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Messias celebrates the winning goal (Milan’s Twitter)
The 23rd round of the Italian league continued today (Saturday) when Sampdoria hosted Bologna and Milan hosted Monza, with the away teams coming out on top in both games.
Monza – Milan 1:0
The Rossoneri continued the recovery process after the bad period and it seems that they are already completely on their feet with a third victory in a row, all with the same result – 0:1.
In the 31st minute it was Junior Macias who decided the match with an important goal in the fight for the top four in the league. Monza, which was in a good period, stops and will have to recover against Salernitana in the next round.
Inter – Udinese 1:3
After the 0:0 with Sampdoria in the last round, Inter returned to winning by beating Udinese 1:2. In the 20th minute, Lukaku scored on a penalty and broke a streak of 189 days without a goal in the Italian league. Two minutes before halftime, Sandy Lubrich received a ball in the box, found the net and equalized.
Henrikh Mkhitaryan scored a beautiful goal in the 73rd minute with a touch to make it 1:2, and Lautro Martins closed the story with a goal in a burst. The Nerazzurri are now in second place, three points behind third-placed Milan, but 15 points adrift of Napoli at the top. On Wednesday, Inter will meet Porto in the round of 16 of the Champions League final.
189 – Romelu Lukaku scored a goal in Serie A 189 days after the previous one (13 August 2022 against Lecce); the Belgian hadn’t scored at home in the competition since 23 May 2021, precisely against Udinese. Found.#InterUdinese pic.twitter.com/yrCDQy1TDr
— OptaPaolo (@OptaPaolo) February 18, 2023
Sampdoria – Bologna 2:1
The Bolognese came into the game as the clear favorites against the last team in the table, and left the Luigi Ferraris Stadium with the victory that raised them to seventh place in the Italian league. Musa Burrow found Roberto Soriano with a great ball in the 27th minute of the game that put the visitors up 0:1. The Moroccan Abdelhamid Sabiri equalized the result thanks to an accurate penalty kick to 1:1 in the 68th minute, but missed a great opportunity to give his team the lead when he missed another penalty whistled for his team, about three minutes later.
The referee added 5 minutes to the end, and seconds after waving the sign, Riccardo Ursolini took great control of a pass inside the box and found himself in the right place for an excellent kick that put Bologna up 1:2. The VAR referees intervened and it looked like Ursolini was on the difference, but in the end the goal was upheld, and the away team came away with three important points.
