Inter beat Juventus 1-0 in the big match scheduled for today 4 February for the 23rd matchday of the 2023-2024 Serie A. The Nerazzurri prevailed with Gatti's own goal and took the lead in the standings. The leaders have 57 points and are now 4 points ahead of the Bianconeri. The team coached by Inzaghi also has to recover a match and can potentially fly at +7 compared to the team led by Allegri.
The match
Inzaghi does not give up the attacking duo Lautaro Martinez-Thuram, with Dimarco and Darmian on the wings and Calhanoglu in the control room. Acerbi with Bastoni and Pavard in front of Sommer. Allegri, however, chooses the Vlahovic-Yildiz pair in attack with Kostic and Cambiaso on the external lanes. Rabiot returns to midfield.
Balanced and intense match, with Inter having greater possession of the ball in the first part, even if there were few goals on target. At 18' Dimarco from a tight angle, served by Pavard, volleys but the ball ends up on the outside of the net. In the 19th minute, a long throw-in by Darmian, with Thuram extending the ball with a header, for Lautaro whose conclusion is blocked by Cambiaso. Juve can't find a way to score and in the 25th minute Inter are still dangerous. On Dimarco's low cross, Thuram loses the moment to shoot but Bremer's sliding finish is decisive. The Juventus break came in the 31st minute with an insertion of McKennie who passes to Vlahovic in the area but the Serbian misses the control and Pavard stops him. In the 37th minute Inter took the lead: Barella's cross into the area, Pavard tries a scissors kick, the ball goes towards Thuram but Gatti deflects it with his chest into his own goal, for 1-0.
At the start of the second half the music doesn't change with the Nerazzurri continuing to push. In the 56th minute Barella widens to the left for Dimarco who crosses the shot but misses the target. A minute later Inzaghi's team was still dangerous. In the 57th minute Calhanoglu collects a short clearance from Bremer and finishes towards goal by hitting the outside post. Inter are still pressing and Gatti saves on Lautaro Martinez. Juve threatened in the 60th minute with a cross-shot from Kostic, but Mkhitaryan banished the threat and Inter started on the counterattack with Thuram trying to serve Dimarco in the center of the area rather than kicking towards the target. The match is now more open with Juve insistently looking for an equalizer and Inter trying to close it out.
In the 63rd minute Yildiz goes from the flag, to Bremer Vlahovic who finishes just over with an overhead kick. There are continuous reversals in front with Calhanoglu who tries from the edge but the shot ends up high. After another unexploited opportunity for Lautaro, Juve came close to equalizing: in the 67th minute Gatti tried from the edge with a powerful shot that went just to Sommer's right. With yet another change in front, a monumental opportunity in the 69th minute for Inter with Dimarco who passes the ball into the area for Barella, a right-footed volley but Szczesny's response is prodigious and saves Juve.
Allegri's team pushes insistently in search of an equalizer but is exposed to Inter's counterattacks. In the 87th minute another sensational opportunity arrives for the Nerazzurri, with two new substitutes, Dumfries who puts it in the center for Arnautovic who only in the area beats it with a sure shot but finds a superlative Szczesny who deflects it with the recall hand. In the 5' of injury time granted by the referee Maresca, Juve tries to rise for the final attacks but fails to find the goal, Inter makes the Scudetto escape take off.
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