Inter-Rome 0-1: Soulé’s goal

To affirm him after the defeat of Bologna had been one of the leaders of Inter, Nicolò Barella, saying that “the time to scrape the barrel” would come. Today, the feeling is that the Nerazzurri tank is empty. Completely in red. At San Siro, Roma chints an evident apnea and condemns Inzaghi to the third consecutive defeat (never happened in its management) without even a goal scored in the last three races (another fact that has ever happened with Inzaghi). If Ranieri laughs it, who thanks to the center of Soulé and a game prepared to perfection, enjoy the last one at the staircase with a victory that confirms the Giallorossi in full struggle for a place in the Champions League.

shock

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The first half is a nightmare for Inter and a walk for Roma. The first 20 ‘, considering the now usual silence of the North and the closure of the guest sector for ministerial disposition, damn Covid’s times: a deafening silence in which the vocions of the two goalkeepers resonate more to keep the attention of his companions high rather than the noise of those who in a few days risk playing a whole year. The first bad news for Inzaghi comes about ten minutes from the start: Pavard ends up Ko for a problem with an ankle. Try to return, to test, but it can’t do it. And now his presence in Barcelona on Wednesday is far from obvious. The first goal ball, on the other hand, happens on Koné’s feet, a total master of the midfield, who turns a little to the side. But it is only a question of seconds: Pellegrini kicks but is repeated, the ball ends up on the second post where all the Nerazzurri defense remains to watch and slips Soulé. Fattone all alone, 0-1. Inter do not find the strength to react, Rome is strong in search of the encore: first I get Cristante, then Carlos Augustus sensationally saves a tap-in of Angelino on the line that would have put Shomurodov in front of the empty door. The nervousness of an uninhabited Inter even to sketch a reaction is all in the frustration of Lautaro, who pushes Mancini to the ground with a distant ball and gets a totally avoidable warning.

all the same

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The script of the recovery looks like a replay of the first half: Inter keep possession sterile in an almost soporific climate, Roma closes perfectly and tries to start restarting. Then there is Frattesi, who wastes any balls that happens to him in his feet and disguises himself (already) as a Giallorossi player. Inzaghi’s team manages to create and not even think something positive, then the Nerazzurri technician tries to fish the jokers from the bench: return to the field for Dumfries and inside Zaleski. New air on the bands. Within a few seconds, the double replacement immediately brings something more: Zaleski lengthens for Frattesi ball towards the second post where Dumfries impacts his head in his own way but there is it. Inter grows and increases the pressing, Barella wastes a good opportunity, but to concretely touch the goal is always Rome with two sensational errors before Pisilli and then of Dovbyk. The anter offensive phase remains disordered until the end, when Nickka Bisseck belt in the area and the whole inzaghi team protests by claiming the penalty. Fabbri says no. And it ends like this. The hole in which Inter ended is increasingly black: three days from the Champions League semifinal on the field of Barcelona of records, Napoli can detach Inter at the top of the ranking.