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Italian Cup. Semifinal. The first match
Milan. “Giuseppe Meazza”
Inter – Juventus 1: 2
Goals: Lautaro Martinez 9 – Cristiano Ronaldo 26 (pen.), 35
“Bury“: Handanovic, Skrinjar, De Fry, Bastoni (Pinamonti 86), Darmian, Brozovic (Sensei 86), Vidal (Eriksen 72), Barella, Young (Perisic 66), Alexis Sanchez, Lautaro Martinez
“Juventus“: Buffon, Quadrado, Demiral, De Licht, Sandro, Bentancourt (Arthur 76), Rabio, McKenney (Kellini 88), Kulushevsky (Chiesa 88), Cristiano Ronaldo (Morata 76), Bernardeschi (Danilo 69)
Warnings: Joven 26, Vidal 38, Alexis Sánchez 90 + 2 – Demiral 14, Sandro 32, Cristiano Ronaldo 45 + 2, De Licht 47, Arthur 88, Morata 90 + 4
Chief referee: Gianpaolo Calvarese
Twice in a row, Juventus has not failed. Such was the refrain of the experts after the horror of the Italian Derby in League 15 days ago. He did not fail, taking the Super Bowl immediately. He does not fail twice in matches against the same team. Inter, for example, have lost twice in a row in just one case in the last 27 years, in the José Mourinho era. Now Andrea Pirlo and the players said that the failure of January 17 only helped them to mobilize, it served as a lesson. In fact, after him, Turintsy won four wins in a row with a total score of 10: 0. They also showed how much they have changed today.
“Inter” were not in the worst shape, in the last seven games they won five wins and two draws, in the last four they failed only once. He knocked Milan out of the Cup. He even restored the ability to score in the first games. Scored today. As in the previous Derby in Italy, Barella did his best. He ran down the right flank, shot, Lautaro Martínez struck weakly, but the ball went under Buffon. Admittedly, after that, the hosts got too into defense, only possessing the ball 41 percent of the time. Without Lukaku and Hakimi disqualified, they couldn’t fight back. And in the end, the defense failed.
Juventus actions cannot be called an assault. He acted slowly, he did not create anything. In general, the quality of play of both teams in the first half was extremely low, there were almost no shots on goal. However, by the break, the score was already 2: 1. Due to the serious mistakes of the Inter players. With a terrible butt from Bernardeschi, Young contained Cuadrado who was running towards the penalty area. Gianpaolo Calvarese watched the video for a long time and in the end decided to give a penalty. Maybe fair. And then Handanovic took the lead from the penalty area, Bastogne lost with the ball and Cristiano Ronaldo didn’t need more.
The third quarter of the game is traditionally the strongest for Inter. And today, two minutes after Bernardeschi’s shot, repelled by Handanovich, he was able to score taking advantage of the opponent’s blunder. Bentancourt fumbled, Sanchez sent it past Buffon. Not strong enough, so Demiral, who had his back almost to him, managed to knock him out. The hosts have already dominated and played the ball with much more energy than the guests in the first half. Darmian took out the defender and in the center of the penalty he was stopped only by Buffon’s super save. Pirlo even replaced winger Bernardeschi with defender Danilo.
Pirlo’s next replacement was even more, shall we say, interesting. In the 76th minute he took Cristiano Ronaldo off the field. Immediately before that, Barella came close with a scissor kick, immediately after the Turin players lost the ball again near their goal, and Buffon took Eriksen’s kick. The “Juve” already defended themselves, pressed “Inter”. Antonio Conte replaced central defender Bastogne with forward Pinamonti. Although in the last 5-6 minutes more added time, “Juventus” has already managed to calm the game, to reduce it to a battle in the center of the field with fouls and yellow cards. And in the end, get the desired result.
After a failure in the previous derby, “Juventus” successfully switched to a game with three defenders. In general, he added, it changed. First, in terms of character and organization. They even started talking about what resembles the heyday of Massimiliano Allegri. Today he made mistakes that Allegri didn’t have. But it showed the character of those times. And “Inter” from that match at best remained in place. Today was not bad, he deserved at least a draw. However, I was too wrong. What you can’t do in games against Juve. In the comedy of errors, it cannot be reinterpreted.
