subject: Italian Serie A- Inter Falls 2-1 Against Juventus [print this page] This past Saturday, the Italian Serie A fans were loaded with great excitment as the game known as the "Derby of Italy" between the FC Internazionale and Juventus FC was played as part of the fifteenth date of the Italian Serie A.
The game started with great intensity. In the middle of a fierce battle, both the Inter and the Juve were trying to get the control of the ball. It was a very even first half: both teams advanced quickly to attack each others goal. With this development, the actions were bound to be played mostly in the midfield.
In the midst of these clashes, La Vecchia Signora took advantage of the commotion and tried to unknot the game strategy of its rivals. After sending its forwards towards the ends to receive the ball, the home side created numerical superiority in the contrarys area, while the Nerazzurri supported their game on the strikers Samuel Eto'o and Diego Milito.
This offensive tactic gave them a quick result as the Bianconeri, after 20 minutes, managed to score, thanks to an excellent goal of defender Giorgio Chiellini.
Given this disadvantage, the visitors increased their level of play and began to apply a strong pressure so that they could took advantage of the opponents errors.
From the defensive zone, midfielder Thiago Motta made an accurate pass to Dejan Stankovic, who, without missing a beat, ran down the right side at full speed towards the rivalry area. It was a situation in which the Juventus defense did not have much time to react.
Fortunately for Stankovic, three of his teammates where in front of the goal of the Bianconeri; one of them was Etoo, who received the pass from the Serbian and then turn it into an easy goal at minute 26.
With the score tied and the tempers uploaded, both teams began to carry out an aggressive game. The referee, who did not assert its authority and did not pay much attention to what was happening on the pitch, whistled to close the first half.
For the second half, the game kept a similar rhythm from onset. However, Inter tried to make the difference in the game by realizing constant plays, although the offensive maneuvers did not represent any danger, their intentions of increasing the score was shown with these plays.
The responsible of repeling these attacks was the defender Martin Caceres, who was forced to make an amazing work and anticipate stopping the rivals. For his good performance, Cceres was chosen as the figure of the game.
Later, Stankovic missed a clear opportunity to score. Midfielder Claudio Marchisio took the ball and managed to overcome the defense of the Beneamata to create a shot that gave Juve its second goal, at minute 58.
Without doubt, it was a very wise decision of Juventus Coach, Ciro Ferrara to put Marchisio down the left. From there, he was very helpful on recovering balls and was able to guard closely the defender Javier Zanetti, Inters captain.
Trying not to lose the control that they had since the beginning, Internazionale made several player substitutions, but these changes were not effective, since the replacements failed to create any dangerous plays. Closer to the final of the disputed match, the leaders of the Italian league could do nothing but accept their defeat against their most serious threat in the league.
