Sampdoria 0 - 5 Inter: All you need to know
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— Mar 19th 2018Together with Opta, here are the stats from the Nerazzurri's 5-0 win
MILAN - Luciano Spalletti's team returned to winning on the road with a 5-0 win at Sampdoria.
In collaboration with Opta, here are the stats from the match.
Mauro Icardi has now become the sixth-youngest player to score 100 goals in Serie A.
Icardi has also reached 100 goals for Inter in all competitions, in 172 appearances.
Icardi bagged his 6th hat-trick in Serie A - a league-high since his debut in 2012/13.
The last Inter player who managed to score four goals in a Serie A game was Diego Milito in 2012 vs Palermo.
Sampdoria are now Icardi’s joint-favourite target in Serie A, along with Fiorentina (10 goals scored against both sides).
Ivan Perisic has now ended a 11-game goal scoring drought in Serie A (since his hat-trick vs Chievo in Dec 3rd 2017).
Inter scored four goals in the first half of play of a Serie A game for the first time since March 2017 (five goals vs Atalanta).
The Nerazzurri have kept three consecutive clean sheets in Serie A for the first time since December 2016.
Inter’s last 5-0 win against Sampdoria in Serie A came in 1970.
Inter have now hit the woodwork 17 times – at least three more than any other side in this Serie A campaign.