Game Domination, Inter Milan Down 0-1 Against Sassuolo

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JAKARTA Traveling to Sassuolo in the continuation of Week 35 of Serie A 2023/24, Inter Milan was beaten 0-1 at Mapei Stadium, Sunday morning morning WIB. The only wayang goal scored by Armand Lauriente in the middle of the first half. Meanwhile, Inter failed to score a return goal despite dominating throughout the match. This is Inter's second defeat in the Italian league this season, the first defeat was also made by Sassuolo with a score of 1-2 on 28 September last year. This result did not really affect Simeone Inzaghi's troops, who had secured Scudetto in the previous week. Nerazzurri topped the standings with 89 points from 35 matches, while Sassuolo was ranked 18th or second to the bottom in the relegation Zone with 29 points. Sassuolo still had the chance to leave the red zone, provided they won the remaining two games and the two teams above them failed to win points, as quoted by the official Italian League website. Inter, who already won, fielded Indonesian goalkeeper Emil Audero. Meanwhile, the home team played excitedly because they needed victory in order to escape the degradation. Several attempts Sassuolo's attack troubled Inter's defense, one of which was in the 16th minute through Martin Erlic's strike in the Inter box. However, Audero was still able to stem it. Two minutes later Inter threatened back through Lautaro Martinez who greeted his colleague's pass. Unfortunately, the ball's direction is still wide.

Sassuolo could open the scoring in the 20th minute taking advantage of Denzel Dumfries' mistakes in controlling the ball in his own defense.Josh Doig managed to snatch the ball and sent a pass to the near post which was finished with Armand Lauriente's hard kick into the top corner of the Audero's goal. The score was 1-0. Inter had equalized the score in extra time through Lautaro Martinez who grabbed Carlo Augusto's shot at the far post. However, the referee ruled the goal out because Lautaro was already stuck offside. Left 0-1, Inter started the second half with a high tempo to balance the position. Despite dominating the ball, poor finishing became an obstacle for the leading visitors to equalize. Until the game ended, Sassuolo managed to maintain their 1-0 lead while ending Inter's unbeaten record in 28 Serie A matches.