Inter is experiencing its first real crisis of results in the last year and a half. Sassuolo achieved a historic victory at the Meazza (0-2), which leaves the nerazzurri in second place, with two points and one game less than Milan. Inzaghi’s men have only five points in the last five games, and tomorrow they can finish in third place if Napoli knock out Cagliari.
The accumulated fatigue from the game with Liverpool and the absence of the suspended Brozovic in midfield were noticeable from the first minutes of the clash. The pressure black green baffled the midfield of the Milanese, and the 0-1 was born thanks to a robbery by López on Calhanoglu and materialized thanks to Raspadori, who penetrated the area and beat an insecure Handanovic. There was an interista reaction with Alexis and Calhanoglu himself, but they lacked aim and Dionisi’s men increased their advantage with a Scamacca’s header to Traoré’s pass. The cold celebration of the striker confirms that his future can be just in San Siro.
Sassuolo might even go into the break with a 0-3 lead, but the crossbar denied the goal to a typical thread by Berardi, who also brushed the goal in the same way in the second half. Inter made merits to reduce the distances, but Dzeko and Lautaro continued to waste opportunitiess once morest the goalkeeper Consigli, author of one of the best performances of his career.
The 1-2 came very late, with a header from De Vrij, and it was also canceled with the help of VAR due to a handball by Dimarco on the play. Sassuolo thus celebrated a historic victory, and with him did Milan and Naples. Never, in the last decade, was there a fight for the scudetto with three teams involved and so uncertain at this point
