Inter beats Atlético by the minimum in a very hard-fought game – – 2024-02-23 13:22:36

The first leg match of the round of 16 of the Champions League between Inter Milan and Atlético de Madrid heralded a blunderbuss with few goals or even so close that it could end with threads on the scoreboard. But Simone Inzaghi’s team beat ‘Cholo’ Simeone’s team almost at the end of the match at the San Siro stadium.

In this way, the Milan team did justice and matched the short history of official matches against the Colchoneros, who had a 2-0 victory against the Nerazzurri dating back to the European Super Cup final in 2010. Inzaghi’s are Only the second Italian team to take three points from Cholo in the final phase since he became coach of the Madrid team.

There was no shortage of chances on both sides of the field, but at half-time the Nerazzurri and Colchoneros went to the locker room without scoring a goal. Already in the second half, the game was not only fought, but exhausting, so the teams were on weak legs as soon as the 70′ of running time reached, but none of them gave up on taking the victory ahead of the return to play at the Cívitas. Metropolitan on March 13.

The Nerazzurri pressure took effect
Jan Oblak did everything possible to keep the score in the ‘Colchoneros’ goal while Antoine Griezmann left with pain in his instep, but just at that moment the Austrian Marko Arnautovic broke the score unexpectedly with a left-footed shot that The Slovenian could not stop, after a shot from Lautaro, who took advantage of a defensive error by the Madrid team in midfield.

Cholo Simeone’s team did not give up and continued to press to equalize and in the 80th minute Samuel Lino was assisted by Rodrigo De Paul. The Brazilian tried it from the right from outside the area and his shot whistled past the left post.

Atleti closed with a bang but could not equalize and had to leave Milan with a narrow defeat that hurt more than if it had been by more goals.