Tiraspol, November 3, 2021 – Mission accomplished. Six points have arrived for Inter against the Sheriff between home and away, it means second place in the group with 7 points less than 2 from Real Madrid, winning on the Shaktar, and more 1 on the Moldovans. The recovery after a wasteful first half was decisive, but in the end they scored Brozovic, Cabinet and Sanchez. The first seasonal crossroads is over. Now the derby.
Many occasions
Inzaghi chooses the surprise
Vidal in the median, attack confirmed with Dzeko and Lautaro. Sheriff with Traore first striker. The first half is all for the Nerazzurri, with over 60% of possession and chances that flock, but the goal does not arrive. First Inter ring at 8 ‘when
Dzeko Vidal fishing in the area, the Chilean is selfless and serves
Lautaro that the left-handed butt. From here on, another five clear scoring, none exploited. Dzeko comes out with his head on developments of a corner, ball wide. Nerazzurri in control, the Sheriff defends himself to the bitter end, but failing some closings and without being able to restart while with the game Inzaghi arrives in goal.
Lautaro he tries twice in the melee, walled up, then he tries with a right to turn from outside, pole, finally Dzeko clears himself with a fantastic control to follow from the cross, but
Athanasiadis miraculously saves. The door appears bewitched, however Inter is easily presented in the interesting areas of the area, but lacking in the winning thrust. At the interval zero to zero is a liar result.
Brozo opens, Sanchez closes
At the beginning of the second half Simone Inzaghi chooses the card Dumfries, but Inter takes little to direct the game in the best way. After much pain and a bit of imprecision in front of goal in the first half, the Nerazzurri managed to unblock it in the 54th minute. Vidal, among the best, he steals a good ball in the trocar, then arrives Brozovic for the winning dry right, 0-1. Game downhill, in fact at half time the goal from an inactive ball also arrives: Brozovic corner, de Vrij head shot saved but there is Cabinet that on the second attempt closes the score, 0-2. A match that could have become insidious is no longer so and Inter, in the second consecutive victory, overtakes the Moldovans in the group keeping in the wake of the Real who beat the Shaktar. There is joy for everyone, Alexis also enters at 81 ‘ Sanchez that at the first mistake of the Moldovan rearguard signs the thundering right three of a kind. The only carelessness the team of Inzaghi allows it in full recovery when Traore jumps almost undisturbed for the 1-3 that does not change the fate of the game. Inter therefore in second place in the wake of Real and in sight there is the challenge at the end of November with Shaktar. Well before that, however, the other decisive autumn crossing in the Milan derby.
MANUEL MINGUZZI
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