With a goal in the last breath of the Argentine Lautaro Martínez, the Inter won its third consecutive Italian Super Cup title, this time by beating Napoli by the smallest difference at Al Awal Park at King Saud University in Saudi Arabia.
The duel between last season’s two champions was the perfect final of this Italian Super Cup, which for the first time was played in a four-team format. Inter, current owner of the Italian Cup, is one of the best teams in Europe and Napoli, winner of the Scudetto in Serie A in 2023, has an irregular performance.
For the Nerazzurro, winning this new title was confirmation of their excellent moment, which has them at the top of Serie A and in the round of 16 of the UEFA Champions League. Being champion affirms the good virtues demonstrated so far this season.
The Interista team thus won eight finals and lost four in the Italian Super Cup. They had never before been able to win three in a row, since they triumphed in 2021 and 2022. On the other hand, Napoli won this Italian competition twice and lost three definitions.
Inter demonstrated their superiority through the interventions of Federico Dimarco, Hakan Calhanoglu and Lautaro Martínez. However, the teams went to halftime with the score blank.
The second part aimed to be an exact replica of the first. The intensity increased, the duel was filled with yellow cards and interruptions, but in the 60th minute the key play of the duel occurred: ‘Cholito’ Simeone saw two warnings in five minutes and was sent off. Inter grew and Napoli began its resistance.
The domain became undeniably ‘Nerazzurro’. Inzaghi, who was also fighting to become the coach with the most Italian Super Cups (5, with this one), was gradually introducing offensive changes with the entry of Carlos Augusto, Frattesi, Arnautovic and Alexis Sánchez to sink a Naples team. who bailed waters as best he could until Lautaro imposed his law.
The teammates went to celebrate happily with the great captain, the world champion with the Argentine National Team in Qatar, who scored the goal everyone expected. Inter had just beaten Lazio 3-0 in the semifinals and Napoli defeated Fiorentina in the semi also with that score. In an even definition, the opportunism and precision of Lautaro Martínez gave the necessary extra to the three-time champion on Arab soil.
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