Champions, Nerazzurri double celebration: Inter and Atalanta win

Champions League: Inter-Arsenal 1-0, Stuttgart-Atalanta 0-2

It was a Nerazzurri-tinged evening on Wednesday evening in the Champions League: both Inter and Atalanta, in fact, won three crucial points for their path in the European event, defeating respectively 1-0 Arsenal at home and 2-0 Stuttgart away. La Beneamata thus remains among the top eight in the standings, La Dea è just outside, in ninth position.

At the San Siro, the Simone Inzaghi-coached team started off strong right away, hitting the crossbar with Dumfries, but only unlocked the game in the midst of the first half, with a penalty kick that the referee awarded for a foul of Merino’s hands on Taremi’s header and which Hakan Calhanoglu sent into the net, dispatching Raya for 1-0. In the second half Arsenal made itself more dangerous, there was even a save on the line by Dumfries at 58'but the Nerazzurri held on and brought home their third win in four games, remaining unbeaten.

Instead, it makes it two out of four, in turn confirming its season unbeaten streak in Europe, Gian Piero Gasperini’s team, which despite being forced to give up Kolasinac from 13'; due to injury (Kossounou in his place) plays openly against the Germans, who had beaten Juventus at home the previous day. Signing the orobic advantage è Ademola Lookman, who in minute 52 took advantage of De Ketelaere's excellent cue, anticipated Chase and beat Nubel. The match remains alive until the end, to close it out Nicolò Zaniolo at the 88'88', winning a rebound at the edge of the area and overcoming the opposing goalkeeper coming out for the 2-0 that will be the final result.

In the standings, therefore, Inter have only two points less than the only team with full points among the thirty-six participants, Liverpool. Two points less for Atalanta, which però redeeming the half-failure home step against Celtic in the previous round. The two Nerazzurri representatives of the Italian league, moreover, can boast a special record, being the only ones not to have conceded a goal in the entire single round.