Inter Milan has the twentieth time Italian He won the soccer championship. Coach Simone Inzaghi's team won 2-1 (1-0) in the city derby against AC Milan on Monday. Inter has a 17-point lead with five games remaining and can no longer be caught by second-placed AC Milan.

Inter beats Milan and is crowned champion

The 2023 Champions League finalist had no problems winning the championship at the Giuseppe Meazza Stadium for a long time. Francesco Acerbi, 36, led the way for Inter with his first goal in the 18th minute. Former Gladbacher player Marcus Thuram (49th) scored what was actually a reassuring lead with his 12th goal of the season in Serie A at a sold-out San Siro, until Fikayo Tomori (80th) scored the next goal for the home team. In the hectic final phase, with a total of three red cards, the guests increased their lead over time. Inter have now earned the second star on their shirt: in Italy there is one star for every ten championships.

In the starting eleven of the new champion were two former Bayern professionals: Swiss goalkeeper Yann Sommer and Frenchman Benjamin Pavard. The team leader is 30-year-old former Leverkusen player Hakan Calhanoglu. Turkish The national player shone as a game designer. Thuram and former Dortmund player Henrich Mchitarjan also played well. The former captain of the German under-21 team, Yann Aurel Bisseck, was on the bench in the Derby della Madonnina.

For Inter it is the first championship title since 2021, and the club now has one more championship than AC Milan (19 titles).