At 8 p.m. on August 8, exactly a year after the opening of the Beijing Olympic Games, the Italian Super Cup kicked off at the nearly full-packed Bird’s Nest with a seating capacity of 80,000 people. The match was between the newly-crowned Series A champion Inter Milan and reigning Cup champions Lazio.

Matuzalem opened the scoring for Lazio in the 19th minute of the second half after picking captain Tommaso Rocchi’s deflected freekick in the box. Three minutes later, Rocchi chipped a superb shot at the edge of the area in a counter attack to beat a helpless Julio Cesar. Samuel Eto’o pulled one back with a small angle shot on the left side following a defensive error. But the first goal made by the Cameroonian striker for his new club could not change the result. Lazio sank Inter Milan 2-1 to take the Italian Super Cup.