Inter Milan, with Ecuadorian striker Felipe Caicedo on the bench, won the Italian Cup by defeating Juventus Turin at the end of a match plagued with alternatives (4-2 in extra time), marked by the two aforementioned penalties in favor of Nerazzurrithis Wednesday in Rome.
Philippao did not play a single minute in this competition with Simone Inzaghi’s Inter, who remains in the race for a national Series A-Cup-Super Cup treble, while the bianconeri by Massimiliano Allegri will close their first season without titles in the last eleven years.
The two penalties, which allowed Inter to equalize 2-2 and take the match to extra time and take the lead in the extra half hour, will undoubtedly provoke rivers of ink and hours of debate.
But it was ultimately title-hungry Simone Inzaghi who lifted the golden trophy in what had been his stadium for two decades, both as player and manager of Lazio.
Juventus center-back Giorgio Chiellini was unable to win a 20th title with the bianconeri before probably leaving the club at the age of 37.
And his coach Massimiliano Allegri, expelled for his angry protests, will have to wait to boast of being the first coach to win the Italian Cup five times.
The idyll with the victory that accompanied Allegri for a long time passed on the side of Inter and his coach, although this did not make Inter more brilliant than his rival, but he did have more cold blood after having seen himself with a 2 -1 against.
Perisic “always believed”
Nicollo Barella put Inter ahead (6), but Brazilian Alex Sandro (50) and Serbian striker Dusan Vlahovic (52) turned the score around. The Turkish Hakan Çalhanoglu did not miss from eleven meters for Inter (80), and already in extra time the Croatian Ivan Perisic gave the victory to the Milanese team (99 penalty and 102).
Taking advantage of the initial slowness of Juventus, Inter quickly unblocked the game with a perfect shot from Nicolo Barella against which the Turin goalkeeper Mattia Perin could only make the statue.
But once they got into the game, the Juventinos were dangerous.
First they crashed with a good Samir Handanovic, impeccable against a low shot from Argentine Paulo Dybala (23), and against Dusan Vlahovic (24) and a header from Matthijs De Ligt (30).
But the Slovenian goalkeeper eventually gave in in an incredible start to the second half that saw Juve take the lead within two minutes; a shot from the front by Alex Sandro and a quick counter by Vlahovic.
Inter, punished for their overly calculating game, went for a draw, but it was an opportunity for Perin to shine, against Matteo Darmian (55) and Federico Dimarco (71).
The sequence of penalties – a classic this season between the two teams – had to come to decide the match.
The referee sanctioned an action by Leonardo Bonucci on Lautaro Martínez so that Hakan Calhanoglu scored from the angle (80), and then a foul by De Ligt in extra time served for Ivan Perisic’s goal (99), which he sentenced in the 102.
“We always believed, even when we were down 2-1. We lost our minds for 10, 15 minutes, but we reacted well, I think the victory is well deserved,” said the Croat.
If for Juve the season is over, the Inter of the Chileans Arturo Vidal and Alexis Sánchez (both came from the bench) can still put the icing on the cake. (D)
Source: Eluniverso
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