Sassuolo 3 - 4 Inter, all you need to know
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— Oct 21st 2019All the facts and statistics from the Nerazzurri’s win at the 'Mapei Stadium'
MILAN - In collaboration with Opta, here’s all you need to know about Inter’s win on matchday 8 of the league, as they brought home a 4-3 victory from Sassuolo.
Before Romelu Lukaku, the last Inter player to score at least four goals in their first four Serie A away games with the Nerazzurri was Diego Milito, back in November 2009.
Until yesterday, Inter hadn’t scored three goals in the first half of a Serie A game since May 2018 (against Udinese), that match was also played on a Sunday.
Inter scored four goals in yesterday’s match, this equals the total number of goals that they had scored in their previous eight Serie A matches against Sassuolo.
Yesterday was the third occasion on which De Zerbi’s Sassuolo scored at least three goals in a Serie A game but failed to bring home a single point (out of the nine games in which they have scored three or more goals in this competition).
Lautaro Martínez (1m 4s) scored Inter’s fastest goal at the start of a Serie A match since March 2018 (Icardi against Verona after 36m), this was also the fastest goal scored by any team so far this Serie A season.
Romelu Lukaku scored more than one goal in a game in one of Europe’s top 5 leagues for the first time since March 2019 (a brace for Manchester United against Southampton).
Lautaro has now scored four goals in his last three games in all competitions, just as many as in his previous 21 matches for the Nerazzurri.
Inter scored two penalties with two different players in the same Serie A game for their first time since May 2007 against Torino (Materazzi and Figo).
Both Inter and Sassuolo scored with their first shot of the match.
Sassuolo have now conceded the most first-half goals of any team in the current Serie A season (12).
Inter have won eight of their last ten Serie A games played immediately after an international break.
Inter started five Italian players in a Serie A match for the first time since February 2018 (against Benevento) and their youngest starting XI (an average of 26 years, 189 days) since January 2016 (against Carpi).