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Inter Milan 5-0 Shakhtar Donetsk: Danilo D’Ambrosio also scored at Antonio Conte’s meeting with Sevilla
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Something’s moving in Milan. After nine long years without the silver and suffering the sadness of not having their first Serie A name in a decade, Inter Milan beat an unfortunate Shakhtar Donetsk and will go to Cologne to face Sevilla in the Europa League final on Friday.
Lautaro Martínez demonstrated why he is one of the top coveted strikers in European football with two goals, in any aspect of a header of Danilo D’Ambrosio, while Romelu Lukaku scored two more, appearing the kind of clinical wing that is missing so much in his former Manchester United in Sunday. -final.
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The Shakhtar really dominated the game for moments, especially in a tight first half, although Inter finished ahead and never turned around. Everything went almost exactly as planned through Conte, without Shakhtar recording a framed shot. Martinez, for his part, scored with Inter’s first, in a brutally undeniable goal due to the mistake of goalkeeper Andriy Pyatov.
Pyatov had just lowered a raised hand to excuse his kick out of place when a perfectly placed center from Nicolo Barella’s right escaped from the head of the Shakhtar’s retired defense and discovered Martinez’s. One look seemed undeniable but brutally effective, leaving the doorman only banging the crossbar with frustration.
The celebrations were fierce enough for Roberto Gagliardini to jump straight to the back of Ambrosio’s neck and momentarily dazed his teammate. This would possibly have explained why, a few minutes later, the side was one of Inter’s three players, along with Martinez and Lukaku, who stood in the way and could not convert at point-blank range.
The Shakhtar had not been able to score once since the resumption before this attack and has kept that record in a time after the hour, when Junior Moraes encountered a mykola Matvyenko center with a header down. It was an almost mirror symbol of Martinez’s fate, but without the same conviction and blocked on Samir Handanovic’s legs.
This was the instance in which he turned this semi-final, because no more than two minutes later, he made Inter overturn the match decisively. Again, it was a header and this time D’Ambrosio made no mistake, crossing Matvyenko’s back to meet a corner from Marcelo Brozovic’s right and consult the ball in front of Pyatov.
That’s when the floodgates opened. In the nine-minute area, Inter extended their lead with 3 goals. Martinez first capitalized on the dispossess of Taras Stepanenko in the middle of the park on the right and applied an ending that showed why he has been courted by Barcelona lately.
Lukaku had been a strangely quiet presence up to this point, but we made the decision not to let his series of purposes at this festival expire before the final. Once again, Shakhtar was the architect of his own fall, with a sloppy pass from Yevhan Konoplyanka on the edge of his own penalty dominance recovered through Martinez and then slid for Lukaku to finish.
The Belgian did not finish and showed the kind of direct run against the rival defenders who made him a brilliant good fortune – albeit strangely unrecognized – in the Premier League. Davit Khocholava went into the dust when seven minutes from the end he slid the fifth of the Inter past Pyatov.
The Seville will enter Friday’s maximum with an additional day off, but Inter barely needed to practice here. In any case, this dominant demonstration against a compact and capable team will have frightened the Andalusians and will only awaken hopes of returning to victory with the nerazzurri in Lombardy.
Internazionale: Handanovic, Godin, de Vrij, Bastoni, D’Ambrosio, Barella, Brozovic, Gagliardini, Young, Lukaku, Martinez.
Submarines: Sánchez, Moses, Sensi, Ranocchia, Valero, Eriksen, Padelli, Esposito, Pirola, Biraghi, Skriniar, Candreva.
Shakhtar Donetsk: Pyatov, Dodo, Kryvtsov, Khocholava, Matviyenko, Mark Antony, Stepanenko, Marlos, Alan Patrick, Taison, Moraes.
Submarines: Dentinho, Tete, Konoplyanka, Solomon, Kovalenko, Maycon, Marquinhos Cipriano, Bolbat, Pikhalonok, Bondar, Trubin, Fernando.
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland).
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