In Italy almost no one doubts that Inter will win the ‘scudetto’ but if anyone thinks now that they will reserve against Salernitana before Tuesday’s match against Atlético, in the first leg of the Champions League round of 16, they is completely wrong..
The ‘nerazzurri’, who played today in orange, outscored the bottom team from the opening whistle (4-0) and They increase their advantage over Juventus to ten pointswho visited Verona tomorrow.
The Inzaghi spins a bit
Simone Inzaghi without his brother Pippo on the rival bench when he was relieved on Sunday by Fabio Liverani, he missed the central defender Francesco Acerbi, was injured the previous day against Roma, and only rested the wingers compared to the last games Matteo Darmian and Federico Dimarco to give entry instead to Denzel Dumfries and Carlos Augusto.
With the game decided and after both goals had been scored, Inzaghi retired Lautaro Martínez and Marcus Thuram as well as Henrikh Mkhitaryan is already thinking about Atlético’s visit to the San Siro.
Ochoa avoided a major defeat
Inter took the lead and maintained a very high pace for most of the match. Just six minutes had passed and two shots had hit the Mexican goal posts. Guillermo Ochoa, who is 38 years old He saved Salernitana from a humiliating defeat.
In the 3rd minute, Alessandro Bastoni headed in a corner, Ochoa responded with a save but, on the rebound, Thuram hits the post in all things in favor of the score. And, in the 6th minute, Nicolò Barella was alone after receiving a long ball and his shot was deflected by Ochoa as best he could. just enough for it to hit the crossbar.
Thuram opened the can and Lautaro made history
Inter’s storm continued to be favored by a rival that failed, with mismatches and individual errors. Ochoa was unable to thwart Inter’s successive chances until, after a quarter of an hour, Thuram beat him. The Frenchman first headed home a center from the left from Carlos Augusto who slotted in to his side’s liking.
Just two minutes later Lautaro Martínez joined the party. He received a throw-in with his back to goal, turned and, faced with defensive passivity, was driven to unleash a deadly shot. It was the ‘capocannoniere’s’ 20th goal in Serie A and 125th in an Inter shirt became the leading Argentine scorer in the club’s history by surpassing Mauro Icardi. Only seven players have scored more in a Nerazzurri shirt.
Dumfries, 3-0 in the first half with 16 shots
The match was a test for Salernitana, who did not shoot on goal throughout the match. All the balls fell at the feet of the Inter players. At the height of the mischief, Barella tried to pass on a counterattack, Triantafyllos Pasalidis deflected it towards his goal, Ochoa reacted with reflexes, but couldn’t stop Dumfries from making it 3-0 with an empty-net goal (40′).
The Inter He gave up 16 shots in a spectacular first half. After the break he did not rest either, an indisputable merit of Inaghi. Ochoa prevented Hakan Çalhanoglu from scoring a fourth shortly before Lautaro and Thuram were substituted.
Arnautovic relieved Lautaro and closed the scoring
It was only then that rivals Atlético dropped the revs a bit, though Marko Arnautovic took advantage of the minutes he had to close out the scoring in extra time by scoring at will after a Dumfries cross deflected off a defender.
Inter was a storm but there was a positive reading for Atlético: they shot 21 times and ‘only’ converted four.
match lineup
1
2
30
95
6
28
23
22
10
9
twenty
13
6
59
24
5
4
18
26
33
87
10
Giuseppe Meazza Stadium
Guillermo Ochoa13
39′
Junior Zambia6
Alessandro Zanoli59
82′
76′
Marco Pellegrino24
Jerome Boateng5
23′
Triantaphyllos Pasalidis4
Lassana Coulibaly18
64′
59′
Get Basic26
18′
59′
Loum Tchaouna33
70′
82′
16′
59′
Antonio Candreva87
65′
Boulaye Dia10
63′
Replacements
Benoit Costil56
Pasquale Allocca62
Konstantinos Manolas44
Agustín Martegani7
Iron GomisEleven
59′
Grigoris Kastanostwenty
82′
Giulio Maggiore25
23′
76′
Emanuel Vignato55
65′
Mateusz Legowski99
64′
If my9
82′
59′
89′
Shawn Weissman14
63′
59′
coach
Simone Inzaghi
Fabio Liverani
Source: La Verdad
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