Fiorentina 3-0 Inter Milan (6th February 2025) Game Analysis

Florence, Italy, February 6 (Reuters) -Champions Inter Milan missed their chance to go on top of the Serie A position as they suffered a 3-0 defeat at Fiorentina in a re -planned fixture on Thursday when Moise Kean scored twice for the hosts.

The defeat left Inter in second place at 51 points, three behind leaders Naples, and Fiorentina moved up to fourth at 42 points, ahead of Lazio on the target difference.

The original match on December 1 was suspended when Fiorentina’s Edoardo Bove collapsed on the field and was rushed to the hospital, and the game restarted 0-0 in the 17th minute with a Fiorentina throw.

Fiorentina was early under Cosh, where keeper David de Gea paired a shot from Lautaro Martinez, and Carlos Augusto, who had a goal that was chalked in offside, but the two best chances that the opening half fell to the hosts.

Kean came on the end of a Fabiano Parisi cross, and his downward header from the edge of the six-yard box brought an instinctive rescue with the foot of Inter Keeper Yann Sommer.

Kean then turned the provider, spraying the ball out widely to Dodo, driving forward into the area but pulling his shot wide out of the far post and the game remained goalless at the break.

Inter struggled to arrive and create real openings early in the second half, and Fiorentina took a deserved lead from a corner in the 59th minute.

Ranieri arrived outside the area and came to the ball in front of Davide Fretsi and hit his shot for the first time low into the corner.

There was little in the way of response from Inter, and Fiorentina doubled their lead nine minutes later.

Dodo crossed from the right, and Kean pulled away from his marker before turning on a header in the lower corner, and this time left summer without a chance.

Inter responded by making three changes, with Nicolo Barella, Federico Dimarco and Marko Arnautovic, who all came on, but the move couldn’t inspire visitors.

Their only chance smuggled with desperation with Dimarco who tried to catch de Gea away with a lob from a distance, but the keeper came back in time to hold onto the ball.

As the time is running out and an Inter comeback that looks unlikely, the Fiorentina packed the victory in the 89th minute, the goal comes from a Dimarco Howler.

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Inter wants the chance of revenge when the pages meet again Monday at San Siro. (Reporting Trevor Stynes, Editing Ed Osmond and Pritha Sarkar)