Winning 2-1 From SPAL, Inter Milan Replaces Juventus at the Top of the Serie A Standings

DBasia.news –  In the 14th match of Serie A, Sunday (1/12) PM, Inter Milan won the victory over SPAL with a score of 2-1. Lautaro Martinez contributed two Inter Milan victory goals in minutes 16 and 41, while SPAL’s single goal was scored by Mattia Valoti in the 57th minute.

Inter Milan dominated possession at the beginning of the game. However, the defense of the two teams were still equally strong so it was challenging to penetrate until the 15th minute.

Inter only scored a goal in the 16th minute after Lautaro Martinez, who won the ball and immediately kicked it hard towards the left pole. Score 1-0 for Inter.

Being ahead 1-0, Inter Milan did not stop locking up opponents. Attack after attack were still broken by the SPAL defense especially goalkeeper, Etrit Berisha. Inter Milan’s efforts finally made results in the 41st minute. Lautaro Martinez listed his name on the scoreboard after blocking Antonio Candreva’s pass from the right side.

Entering the second half, Inter Milan still dominated the game. But in the 50th minute, the visitors actually managed to make a goal through the action of Mattia Valoti. Entering the 69th minute, Martinez was actually able to record a hat-trick if he was calmer when dealing with goalkeeper, Etrit Berisha.

Despite exchanging attacks, the score 2-1 for Inter Milan did not change until the fight was over.

Thanks to this victory, Inter are now perched at the top of the Serie A standings, displacing Juventus who in the previous match could only draw 2-2 against Sassuolo.

Not only successfully shifting Juventus from the top of the Serie A standings, Inter Milan also carved the best results in the club’s history at the start of the season with 12 wins from the first 14 matches. Previously, this impressive record has been recorded by Juventus in the 1949-50 season and Napoli in the 2017-18 season.

Line-up

Inter Milan (3-5-2): 1-Samir Handanovic (PG), 33-Danilo D’Ambrosio, 6-Stefan de Vrij, 37-Milan Skriniar, 87-Antonio Candreva (20-Borja Valero 79 ‘), 77 -Marcelo Brozovic, 5-Roberto Gagliardini, 8-Matías Vecino, 19-Valentino Lazaro (34-Cristiano Biraghi 75 ‘), 9-Romelu Lukaku, 10-Lautaro Martinez.

SPAL (3-5-2): 99-Etrit Berisha (PG), 40-Nenad Tomovic, 23-Francesco Vicari, 3-Igor (95-Marko Jankovic 82 ‘), 21-Gabriel Strefezza (Thiago Rangel Cionek 42’) , 11-Alessandro Murgia, 6-Mirko Valdifiori (10-Sergio Floccari 70 ‘), 19-Jasmin Kurtic, 13-Arkadiusz Reca, 8-Mattia Valoti, 37-Andrea Petagna.