A stunning 2-1 victory over Juventus saved face for Internazionale just three days after arguably the club’s biggest embarrassment in almost three decades
There was no witty pun on the front page of Friday’s Gazzetta dello Sport, no attempt to make mirth out of Inter’s Europa League defeat at home to Hapoel Be’er Sheva. Instead, only a damning question: “Inter, aren’t you ashamed?”
A national newspaper, but also a Milanese one, Gazzetta can sometimes be more generous to the city’s two leading clubs than they really deserve. Not this time. The tone of the coverage was such that you almost expected to find an editorial inside calling for the Nerazzurri’s starting XI to be stripped naked and harangued by a woman with a bell on a walk of atonement from San Siro to The Duomo.
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