Fiorentina 2-3 Inter: Cambiasso (2), Ibra (1)
Esteban
Cambiasso scored twice and set up Zlatan
Ibrahimovic for the other as Inter opened their defence of the title with a 3-2 win at Fiorentina.
Ibra netted his first goal in black and blue after Cambiasso's first-half double, with Luca Toni scoring twice in ten second-half minutes to set up a tense finale.
Cambiasso broke the deadlock after ten minutes of play at the Artemio Franchi, finishing off a flowing passing move involving
Dacourt,
Crespo and
Ibrahimovic with a low left-footed drive into the bottom right corner.
The Argentina midfielder celebrated his goal by pointing to the sky in honour of Giaincto Facchetti, for whom a minute's silence was observed before kick-off.
Cambiasso doubled his tally four minutes before half time, heading Figo's cross past Frey at the back post after the Portuguese winger combined with
Ibrahimovic in a counter attack down the right.
Hernan
Crespo had two good chances in the opening forty-five minutes. After sending a near-post header from Figo's free kick just over the bar, the Argentine forward forced a save from Frey with a blistering diagonal shot.
Ibrahimovic thought he had made sure of the points on 62 minutes when he volleyed in Cambiasso's assist to put Inter 3-0 up.
But last season's top scorer Toni made the Nerazzurri sweat for their victory, heading in crosses from Mutu and Reginaldo to throw Fiorentina a lifeline.
The Nerazzurri held on for victory, and
Figo could have restored Inter's two-goal advantage on the stroke of full time but he dragged Crespo's cut-back wide of the far post.
FIORENTINA 2-3 INTER (HT: 0-2)
Scorers:
Cambiasso 11, 41,
Ibrahimovic 62, Toni 68, 79
FIORENTINA: 1 Frey; 21 Ujfalusi (6 Potenza 71), 3 Dainelli, 5 Gamberini, 23 Pasqual; 4 Donadel, 11 Liverani (18 Montolivo 54), 17 Blasi; 19 Gobbi (83 Reginaldo 54), 10 Mutu, 30 Toni
Subs not used: 14 Lobont, 2 Kroldrup, 20 Jorgensen, 15 Paolucci
Coach: Cesare Prandelli
INTER: 1
Toldo; 13
Maicon, 2
Cordoba, 23
Materazzi (25
Samuel 59), 4
Zanetti; 14
Vieira (5
Stankovic 76), 19
Cambiasso (11
Grosso 84), 15
Dacourt; 7
Figo; 8
Ibrahimovic, 18
Crespo
Subs not used: 79
Carini, 91
Choutos, 9
Cruz, 10
Adriano
Coach: Roberto Mancini
Referee: Roberto Rosetti (Turin)
Booked: Toni 68, Donadel 80, Pasqual 88,
Ibrahimovic 90+3