Coppa Italia: Inter Milan beat Roma 2-0, damage Mourinho’s return to San Siro

A pair of sensible targets from Edin Dzeko and Alexis Sanchez ruined Jose Mourinho’s return to his former membership as Inter Milan beat Roma 2-0 to achieve the Italian Cup semifinals.
The match marked the primary time Mourinho confronted Inter at San Siro since he left after main the membership to the Serie A-Italian Cup-Champions League treble in 2010.

Mourinho obtained a heat welcome from the followers, who deployed a banner that learn: “Welcome back home, Jose.” Roma gamers didn’t obtain the identical pleasant remedy. Inter bought off an ideal begin to open the scoring on its first transfer.
Facing his former crew, Dzeko related with a cross from the sting of the field from Ivan Perisic and beat Roma goalkeeper Rui Patricio with a right-footed volley after solely two minutes.
Roma’s sluggish protection appeared extra strong as the sport progressed, however Mourinho’s crew was too clumsy up entrance and did not convert its uncommon events towards the Serie A pacesetter.
Sanchez doubled Inter’s lead within the 68th minute with an outstanding long-range strike into the highest left nook that Patricio couldn’t contact and left Mourinho ruminating.

Under Mourinho, Roma is having an inconsistent season. The crew dropped to seventh within the Serie A standings over the weekend after a 0-0 draw at residence to struggling Genoa and its hopes of qualifying for subsequent season’s Champions League are wanting slim.
Inter’s celebrations had been dampened by defender Alessandro Bastoni’s harm. He was helped off the sphere after hurting his proper ankle and is now vulnerable to lacking the Champions League spherical of 16 match towards Liverpool subsequent week.
“We hope Bastoni doesn’t have anything serious, unfortunately you could see he fell badly,” Inter coach Simone Inzaghi stated.

“Now the medics will have the tests and we hope not to lose him for too long, as he is a very, very important player for us.”