Inter convinces in view of the second half: Dzeko signs the 1-0 at Sassuolo

It was a good Inter who beat Sassuolo at the Mapei Stadium in Reggio Emilia in the last test before the super challenge at the resumption of Serie A on 4 January against Napoli. Inzaghi’s team won 1-0 with a goal by Edin Dzeko in the 18th minute of the second half following an assist from Bastoni. Only one goal, but a game up to par and several wasted chances. some, even sensational, have happened to Romelu Lukaku. The Belgian hasn’t yet mended the feeling with the goal, but he still appeared to be growing from an athletic point of view. Apprehension for Mkhitaryan, who went off at the start of the second half due to back pain after playing a good game and scoring, then disallowed for offside.

With De Vrij and Brozovic left to work in Appiano, compared to the indications on the eve the only change was that of Bellanova starting in the right lane instead of Dumfries, initially on the bench. Everything else is confirmed, with Skriniar, Acerbi and Bastoni in defense, Calhanoglu as playmaker flanked by Barella and Mkhitaryan, Dimarco on the left and the Dzeko-Lautaro couple forward. In the first half, Inzaghi’s team did better, building goals with Dzeko and Lukaku in addition to the aforementioned Mkhitaryan goal disallowed.

Friendlies: Dzeko and Lukaku score, Inter beat Reggina. Rome also wins, Lazio loses

22 December 2022

Shortly after the hour of play, the match goal: advance by Bastoni on the trocar and verticalization for Dzeko, cold and lucid in beating the outgoing goalkeeper Pegolo with a half-height left foot. Dzeko himself then came close to doubling the lead with a right-footed volley just wide, before the block substitutions made by Inzaghi, who threw the returning D’Ambrosio and Correa into the fray, as well as Dumfries, Asllani, Gosens and Darmian ( outside Skriniar, Bellanova, Calhanoglu, Dimarco, Bastoni and Dzeko). Inter came close to doubling the lead in the 72nd minute, with Pegolo good at repelling Gagliardini’s shot and Lukaku wasting the easy rebound into the net, before going off with less than ten minutes remaining.

Now the thought goes to Naples. A race which is expected to be sold out (even the 4500 tickets in the away sector have been pulverized), with the Prefect of Milan Renato Saccone who has ordered the ban on the sale of tickets to residents of the Campania Region, even if in possession of the fan, after having “recognized the concrete danger of violent actions by the extreme fringes of the ultras fans”.