Inter Milan continued its march towards a second consecutive title of Serie A with a tense victory 2-1 against Udinese, which clearly made the champions in title of six points at the top of the league. The goals of the first half hour of Marko Arnautovic and Davide Prattesi were just enough to give the Inter their third consecutive victory before the first of the two derbies of Milan in the semi-final of the Italian Cup on Wednesday. Inter has a huge month to come when Simone Inzaghi’s team also faces a quarter -final of the Titanic Champions League with Bayern Munich and delicate lights with a fourth Bologna and Roma, which could be crucial for their defense of the title.
Inzaghi’s team is now waiting for the result of Napoli’s closest confrontations with AC Milan later Sunday after all, but ending the already slim title of Atalanta.
Atalanta has nine points behind inter in third place after falling to a 1-0 defeat at La Fiorentina without recording a single shot on the target.
Inzaghi will be happy to have seen second channel players presenting themselves given the upcoming commitments of his team, Arnautovic and Frattesi giving Inter An advance of two completely deserved goals at half-time while sweeping Federico Dimarco Cross in the 12th and 29th minutes.
Arnautovic played in the place of the injured captain Lautaro Martinez and Frattesi for his Italian teammate Nicolo Barella.
And the two delivered against the Udinese placed in the 10th, which were nowhere during most of the match but which made Inter Sweat sweat after the rocket of Oumar Solet reduced by half the deficit in the 71st minute.
Inter also asked goalkeeper Yann Sommer to thank that the three points apparently some have not been transformed into one with two superb stops by Lorenzo Lucca and Solet.
Sommer crashed into the post in the 74th minute when he achieved an incredible stop to refuse Lucca to score a free head, before loading Solet in the first minute of the downtime.
Moise Kean continued his excellent season with the sole goal of Fiorentina’s victory over Atalanta on the half-time in Florence, pushing the hosts to a point of European places.
Italian striker Kean, who scored twice for his country against Germany a week ago, has inflicted a first defeat outside the League for Atalanta since August, when he scored his 16th goal of the season of the season with confidence after stolen the defender of Atalanta Isak Hiery on the mid-headline.
Last year, the winners of the Europa League, Atalanta, who looked like candidates for the title after a sequence of 11 consecutive victories between October and December, fell since the start of the year.
The Gian Piero Gasperini team won only four championship games in 2025, all far from their home, and now have only two points ahead of Bologna.
“We lack dynamism and energy to give Fiorentina any difficulty … We just have to put it behind and look to the future,” said Gasperini.
Cagliari has reinforced their offer to avoid relegation by beating Monza 3-0 at the bottom of rock and by moving six points from the fall area.
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