Zlatan Ibrahimovic in 2006 Supercoppa Italiana - Inter vs. Roma (26.08.2006, "San Siro" Milan)
INTER: F. Toldo, J. Zanetti (c), M. Materazzi, W. Samuel, F. Grosso (D. Maicon '54), L. Figo, P. Vieira, E. Cambiasso, D. Stankovic (O. Dacourt '106), Z. Ibrahimovic, Adriano (H. Crespo '61)
Manager: Roberto Mancini
ROMA: Doni, C. Panucci, P. Mexes, C. Chivu, L. Cufrè, D. De Rossi, A. Aquilani (M. Tonetto '80), A. Mancini, S. Perrotta, R. Taddei (M. Cassetti '66), F. Totti (A. Mido '72)
Manager: Luciano Spalletti
REFEREE: Massimiliano Saccani
GOALS: Mancini '13 (0:1), Aquilani '25 (0:2), Aquilani '34 (0:3), Vieira '44 (1:3), Crespo '65 (2:3), Vieira '74 (3:3), Figo '95 (4:3)
BOOKED: Vieira '30, Taddei '44, Cassetti '70, Maicon '80, Cambiasso '116, Mido '119
TIMECODES:
07:35 Zlatan's 180 degree turn
08:53 Zlatan does false trick
09:12 - 09:55 Vieira scores by Ibrahimovic's cross-shot
10:58 Zlatan misses 100% chance to score
13:12 Zlatan fails
17:41 Zlatan back heel pass on Figo
SUMMARY - The 2006 Supercoppa Italiana was a match contested by the 2005-06 winners Internazionale and the 2005-06 Coppa Italia runners-up Roma. The Coppa Italia runners-up were chosen to play instead of the winners because of the aftermath of the 2006 Serie A match-fixing scandal. As a result, Juventus, the original league winners, were relegated to Serie B and replaced by Inter as champions. Since the Coppa Italia winners were also the newly appointed league champions, the Super Cup spot was given to the runners-up of the Coppa Italia, Roma. The match resulted in a 4-3 win for Inter after extra time.
Roma took a 13th-minute lead through Amantino Mancini who nodded in after Zanetti and Toldo failed to clear Panucci's cross. Aquilani added his team's second goal twelve minutes later, sliding past Toldo and into the bottom left-hand corner after a defence-splitting one-two with Francesco Totti. The Giallorossi capitalised on Inter's indecision at the back, Aquilani finishing off a well-worked move to score his second and give the visitors a seemingly unassailable lead.
But it wasn't to be. Vieira opened his scoring account for Inter on the stroke of half time to give the Nerazzurri a lifeline. The France captain rose in the box and powered a header from Figo's cross past goalkeeper Doni. Roberto Mancini made two early changes in the second half, bringing on Maicon for Fabio Grosso and Hernan Crespo for Adriano. The Argentine forward obliged with Inter's second goal four minutes later, stealing in at the near post to meet Stankovic's whipped cross and direct his header over the line. Playing with renewed belief, Inter continued to produce chances coming forward and drew level when Vieira slid Ibrahimovic's cross-shot into the roof of the net and lift the roof off the Meazza. Luis Figo completed the comeback in the first period of extra time, finding the top left corner with a well taken free kick to make it a good end to a bad start.