| Minute | Text commentary |
| 46' | Hernan Crespo's splendid early strike separates the two teams after the opening 45 minutes at the Giuseppe Meazza. |
| 46' | Aronica's long-range effort takes a deflection. Corner to Reggina. Aronica's cross is headed clear by Ivan Cordoba. |
| 45' | One minute of added time. |
| 45' | Nothing comes of the corner. |
| 45' | Stankovic's cross from a Figo pass is deflected out for a corner by Aronica. |
| 43' | Crespo's shot from a Burdisso left-wing cross is well off-target. |
| 42' | Mesto wins a corner for Reggina after combining well with Leon on the right wing. Cordoba's headed clearance from the corner falls to Modesto whose deflected shot wins the Amaranto another corner kick. |
| 40' | Figo plays short to Stankovic. The Serbian's long-range effort is well wide. |
| 39' | Free kick to Inter in a central position 30 yards out, awarded for a foul on Cruz. |
| 38' | Julio 'El Jardinero' Cruz goes close with a low shot from a tight angle after receiving from Solari on the left side of the Reggina area. |
| 37' | Reggina coach Walter Mazzarri is sent off for protesting. |
| 33' | Tognozzi fires wide from inside the Inter box after Burdisso's attempt at a headed clearance from Leon's free kick spins up into the air. |
| 30' | Pelizzoli blocks a Crespo effort from a Figo through ball. Figo then goes close with a hooked volley from the loose ball. |
| 30' | Great defending by Javier Zanetti. The Inter captain races back to beat Missiroli to a Leon pass and calmly brings the ball out of defence. |
| 28' | Santiago Solari skips past an opponent on the left, advances a yard and sends a cross-shot narrowly wide of the back post. |
| 26' | Nicolas Burdisso booked for a foul on Leon. |
| 25' | Stankovic shakes off challenges from two opponents before passing low into the Reggina area. Crespo and Cruz, playing in attack together for the first time this season, are beaten to the ball. |
| 25' | Figo enters the Reggina box from the right after taking on an opponent. The Portuguese winger's diagonal shot is blocked. |
| 24' | Missiroli receives on the left and whips in a cross for Leon, whose shot is blocked by two Inter players. |
| 23' | Stankovic looks for Crespo on the edge of the Reggina area. Lanzaro intercepts and clears. |
| 20' | Samuel booked for a foul on Bianchi. |
| 18' | Reggina split the Inter defence open with a good move down the right. Samuel blocks a Leon shot from a left-wing Modesto cross. |
| 13' | Stankovic blocks a Leon cross from the right. Nothing comes of the resulting corner. |
| 12' | Free kick to Reggina in a central position 25 yards out. Leon's effort is over the bar. |
| 11' | Julio Cesar makes a one-handed save from Leon's cross-shot from a narrow angle. |
| 10' | The Calabrians go close again. This time Simone Missiroli sends a flicked header on to the post. |
| 9' | Reggina close as their captain Mesto bursts past Burdisso in the area before crossing to the far post where Cordoba makes a headed clearance to deny Bianchi a tap-in. |
| 7' | Bianchi is beaten to Leon's free kick into the Inter box. |
| 4' | GOOOOAAAALLL!!!! Magnificent goal by Hernan Crespo, who runs on to Patrick Vieira's looping headed pass over an opponent in the area before lashing right-footed into the back of the net. |
| 3' | A Figo cross spins off Amerini and falls to Burdisso who crosses from the left wing to the far post. Reggina head clear to deny Cruz. |
| 1' | Inter: 12 Julio Cesar; 4 Zanetti, 2 Cordoba, 25 Samuel, 16 Burdisso; 7 Figo, 5 Stankovic, 14 Vieira, 21 Solari; 9 Cruz, 18 Crespo. |
| 1' | Reggina: 22 Pelizzoli; 55 Lanzaro, 4 Giosa, 6 Aronica; 20 Mesto, 16 Amerini, 8 Tognozzi, 23 Modesto; 27 Leon, 9 Bianchi, 34 Missiroli. |
| 1' | Reggina kick off. FORZA INTER!!!!!!!! |
| 1' | Welcome to the Stadio Giuseppe Meazza for Inter v Reggina. With Palermo beaten at Cagliari last night, a victory this afternoon will see the Nerazzurri move three points clear at the top of the Serie A table. |
| Minute | Text commentary |
| 48' | There's no time to take the corner as Rocchi blows his whistle. Inter beat Reggina 1-0 and move three points clear at the top of the table. See you on Wednesday for Inter v Sporting Lisbon. |
| 48' | Zanetti wins Inter a corner in the dying seconds after a run down the left. |
| 45' | There will be three minutes of added time. |
| 45' | Adriano receives from Stankovic on the left and unselfishly plays back to the Serbian who has continued his run, but Dejan slices wide his shot from the edge of the Reggina area. |
| 42' | Free kick to the Amaranto on the right. Samuel makes a headed clearance. |
| 41' | Reggina bring on Danish player Nielsen for Amerini. |
| 41' | Stankovic's ball wide for Adriano is cut out by a Reggina defender, who plays back to Pelizzoli. |
| 39' | Dejan Stankovic floats a ball over to Adriano on the right side of the Reggina area but Aronica keeps the Brazilian at bay. |
| 39' | Leon booked for a foul on Burdisso. |
| 38' | Crespo overhits his pass for Adriano in the Reggina area. Pelizzoli gathers the ball. |
| 37' | Reggina replace Tognozzi with Carobbio. |
| 34' | Pelizzoli smothers a Crespo cross into the six-yard box from the right wing. |
| 32' | Mesto booked for protesting. |
| 32' | Reggina have an equalising goal ruled out. Tognozzi's shot from 25 yards comes off Bianchi, who was in an offside position, and goes over the line. |
| 31' | Rios looks for Bianchi with a high cross from the right. Maicon gets to the ball first and heads clear. |
| 30' | Inter make their third subsitution. And it's a tactical one as Olivier Dacourt replaces Luis Figo. |
| 29' | Tognozzi is lucky to stay on the field after a bad foul on Figo. Free kick to Inter in a central position about 40 yards out. |
| 28' | Giosa beats Adriano to Figo's pass down the left and plays calmly back to Pelizzoli. |
| 25' | Free kick to Reggina on the right wing. Leon's cross is headed clear by Walter Samuel. |
| 24' | Inter hit Reggina on the break but fail to capitalise as Adriano is beaten to a Crespo cross from the left. |
| 22' | Pelizzoli beats Crespo to a Figo cross from the left. |
| 22' | Figo's cross from the left-wing corner flag is cleared as far as Maicon, whose cross from the right is headed wide by Cordoba at the back post. |
| 21' | Figo's curling free kick is cleared by the Reggina defence but the Nerazzurri remain in attack and Crespo has an effort deflected wide for a corner. |
| 20' | Free kick to Inter 25 yards out on the right side of the Reggina area for an Amerini foul on Maicon. |
| 19' | Javier Zanetti gets to the edge of the Reggina area and unleashes a right-foot shot that goes over the far post. |
| 19' | Aronica cuts out Stankovic's low through ball for Crespo. |
| 18' | Rios is straight into the action. The Argentine sends a right-foot volley wide of Julio Cesar's left-hand post. |
| 17' | Reggina bring on Rios for the injured Missiroli. |
| 13' | Adriano combines well with Maicon in the opposing box but the Reggina defence clears. |
| 12' | Julio Cesar is quick off his line to deny Modesto a clear chance on goal. |
| 11' | Tognozzi booked for a foul on Vieira. |
| 10' | Crespo fails to reach an Adriano ball in from the left wing. |
| 9' | Roberto Mancini makes his second switch: on comes Maicon for Solari. |
| 9' | Reggina hit back at Inter who have Zanetti to thank for a hooked clearance in his own box. |
| 8' | Crespo receives on the left after a mazy run by Solari and whips in a cross. Aronica clears. |
| 7' | Inter replace Julio Cruz (knee injury) with Adriano, who makes his return to competitive action after a month out. |
| 6' | Crucial intervention by Vieira who beats Missiroli to Bianchi's headed pass into the Inter six-yard box. |
| 4' | The Meazza applauds Julio Cesar for a terrific one-handed save from Tognozzi's 20-yard shot. |
| 1' | Inter get the second half under way. |
| 1' | Giosa makes a headed clearance from a Zanetti cross as the Nerazzurri make an attacking start to the second period. |