(Milan) Inter Milan of Simone Inzaghi confirmed their current supremacy over Italian football by snatching the Supercopa against Juventus Turin, defending champion, in the last second of extra time, Wednesday at San Siro (2-1 y. p).
Posted at 6:39 p.m.
As the penalty shoot-out loomed, Alexis Sanchez emerged to take advantage of Alex Sandro’s defensive error and offer the trophy to the Nerazzurri.
With this deserved success at the end of a committed Italian derby, Inzaghi continues his flawless performance in this competition with three victories in three participations, all three times against the Bianconeri, whom he had already beaten with Lazio Rome in 2017. and 2019. He also won his first title on the nerazzurro bench.
Juventus, after having to cede the scudetto to the Nerazzurri in May, continue to lose their splendor on the national scene, even if they resisted for a long time on Wednesday.
Deprived of many starters at the kick-off between injured (Chiesa), suspended (De Ligt and Cuadrado) and ghosts spared on the bench (Bonucci, Dybala), the Turinese quickly knew that they would have to run a lot against this Inter in full confidence.
The Bianconeri were quickly put under pressure, on a strike from just next to Lautaro Martinez (7e) then a breakthrough from Nicolo Barella who claimed a penalty for a limit intervention by Giorgio Chiellini (10e).
Massimiliano Allegri’s men will hardly have loosened the vice for only fifteen minutes, but that was enough for them to open the scoring on a header from Weston McKennie after a good job from Dejan Kulusevski on the right then Alvaro Morata on the left ( 25e).
Illusion
Stung to the quick in their den, Inter then put their game in order and again pushed back Juve, who conceded a penalty for a very light collision by De Sciglio on Dzeko. Martinez transformed into force (35e).
On the restart, Federico Bernardeschi deluded with two dangerous strikes (47e, 50e), but it was still Inter who went on the assault.
Mattia Perin, holder in the Turin cage instead of Wojciech Szczesny, dismissed for health reasons, had to work on the heads of Denzel Dumfries (59e) and Martinez (69e) then a volley of Perisic (72e), then throw himself in front of Sanchez in overtime (116e).
Entries from Paolo Dybala and Moise Kean did not allow Juve to be more dangerous and Perin finally had to bow at the very end when he must already have had his mind set on penalties.
“I was hungry and really wanted to win something! », Commented the hero of the evening Alexis Sanchez, subscribed to the bench this season.
San Siro was only half full, before the entry into force of a more restrictive ceiling (5,000 maximum) from Friday. But at the final whistle, the tifosi nerazzurri took it upon themselves to make it roar as if it was full.