By Nadia CarminatiRoberto Mancini is 'convinced' Internazionale can turn around a 2-0 deficit against Liverpool in the UEFA Champions League.
Late goals from Dirk Kuyt and Steven Gerrard secured last season's beaten finalists a potentially decisive advantage in the last 16 tie.
Inter had Marco Materazzi sent off in the first half at Anfield and Mancini is upbeat about the prospects of reaching the quarter-finals.
"They put us under pressure from the start and didn't let us play much," Mancini told Sky Italia. "They closed down every space and pressed us very hard.
"They slowed down a bit as the minutes ticked by and we didn't risk much.
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."It's normal to meet a few difficulties when you're playing away from home against a great opponent in a stadium like this. Unfortunately we paid dearly for Materazzi's sending-off. Everything was much harder with 10 men. With 11 against 11 it would have been a completely different match.
"Everything went well up to the 85th minute, and we held up without conceding too much. We should have been a bit more careful.
"We'll have to score three goals in the return leg and it won't be easy, but I'm convinced that it's possible.
"I didn't play Patrick (Vieira) from the start because he didn't have many minutes in his legs. I thought he could be more useful in the second half, and I was obviously hoping for it to be 11 against 11. However, he did well when he came on."
"Everything went well up to the 85th minute, and we held up without conceding too much. We should have been a bit more careful.
"We'll have to score three goals in the return leg and it won't be easy, but I'm convinced that it's possible.
"I didn't play Patrick (Vieira) from the start because he didn't have many minutes in his legs. I thought he could be more useful in the second half, and I was obviously hoping for it to be 11 against 11. However, he did well when he came on."
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