According to "Varzesh 3", Inter in the eighth week of the competitions of Italy's Serie A, at San Siro Stadium, hosted Fiorentina and managed, in a noisy and dramatic match, to defeat its opponent 2-1, to continue its extraordinary run in recording comebacks and to preserve its place at the top of the league table.
The match began with a lackluster and relatively cautious display in the first half. The two teams faced difficulty in creating scoring chances, and the efforts of players such as Marcus Thuram and Francesco Pio Esposito were neutralized by the alertness of the defensive line and the excellent reactions of David de Gea, Fiorentina's experienced goalkeeper, so that the first half ended goalless.
With the start of the second half, the flow of the game changed and the visiting team managed to deal a big shock to the host.
In the 60th minute, Jiménez, advancing to behind the penalty area and with a fierce, precise and powerful long-range shot, targeted the goal of Ivan Provedel, Inter's goalkeeper, and stuck the ball into the corner of the net to put Fiorentina ahead.
The controversial scene of Inter's rejected penalty: Inter, after Jiménez's goal, which was scored from behind the penalty area, tried to increase the tempo of the game and raise the pressure. In the course of this attack, Thuram controlled the ball on the right side of the penalty area. The French striker, with a move across, forced the Fiorentina defender into a tackle, but the opposing defender, without hitting the ball, completely targeted Thuram's leg and brought him down.
Mariani at first pointed to the penalty spot, but immediately changed his opinion and, with hand gestures, showed that 'no foul had occurred.' Fabbri, the video assistant referee (VAR), also did not intervene in the referee's decision despite this scene, and no penalty was awarded.
Following that, Cristian Chivu, Inter's 43-year-old head coach, immediately made tactical changes and attacking substitutions and sent players such as Piotr Zieliński, Federico Dimarco and Luka Sučić onto the pitch, so that the pressure of the Nerazzurri attacks would multiply several-fold. The host's wave of attacks poured onto Fiorentina's goal, and the opposing defenders, together with De Gea, resisted many times; among them Carlos Augusto's dangerous header, which struck the goalpost.
Nevertheless, Inter's relentless pressure finally bore fruit in the closing minutes. Marcus Thuram, who had made great efforts throughout the match, managed in the 90th minute to put the equalizing goal into Fiorentina's net, so that San Siro erupted.
But this was not the end of the matter; in the 93rd minute, a penalty foul was awarded in Inter's favor, and Piotr Zieliński, in the 98th minute, stood behind the strike and calmly converted the ball into his team's winning goal.
With this valuable victory, Inter harvested its 22nd point to remain at the top of the Serie A table and to show that even on difficult days, and despite conceding the first goal, it never surrenders.
Source: Varzesh 3
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