Inter and Milan came to the derby as leaders of Serie A. By the way, for the first time in the history of the Italian championship, after three rounds the classification was headed by two Milanese clubs. It might seem that this is an excellent prerequisite for a tenacious and interesting relationship, but in reality everything turned out a little differently.
The first part started reactively. Already in the fifth minute, Theo Hernández usually stayed ahead and his flank had to be covered by Malika Tshau, only to be overtaken very well by Marcus Thuram, who then found himself in the operational space. His first cross into the area was unsuccessful, but the ball bounced back to him. The second attempt was more successful: the ball reached Federico Dimarco, who unsuccessfully finished or crossed, but in the end the projectile reached Henrikh Mkhitaryan, who was completely free just in front of the goal, who opened the scoring. the game.
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Milan then seemed to take the initiative, even managing to reach 72% of ball possession at half-time, but it was all in vain, as the Rossoneri created the only scoring chance thanks to Theo’s individual skill: the The defender overcame three opponents at once and with the last of his strength he rolled the ball towards the far corner, but missed. Inter responded a few minutes later with a magnificent goal from Thuram: the forward deflected the defender in the corner of the area and shot with surgical precision into the top corner. In such cases, they say they removed the cobwebs from the corner.
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The second half greeted the players with torrential rain that seemed to destroy all of Inter’s confidence. He began to play completely faceless, which Milan took advantage of. Theo found Leau with a clever vertical pass in the box, who ran in at full speed. No one could stop the striker in such a situation. But then the Nerazzurri regained control of the match. First, substitute Augusto made a good shot, and then Mkhitaryan scored a double, which he shot, not very intelligently, into the near corner, but Mike Maignan did not even jump to catch the ball, as if he had missed the goal. The rival was finally crushed by Hakan Calhanoglu, who scored from a penalty, and by David Frattesi after a brilliant pass from Mkhitaryan.
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