Danilo D’Ambrosio also on the track for Antonio Conte’s men, who will face Sevilla in Friday’s final in Cologne.
The Italian giants have endured a short decade since their Champions League victory in 2010, but have narrowed the hole over Juventus, the top seed in Serie A, to one point in Conte’s first season and are now one win away from his first trophy in nine. Years.
Martinez and Lukaku’s prolific partnership has been the source of much of Inter’s good fortune and have brought their general to 54 for the season.
After a slow start, Martinez climbed to feed a nicolo Barella center to open the scoring in the 19th minute.
Shakhtar is one of the wonderful survivors of European football, as Ukrainian champions continue to thrive even though they have not played a match in Donetsk for six years due to a war in eastern Ukraine between government forces and Russian-backed separatists.
Luis Castro’s men had scored 14 goals in five Europa League games since they entered the Champions League competition, but their talented Brazilian strikers put a glove on a well-organized Conte defense.
At the other end, Martinez still sharp and only a brilliant stop from 36-year-old Andriy Pyatov denied him a moment of elegance when he won the ball 30 yards from the purpose and without delay threw the ball toward the eventual purpose in the time period.
The Shakhtar had a golden chance to signal when the center of Mykola Matviyenko was decided by Junior Moraes, but the headbutt of the Brazilian-born Ukrainian international too close to Samir Handanovic.
Two minutes later, Inter was fatally beaten when D’Ambrosio encountered a corner of Marcelo Brozovic with a hard headbutt.
Lukaku extended his goal career to 10 consecutive Europa League matches, but the Belgian had to wait for Pyatov to lower himself well to save his first big goal.
Martinez paved the way to locate the back corner with a brilliant quick shot that gave Pyatov no time to prepare after Shakhtar took possession in his own part of the area for his 21st purpose of the season.
Lukaku then entered the act 12 minutes from the time Martinez played before his attacking spouse sneaked into the far corner.
Five minutes later, the former Manchester United scorer scored his 33rd goal of the crusade by accelerating away from the slow back line of a shakhtar before shooting between Pyatov’s legs.
(AFP)