Inter Milan’s Austrian ahead Marko Arnautovic celebrates after scoring his workforce’s first objective in opposition to Cagliari within the San Siro stadium (Piero CRUCIATTI)
Marko Arnautovic helped transfer Inter Milan six factors clear on the high of Serie A with a objective and help in Saturday’s 3-1 win over Cagliari, forward of their Champions League showdown with Bayern Munich.
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Enjoying instead of Marcus Thuram with coach Simone Inzaghi looking forward to Wednesday’s quarter-final second leg with Bayern, Arnautovic lashed champions Inter forward within the thirteenth minute.
And the Austria worldwide laid on an ideal sweeping go 13 minutes later for Lautaro Martinez, who dinked dwelling his twentieth objective of the season in all competitions.
Yann Bisseck’s thumping header within the fifty fifth minute made positive Inter would accumulate all three factors on the San Siro, after Roberto Piccoli halved the deficit for Fifteenth-placed Cagliari shortly after half-time.
Inter now look forward to the results of closest challengers Napoli’s dwelling fixture with Empoli on Monday, by which period attentions shall be squarely on Bayern who they lead 2-1 following Tuesday’s first leg in Germany.
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“We’ll go in that match with a whole lot of confidence regardless that we all know that we’ll be taking part in one of many three or 4 finest groups on the planet,” assured Inzaghi.
“We have have to repeat the tempo, aggression and organisation of our efficiency within the first leg.”
Arnautovic has performed a bit-part function at Inter however has had an influence in latest weeks with essential targets, Saturday’s being his fifth in his final 10 membership appearances.
Inzaghi’s workforce are gunning for a repeat of the Serie A, Champions League and Italian Cup treble they conquered beneath Jose Mourinho 15 years in the past.
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Arnautovic, 35, was on mortgage at Inter from FC Twente when Inter beat Bayern to win the Champions League in 2010, however he stated “it was a bit like I used to be a fan cheering the workforce on”.
“Clearly we consider within the treble as a result of we’re Inter, however there is a lengthy solution to go,” stated Arnautovic, who performed simply thrice for Inter beneath Mourinho.
Earlier Venezia boosted their survival hopes by beating rock-bottom Monza 1-0 and transferring to inside two factors of Lecce who sit simply exterior the relegation zone and misplaced 2-1 at Juventus.
Juve moved as much as third on 59 factors because of a high quality strike from Teun Koopmeiners after lower than two minutes and Kenan Yildiz’s effort within the thirty third minute in Turin.
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Igor Tudor stays unbeaten three video games into his reign after changing the sacked Thiago Motta final month and is on target to information Juve to the Champions League.
Juve are a degree forward of Atalanta who host Bologna — an extra level again in fifth — in Sunday’s first match, and consequently are assured to remain within the high 4 for every week.
Nevertheless, Juve had been once more sluggish and uninspired regardless of dominating play, and even risked throwing away the win after Federico Baschirotto glanced dwelling his second objective in as many video games for Lecce three minutes from the tip.
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