It was always meant to be him. Lautaro Martínez provided the assist for Benjamin Pavard as Inter Milan won their third straight Italian Super Cup.of Nerazzurri The captain’s 21st goal of the season was enough to beat Napoli in Riyadh and comes as manager Simone Inzaghi charges towards the 2023-24 Serie A title and launches another assault on the UEFA EFA Champions League. won the first of three trophies.
With 30 minutes remaining, Napoli’s Giovanni Simeone was sent off after being booked for a second time for a foul on Francesco Acerbi, causing chaos at Al Awal Park. With the game in the balance and Inter under pressure, Martinez finally broke free in front of Pierluigi Gollini’s goal and had enough space to score the decisive goal in the 91st minute. The Argentine is tied for second place in Super Cup history (3 goals), behind Paolo Dybala, along with Samuel Eto’o, Andriy Shevchenko, Carlos Tevez and Alessandro Del Piero.
“Simone Inzaghi Cup”
With the victory, Inzaghi has defeated two legends of Italian football, Fabio Capello and Marcello Lippi. super coppa I’ll win. Including his time coaching at Lazio, the 47-year-old has won five of the last seven titles. Inzaghi also set a new record by winning his fifth final with Inter, overtaking Helenio Herrera and Roberto Mancini, who both won four times.
“There’s really no secret. You need a great team. I was at Inter and previously at Lazio,” Inzaghi told Mediaset. “I was optimistic, but only to a certain extent. Usually it takes him more than a week to prepare for the finals, but he couldn’t do that here.”
A former striker best known for scoring 70 goals in Serie A, Inzaghi won the title with a 4-3 victory over Marcello Lippi’s Inter in the 2000 Super Cup final under Sven-Goran Eriksson. He was part of the Lazio team. After his retirement in 2010, he returned to showbiz again. biancocelesti He took over as manager in 2016 and won his first two Super Cups in 2017 and 2019, defeating Juventus on both occasions.
With coach Antonio Conte retiring in 2021, Inzaghi will Benemata And since then they have won all three Super Cups on offer, equaling the record set by AC Milan between 1992 and 1994. threepeatInter won their eighth title, ahead of the Rossoneri (seven), but remained just one behind Juventus.
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Referee Antonio Rapuano came under fire after Inter’s Hakan Çalhanoğlu escaped multiple yellow cards in the first half, lashing out at Napoli captain Giovanni di Lorenzo and boss Walter Mazzarri in the dugout. I let it happen. After the break, Rapuano showed Simeone two yellow cards within minutes as Napoli built up to the match. From there, the competition descended into a game of cat and mouse as Inter extended Di Lorenzo’s defense. After the heartbreaking defeat, which saw yellow and red cards carry over into the Serie A season, Mazzarri refused to attend the post-match press conference. Club president Aurelio De Laurentiis intervened.
Coach De Laurentiis explained to Corriere dello Sport, “The inadequacy of this year’s refereeing speaks for itself.” “We came here to promote our football and put on a show, but if you leave me to 10 people, there will be no show. Moreover, in the Championship, yellow cards and sending offs will be paid. This will lead to further distortion.”
The film mogul regularly criticizes the Italian authorities and has not been shy about expressing his dissatisfaction, whether it is for or against his team.
“Unfortunately the league is not working, it is its own thing.” [worst] enemy. They have also changed the regulations, so all the costs of the various expulsions in the championship will be borne by us. ”
After his team defeated Fiorentina 3-0 in the semi-finals, coach De Laurentiis encouraged his team towards an unlikely final victory, which is their best chance of winning a silver medal in the 2023-24 season. As a way to do this, they offered bonus incentives to players. The prize money for the winner is $8.73 million, and Napoli, whose coach De Laurentiis gave Antonio Conte enough to pay for next season, will miss out on an additional $3.27 million after losing on Monday. , instead leaving her with $5.46 million as runner-up. After winning two consecutive games against Salernitana, violaThis was Napoli’s best chance to win three games in a row since March 2023 under Luciano Spalletti.
Spalletti, who led Inter to a return to the Champions League for the first time in six years in 2018 and then helped Napoli win their third Scudetto in 2023, will monitor the national team’s prospects in preparation for Italy’s defense at Euro 2024. I was visiting Riyadh to Meanwhile, his predecessor Roberto Mancini has stepped down. Azzurri He remained in Qatar in August for work in Saudi Arabia, where he oversees the country. green falcons At the AFC Asian Cup.
Over the past decade, Inter and Napoli have risen rapidly and have often been intertwined, with top managers such as Spalletti, Mazzarri and Rafa Benitez moving back and forth between the two clubs. Napoli’s steady growth has seen them reach the last four of Serie A seven times, raising the possibility that former Inter manager Conte and others will negotiate with De Laurentiis, who is known for his astute business acumen. There is.
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For now, interim manager Mazzarri can be credited with reinvigorating Napoli’s competitive spirit. With six goals in sight this weekend against Lazio and then a trip north to third-placed Milan, whether he sticks to an experimental 3-4-2-1 formation remains to be seen. is a question mark. Victor Osimhen and Frank Anguissa could return, but it all depends on their respective AFCON (African Cup of Nations) obligations with Nigeria and Cameroon.
As for the title race, Inzaghi, who was nominated for the Best FIFA award in London last week, is just days away from the all-important trip to Florence. A week later, on Sunday, there will be a tantalizing battle between the winter champions and Juventus, who have suddenly risen to the top of Serie A.The Derby d’Italia is expected to return as Italy’s two biggest clubs face off for the Scudetto, with Inter potentially in line for next season’s Super Cup final. juve’s Best record ever.
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