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Inter breeze past Lazio and into Italian Super Cup final / Photo: Fayez NURELDINE - AFP
Inter breeze past Lazio and into Italian Super Cup final
Inter Milan will face Napoli in the Italian Super Cup final after comfortably beating Lazio 3-0 in Friday's clash in Riyadh.
Goals in each half from Marcus Thuram and Davide Frattesi and Hakan Calhanoglu's penalty four minutes after the break were enough for Serie A leaders Inter to get past Lazio at Al-Awwal Park.
Simone Inzaghi's team will now face Napoli on Monday night at the same stadium after the Italian champions beat Fiorentina 3-0 on Thursday.
Inter have a tight title race with Juventus and the Champions League last-16 to contend with in coming weeks but Inzaghi brought out the big guns to shoot down Lazio.
An uninterested-looking Lazio barely had a kick in a one-sided contest which showed why Inter are favourites to take the Scudetto from Napoli come May.
Inter created a huge number of chances while Nicolo Barella and Lautaro Martinez both had efforts hit the bar in a dominant display.
Lazio meanwhile will head back to Rome after having barely created an opening in front of a largely tepid crowd in the Saudi Arabian capital.
Napoli's win over Fiorentina was played out in front of a two-thirds empty ground and while Inter and Lazio had a bigger crowd there was limited enthusiasm from the stands.
This season's Super Cup in the first to feature four teams, with the top two in last season's Serie A and the two Italian Cup finalists contesting the tournament.
M.Johnston--SMC
