Antonio Conte trusted Man Utd’s former partner Romelu Lukaku and Ashley Young in their starting line-up, but it was young striker Lautaro Martinez who made the breakthrough by winning the first match in Dusseldorf.
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30. It’s mediocre.
You can’t beat the first man.
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29. Shakhtar Corner.
A clean touch and a satin center of Dodo discovered Moraes, but Inter’s defense diverted his efforts to a corner.
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28. A blood full of Godin.
The boy won and the ball won there, the referee blows for a loose kick.
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26. OPPORTUNITY FOR 2-0!
A magnificent Ashley Young center is put at the bottom of the net through Lukaku or Barella.
Fortunately for Inter, the flag was raised for the offside.
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26. Shakhtar clears the ball from the right through Barella.
Lukaku then slipped when it happened to him that he simply could not attack the cross.
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24. Shaktar tries to return to the paintings on the right, but Dodo and Matviyenko are on the same page and play the ball for an intentional kick from Inter.
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23. Shakhtar works the ball more this time and discovers Dodo on the right.
His low ball in the area is mediocre and locked through an Inter shoe.
Shakhtar, however, maintains ownership and seeks to rebuild.
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22. The Shakhtar seemed to move on the left in reaction to Inter’s advance, but Inter controlled to eliminate them smoothly and transparently.
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20. Inter returns to the shakhtar’s rule but the referee is missing through D’Ambrosio.
The Inter player wants to remedy with blood flowing from his forehead after the challenge.
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19. A bad ball in front of Pyatov is hit in Barella.
He hits his boy to the right and throws a better one-inch ball at Martinez’s head that feeds his headbutt in the back corner of the purpose in front of Pyatov.
Inter Clinic.
IT’S 1-0 IN THE INTER!
OUT OF NOWHERE!
GOOOOOAAAALLLLLLLll !!!
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18. Ashley Young is too eager to win the property and commits a foul on Dodo.
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17. Godin sends a long ball ahead of Martinez.
They beat him too long and gently overtake him through Pyatov.
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16. Now that the match is settled, it is the Shakhtar who controls the ball, Inter is happy to let him have.
They are confident in their ability to hit the Shakhtar at halftime.
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14. Inter retrieves the ball and breaks the ball with Lukaku.
He cuts with his left foot and tries to roll the ball over the edge of the area, but his ball fails to locate a teammate and Shakhtar regains possession.
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13. Matviyenko wins a foul for Shakhtar in midfield after a shortage of barella.
The game doesn’t have a genuine momentum yet.
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12. A search ball ahead from the Shakhtar’s baseline is sent out of the game through Godin for a Shakhtar raid serve.
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11. A poor clearing of Pyatov is picked up through Barella, but he makes the ownership account and fails to locate Martinez with a ball over Shakhtar’s defense.
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9. Both groups swapped ownership of the ball in the first few minutes, without any team controlling the game.
An adventure so far.
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7. Shakhtar will play from behind, but Inter is putting a lot of pressure against the Ukrainian team.
They beat the press with a clean play before Marlos tried a deep dive into the area.
It’s too hard and flows for an intentional kick.
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6. Inter free kick.
A padding on the right wing won through D’Ambrosio.
Brozovic delivers in the area but his center eludes and leaves for a band serve from shakhtar.
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5. Brozovic does to overtake Taison as he seeks to jump from the left.
The end fell, but the referee took it.
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3. De Vrij tries to get out of defence and commits a foul in the central circle.
The ball is worked ahead and the referee points to an Inter’s hand on the edge of the Shakhtar’s surface.
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2. A long ball is hit in front of Bastoni and passed to Shakhtar Pyatov’s goalkeeper.
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