tackle on Muntari. He will miss Fiorentina's next Coppa Italia match. |
| 1' | Diego Milito scored in the first leg to give us the edge over Fiorentina in this season's Tim Cup semi-final. That game was over two months ago, but tonight's rematch marks the second meeting between the two teams in the space of several days after Saturday night's Serie A clash which ended in a 2-2 draw. |
| 1' | Balotelli fires his free kick over the bar. |
| 1' | Free kick to Inter in the opening seconds. It's about 30 yards from goal. |
| 1' | Away we go in Florence. Inter kick off. |
| 1' | There will be a minute's silence before kick-off at the Artemio Franchi to remember the victims of yesterday's train crash near Merano in the Val Venosta. |
| 1' | Former Fiorentina player Stefano Borgonovo, who suffers from ALS, is presented with the Fiorino d'Oro, the highest honour of the City of Florence. Borgonovo will watch the match with the Viola faithful in the Curva Fiesole. |
| 1' | Fiorentina boss Cesare Prandelli has also made a series of changes to the team that held us 2-2 last weekend, with De Silvestri, Marchionni, Cristiano Zanetti, Vargas and Gilardino all returning to the starting lineup. |
| 1' | With Serie A and Champions League games at home to Juventus and Barcelona on the horizon, José Mourinho has rung in the changes for the cup semi-final return. Materazzi and Cordoba return in defence, Thiago Motta and Muntari start in midfield and Balotelli returns in attack. |
| 1' | The prize for tonight's winners is a place in the 2009/10 Tim Cup final and a 5th May meeting at the Stadio Olimpico with Roma or Udinese, who go head-to-head in their return leg next week with the Giallorossi 2-0 up. |
| Minute | Text commentary |
| 49' | Full time. Inter beat Fiorentina 1-0 on the night and 2-0 on aggregate to reach the 2009/10 Tim Cup final. |
| 48' | Maicon has a late chance for the Nerazzurri, firing wide from 25 yards. |
| 48' | Gilardino is flagged offside as he nods wide a cross. |
| 45' | Four minutes of stoppage time to play. |
| 45' | Cristiano Zanetti sets up a chance for Gilardino, who beats the offside trap and pokes wide from close range. |
| 42' | Play interrupted momentarily as Cordoba has a touch of cramp to deal with. |
| 38' | Viola captain Montolivo's first-time shot from 25 yards whizzes wide of the post. |
| 34' | Final change for the Nerazzurri. Mariga replaces Thiago Motta. |
| 34' | Javier Zanetti sends a low shot wide after a gallop down the middle. |
| 33' | Santana blazes his 25-yard free kick high and wide. |
| 30' | Fiorentina bring on Gobbi for Natali. |
| 30' | Cristian Chivu close for Inter. The Romanian charges down the left channel and into the box, and unleashes a fierce shot that hits the sidenetting. |
| 24' | Another Santana effort. This time the Viola sub chooses to shoot wide of the other post. |
| 23' | Santana fires a low shot several yards wide of Julio Cesar's left-hand post. |
| 20' | ... and Milito for Balotelli. |
| 19' | Mourinho's response is Cambiasso for Eto'o... |
| 17' | Prandelli makes a double change: Keirrison (who scored in Saturday's night's 2-2 draw) replaces Vargas, while Santana comes on for Marchionni. |
| 14' | Chivu is booked for a foul on Marchionni. |
| 12' | Fiorentina now need to score three. |
| 12' | GOAL!!!!! Samuel Eto'o controls Thiago Motta's brilliant ball over the Fiorentina defence with his right foot and crashes a close-range shot past Frey with his left, and we have a foot in the final! FIORENTINA 0-1 INTER. |
| 10' | Thiago Motta is booked for a lunging tackle on Vargas. |
| 9' | Kroldrup tackles Eto'o in his own area and concedes a right-wing corner. Nothing comes of Maicon's cross from the flag as Rizzoli blows for a foul by Balotelli, although the replay shows a shove by Kroldrup on the Italian. |
| 7' | Vargas' cross from the left takes a slight deflection off Ivan Cordoba. Julio Cesar makes a smothering save. |
| 5' | Another chance for the Nerazzurri as Balotelli just fails to connect with Cordoba's cross-shot from Maicon's corner. |
| 4' | Balotelli's blistering long-range effort forces a tipped save from Frey. |
| 3' | De Silvestri's cross from the right falls to the feet of Vargas, whose half-volley is saved by Julio Cesar. |
| 2' | Maicon gets away from Montolivo down the right and swings in a cross for Balotelli. It's intercepted. |
| 1' | Fiorentina kick off the second half. Neither team has made any half-time substitutions. |