Inter Milan suffer title blow as Arnautovic and Sansone seal impressive Bologna win
Inter Milan suffered a major blow in the Scudetto race after losing 2-1 away at Bologna on Wednesday in their outstanding game.
Inter started the game relentlessly and scored their earliest league goal of the season through Ivan Perisic, with the Croatian netting in phenomenal fashion.
Deployed in a left-wing back role, he found himself collecting the ball from a throw-in on the opposite flank, twizzled in between two Bologna players, nutmegged a third, and unleashed a deadly strike from the edge of the box to give Inter the lead.
The visitors created a string of chances in the opening 20 minutes, but Bologna had goalkeeper Lukasz Skorupski to thank, who pulled off some good saves to keep the deficit down to one.
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Out of almost nothing, Bologna pulled the scores level through a Marco Arnautovic header. He made the most of some absent Inter Milan defending, guiding Musa Barrows deep cross beyond Ionut Radu.
The second half was an entertaining end-to-end affair and with 20 minutes remaining, was all level. Bologna continued to defend for their lives as the clock ticked down.
In what will surely go down as an iconic blunder, Radu – who was making his first league start this season in the Inter goal – fluffed a pass back which allowed Nicola Sansone to tap home into an empty net.
Inter threatened the Bologna goal in the final few minutes, but Bologna managed to see the game out.
