It seemed only a matter of time before Chelsea broke the deadlock but they got beaten by the half time whistle.

I think they need to go for it and not wait until the last 15-20 minutes!!!

What's happened to Eto'o? Looks a shadow of the player he was at Barca

Much like Ballack, he'll get the winner but he has been anonamous

Scratch that he won't get the winner because he has been rightly withdrawn

Inter missing some chances this half. Can't help but think Chelsea are going to make them pay

Wigan 1 (Caldwell) Villa 2 (McCarthy og, Milner)

Whoops

Chelsea

Ancelotti sacked then?

They deserve to go out, can you imagine United or Arsenal playing this boring at home when they need a result in the second leg?

Chelsea out and moaning again. Hope Lionheart doesn't start crying.

rlrl

I'll admit - I like that

Thought we deserved to go out over the 180 minutes. Didn't show anything like the attacking skill we'd need to score. Inter's attacks in the first half were few and far between, but when they attacked they knew what they were doing and caused problems.

Referee was eagle eyed at any pushing at Chelsea's corners, but completely blind to the Inter players dragging Chelsea players down. For Ballack's close effort the lino was flagging for offside for a Chelsea player even though he was nowhere near interfering with play. For Drogba's sending off the Inter player seemed to go into Drogba's back deliberately, the ref and lino didn't see that, but they managed to see Drogba's retaliation and give him a red card for it. I'm not a believer in conspiracy theories, but when the controversial decisions mount up it makes you wonder.

Well done Roman. Sacking Jose was such a great idea, eh? Still, the football Carlo serves is so much better, isn't it? Jose wouldn't have smacked Sunderland 7-2. And it's smacking Sunderland that's really important, isn't it?

I thought it was pretty harsh decision. But tonight, Inter looked really good. Sneijder especially. I don't want them in the next round.