Inter Milan, buoyed by their victory last week against Juventus, followed through with a 2-0 win against Hellas Verona, this Saturday in matchday 32 of Serie A, where he puts pressure on Milan and Naples, his rivals for the ‘Scudetto’.
With the same number of games played (31), before the duels Naples-Fiorentina and Torino-Milan on Sundaythe first three of the ‘Calcium’ are in just one point of margin.
Milan is leader atbefore Sunday, with a point over Inter and Napoli.
Juventus (4th), with one game played more than the three teams thatue precede him in the table, he won 2-1 in the last turn on Saturday in Cagliari (17th) and provisionally moved five points behind the leader AC Milan.
Nicolo Barella (minute 22) and Edin Dzeko (30), both with assists from Ivan Perisic, managed to ensure that Inter Milan had a comfortable game this Saturday, on an afternoon in which the suspended Argentinian Lautaro Martínez did not play.
Despite a schedule that was initially more favorable than those of his two rivals for the title, Simone Inzaghi and his charges were especially wary of Hellas Verona (9th), one of only two ‘Top 10’ teams left on his game schedule for the remainder of the season. The other will be Rome.
“Lately, the results had not come and that weighed on us mentally, we weren’t playing like we used to”, admitted Simone Inzhagi. “But today we played the match that had to be played to give continuity to the important victory we achieved in Turin”, he pointed out.
Inter controlled the situation this Saturday from the beginning, thanks above all to a dynamic first half hour, which reminded Inter of the start of this 2022, before they slowed down in February.
Perisic took advantage of a bad pass first in the center to escape down the left wing and serve perfectly for Barella, at the far post, to open the scoring in the 22nd minute.
In the 30th, the Hellas players forgot about Dzekowho pushed only on a corner kick that Perisic had deflected at the near post.
– Vlahovic decisive again –
Those two goals before the break were protected by a good game goalkeeper Samir Handanović, who was especially providential in an intervention against the Argentine Gio Simeone (32).
ANDSimeone himself (60) and Ivan Ilic (83) They kept trying to get their team into the match, but to no avail.
For Inter, Danilo D’Ambrosio failed whatever he had It was 3-0 in 73, but the ‘Nerazzurri’ did not see this victory in danger at any time.
Inter chain two wins in a row in the league, something he had not achieved for three months.
“In February and March, the results were not positive. But this is not over, we are still there. We have to continue like today,” Perisic told DAZN after this victory.
For its part, Juventus won 2-1 in Cagliari with comeback included.
Brazilian Joao Pedro put the Sardinian team ahead in the 10th minute, but the ‘Vecchia Signora’ then prevailed thanks to the Dutch Matthijs De Ligt (45) and the Serbian Dusan Vlahovic (75).
ANDbe last, star signing of the ‘Juve’ in the January market, it was once again decisive. He was thrown deep by Argentina’s Paulo Dybala, before scoring the game-winner.
Vlahovic also takes the lead alone in the table of top scorers in this Serie A, with 22 goals, one more now than Ciro Immobile (Lazio), who has 21.
“It was an important match to maintain our advantage over Roma (5th). We had suffered a psychological blow losing to Inter (last weekend) and seeing the Scudetto disappear,” Juventus manager Massimiliano Allegri said.
In the first game on Saturday, Empoli (13th) and Spezia (15th) drew goalless (0-0).
