Festa Viola, Inter is not there. Ranieri and Kean double. A feat for Bove

Florence and Fiorentina are laughing. It is a feat, that of the Viola, who beat Inter 3-0 despite the emergency and move into fourth place, drawing level with Lazio, overtaking Juve. On the other hand, the Nerazzurri lose the opportunity to join Napoli at the top: once the asterisk is removed, the Italian champions are 3 points behind the first and suffer a very hard blow even in the proportions of the knockout.

The difficulties of the guests were evident almost immediately after the restart from the 17th minute of the first half, when the match was interrupted on December 1st. The guests had one goal disallowed before the suspension due to Bove's illness and another by Carlos Augusto was (rightly) denied due to an offside detected by the VAR. Despite great difficulties in the formation, without the new January additions, the injured Adli and with Cataldi and Colpani initially on the bench, Viola was alive. They remained behind with their center of gravity and pushed hard to the left. Parisi created some problems for the Bisseck-Dumfries duo and Kean had a huge opportunity, he headed it alone in the area but it hit Sommer on the goal line. Another chance fell to Dodò, whose right diagonal ended wide despite a wide angle shot in a one-on-one with the goalkeeper. Inzaghi makes his presence felt: his team's passing is too slow, he comes up against the hosts' organisation, who are cautious and have interesting weapons to attack the spaces behind the Nerazzurri defenders, while on the opposite side there is a lack of quality in the final metres and the many set pieces are not exploited properly.

Even at the start of the second half, Fiorentina enters the opponent's area, with a left-footed shot from Kean sent sky-high. The visitors' maneuver to flank the ball fails and when Viola wins a corner Ranieri takes advantage of it to split and place it in the bottom corner. The Nerazzurri do not react. They lose the ball even with the finest passers, such as Calhanoglu and Mkhitaryan who let Richardson take their time and launch the action for Kean's 2-0, on Dodò's invitation. Both the Turk and the Armenian are immediately invited to sit on the bench, Bastoni also out and Barella (as a playmaker), Dimarco and Arnautovic who joins the two strikers. The extra striker fills in but changes nothing, De Gea is completely inactive. Asllani and Taremi also come on, the fourth striker on the pitch, for the last seven plus injury time. Palladino has not yet started working on his very limited bench, he does so only at the last minute. The goal, even in the final minutes, is scored again by Fiorentina with Kean, collecting a gift from Dimarco. On Monday there is already a rematch with the fields reversed.