At half-time, Twain praised the team's overall performance and asked the team to continue playing like that. Mourinho, on the other hand, was not as relaxed; he was concerned about Quaresma's injury and how to crack Nottingham Forest's defensive counter-attack tactics. Other than improving their offense, what else was there to do?
Inter Milan were quite demoralized. Quaresma had suffered such a serious injury because the situation was disadvantageous — the news from Comby confirmed that Quaresma would miss all of the games this season and it was not clear when he would return.
However, Mourinho had spun this into something to boost the team's morale with. He used Quaresma's broken leg to inspire the players in the team, telling them that there was no way back and that he would have to roll back to Milan if they did not work hard enough. He also said that Quaresma's injury would have been for nothing.
