On the first occasion they had to secure the Scudetto, Lautaro Martínez and his teammates were present to put the icing on the cake of a season in which they have ruthlessly dominated Serie A.
So that the joy of your fans was double, the Nerazzurri They won the Milan derby at San Siro, in which AC Milan was officially playing at home, thanks to the goals of Francesco Acerbi (18) and Marcus Thuram (49).
Set Red-black He reduced the lead in the 80th minute through Fikayo Tomori, but woke up too late.
The final stretch of the match was punctuated by several altercations between players from both teams that led to three being sent off, two from AC Milan and one from Inter.
With five dates left in the season, Inter has an advantage that is now impossible to achieve of 17 points once morest their neighbors Milan.
Simone Inzaghi’s team made history in the Italian championship: before, only Juventus had reached, in 1982, the number of 20 national titles that grants the right to embroider two gold stars on their shirts.
Although Juve largely dominates the historical record of Serie A, with the astronomical total of 36 titles – and thus three stars -, Inter surpassed AC Milan, who had placed themselves at their level in 2022 with their 19th title.
Ten wins in a row
The Inter title had been assumed by everyone for weeks, given the superiority of the Nerazzurri and the irregularity of his pursuers.
With the previous champion, Napoli, quickly out of the equation, Inter spent almost the entire season in the lead, leaving only crumbs to AC Milan (leader on the 8th date) and Juventus, who briefly spent the lead following the date twenty-one.
With Inter having a string of victories (including a series of ten in a row between January and March), AC Milan lost most of its chances in the European autumn, while Juve lost its footing at the beginning of the year with only seven points in nine games.
Simone Inzaghi has led an unstoppable winning machine: his team has only conceded one defeat in the league, once morest modest Sassuolo (2-1) at San Siro on September 27.
Its balance is impressive: 27 wins in 33 games with by far the best numbers in attack (79 goals scored) and defense (18 conceded) in Serie A.
Much of that credit belongs to Lautaro Martínez, named captain this season and the championship’s top scorer (23), and Frenchman Marcus Thuram, who arrived last summer from Borussia Mönchengladbach.
“We have worked a lot, we suffered a lot, we changed more than ten players last summer, we really deserve this title,” celebrated Lautaro, who considered that his team “entered history” from Serie A.
Goodbye in the Champions League round of 16
The Inter team was also successful in its bets on Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer (19 games without conceding goals) and on reinforcing its defense with Frenchman Benjamin Pavard.
With Hakan Calhanoglu and Henrix Mkhitaryan, Inter can still break several records between now and the end of the season.
His fantastic 2023-2024 season will, however, continue to be hampered by his elimination by Atlético de Madrid in the round of 16 of the Champions League, a competition in which he had reached the final in 2023, and by Acerbi’s alleged racist insults, finally exonerated by the Italian Federation.
On the playing fields at least, the future looks bright: Inzaghi and Lautaro will renew, the arrivals of Medhdi Taremi (FC Porto) and Piotr Zielinski (Naples) are already closed.
But in the offices the situation is less optimistic: Inter, forced to sell to sign, reduced its losses in 2022-2023 but they still amounted to US$85 million.
Its owner since 2016, the Chinese Suning group of businessman Steven Zhang, is multiplying loans to stay afloat.
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