Shakhtar Donetsk still indigestible for Inter in the Champions League. For the third consecutive time the match between the Ukrainians and the Nerazzurri ends 0-0, as in the two games of last season. Nothing to do for Inzaghi’s team, which hits a crossbar, wastes a couple of excellent opportunities and is stopped by a super Pyatov, but also suffering for large stretches of the initiatives of De Zerbi’s men. First point in Group D for both, Real Madrid could take advantage of it to ‘escape’ to +5. Good rhythms at the start and first chance of the match that comes after less than five turns of hands: Solomon wedges himself between the Nerazzurri lines and from the edge he lets go a right-foot who shaves the pole.
Inzaghi’s line-up responds in the quarter of an hour by touching the lead with Barella, who tries a right-footed shot from a distance rejected by the crossbar to Pyatov beaten. The back and forth between the two teams continues on 20 ‘, when Shakhtar builds another goal ball with Patrick and Tete, the first blocked by Dzeko while the second imprecise on the rebound. The same Bosnian striker of Inter, in the 34th minute, would have a very good chance on the other front to break the balance, but he wastes it badly in front of goal kicking skyrockets. At the beginning of the second half the show continued and De Zerbi’s team nearly scored in the 49th minute with Pedrinho, avoided by a providential intervention by Skriniar practically on the goal line.
Shakhtar believes in it, Inter are in trouble and are no longer able to propose themselves dangerously forward. He tries to do it by taking advantage of a mistake by the Ukrainians in the setting phase, but Lautaro does not take advantage of it and kicks to the stars. In the final the Nerazzurri try to increase the engine revs and touch the match point a couple of times, saved in both cases by a super Pyatov, decisive in saying no to Correa and De Vrij.