Inter seals Serie A in style after derby thriller with Milan
Inter Milan won Serie A on Monday after beating AC Milan 2-1 and creating an unassailable lead at the top of the league with its sixth straight derby victory.
Goals from Francesco Acerbi and Marcus Thuram gave Inter a 17-point advantage over closest challengers Milan and secured its 20th league crown with ve matches of the season remaining.
Simone Inzaghi won the rst league title of his managerial career on a cold, soaking wet evening at the San Siro where a clutch of Inter’s “away” fans in the 75,000 crowd roared in delight at the nal whistle.
Milan made a ght of it in the nal moments after Fikayo Tomori pulled one
Done and dusted:
in the season.
back with 10 minutes remaining but Inter held out to kick o a title party.
Inter has become the second team to win 20 Italian league titles and will have a second star stitched onto its jersey, after Juventus which is way out in the lead with 36 crowns.
Inzaghi’s team did it style, laying waste to the rest of the division and becoming the rst team to claim the title by winning the Milan derby.
With outgoing champion Napoli crashing and burning early in the campaign and Milan falling away in the autumn Inter raced o into the distance at the turn of the year.
Juventus looked like putting up a ght but it collapsed in February just as Inter strung together a run of 13 wins.
The results: Serie A: Roma 1 (Azmoun 56) lost to Bologna 3 (El Azzouzi 14, Zirkzee 45, Saelemaekers 65); AC Milan 1 (Tomori 80) lost to Inter Milan 2 (Acerbi 18, Thuram 49). LaLiga: Sevilla 2 (En-Nesyri 61, Romero 75) bt Real Mallorca 1 (Prats 90+5).