Inter, double championship match point at San Siro: after 35 years celebration in Milan

Two chances to become Italian champion at San Siro: the calendar provides Inter with a double match point within friendly walls

Two chances to become Italian champion at San Siro. The calendar provides Inter with a double match point within friendly walls, Corriere dello Sport underlines today in view of Monday’s derby.

“It hasn’t even happened for 35 years, since in the 1988/1989 season the tricolor became arithmetic after beating Napoli, their immediate pursuers, 2-1, thanks to Matthäus’ goal seven minutes from time. It was the thirteenth championship and this time that of the second star depends on the derby on Monday evening at San Siro at Milan’s home (you just need to win to be certain) or on the home match on Saturday 27 April at 3pm against Torino. Whatever happens, Inter could celebrate in their own stadium and in their own city, savoring those sensations that now date back to Trapattoni’s Nerazzurri and the infamous record-breaking team. If the arithmetic does not arrive in the match against the Rossoneri, the placement of the match against Torino will allow the league leaders not to celebrate from the sofa and will make the Nerazzurri architects of their own destiny to close the tricolor ride.

Parties elsewhere

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It is curious to note, in fact, how the most recent successes in the championship have all arrived far from Milan, in other cities and even at the end of matches in which the Nerazzurri were not involved. Inter went on to win the scudetto “firsthand” twice in Siena, 290 km away as the crow flies (2009/10 and 2006/07 seasons) and on another occasion in Parma at the end of the 2007/08 vintage 115 km from your city.

Two other triumphs came far from home and without taking the field. The previous, fresher one, that of the 2020/2021 season, refers to the draw in Reggio Emilia between Sassuolo and Atalanta, complete with a penalty missed by Muriel, which caused the party to explode in Milan as happened in the 2008/09 season, when Inter was crowned queen of Italy due to Milan’s defeat on the Udinese pitch. Like Napoli last year, the league leaders could win the title on Monday evening with five rounds to spare and no team has ever done better in the history of the championship. This time it could happen in Milan, leaving memorable postcards at San Siro as happened, for example, with Ibrahimovic in Parma or Materazzi in Siena. Finally, April 22nd, the day of the derby on Monday, is the same date as the scudetto won in Tuscany in 2007“, it is read.