Serie A Roundup: Martinez nets two as Inter fights back to beat Cremonese
MILAN — Lautaro Martinez’s wealthy vein of scoring kind produced two extra objectives to assist Inter Milan win at backside membership Cremonese 2-1 and transfer into second spot in Serie A on Saturday.
Cremonese took a shock lead with a shocking strike from David Okereke however Martinez scored in every half.
That took the World Cup winner to 6 objectives in his previous six matches for Inter and lifted his workforce two factors above third-placed AC Milan, which performs Sassuolo on Sunday. Inter and Milan meet in a Serie A derby subsequent weekend.
Sixth-placed Atalanta might transfer stage with Milan with a win at residence to relegation-threatened Sampdoria later.
Cremonese remained rooted to the underside of the desk, 9 factors from security.
Inter was trying to bounce again from a demoralizing loss at residence to Empoli however discovered itself surprisingly behind within the eleventh minute when Okereke carved out house on the sting of the world and curled an outstanding strike into the highest proper nook.
Inter leveled 10 minutes later when residence goalkeeper Marco Carnesecchi did nicely to parry Edin Dzeko’s volley from a nook however Martinez tapped within the rebound.
The Nerazzurri nearly went in at halftime forward however Carnesecchi first parried a fierce Federico Dimarco shot and managed to swiftly get again as much as deny Martinez on the follow-up.
However, Martinez did get his second within the sixty fifth when he was launched by a Dzeko throughball and his effort took a deflection to loop over Carnesecchi.
COMEBACK
Torino scored twice within the closing eight minutes — and nearly netted the winner — to salvage a 2-2 draw at Empoli.
The residence workforce gave the impression to be coasting to victory after Sebastiano Luperto headed in his first Serie A purpose shortly earlier than halftime and Răzvan Marin scored a sensational long-range strike within the 69th.
But Samuele Ricci pulled one again in opposition to his former membership within the 82nd and Antonio Sanabria curled within the equalizer three minutes later.
Incredibly, Torino got here near the winner within the closing minute however Aleksej Miranchuk’s effort got here off the left submit.
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