Inter Milan’s Lautaro Martinez celebrates scoring their first aim with Pio Esposito
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Lautaro Martinez scored to present Inter Milan an necessary 1-0 win at Atalanta on Sunday, sending his facet into the New Yr on the high of Serie A.
Inter lead a tightly contested league desk on 36 factors, one away from metropolis rivals AC Milan and two forward of Napoli.
Marcus Thuram appeared to have fired Inter into the lead simply earlier than the interval, however the aim was dominated out after an offside by Martinez within the build-up.
Atalanta felt an identical sense of frustration quickly after the restart when Nicola Zalewski broke by one-on-one with Yann Sommer, just for the Inter goalkeeper to provide a spectacular leg save.
Atalanta thought they’d struck once more when Gianluca Scamacca broke clear, getting round Sommer and ending calmly, however the offside flag was already raised.
It took till the sixty fifth minute for a aim to face, as Pio Esposito pounced on a defensive error and squared the ball to Martinez who made no mistake to fireside Inter into the lead.
The match misplaced momentum within the closing phases, Lazar Samardzic coming closest to scoring when he missed a transparent likelihood to equalise for Atalanta. It was a head-to-head as a result of Atalanta are a robust facet who lately achieved a lot in Serie A and Europe,” Martinez instructed DAZN.
“They’re a workforce to be revered, they had been very aggressive and we knew what we had been going to face in the present day, however we ready nicely and need to preserve bettering.
I’m blissful, it is a present for all of the Inter followers, and for our households who stand with us.” (Tommy Lund in Gdansk, enhancing by Ed Osmond)
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