Marko Arnautovic helped to move Inter Milan Six points Clear at the top of Serie A with a goal and to help during the 3-1 victory on Saturday against Cagliari, before their strength in the Champions League with Bayern Munich. Playing in the place of Marcus Thuram with coach Simone Inzaghi, looking in quarters on Wednesday in the second stage with Bayern, the whipped champions of Arnautovic Inter Ahead in the 13th minute. And the Austrian international laid a perfect scanning pass 13 minutes later for Lautaro Martinez, who killed his 20th goal of the season in all competitions.
The beaten head of Yann Bisseck in the 55th minute made sure that the three points would collect at San Siro, after Roberto Piccoli reduced by half the 15th place Cagliari deficit shortly after half.
Inter awaiting the result of the home match closest to Napoli with Empoli on Monday, when the attention will be squarely on Bayern which lead 2-1 after Tuesday’s first leg in Germany.
“We will go into this match with great confidence in this match, even if we know that we will play one of the three or four best world teams,” said Inzaghi.
“We need to repeat the pace, assault and organization of our performance in the first leg.”
Arnautovic has played a part of a bit in part at Inter but has had an impact in recent weeks with crucial objectives, Saturday is his fifth in his last 10 club appearances.
Inzaghi’s team is rehearsing a series A series, the Champions League and the tripled Italian Cup that they conquered under Jose Mourinho 15 years ago.
Triple belief
Arnautovic, 35, was loaned to the Inter of FC Twente when Inter beat Bayern to win the Champions League in 2010, but he said “it was a bit like I was a fan of the team’s encouragement”.
“Obviously, we believe in the triple because we are inter, but there is a long way to go,” said Arnautovic, who only played three times for Inter under Mourinho.
Earlier, Venezia strengthened its hopes of survival by beating the Rock-Fond Monza 1-0 and going to the two points of Lecce which is sitting just outside the relegation zone and lost 2-1 to Juventus.
Juve went third on 59 points thanks to a beautiful strike from Teun Koopmeiners after less than two minutes and the effort of Kenan Yildiz in the 33rd minute in Turin.
Igor Tudor remains undefeated three games in his reign after replacing the ransacked Thiago Motta last month and is on the right track to guide Juve in the Champions League.
Juve is a point ahead of Atalanta which welcomes Bologna – another point of return to fifth – in the first match on Sunday, and consequently is guaranteed to stay in the top four for a week.
“This is our goal (the Champions League), we have to do our best to get there and win every match we have left,” said Manuel Locatelli.
However, Juve was again slow and without inspiration despite the dominant game, and even risked rejecting the victory after Federico Baschirotto watched his second goal in so many games for Lecce at the house at the end of the end.
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