Inter is obliged to win at the Olympic Stadium to avoid the takeoff of leader Naples, who opened Sunday by defeating Empoli (0-1), and got the same result against Roma thanks to a goal from Lautaro Martínez kept it in second place in Serie A, two points behind first place.
Inter’s start to the game was huge, with some dangerous moves, but Mile Svilar he was strong enough to deflect a whiplash at mid-height from Marcus Thuramafter departure Lautaro Martinez (6′).
The stick saved Svilar
But Ivan Juric’s Roma, in place of Daniele de Rossi In mid-September, he quickly adjusted his lines and applied better pressure to stop the Interist attacks. Even though Yann Sommer had a big scare when, in a cross without danger from the baseline of Lorenzo Pellegrini The ball slipped through his hands and was saved by the post (11′).
Mkhitaryan, on the crossbar
The wood, this time the stringer, was also allied with Rome for a while when deflecting a long shot from Henrikh Mkhitaryan (13′). Inter suffered the first blow in the form of an injury by possession replace Hakan Çalhanoglu due to adductor (12′) problems. The centre-back joined the Turk shortly after Francesco Acerbi also relieved the discomfort in the flexors (27′).
Roma managed to gradually balance the game and even went into half-time with a better feeling. So, in a counter created by Arten Dovbyk and Paulo Dybala In one of the few displays of the same, Sommer denied a howitzer from Pellegrini.
At the start, Roma seemed more comfortable and under the control of Inter, but the Italian champion is unpredictable, a competitor to the maximum, and took advantage of the rival’s double mistake to advance on the scoreboard in a game that started in a corner in favor of Rome.
Lautaro, deadly in counterattack
The first to fail was Nicola Zalewski by losing the ball to Davide Frattesi, who started a deadly counterattack by crossing the field before placing a cross. Zeki Çelik fumbled the ball in his attempt to clear and Lautaro Martínez, always on guard, unleashed a spectacular shot from the front that broke through the corner (60′). This was the Argentine’s third goal, ‘capocannoniere’ from last season with 24.
In the late game Inter raised a wall against which fell a Roma team that pushed and did not give up in search of the equalizer. yes indeed Svilar keeps him in the game to the end since the team Simone Inzaghi was able to rule over some weaknesses, especially with the advent of Denzel Dumfries which failed the Belgian objective.
The ‘Juric effect’ is missing
If Inter can keep up with Naples, Roma will remain in the middle of the table as the impact of Juric’s arrival (two wins) has faded with a draw at Monza (1-1) before the break and this defeat.
match lineup
99
19
59
3
5
23
17
4
11
21
7
1
36
32
95
15
28
23
22
10
9
20
Olympic Stadium
Yann Sommer1
Matteo Darmian36
67′
70′
71′
Federico Dimarco32
78′
Alessandro Bastoni95
70′
Francesco Acerbi15
26′
Benjamin Pavard28
52′
Nicolò Barella23
47′
48′
78′
Henrikh Mkhitaryan22
Lautaro Martinez10
59′
71′
78′
Marcus Thuram9
Hakan Calhanoglu20
11′
Replacements
Raffaele Di Gennaro12
Joseph Martinez13
Denzel Dumfries2
70′
Stefan de Vrij6
26′
78′
Charles Augustus30
Yann Bisseck31
70′
Tomas Palacios42
Davide Frattesi16
11′
78′
Thomas Berenbruch52
71′
Marko Arnautovic8
52′
61′
Joaquin Correa11
71′
77′
Mehdi Taremi99
78′
coach
Ivan Juric
Simone Inzaghi
Source: La Verdad
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