Thanks to Saturday night's victory in Crotone and Atalanta's draw against Sassuolo in one of the 34th Serie A matches played on Sunday, Inter is mathematically champions of Italy with four days to spare. After Juventus' nine consecutive Scudetti, Serie A has a new winner.
For Inter it is
the nineteenth Scudetto in 113 years of history. He got it eleven years after
the last time and ten after the last trophy he won (the 2011 Italian Cup). With
their nineteenth Scudetto, Inter also beat Milan - stuck at eighteen - as the
second most successful team in the history of the Italian football
championship.
The Inter Scudetto
has reached its second year with Antonio Conte, a coach hired with the clear
goal of returning to winning the championship after two seasons of slight
improvements between 2017 and 2019 with Luciano Spalletti on the bench.
Paradoxically, Conte was the coach who started Juventus' series of nine
consecutive league titles: a series that he helped to end.
Last year Inter
had finished the season in second place with the most points obtained (82) in
the previous ten years. In the current season, thanks to the great difficulties
faced by Juventus and the sharp
decline of Milan in the second round, Inter has been the most consistent team
in the league, putting together the longest series of positive results,
especially after the disappointing elimination. From the European cups, this on
the one hand allowed the team to focus solely on the championship. Four days
from the end, Inter had 25 wins, 7 draws, and only two defeats. He has the
second-best attack and the best defense in Serie
A with 29 goals conceded in 34 matches.
His best scorer is the Belgian center-forward Romelu Lukaku,
who arrived in Milan two years ago at the request of Conte and quickly became
one of the symbols of the team paired with the other starting forward, the
Argentine Lautaro Martinez. Lukaku has scored 21 goals so far, four fewer than
current league top scorer, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Inter will raise the Serie
A trophy on the weekend of 23 May at the end of the last match of the
season, which will be played at the Meazza stadium in Milan against Udinese.