| Minute | Text commentary |
| 46' | It's goalless at the Jose Alvalade after the first half. |
| 45' | 1 minute of added time. |
| 45' | Nani gets a shot in from 25 yards. Good save by Toldo. |
| 45' | Nani's shot from the free kick hits the Inter wall. |
| 44' | Vieira is booked for protesting. |
| 44' | Free kick to Sporting just outside the Inter area for a foul from behind by Dacourt on Nani. |
| 43' | Another good chance for Inter. Adriano rises above his marker and heads Ibra's high cross on target. Ricardo collects. |
| 41' | Inter's third attempt on goal falls to Adriano. The Brazilian latches on to a Figo pass and tests Ricardo with a fierce, but central shot which is saved by the Sporting custodian. |
| 38' | Adriano takes on three opponents in a run down the left then plays inside to Figo whose forward pass for Stankovic is wayward. |
| 35' | Abel's fierce cross-shot from the right goes out of play at the far side. |
| 34' | Inter hit back at Sporting. Figo runs on to Stankovic's ball over the Portuguese defence but is flagged offside. |
| 32' | That was Francesco's first yellow card since he joined Inter in 2001. |
| 32' | Toldo is cautioned for asking Hamer to book a Sporting player. |
| 32' | Another good save by Toldo, this time from Caneira's cross from another Romagnoli through ball. |
| 31' | Toldo moves quickly off his line and smothers the ball to deny Nani a shot from Romagnoli's through ball. |
| 28' | Moutinho's high cross from the resulting free kick is caught by Francesco Toldo. |
| 27' | Ref Hamer shows Ivan Cordoba a yellow card for a foul on Liedson on the left flank. |
| 26' | Nerazzurri captain for the evening Cordoba blocks a Veloso cross from the right. Corner to Sporting. |
| 25' | At the other end Abel's shot from the distance is way over the Inter bar. |
| 24' | Inter mount a promising attack with Stankovic, Figo and Ibra but Adriano's final pass finishes at the feet of an opponent. |
| 23' | Grosso's cross from a right-wing free kick is blocked by the Sporting defence. |
| 21' | Moutinho is yellow-carded for tripping Patrick Vieira. |
| 21' | Maicon makes a good headed clearance from a Sporting cross. |
| 20' | Sporting get back in numbers to snuff out a Nerazzurri attack involving Figo, Ibrahimovic and Adriano. |
| 16' | Liedson is booked for striking Cordoba in the face. |
| 15' | Sporting hit Inter on the break. Walter Samuel makes a timely tackle on Yannick to deny the Lisbon player a shot on goal. |
| 15' | Ibra, Figo and Vieira combine on the right. The French midfielder sweeps wide to Stankovic, whose shot is blocked. |
| 14' | Abel's long cross from the right finishes over Toldo's bar. |
| 10' | Francesco Toldo makes a punched clearance from the corner kick. |
| 10' | Liedson plays through the legs of Maicon on the left-wing by-line but Stankovic gets back in time to tackle the Sporting forward and concede a corner. |
| 5' | Fabio Grosso's long curling free kick is collected by Ricardo. |
| 4' | Maicon intercepts in his own half, makes a storming run into the Sporting half and wins a free kick on the wing after colliding with an opponent. |
| 1' | Good evening and welcome to the Estadio Jose Alvalade, where Inter's assault on the Champions League starts with a Group B Matchday 1 clash with Sporting Lisbon. The two sides met last month in a pre-season friendly, which ended in a 0-0 draw. |
| 1' | Ibrahimovic's shot from the distance is too central. Easy save for Sporting keeper Ricardo. |
| 1' | Sporting kick off. FORZA INTER! |
| 1' | Tonight's match will kick off after a minute's silence in memory of Giacinto Facchetti. |
| 1' | Sporting lineup: 1 Ricardo; 78 Abel, 13 Tonel, 4 Polga, 12 Caneira; 18 Nani, 24 Veloso, 28 Joao Moutinho; 30 Romagnoli; 20 Yannick, 31 Liedson. |
| 1' | Inter lineup: 1 Toldo; 13 Maicon, 2 Cordoba, 25 Samuel, 11 Grosso; 7 Figo, 14 Vieira, 15 Dacourt, 5 Stankovic; 8 Ibrahimovic, 10 Adriano. |
| Minute | Text commentary |
| 49' | Full time. Sporting Lisbon beat Inter 1-0. |
| 46' | Great defending by Samuel, who gets back in time to tackle a goalbound Yannick. |
| 45' | Four minutes of added time to play. |
| 43' | Zlatan Ibrahimovic goes close with a grasscutter from 30 yards. It's inches wide of the left post. |
| 38' | Sporting replace Nani with Tello. |
| 37' | Alecsandro drifts in from the right and pulls his low shot from 25 yards well wide of the near post. |
| 35' | Roberto Mancini makes his third substitution: On comes Zanetti for Grosso. |
| 33' | Stankovic receives on the left and manages to keep the ball in play before crossing into the area. A Sporting player heads clear. |
| 32' | Liedson only just fails to make headed contact with Moutinho's whipped cross into the six-yard box. |
| 26' | Mancini replaces Adriano with Hernan Crespo. |
| 23' | It is Vieira's second booking of the match, meaning the Nerazzurri will play the remaining 22 minutes with ten men. |
| 23' | Patrick Vieira is booked for a foul on Liedson. |
| 21' | Sporting bring on Alecsandro for Romagnoli. |
| 21' | Inter replace Luis Figo with Mariano Gonzalez. |
| 19' | Sporting 1-0 Inter. Caneira controls a long pass with his chest to cut inside Maicon, then lets the ball bounce and volleys an unstoppable shot in off the underside of the crossbar. |
| 18' | Ivan Cordoba blocks and clears Caneira's dangerous ball in from the left. |
| 17' | Another good chance for the home side. Yannick plays into space for the onrushing Liedson to blaze over the bar. |
| 16' | Back at the other end Figo sweeps wide to Grosso, whose cross from the left-wing by-line is caught by Ricardo. |
| 15' | Romagnoli's 20-yard shot from a quickly taken Sporting corner is well wide of the far post. |
| 11' | Ricardo fails to punch clear a Figo corner from the right but his defence get to the loose ball and clear. |
| 10' | Inter win a free kick on the left wing. Figo's inswinging cross is cleared by Sporting. |
| 9' | At the other end Stankovic plays short to Adriano in the area. The Brazilian lifts the ball over one opponent, sidesteps a second and loses control before the Sporting defence clear. |
| 8' | Nani collects a pass, turns and lashes a shot wide of Toldo's left-hand post. |
| 5' | Toldo makes a high catch from a Caneira cross to deny Liedson. |
| 2' | Adriano whips in a cross from the left channel but there's no team-mate on hand in the area. |
| 1' | Inter get the second half going. |