Inter got here again from 3-1 down to carry Bologna in a 3-3 thriller, together with a incredible free kick, weird Piotr personal objective and scorcher.
The celebrated their , so launched , , and early, with injured. closed their marketing campaign with out , Nicolò Cambiaghi, Martin Vitik and Nicolò Casale, however began on his thirty eighth birthday forward of possible retirement.
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had an early effort blocked and was denied by a splendid sliding sort out, whereas ’s first contact let him down after Josep Martinez bought right into a tangle enjoying out from the again.
Inter took the lead with their first actual scoring alternative, as Dimarco celebrated his Serie A MVP standing with a sensational free kick curled into the close to high nook. With seven targets and 17 assists, no defender contributed to extra targets within the final 20 years of the highest 5 European Leagues. His celebration additionally hinted the Dimarco household is rising.
The lead didn’t final lengthy, as flicked on a throw-in along with his heel to ship Castro into the field, then was able to prod residence the rebound from seven yards when minimize him off.
BOLOGNA, ITALY – MAY 23: Federico Bernardeschi of scores the 1-1 objective throughout the Serie A match between Bologna FC 1909 and FC Internazionale at Renato Dall’Ara Stadium on Might 23, 2026 in Bologna, Italy. (Photograph by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Pictures)
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ballooned over from eight yards after an ungainly bounce, whereas Rowe drilled simply large, then made the decisive block from six yards as Castro met the Freuler help.
Bologna turned it round earlier than half-time, as ’s volley from the sting of the world took a double deflection off Petar and to completely wrongfoot the Inter goalkeeper.
If there have been doubts on who to credit score with that objective, the Bologna third was undoubtedly an Inter personal objective. Juan Miranda pulled again from the left by-line for Bernardeschi, however bought there first and by chance became his personal web from shut vary.
BOLOGNA, ITALY – MAY 23: Piotr Zielinski of FC Internazionale scores the owns objective 3-1 throughout the Serie A match between Bologna FC 1909 and FC Internazionale at Renato Dall’Ara Stadium on Might 23, 2026 in Bologna, Italy. (Photograph by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Pictures)
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Bernardeschi fired straight on the Inter goalkeeper, whereas Lukasz ’s leg turned a Carlos Augusto effort onto the side-netting from shut vary.
Andy Diouf dribbled between two down the best and his end thumped the bottom of the close to publish, permitting the best of tap-ins on the rebound.
BOLOGNA, ITALY – MAY 23: Pio Esposito of FC Internazionale celebrates after scoring the 3-2 objective throughout the Serie A match between Bologna FC 1909 and FC Internazionale at Renato Dall’Ara Stadium on Might 23, 2026 in Bologna, Italy. (Photograph by Alessandro Sabattini/Getty Pictures)
It was practically 4-2 moments later, as Castro stood up a cross and the acrobatic Rowe volley didn’t join from six yards, whereas Diouf and drilled large.
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Diouf was fired up and ran onto the perfectly-weighted cross from 20-year-old Luka Topalovic, taking one contact earlier than smashing the right-foot end into the roof of the web from a tough angle.
This objective made for an fascinating statistic, because it means every of the final 3 times Inter gained the Serie A title, they did it by scoring 89 targets.
Bologna 3-3 Inter
Dimarco 22 (I), Bernardeschi 25 (B), Pobega 42 (B), Zielinski og 48 (B), Pio Esposito 64 (I), Diouf 87 (I)