Inter arrived launched and had the opportunity to be the leader of Serie A in a match against Bologna pending since January, but fell by surprise (2-1) due to a capital sung by their goalkeeper Ionut Radu and remains two points of a Milan that depends on itself to conquer the ‘scudetto’ in the four days that remain to be played.
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Inter starred in a sweeping start to the game with the premise of getting the win back on track as soon as possible and they succeeded as in the 4th minute they advanced on the scoreboard with a great goal from Ivan Perisic. The Croatian took a great play out of his hat, going up the side of the area from the baseline until, already in the front, he shot a pipe and executed a shot with the right instep that entered close to the near post.
Inter’s devastating start but the 1-1 arrives
The 0-1 did not conform to a devastating Inter that passed over Bologna and, in the 9th minute, they had a double chance for the 0-2. Lukasz Skorupski rejected a shot from Federico Dimarco and Lautaro Martínez, from close range, finished high.
Inter forgave the 0-2 and Bologna equalized in their first shot taking advantage of the height of their giant scorer Marko Arnautovic. Musa Barrow put a good cross in from the left on a changed foot and the Austrian rose ahead of Dimarco to connect a header that went past Andrei Radu for his 13th league goal.
A header that went high by Denzel Dumfries was Inter’s only attempt to regain their lead before the break and in the second half the match changed completely.
A serious mistake by Radu condemns Inter
Bologna, whose coach Sinisa Mihajlovic is still not leading the team after relapsing from leukemia, adjusted their defense and gained solidity to the point that shots from mid-range were the only recourse for an Inter team that as the minutes passed he was blinded in attack due to precipitation.
The draw was a bad result, insufficient to regain the lead, but the worst was yet to come for Inter in a grotesque move. Radu, who started today in the absence of the injured Samir Handanovic, failed resoundingly on a throw-in that Stefan de Vrij let past for the Romanian goalkeeper to control, but he failed to clear the ball and Nicola Sansone only had to push it into the network on the same line (80′).
Inter had the opportunity to equalize immediately when Nicolás Domínguez took a shot from Danilo D’Ambrosio (84′) under the sticks, but only Alexis Sánchez showed some clairvoyance in the final moments to avoid the unexpected defeat of an Inter left at the mercy of the leader Milan in his aspirations to revalidate the ‘scudetto’.
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Bologna: Skorupski; Soumaoro, Medel, Theate; De Silvestri, Svanberg (Aebischer, 65′), Schouten, Roberto Soriano (Nicolás Domínguez, 65′), Hickey; Barrow (Sansone, 77′) and Arnautovic (Orsolini, 88′)
Inter; Radu; Skriniar, De Vrij, Dimarco (D’Ambrosio, 70′); Dumfries (Darmian, 80′), Barella (Alexis Sánchez, 63′), Brozovic, Çalhanoglu (Gagliardini, 80′), Perisic; Lautaro Martínez and Joaquín Correa (Dzeko, 63′)
Goals: 0-1 Perisic (3′), 1-1 Arnautovic (29′), 2-1 Sansone (82′)
Referee: Daniele Doveri. Yellow cards for Arnautovic (55′), Barella (55′), Dumfries (70′), Çalhanoglu (79′)
Spectators: 26,604 at the Renato Dall’Ara
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