Javier Zanetti Quotations

We started the worst way. Luckily, the team showed a lot of determination and I believe our victory was deserved. But we must prepare for a tough second leg. A wait-and-see tactic would be a mistake because we must go there and play our match, and possibly win.

We cannot afford to underestimate any of our opponents but if we continue to play as we have done so far this summer, then we will qualify.

We respect Porto and know the game will be difficult, but we want victory at all costs and we know we can achieve it.

He is an excellent team-mate and an excellent person, ... He had to go through some tough times recently when his father died, but that never stopped him showing concern for all of his team-mates. He has great humility. Generally, at Inter everybody looks after everybody else, but he is especially good this way. And as an opponent - well everybody already knows - he is like a bulldozer, very tough to play against - one of the best strikers in the world.

We were very pleased about his goal. For him it was fundamental to start scoring again. The last two weeks of training without matches in between have done him a lot of good. Adri is improving, he can be an important weapon for the team. Let's hope he doesn't stop scoring now.

The European Cup is very important, but there are still a lot of games to play in the league and we want to start winning again as soon as possible so we can make the best finish to the season. But besides the championship we're still in the running for the Champions League and the Tim Cup . We want to win both these competitions.

They (Roma) told us it was really ugly, but we've got to stay concentrated, this game is too important.

We're not going through an easy time, but it's at these moments when you see a team's real value, and we really want to show this.

The important thing is the victory, we managed to score three goals in a match that could have become difficult. It's fundamental for the team to continue to create lots of chances, we must take advantage of all the qualities we have in attack and try to kill off matches.

There are things that can't be explained in soccer. That's what happened against Brazil, we can't explain what went wrong.