Inter
Monza
Match summary
Inter won comfortably, 4-1 at home to Monza. It was 1-1 at half-time.
In the first half, Hakan Calhanoglu put Inter ahead in the 6th minute, set up by Andy Diouf and Gustavo Varela equalised in the 29th minute, set up by Mathis Mout. In the second half, Piotr Zielinski put Inter back in front from a corner in the 48th minute, Francesco Pio Esposito made it 3-1 in the 55th minute, set up by Andy Diouf, and Yann Bisseck made it 4-1 in the 63rd minute, set up by Francesco Pio Esposito.
The chances backed that up: Inter created 1.54 expected goals (xG) from 13 shots to Monza's 1.22 from 7.
Inter dominated proceedings in their Serie A matchday one fixture against Monza, registering seventy percent possession and outshooting their visitors thirteen to seven with five efforts on target compared to three. The hosts controlled the territory with ninety-seven attacks and seven hundred and nine passes at an accuracy rate of eighty-nine per cent, comfortably outperforming their opponents who managed twenty-six dangerous attacks and two yellow cards, matching Inter's tally of two cautions. Despite these statistics, the expected goals figures of 1.54 to 1.22 suggested a tighter encounter than the final scoreline indicated, though Inter ultimately converted their territorial advantage into a comprehensive victory.
The action began in the sixth minute when Hakan Çalhanoğlu opened the scoring with a right-footed shot for Inter, before Gustavo Varela equalised for Monza with a right-footed effort in the twenty-ninth minute. Lautaro Martínez and Hakan Çalhanoğlu received yellow cards for Inter prior to the half-time interval, which arrived with the score level at one-all. Early in the second half, Piotr Zielinski scored with a right-footed shot in the forty-eighth minute to restore Inter's lead. Pio Esposito added a third with a right foot shot in the fifty-fifth minute, and Yann Bisseck completed the scoring with a left-footed strike in the sixty-third minute. Eddy Kouadio and Lorenzo Lucchesi received yellow cards for Monza in the second period.
