Inter Milan founded a delicious derby in the semi-final of the Coppa Italia against AC Milan with a 2-0 win over Lazio to extend their undefeated run at home to 16 games in all matches.
2024/2025 Coppa Italia
2-0
- Arnautovic (39 ')
- Calhanoglu (77 'Pen)
The tie was spicy from the start with combative tackles that fly in from both sides, but a pattern began to appear where the hosts had the ownership statistics in the shade while Lazio looked dangerous during the break.
Boulaye Dia had the first sight of the goal when his bent effort just knew wide, while Gustav Isaksen threatened more than once from a distance.
Despite the fact that he looked comfortable, Lazio fell behind a piece of magic from Marko Arnautovic late.
An inter-set piece was well defended with the ball that was erased high in the air, but the Austrian attacker showed the balance and class to break a first volley from 30 meters to Christos Mandas.
The break gave Lazio the chance to regroup and Isaksen continued to cause problems after the restart, but Josep Martinez was the same as the shot after a fine Mazy run in the area.
The visitors insisted on a level and did well on the back post to improvise a powerful shot on goal, but again it was directly with Martinez who was well positioned to make the stop.
Just as it seemed as if the Biancocelesti were setting up for an attack in the last 15 minutes, ex-Lazio man Joaquin Correa the hosts earned a spot kick when he was awkward in the box, just when he was about to the trigger Pull.
Hakan Calhanoglu was forced to wait to take it while the visitors protested, but he was not impressed when he sent Mandas the wrong way to double the leadership.
The side of Marco Baroni did not give up and almost immediately came back into play, but their happiness for the goal was summarized when the bent effort of Pedro put the bar on its way to the road.
After this Inter could see the game to guarantee the victory, so that Lazio could crash in the quarter-final phase for the fifth time in their last six Coppa Italia campaigns.
Match -Events
39 'goal! Inter 1-0 Lazio (Marko Arnautovic)
77 'Criminal goal! Inter 2-0 Lazio (Hakan Çalhanoğlu)
Line-ups
Inter XI: Darmian, Arnautovic, De Vrij, Zielinski, M. Taremi, Dimarco, Pavard, Fratteni, Josep Martínez, Yann Bisseck, Asllani
Subs: mkhitaryan, acerbi, calhanoglu, correa, barella, dumfries, lautaro, bastoni, alessandro cocigararis, christos alexiou, thomas berbruch, luka topalović, matteo cocchi, giacomo de pieri, alaini, alain, alaini
Lazio XI: Romagnoli, Lazzari, ZaCcagni, Samuel Gigot, L.Pellegrini, Guendouzi, Christos Mandas, Rovella, Gustav Isaksen, Boulaye Dia, Loum Tchaouna
Subs: Pedro, Marusic, Ivan Provedel, Nuno Tavares, Mario Gila, Alessio Furlanetto, Tijjani Noslin, Oliver Provstgaard, Arijon Ibrahimovic, Reda Belahyane
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