Inter suffers and then comes back from two goals down against Monza: 3-2 at San Siro

Milan, March 8, 2025 - To hell and back. Inter suffers but wins the Saturday advance against Monza and shifts the pressure onto Napoli. The Nerazzurri unexpectedly go down 0-2 against the Brianza team - Birindelli e Keita - Then arnautovic opens the comeback at the end of the first half Calhanoglu and an own goal by Kyriakopoulos concretize in the second half, making Inzaghi and all of San Siro breathe a sigh of relief. These are three important points, precisely because they were hard-fought, and which allow the Nerazzurri to think about the Feyenoord who will visit Milan on Tuesday. For the team of In this an excellent first half, then a decline in the second half and a ranking that remains deficient.

Birindelli and Keita: what a slap in the face

Inzaghi changes something and launches Marko in front arnautovic alongside Lautaro Martinez, giving Marcus Thuram a breather. A confirmed left-wing Bastoni. Nesta with 3-5-2 and the attacking pair Balde-Mota. Inter try to start with a good pace to make things clear right away and Barella unleashes the first right-footed shot after six minutes: the ball goes well high. But it won't be a sparkling first half for the Italian champions. Monza responds and Keita goes into personal action but his right-footed shot goes just wide. The score is clear: the Nerazzurri in possession, the Brianza players holed up behind, but the spark is missing in the final meters despite the encircling maneuver. Inter's rhythm is too slow to create any danger in the initial phases and all in all Nesta's team doesn't have any particular problems defending the goal, so the game comes out more balanced than expected. The home team tries with set pieces: Calhanoglu's corner and a shot from Lautaro to break away from the marking, a very high header. Even conclusions from outside can be a valid alternative, but Bastoni shoots high with his left foot. The first real big chance comes in the 22nd minute with a fine cross from Barella for the aerial turn of arnautovic which finds the backstroke of Turati. Inter rises in shots and shortly after finds a diagonal of Calhanoglu saved by D'Ambrosio who anticipates the Austrian striker by a little. It is the prelude to the goal, which comes in the 24th minute: Lautaro He emerges again from a corner first with a header (blocked), then with a winning tap-in from the right. But the VAR detects a handball by the number 10 and it stays that way. The Nerazzurri begin to besiege the area and Acerbi also breaks away to create an offensive numerical superiority: a deflected cross shot that just misses the post. Then, the match takes an unexpected turn. The bolt from the blue arrives in the 32nd minute. All it takes is a simple exchange between Mota and Birindelli to send the latter to the goal: diagonal into the corner hole and 0-1. Inter react with a gentle cross from Calhanoglu for the destroyed Dumfries, with the defense saving in extremis, but behind it skids and in the 44th minute a lightning counterattack by Keita ends with an incredible destruction that goes out in the top corner: 0-2 and San Siro is silent. Incredible. Before the break, however, the Nerazzurri manage to shorten the gap, thanks to Mkhitaryan who finds the pass from Dumfries for arnautovic : 1-2 at the end of the first half.

The reassembly of the recovery

Inzaghi chooses to change at half-time to recover the result and opts for Augusto e Bisseck in place of De Vrij and Pavard. His desires are present and trigger a different rhythm to the match, immediately with a couple of potential occasions and a much more aggressive high pressing. Dumfries goes into personal action at 50' but Turati is alert. Inter's cold-blooded assault collides with the Brianza wall, not finding the right opening in the last sixteen meters and in the great density of Nesta's team, all compact to defend the result. Lautaro tries in a melee with an imprecise overhead kick after a pass from Barella, but in general there is no space in the area even if Inter regularly presents itself in the final meters. The efforts are rewarded in the 65' with an insistent action that ends with Bisseck's assist for the onrushing player Calhanoglu : destroyed in the corner and 2-2 at 65'. Nesta immediately changes and chooses Lekovic and Ganvoula for Mota and Castrovilli to try to relieve the pressure on the defense, but the attempt fails. Inzaghi goes to win it and puts in the big caliber Thuram in place of an otherwise positive Arnautovic and immediately the number nine comes close to scoring with a prodigious aerial leap. The Frenchman is always a danger and with a quarter of an hour to go he fires a curling right-footed shot that flies just a few centimetres over the crossbar. Monza instead has spaces on the counterattack but is unable to exploit them and so Nesta tries to bring some order with Caprari's technique in place of Keita, who comes out polemical and angry with the crowd for the whistles at San Siro. In the end, after a difficult match, with twelve minutes to go the Nerazzurri captain resolves it by crowning an action orchestrated by Calhanoglu and finished by Augusto : the number ten appears at the far post, perhaps there is an own goal Kyriakopoulos , and finds the hand of Turati , but the goal line technology signals the goal and the overtaking. Inter can now merge pure in counterattack and in the 82nd minute Sticks part in coast to coast, then wide ball for Lautaro that triggers Thuram : post. With the lead gained, Inter tries to put the game to sleep by keeping possession of the ball and making Monza run in vain, also because there are three attackers on the pitch, pure Correathat Inzaghi had inserted to win the match following the injury of Zielinski who had just come on, and to serve to avoid risks in the defensive phase. The call is from Calhanoglu who shoots from outside, but turns to Turati, who in the end is among the best on the pitch. There is nothing else to report, Inter wins suffering but takes three important points that shift the pressure on Napoli who will play against Fiorentina.