Inter Milan Wins Over Sampdoria Without Mauro Icardi

DBasia.news –  Inter Milan won victory over Sampdoria at Giuseppe Meazza, in the 24th week Serie A, Monday (18/2) early morning hrs. Nerazzurri won without their main striker, Mauro Icardi.

The Argentine striker did not make it to the squad due to injury. However, Inter fans were supposed to start getting used to seeing their favorite team compete without Icardi, because of problems with his contract at the club that have yet to come to an end.

As a result of endless contract negotiations, the persistence between Icardi and his agent as well as wife, Wanda Nara, Inter took a firm stand to take off his captain’s armband and gave it to Samir Handanovic. The polemic widened until Icardi and his sister also quarreled over the matter.

In the midst of the Icardi contract, Inter remained focused on playing without him and were able to win a victory against Sampdoria. All goals are created in the second half of the match, after the first match the game tends to be monotonous.

Inter launched a lot of attacks, but their games were predictable, without creativity, and attacks that could trouble Sampdoria. The tap of the goal was only opened in the second half in five minutes from 73 to 78 minutes.

In the end the individual qualities is what ‘spoke’ to Inter at the match. Danilo D’Ambrosio opened Inter’s lead on the 73rd minute. He went up to help attack and grab the pass from Ivan Perisic.

Sampdoria had time to minimize it through Manolo Gabbiadini’s goal in the 75th minute. The ex Southampton striker took advantage of the crisis in front of Inter’s goal and broke Handanovic’s goal in his first attempt. The 1-1 position is equally strong.

But the draw only lasted for three minutes. Radja Nainggolan came out as Inter’s hero through his decisive goal. The former AS Roma player released a long-range kick that Emil Audero did not anticipate.

The position changed to 2-1 and Inter was able to maintain it until the five minute extra time ended. The victory again widens Inter’s distance with city rivals, AC Milan, to be four points in third and fourth rank in the standings.

“The teams behind us continue to put pressure on us, so we have to do our job (to win). We are also still playing in the knockout stages of the Europa League and we will wait for what happens later,” said Nainggolan on Football-Italy.