Inter Milan crashed to their first defeat of the Serie A season on Wednesday, taking place 2-1 at house to Sassuolo as arguable striker Victor Osimhen starred for Napoli regardless of an obvious rift with the champions. Inter fell into the sport with an excellent document of 5 wins in 5 and checked in keep an eye on at 1-0 forward due to a Denzel Dumfries objective at the stroke of half-time on the San Siro. Sassuolo levelled within the 54th modest when Nedim Bajrami scored with a long-range try which stuck out goalkeeper Yann Sommer.
Domenico Berardi clash the winner 10 mins after as Sassuolo claimed all 3 issues to apply up terminating occasion’s win over Juventus.
Inter stay lead of the desk on objective excess forward of AC Milan who previous defeated Cagliari 3-1.
“After a good first period where we should have scored more than one goal, but we lost our focus especially after the equaliser,” mentioned Inter lecturer Simone Inzaghi.
“Losing in front of our home crowd hurts us, we have to understand what happened, even if the schedule, with our next match on Saturday, doesn’t really give us time to take a step back.”
Nearest a defeat and two attracts, champions Napoli returned to successful techniques with Osimhen enjoying a starring function in a 4-1 win over Udinese.
The Nigerian striker scored his fourth objective of the season upcoming 39 mins with Khvicha Kvaratskhelia finishing a protracted objective drought by way of discovering the web in the second one half of.
Osimhen, lead scorer in Serie A terminating season, had decrease a arguable determine on the weekend when he confirmed his displeasure at being taken off by way of lecturer Rudy Garcia within the 0-0 draw with Bologna.
On Tuesday, his agent threatened Napoli with criminal motion for having printed a video at the membership’s TikTok account, since deleted, mocking the striker for lacking a penalty in that sport.
Osimhen got rid of pictures of himself in Napoli colors from his personal social media, fuelling hypothesis that he’s going to call for a walk within the later switch window.
“I have a very good relationship with Victor,” insisted Garcia.
“I am happy for him because he scored tonight. After the match in Bologna, we were all frustrated, angry, Victor in particular, because he missed the penalty.
“At the carrying facet and on alternative ranges, particularly on TikTok, there were a quantity of items to top in fresh days,” smiled Garcia.
“However I will be able to ensure you that Victor loves this jersey and that he’s invested in 100% in our challenge.”
Napoli are now fifth in the table with 11 points, four points behind the two Milan clubs.
Pioli’s 200th win – AC Milan fought back from a goal down to defeat Cagliari.
Milan were without injured goalkeeper Mike Maignan in addition to strikers Olivier Giroud and Rafael Leao.
Cagliari, searching for a first win of the campaign, grabbed a shock 29th-minute lead through Angolan winger Zito Luvumbo who capitalised on a mix-up in the Milan defence to shoot past Marco Sportiello.
Milan, however, hit back with Noah Okafor levelling in the 40th minute when he beat goalkeeper Boris Radunovic from a cross by Christian Pulisic.
In first-half injury-time, Fikayo Tomori added Milan’s second thanks to the work of Yacine Adli who was starting a game for only the second time since his arrival at the club in July 2022.
Stefano Pioli’s side made sure of the three points on the hour mark when Ruben Loftus-Cheek hit the target.
The win was a fifth in six matches for AC Milan who are level on 15 points with Inter.
“We deserved our victory in a fit which used to be no longer a rituality,” said Pioli who celebrated his 200th win as a coach in Serie A.
However, he admitted there had been “naivety” over the goal Milan conceded.
“We all know that it’s the fits in opposition to our direct opponents for the identify which can have an effect on our playground within the desk, however those fits which, on paper, appear easy might be very impressive on the finish of the season,” he added.
Empoli, who sacked coach Paolo Zanetti last week after a 7-0 thrashing at the hands of Roma, celebrated their first win of the season.
Tommaso Baldanzi scored the only goal in a 1-0 win over Salernitana.
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