Inter Milan retained the Italian Super Cup on Wednesday after Edin Dzeko inspired his team to a 3-0 victory over local rivals AC Milan.
The damage was done in the opening 21 minutes in Riyadh thanks to Dzeko, who played a defence-splitting pass for Federico Dimarco’s 10th-minute opener and doubled Inter’s lead 11 minutes later.
Lautaro Martinez then added a brilliantly taken third in the 77th minute to underline Inter’s superiority on a night in which Milan simply didn’t show up. Inter claim the Italian season’s first trophy as they did last year when they beat Juventus. “We put in a great performance, the boys were brilliant from the first minute until the final whistle,” Dzeko told Mediaset.
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“We won the Super Cup last season so we knew how great it is to win it…I’m really happy that we’re bringing home another trophy, and I hope there will be more in the future.”
Without the raucous soundtrack of a packed San Siro, Wednesday’s match in Saudi Arabia was an unusual Milan derby but that won’t stop Inter fans claiming local bragging rights as well as the Super Cup for the seventh time.
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