2001–02 Inter Milan season
2001–02 season | ||||
President | Massimo Moratti | |||
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Head coach | Héctor Cúper | |||
Stadium | San Siro | |||
Serie A | 3rd | |||
Coppa Italia | Round of 16 | |||
UEFA Cup | Semi-finals | |||
Top goalscorer |
League: Vieri (22) All: Vieri (25) | |||
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Season
Toward the beginning of the 2001–02 season, Héctor Cúper was appointed new coach.[1] Inter started well in Serie A, winning four times in five games.[2] However, they did not manage to lead in January: A goalless draw against Lazio, in matchday 17, resulted in second place.[3] During the return half, Inter collected 27 points in 11 matches before losing to Atalanta in early April. The side did not lose top position, but Juventus and Roma filled part of gap.[4] Inter also suffered a disappointment in UEFA Cup, being knocked out by Feyenoord.[5]
The last matchday resulted deadly for title hopes: Inter faced off with Lazio, who still had some chances for a European spot.[6] In the first half of the match, Karel Poborský equalized Christian Vieri and Luigi Di Biagio's goals. During the second half, Diego Simeone and Simone Inzaghi scored to give Lazio a 4–2 win.[7] As both Juventus and Roma won their games, Inter fell to third place, just reaching a Champions League's play-off.
Squad
- Squad at end of season[8]
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Left club during season
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Reserve squad
- The following players did not make an appearance for the first team.
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Results
Serie A
1 | Inter | 4–1 | Perugia | Milan, Lombardy |
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Kallon 21', 45' Vieri 90+1' (pen.), 90+4' |
Vryzas 66' | Stadium: San Siro |
2 | Parma | 2–2 | Inter | Parma, Emilia-Romagna |
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Milošević 27' Bonazzoli 85' |
Materazzi 10' Ventola 74' |
Stadium: Il Tardini |
6 | Udinese | 1–1 | Inter | Udine, Friuli-Venezia Giulia |
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Di Michele 88' (pen.) | Ventola 61' | Stadium: Stadio Friuli |
7 | Inter | 2–4 | Milan | Milan, Lombardy |
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Ventola 13' Kallon 90' |
Shevchenko 59', 77' Contra 61' F. Inzaghi 66' |
Stadium: San Siro |
8 | Juventus | 0–0 | Inter | Turin, Piedmont |
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Stadium: Stadio delle Alpi |
10 | Roma | 0–0 | Inter | Rome, Lazio |
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Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
12 | Atalanta | 2–4 | Inter | Bergamo, Lombardy |
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Doni 15', 21' (pen.) | Di Biagio 8' Vieri 60', 74' (pen.) Kallon 79' |
Stadium: Stadio Atleti Azzurri d'Italia |
13 | Brescia | 1–3 | Inter | Brescia, Lombardy |
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Tare 20' | Ronaldo 18' Vieri 63', 70' |
Stadium: Stadio Mario Rigamonti |
15 | Piacenza | 2–3 | Inter | Piacenza, Emilia-Romagna |
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Gautieri 55', 74' | Vieri 45' (pen.), 83' Kallon 69' |
Stadium: Stadio Leonardo Garilli |
22 | Bologna | 2–1 | Inter | Bologna, Emilia-Romagna |
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Pecchia 55' Zauli 73' |
Seedorf 88' | Stadium: Stadio Renato Dall'Ara |
23 | Verona | 0–3 | Inter | Verona, Veneto |
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C. Zanetti 32' Vieri 53', 88' |
Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi |
24 | Inter | 3–2 | Udinese | Milan, Lombardy |
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Vieri 27' Ventola 68' Conceição 86' |
Muzzi 80' Pinzi 88' |
Stadium: San Siro |
29 | Fiorentina | 0–1 | Inter | Florence, Tuscany |
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Vieri 61' | Stadium: Stadio Artemio Franchi |
32 | Chievo | 2–2 | Inter | Verona, Veneto |
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Marazzina 41' Cossato 90' |
Dalmat 46' Ronaldo 60' |
Stadium: Stadio Marc'Antonio Bentegodi |
33 | Inter | 3–1 | Piacenza | Milan, Lombardy |
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Córdoba 7' Recoba 70' Ronaldo 80' |
Matuzalém 36' | Stadium: San Siro |
34 | Lazio | 4–2 | Inter | Rome, Lazio |
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Poborský 19', 45' Simeone 55' S. Inzaghi 73' |
Vieri 12' Di Biagio 24' |
Stadium: Stadio Olimpico |
UEFA Cup
First round
20 September 2001 | Internazionale | 3–0 | Brașov | Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste |
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21:00 CET | Dalmat 23' Kallon 31' Di Biagio 41' |
Report | Referee: Fernando Mendez (Spain) |
27 September 2001 | Brașov | 0–3 | Internazionale | Stadionul Tineretului, Brașov |
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Ventola 14', 79' Guly 36' |
Internazionale won 6–0 on aggregate.
Second round
18 October 2001 | Internazionale | 2–0 | Wisła Kraków | Stadio Nereo Rocco, Trieste |
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21:00 | Kallon 61', 65' | Report | Referee: Leslie Irvine (Northern Ireland) |
30 October 2001 | Wisła Kraków | 1–0 | Internazionale | Wisła Stadium, Kraków |
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13:00 | Żurawski 4' | Report | Referee: Paulo Paraty (Portugal) |
Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.
Third round
22 November 2001 | Ipswich Town | 1–0 | Internazionale | Portman Road, Ipswich |
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20:45 | Armstrong 81' | Report | Referee: Kim Milton Nielsen (Denmark) |
6 December 2001 | Internazionale | 4–1 | Ipswich Town | Stadio Giuseppe Meazza, Milan |
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21:00 | Vieri 19', 34', 71' Kallon 46' |
Report | Armstrong 79' (pen.) | Referee: Graham Barber (England) |
Internazionale won 4–2 on aggregate.
Fourth round
21 February 2002 | Internazionale | 3–1 | AEK Athens | San Siro, Milan |
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21:00 | J. Zanetti 14' Kallon 37' Ventola 56' |
Report | Zagorakis 8' | Referee: Graham Poll (England) |
28 February 2002 | AEK Athens | 2–2 | Internazionale | Nikos Goumas Stadium, Nea Filadelfeia |
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20:30 | Konstantinidis 23' Nikolaidis 56' |
Report | Greško 20' Ventola 57' |
Referee: Karl-Erik Nilsson (Sweden) |
Internazionale won 5–3 on aggregate.
Quarter-finals
14 March 2002 | Internazionale | 1–1 | Valencia | San Siro, Milan |
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21:00 | Materazzi 50' | Report | Rufete 66' | Attendance: 24,184 Referee: Markus Merk (Germany) |
21 March 2002 | Valencia | 0–1 | Internazionale | Estadio Mestalla, Valencia |
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21:45 | Report | Ventola 4' | Attendance: 50,000 Referee: Claude Colombo (France) |
Internazionale won 2–1 on aggregate.
Semi-finals
4 April 2002 | Internazionale | 0–1 | Feyenoord | San Siro, Milan |
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21:00 | Report | Córdoba 51' (o.g.) | Attendance: 39,622 Referee: Ľuboš Micheľ (Slovakia) |
11 April 2002 | Feyenoord | 2–2 | Internazionale | De Kuip, Rotterdam |
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20:30 | Van Hooijdonk 17' Tomasson 34' |
Report | C. Zanetti 83' Kallon 89' (pen.) |
Attendance: 49,904 Referee: Antonio Jesús López Nieto (Spain) |
Feyenoord won 3–2 on aggregate.
Statistics
Appearances and goals
- Not including Coppa Italia appearances[9]
No. | Pos | Nat | Player | Total | Serie A | Coppa Italia | UEFA Cup | ||||||
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Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||||||
Goalkeepers | |||||||||||||
1 | GK | Francesco Toldo | 42 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | |||
12 | GK | Alberto Fontana | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
Defenders | |||||||||||||
2 | DF | Iván Córdoba | 41 | 1 | 30 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 11 | 0 | |||
4 | DF | Javier Zanetti | 43 | 1 | 33 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 1 | |||
13 | DF | Dario Šimić | 20 | 0 | 6+6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5+3 | 0 | |||
15 | DF | Salvatore Ferraro | 2 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
16 | DF | Gonzalo Sorondo | 11 | 0 | 8+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
17 | DF | Michele Serena | 2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
23 | DF | Marco Materazzi | 31 | 2 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |||
24 | DF | Vratislav Greško | 32 | 1 | 23 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8+1 | 1 | |||
31 | DF | Nelson Vivas | 16 | 0 | 1+12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2+1 | 0 | |||
Midfielders | |||||||||||||
6 | MF | Cristiano Zanetti | 32 | 2 | 25+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 1 | |||
7 | MF | Sérgio Conçeicão | 31 | 1 | 16+7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 5+3 | 0 | |||
8 | MF | Francisco Farinós | 15 | 0 | 5+5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 | |||
10 | MF | Clarence Seedorf | 30 | 3 | 17+3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6+4 | 0 | |||
11 | MF | Guly | 31 | 1 | 20+3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 8 | 1 | |||
14 | MF | Luigi Di Biagio | 40 | 4 | 31 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 8+1 | 1 | |||
18 | MF | Stéphane Dalmat | 23 | 1 | 11+5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4+3 | 0 | |||
21 | MF | Grigorios Georgatos | 12 | 1 | 9+1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1+1 | 0 | |||
33 | MF | Emre Belözoğlu | 19 | 0 | 0+13 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5+1 | 0 | |||
77 | MF | Okan Buruk | 10 | 0 | 3+4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | |||
Forwards | |||||||||||||
3 | FW | Mohamed Kallon | 39 | 15 | 16+12 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 10+1 | 6 | |||
9 | FW | Ronaldo | 15 | 7 | 9+1 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 1+4 | 0 | |||
20 | FW | Álvaro Recoba | 22 | 6 | 15+3 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1+3 | 0 | |||
32 | FW | Christian Vieri | 27 | 25 | 25 | 22 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | |||
78 | FW | Nicola Ventola | 24 | 9 | 12+3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 7+2 | 5 | |||
Players transferred out during the season | |||||||||||||
15 | MF | Benoît Cauet | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0+1 | 0 | |||
28 | FW | Adriano | 13 | 1 | 0+8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 4+1 | 0 |
Last updated: 10 May 2002
Source: Competitions
Top scorers
R | Player | League | UEFA Cup | Coppa Italia | Total |
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1 | Christian Vieri | 22 | 3 | 0 | 25 |
2 | Mohammed Kallon | 9 | 6 | 0 | 15 |
3 | Nicola Ventola | 4 | 5 | 1 | 10 |
4 | Ronaldo | 7 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
5 | Álvaro Recoba | 6 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
6 | Luigi Di Biagio | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Clarence Seedorf | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 | |
8 | Stéphane Dalmat | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
Cristiano Zanetti | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 | |
Marco Materazzi | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
References
- ↑ Enrico Currò; Gianni Piva (17 June 2001). "L'addio di Mancini e Tardelli l'ex ct sta pensando all'Arabia" (in Italian). la Repubblica.
- ↑ Gianni Piva (27 August 2001). "Kallon Vieri è subito show Perugia ko, Cuper esulta" (in Italian). la Repubblica.
- ↑ (Italian) Rai Sport news of 6 January 2002
- ↑ Emilio Marrese (20 April 2002). ""Lo scudetto? Decidiamo noi" Inter e Roma torna l'effetto Chievo" (in Italian). repubblica.it.
- ↑ "Feyenoord-Internazionale 2-2" (in Dutch). Beijen.net. 11 April 2002.
- ↑ Massimo Vincenzi (4 May 2002). "Lo scudetto al veleno si decide nei primi 45'" (in Italian). repubblica.it.
- ↑ Massimo Vincenzi (5 May 2002). "Dramma Inter all'Olimpico si illude, poi è terza" (in Italian). repubblica.it.
- ↑ http://www.footballsquads.co.uk/italy/2001-2002/seriea/inter.htm
- ↑ http://www.soccerbase.com/teams/team.sd?team_id=1370&teamTabs=stats