Inter extended their state of grace with a victory over Sassuolo (4-2) matching Juventus in second place in Serie A and putting their qualification for the 2023-2024 Champions League on track.
Inter did not lose focus in a game between two exciting semifinal derbies of the current edition of the Champions League against Milan. But the team Simone Inzaghi, who introduced eight changes compared to 0-2 on Wednesday, is going through a whole moment and liquidated Sassuolo thanks to two doubles, one by Romelu Lukaku and another by own goals from the unfortunate Ruan Tressoldi.
Only Acerbi, Dimarco and Mkhitaryan repeated regarding the first Champions League derby. A massive rotation that didn’t stop Inzaghi from fielding a guaranteed eleven in the battle with Lukaku as the spearhead.
Two disallowed starting goals
The first minutes are marked by two goals were disallowed for offside before the shots. The first, the work of Domenico Berardi, It was invalidated by VAR due to Armand Laurienté’s wrong position (11′). And in the second, marked by Joaquin Correa, the video arbitration confirms that Federico Dimarco has received ‘offside’ (15′).
After this poor start, Sassuolo dominated and had two good chances to go ahead with a solo header from matheus henrique that went wide (20′) and on a counter Davide Frattesi, in an enviable position, finished in the hands of Samir Handanovic (40′).
Lukaku opened the can with a great goal
Inter woke up late in the first half and, after two consecutive chances from Correa and Lukaku, the latter opened the scoring before the break (42′). The Belgian received from Danilo D’Ambrosio, he shielded the ball in front of his marker and as he turned back he unleashed a whip from the edge of the area beat Andrea Consigli.
Two own goals by Tressoldi
On the break brought by Inzaghi Lautaro Martinez for Correa and Inter came out determined to seal the match. The Argentinian proved it immediately with a shot that missed him, but The scorer was Tressoldi with two consecutive own goals (54′ and 58′) by deflecting two shots from Raoul Bellanova towards his goal. The affected Brazilian central defender was replaced shortly after.
Inter are resting
At 3-0, Inter believed the game was settled and relaxed. But Sassuolo did not raise the white flag and scored two goals through Matheus Henrique (63′) and Frattesi (77′), who led, unmarked, the centers of Berardi and Rogerio.
Inter had to reconnect and, in the 89′, Lukaku judged receives space from Marcelo Brozovic, faces Consigli and crosses the ball with his left foot despite little space.
Lukaku’s eighth league goal
It was the eighth league goal, fifth in the last four games, by a Lukaku who has re-emerged at the decisive stage of the season. Inter have won five games in Serie A and on Tuesday they face the decisive Champions League derby full of morale.
INTER
42
SASSUOLO
Inter: Handanovic; D’Ambrosio, De Vrij (Bastoni, 73′), Acerbi; Bellanova (Darmian, 79′), Gagliardini, Brozovic, Mkhitaryan (Asllani, 61′), Dimarco (Gosens, 61′); Lukaku, Joaquín Correa (Lautaro Martínez, 46′)
The
Sassuolo: Consigli; Toljan (Zortea, 76′), Erlic, Tressoldi (Ferrari, 64′), Rogério; Frattesi, Maxime Lopez, Matheus Henrique (Thorstvedt, 76′); Berardi, Defrel (Bajrami, 57′), Laurienté (Pinamonti, 57′)
The
Goals: 1-0 Lukaku (41′), 2-0 Tressoldi (pp) (55′), 3-0 Lautaro Martínez (58′), 3-1 Matheus Henrique (63′), 3-2 Frattesi (77 ‘), 4-2 Lukaku (89’)
Referee: Matteo Marcenaro. Yellow cards to Defrel (30′), Tressoldi (42′), Matheus Henrique (66′), De Vrij (70′), Brozovic (84′)
Spectators: 71,426 at San Siro
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Source: La Verdad
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