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Inter Participant Rankings vs Udinese: Dimarco Units Nerazzurri Up for Success

Serie A leaders Inter needed to survive a late scare in a nerve-shredding 2-1 dwelling victory in opposition to Udinese on Saturday night. Simone Inzaghi’s aspect posted a 3rd consecutive league win by the pores and skin of their enamel.

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Buoyed by back-to-back wins in opposition to Atalanta and Monza earlier than the worldwide break, Inter loved a dream begin as Marko Arnautovic pounced on Federico Dimarco’s help to open the scoring after solely 12 minutes. It didn’t take lengthy earlier than the Nerazzurri discovered their second.

Dimarco whipped in one other chic low cross towards Davide Frattesi, who turned it dwelling from point-blank vary to make it 2-0 for Inter on the stroke of the half-hour mark. With a mouth-watering Coppa Italia semi-finals in opposition to Milan across the nook, Inzaghi made quite a few modifications within the second half.

Nevertheless, it practically backfired on Inter. Concern crept in when Oumar Solet scored a shocking long-range strike within the 71st minute to chop the house aspect’s lead in half. Lorenzo Lucca practically drew Udinese degree, however Yann Sommer flew via the air to cease his thumping header with a diving save.

With out additional ado, let’s take a look at our participant rankings.

Inter (3-5-2)

Yann Sommer – 7.5

After a comparatively simple first half, the Swiss stopper had lots to do within the second 45 minutes. He was powerless in opposition to Solet’s devastating effort however pulled off a shocking save to thwart Lucca’s header.

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Benjamin Pavard – 6

The Frenchman’s type wobbles continued as he appeared rusty and out of steam, typically struggling in one-on-one duels with Lucca.

Francesco Acerbi – 6.5

Not like Pavard, Acerbi fared effectively in opposition to the towering striker till the seventy fifth minute when he slipped his mark, just for Sommer to bail him out with a improbable save.

Carlos Augusto – 6.5

Slotted in for Alessandro Bastoni within the again three, Augusto delivered one other reassuring efficiency after scoring in a 2-0 win at Atalanta final outing.

Federico Dimarco – 8

Again to the beginning line-up after a month-long spell on the sidelines, the prolific left-back delivered two first-half assists and practically scored himself halfway via the second half with an outstanding long-range effort.

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Henrikh Mkhitaryan – 6

Regardless of providing little within the last third, the Armenian veteran held up his finish of the cut price within the build-up part, by no means freely giving possession whereas combining effectively together with his teammates.

Hakan Calhanoglu – 6.5

Together with his midfield teammates doing many of the heavy lifting, the Turkish star had a better a part of the job as he solely needed to distribute the ball across the pitch with trademark precision and function.

Davide Frattesi – 7

Handed a uncommon likelihood to start out forward of Nicolo Barella, Frattesi labored his socks off this night, displaying he may nonetheless be an attacking menace with a deadly end to double Inter’s lead.

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Matteo Darmian – 6

The getting old wingback proved to Inzaghi that he’s worthy of the Inter shirt, defying current damage struggles to interchange Denzel Dumfries on the correct earlier than switching to the left after Dimarco’s withdrawal.

Marcus Thuram – 6

The French striker had a quiet night by his excessive commonplace as he by no means put Udinese goalkeeper Maduka Okoye to the take a look at.

Marko Arnautovic – 7

There was nothing a lot Inter may’ve anticipated from the 35-year-old striker. He scored from the one likelihood that got here his technique to open the scoring.

Substitutes

Joaquin Correa – 4

Yann Bisseck – 6

Nicolo Barella – 5.5