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Inter Milan moved some extent behind Serie A leaders Napoli on Friday after seeing off Parma 3-1 on the San Siro forward of a key Champions League conflict at Bayer Leverkusen. Brilliantly taken targets both aspect of half-time from Italian internationals Federico Dimarco and Nicolo Barella and Marcus Thuram’s neat volley within the 67th minute have been sufficient for the reigning champions to shut in on Napoli. Simone Inzaghi’s Inter are additionally degree on 31 factors with second-placed Atalanta, who may declare the provisional league lead with a win over AC Milan in a while Friday.
Napoli host Lazio on Sunday night time after being dumped out of the Italian Cup by their capital metropolis opponents on Thursday.
“We scored some nice targets at present… The solely disappointing factor is that we conceded. We did not should given how we performed over the 94 minutes,” stated Inzaghi to DAZN.
Inter are unbeaten in 14 matches in all competitions and journey to Leverkusen on Tuesday realizing {that a} win would nearly actually guarantee direct qualification to the final 16 with two matches remaining.
Parma, who netted by means of a late Matteo Darmian personal aim, sit twelfth in Serie A, however Inzaghi nonetheless picked his greatest out there XI even with a giant European fixture across the nook, deciding on captain and star striker Lautaro Martinez for his three hundredth Inter look.
Martinez has struggled for kind this season and in addition to having a primary half strike rightly dominated out for offside the Argentina ahead additionally wasted three good alternatives to attain.
The 27-year-old had his head in his palms when he poked large an ideal likelihood one-on-one with Parma goalkeeper Zion Suzuki, six minutes after Thuram lashed dwelling his tenth league aim of the season.
France attacker Thuram was born in Parma the place his father Lilian performed for 5 seasons, profitable the UEFA Cup and Italian Cup in 1999 as a part of a star-studded outfit which additionally featured Italian icons Gianluigi Buffon and Fabio Cannavaro.
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