The Chilean Alexis Sanchez, with a goal in the last second of extra time, gave this Wednesday a 2-1 victory to the Inter de Milan against him Juventus and gave the interista team the sixth Italian Super Cup of its history.
Alexis put his signature on one of the great nights in Inter’s history, which knocked down Juventus, his historic rival, in an intense, blocked final that seemed already headed for the penalty shoot-out.
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The Chilean striker scored the decisive goal by taking advantage of an error by the Turinese when Juventus coach Massimiliano Allegri shouted for his players to make a tactical foul to allow Leonardo Bonucci to enter the field in view of a penalty shoot-out that it was finally avoided at the last gasp.
Alexis, a former Barça player, was euphoric at the end of the match. “I was never bad, just that they would not let me play. I am a lion in a cage, if they let me play I am a monster,” he said in San Siro, determined to vindicate himself after having little prominence in the last season, with Antonio Conte on the bench. , before the arrival of Simone Inzaghi.
“They tell me ‘I put you in the last 15 minutes because you make a difference in those moments’. And I say ‘you make me suffer’. I have always been a lion,” he added.
Juventus low
Inter came out to bite, aware of the significant casualties of Juventus, led by Federico Chiesa, who suffered a crusader injury last Sunday, and brushed the advantage several times in the first minutes, also protesting a possible penalty suffered by Nicoló Barella , shot down by Giorgio Chiellini.
Juventus, in which Dybala started as a substitute so as not to risk overloads, had the merit of coming out alive from the interista offensive storm and, at 25 minutes, in his first clear opportunity, the Spanish Álvaro Morata hung up a center that McKennie sent to the bottom of the head tights to give Allegri’s men an unexpected advantage.
It could have been a psychological blow for Inter, but Simone Inzaghi’s men did not lose their calm, they regained control of the ball and equalized before the break thanks to a maximum penalty achieved by the Bosnian Edin Dzeko for a foul by Mattia De Sciglio and transformed powered by Lautaro.
General fear
The bull’s eye, the twelfth of his season, made the game go back to its script. The ball belonged to Inter, but Juventus defended with order and barely allowed space for their rival to shoot at goal.
Neither the mixed cards of Inzaghi, who switched to his lead in 70, giving way to Alexis Sánchez and Joaquín Correa for Lautaro and Dzeko, nor those of Allegri, who launched Dybala and Moise Kean, could avoid the extension.
As the minutes passed, fear increased in both teams, who preferred to defend themselves with order and avoid risks while waiting to play the trophy in the penalty shootout.
Allegri, already convinced of finishing on penalties, wanted to give way to Leonardo Bonucci at the last minute, but it was then that a ball hanging in the area, badly played by Álex Sandro, was used by Alexis to give Inter the Super Cup of the sweetest way.
Data sheet:
Inter: Handanovic, Skriniar, De Vrij, Bastoni; Dumfries (Darmian, m.89), Barella (Vidal, m.89), Brozovic, Calhanoglu, Perisic (Dimarco, m.101); Dzeko (Correa, m.70), Lautaro (Alexis, m.70).
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Juventus: Perin; De Sciglio, Rugani, Chiellini, Alex Sandro; McKennie, Locatelli (Bentancur, m.90), Rabiot; Kulusevski (Dybala, m.74), Morata (Kean, m.84), Bernardeschi (Arthur, m.74).
Goals: 0-1, m.25: McKennie; 1-1, m.35: Lautaro (penalty); 2-1, m.120: Alexis.
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