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Soccer-Inter Milan v Porto - statbox

LONDON, March 14 - Team news, statistics and
probable line-ups ahead of Tuesday's Champions League knockout
round, second leg match between Inter Milan and Porto:

INTER:

Suspended: Ivan Cordoba, Giuseppe Favalli (both one-match
bans)

Injured: Alvaro Recoba (shin)

Doubtful: Marco Materazzi (head), Christian Vieri (knee),
Obafemi Martins (back)

PORTO

Suspended: None

Injured: Jose Bosingwa (thigh)

Doubtful: None

Probable teams:

Inter Milan: 1-Francesco Toldo; 13-Ze Maria, 11-Sinisa
Mihajlovic, 23-Marco Materazzi, 4-Javier Zanetti; 5-Emre
Belozoglu, 14-Juan Sebastian Veron, 19-Esteban Cambiasso,
25-Dejan Stankovic; 10-Adriano, 30-Obafemi Martins (or
32-Christian Vieri)

Porto: 99-Vitor Baia; 22-Georgios Seitaridis, 5-Ricardo
Costa, 2-Jorge Costa, 8-Nuno Valente; 33-Raul Meireles,
18-Maniche Ribeiro, 6-Costinha, 16-Diego; 10-Ricardo
Quaresma, 77-Benni McCarthy

Referee: Terje Hauge (Norway)

Head-to-heads

Played: 1 Draws: 1

CL: KO 23.02.05 Porto 1 Inter Milan 1

- - Inter have not conceded a goal at home in the Champions
League this season and have lost just twice in 18 home games in
the competition.

- - Inter have won six and drawn one of their seven home
matches against Portuguese opponents.

- - Porto have lost only two of their last 12 European away
games, winning four of them and drawing six. They have won on
two of their last four visits to Italy.

- - Porto, UEFA Cup winners in 2003 and European champions
last year, risk being eliminated for the first time in three
seasons. They had a dismal Champions League second group phase
in 2001-02, losing four games out of six.

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