As Atalanta held Inter Milan down to a 0-0 draw in Sunday’s Serie A football news, reactions to Inter’s first draw in two months are in.
The hosts were missing several players through injury and COVID-19, and still faced an Inter team in buoyant form. After all, they had a recent high of an imperious league run and midweek Italian Super Cup victory over Juventus.
Inter coach Simone Inzaghi said before the game that he saw Atalanta as a title rival. And the match, in which both sides’ goalkeepers should be credited for clean sheets, soon lived up to the hype.
Serie A Football News – Reactions to Inter’s First Draw in Two Months
And Inter captain Handanovic told DAZN, after the match; “It’s a good draw given how it went. It could have gone either way. It was the right result, it’s never easy against Atalanta.”
“It is a great result for us, because Inter usually dominate,” said Atalanta coach Gian Piero Gasperini, in the meantime. “There were some moments that were in our favour and some not. Both teams wanted to win and that made it a great game.”
Yet, it was the first time since last January that Inter failed to find the net even once. In other words, Inter enjoyed a run of 39 league matches with minimally one goal each match for a year.
Nonetheless, the champions moved two points clear in the 2021-22 Serie A chart’s first place. Also, despite drawing 0-0, they extended their unbeaten league run to 13 matches.
Still, AC Milan can knock them off their top spot, defending by just two points, by beating Spezia on Monday.
Atalanta remain fourth, sandwiched one point behind Napoli and one ahead of Juventus.
