Show must go on, but then there is a way and a way. Because two weeks before Florence, Inter finds itself at the center of a drama against its will: the result is 1-0, there are 300 seconds and change to play before the break and at the first blue ring a fan has a illness. The paramedics rush in, the game stops.
The rescuers of the San Siro health manager, Alessandro Geddo, applied cardiac massage to him for a long time in front of the 53,756 present. The stadium falls silent. Then the fan is taken away, the game restarts and Asllani less than 10 minutes later makes it 2-0 with an Olympic goal. Roar as if there were no tomorrow, which as far as one can understand in those moments is anything but a figure of speech. Jingle at full wattage and ball in the center. The winning goal will come later, with the news of the fan’s clinical stabilization.
At that point the game had already said what it had to say. Also because already before the kick-off Inzaghi gives two gifts in one: he throws the other Martinez, Josep, into the fray for the first time, so as to give the newly 36-year-old Sommer a dry evening. On the curve there are those who are not afraid of getting sick 6 days before Christmas and brave the cold and humidity bare-chested. Chest out, Inter put him on the half hour mark: Taremi runs away with the ball and Arnautovic crosses his left foot into the net. It is the episode that lights up the gray of the rainy evening and of a start that Ekkelenkamp’s right-footed shot had colored in black and white. Before Massimi whistles a penalty and takes it away after 6′ by re-evaluating Kabasele’s touch of the arm on Arnautovic’s left-footed shot at VAR.
Inzaghi, after his bodybuilder performance with Lazio, had saved 9 out of 11 at the start. Dropping Bastoni’s ace with the armband and Bisseck in the center of defence. Carlos did well (great hit in the 35th minute on a ball from Arnautovic), Palacios relayed with Buchanan in the second half. Lautaro enters (opportunity saved by Piana) and Calhanoglu, then Taremi hits the post with the goalkeeper beaten. In the long-distance match between exes, Zielinski was on the ball until the end, Sanchez did nothing to hinder Inter’s path to the quarterfinals.
In February it will be Bologna-Atalanta and Juventus-Empoli on one side of the scoreboard, double risk of a derby semi-final on the other, given the matches between Lazio and Inter and between Milan and Roma.
Just the two teams that intersect the destiny of Verona:
the first challenging him tonight, the second with his former CEO Italo Zanzi, trusted man of the American fund Presidio Investors, who should announce the acquisition of Hellas today after 14 years of Setti management.
