adminMILAN. — Champions Juventus tightened their grip on Italy’s Serie A on Sunday night after outclassing Inter Milan 3-1 to claim deserved bragging rights from the “Derby d’Italia”.Inter travelled to Turin hoping to at least replicate their 1-1 draw with Antonio Conte’s men in Milan during the opening half of the season.
But Juve, who had scored 16 goals in their five previous league games, flew out the blocks and had created several early goalscoring chances before Stephan Lichsteiner’s diving header from Andrea Pirlo’s chipped ball gave the hosts a 15th minute lead. Juve piled on the pressure and only the safe hands of Samir Handanovic kept Inter from conceding more before the break.
Juve doubled their lead only two minutes after the restart thanks to defender Giorgio Chiellini, with an alert Arturo Vidal giving Juve a 3-0 lead on 55 minutes after pouncing on Paul Pogba’s rebound. — AFP.
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