Inter left Milan at the top of the Serie A standings for around 9 hours and after seeing what happened in the rest of the day's matches along with Napoli's 'double' over Cremonese, responded with a big win in Bergamo and a return to the top of the league.
The Nerazzurri overcame Atalanta, as hard as this 1-0 makes it look, with Lautaro Martines scoring and Pio Esposito assisting, who was less than 10 seconds on the pitch when he served!
Christian Kivu's side were imposing in the first half, showing that they had not gone to Bergamo to drop points and in the 35th minute Thuram's fine cross-footed finish with the ball into the net was disallowed for offside by Lautaro.
Atalanta dared a bit more in the second half, even became a threat to Sommer's goal, but in their two good moments, where the goal of last year's Champions League finalists was even breached, there were offsides and the goals did not count.
In response, initially in the 56' Luis Enrique was beaten in a four-on-four and Barela then missed the pressure phase in front of an empty net, but the move - checkmate was made by Cristian Kivu and the winning goal came for Inter. As soon as Pio Esposito entered the pitch and counting a few seconds after his entry, he was the recipient of the ball by mistake in the rear of the "Bergamaski".
He waited to cross Lautaro at the right moment and the Argentine managed to score with the outside of his right foot to make it 1-0 for the Nerazzurri in the 65th minute. The Milanese managed to leave with the "three points" from the New Balance Arena in Bergamo and return to the first place of the standings, again putting Milan and Napoli below.
