Inter Milan missed the possibility to maneuver high of Serie A as they fell to defeat at an impressed Fiorentina in a match that was rescheduled after dwelling midfielder Edoardo Bove collapsed on the pitch on 1 December.
The on-loan Roma participant, 22, who was admitted to hospital and has since had a defibrillator fitted, watched on from the sidelines as the competition restarted within the seventeenth minute, the time the unique match was suspended.
Luca Ranieri opened the scoring for Raffaele Palladino’s depleted facet, who like Inter, have been unable to area any new signings given they’d have been unavailable when the competition first started.
The Fiorentina captain steered in a low effort from a nook earlier than former Everton and Juventus ahead Moise Kean doubled their benefit with a header from Dodo’s cross.
Kean rounded off a deserved victory for the hosts late on when Federico Dimarco’s errant again go left Inter goalkeeper Yann Sommer stranded.
Reigning champions Inter had been hoping to climb above league leaders Napoli on aim distinction.
Nevertheless, apart from a Carlos Augusto effort, that was appropriately dominated out for offside in the course of the first interval following a video assistant referee evaluation, they not often regarded like breaking down a resolute dwelling defence.
The groups face one another once more within the reverse fixture on the San Siro on Monday, 10 February (19:45 GMT).