He beat Porto with “golden” scorer Lukaku and Inter took the qualification lead!

Romelu Lukaku the… redeemer gave Inter a qualifying lead! The Belgian striker came on as a substitute in the match against Porto and gave the victory to his team (1-0), with the “nerazzurri” going to “Dragão” with an advantage.

Excellent performance from them too two goalkeepers, who performed fantastic operations and kept the score at zero, until the 29-year-old centre-forward broke the Gordian bond. Both teams had great chances, but Onana and Costa had a great night.

He was justified by the fact that he left Lukakus o Simone Inzaghi, with the Belgian doing the damage coming off the bench and the Milan side getting an important result ahead of the return leg.

The match

Inter came into the game strongly and constantly tried to find spaces to break down Porto’s defence. In the 13th minute, Dimarco found Lautaro with a beautiful cross at the back of the defense, but the ball went over Costa’s goal.

In the 18th minute, Tsalhanoglu took a corner, the ball came back to him and with an improbable shot he tried to beat Costa, with the Portuguese keeper again pushing away for a corner.

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In the 27th minute it was Porto’s turn to threaten, but Grujic’s shot from outside the area was off target. Ten minutes later, the dragons missed a great chance to open the scoring. Taremi back-heeled Grujic, whose shot aOnana snapped impressively. with Galeno in the throw-in unable to send the ball into the net, with a header into the undefended goal.

At 45’+2′, Inter had a great moment to take the lead. Dimarco takes the free-kick from the right, Bastoni heads it, with the Portuguese keeper to reach out and make an impressive save! Thus, the two teams went into the break with no score.

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The “neratzuri” entered well in the second half and in the 52nd minute they had another chance to open the score. After a ball deep into the Porto area, Barela took control of the ball, but his shot from the side went just wide of Costa’s right-hand post.

Five minutes later, Porto lost triple chance to get ahead. The “dragons” developed well, the ball reached Zaidou, who from an advantageous position failed to beat Onana twice, while the Cameroonian also had an answer to Taremi’s place, who took the rebound.

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From that point, Inter became very pressing to find the winning goal, without finding any significant chance. In the 78th minute, the visitors were left with ten players. Otavio stepped on Tsalhanoglou in his attempt to shoot, as a result of which he received the second yellow card and was sent off!

This helped Inzaghi’s team take steps on the field, resulting in the long-awaited goal in the 86th minute. Darmian made a great cross from the right Lukaku took the header, the ball hit the post, with the Belgian taking the rebound and coolly beating Costa for 1-0!

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In the final minutes, the Nerazzurri managed their lead perfectly and got a very important win, which gives them a qualification advantage for the second leg of the Dragao.

The compositions of the two teams:



Inter: Onana, Skriniar (81′ Dumfries), Acerbi, Bastoni, Darmian, Barela, Tsalkhanoglou, Mikitarian (72′ Brozovic), Dimarco (58′ Goossens), Dzeko (58′ Lukaku), Lautaro.

Porto: Costa, Joao Mario (90’+2′ Borges), Pepe, Marcano, Zaidou, Uribe, Ottavio, Pepe, Galeno (51′ Evanilsson), Taremi (83′ Wendel).

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