Inter Milan beat Sampdoria 3-0 this Saturday, in a match of the 12th round of the Italian soccer league, led by Napoli, which defeated Sassuolo 4-0 at home.
In a first leg, as Sampdoria only created a scoring situation in the final minutes, through Argentinian Ignacio Pussetto, Inter Milan took the lead through Dutchman Stefan de Vrij, in the 21st minute.
At the end of the first half, the Milanese team went up to 2-0 with a great goal from Nicolò Barella, in the 44th minute, and increased to 3-0 by the Argentine Joaquim Correa, in the 73rd, who accelerated several tens of meters from the goal defended by Emilio Audero.
With their fourth consecutive victory, Inter Milan provisionally rise to fifth place, with 24 points, eight behind the leader Napoli, and tied with Lazio, third, and Atalanta, fourth, although with one more game, while Sampdoria is 18th. , with six.
Juventus, who lost 4-3 to Benfica in the Champions League on Tuesday, having already missed the round of 16, beat Lecce 1-0, with a goal from Nicolo Fagioli, in the 73rd minute.
The Turin team remains in seventh place in the Italian league, with 22 points, ten behind the leader Napoli, but it can still be overtaken by Udinese, eighth, with 21, which on Sunday moves to the home of the ‘ Red Lanterns’ Cremonese.
In Napoli, a Victor Osimhen hat-trick was instrumental in the home side’s 4-0 thrashing of competition leaders Sassuolo.
The Nigerian striker scored in the 4th, 19th and 77th minutes, with the Georgian Kvaratskhelia, who was in the bidding for the first two goals, scoring in the 36th minute, after a pass from the Portuguese Mário Rui, who started for the Neapolitan team . .
With the passage to the ‘eighth’ of the Champions already assured, the Neapolitans are ahead of the Italian league, with a six-point advantage over the champion AC Milan, who has one game in hand.
Source: TSF
