With Lautaro Martinez’s late goal, Inter are Italian Super Cup champions

Argentine striker Lautaro Martinez scored the only goal of the game in the 46th minute of the second half, as extra time ticked off. Inter won the Italian Super Cup for the third time in a row. Napoli finished with ten players after Argentine striker Giovanni Simeone was sent off. Diego “Cholo” Simeone’s son started as a starter, but left early due to a double yellow card, 15 minutes into the second half. The World Cup winner captured Benjamin Pavard’s cross at the end of the final (ST 45+1m) at the KSU Stadium in the city of Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, and scored the goal that gave Inter Milan the win and another title. The former Racing player is having an outstanding season with 21 goals out of 27 games and has already won 7 titles at Inter: Serie A (1), Coppa Italia (2) and Italian Super Cup (4). Lautaro Martinez reached 123 goals in an Inter shirt, the same mark as Italian Christian Vieri, who sits ninth in the all-time table. In this way, the former Racing Club was one behind Mauro Icardi (124), ten behind the Hungarian Istvan Nyers (133) and twenty behind the Italian Benito Lorenzi (143). Inter’s top scorer is Italy’s Giuseppe Meazza with 284. Inter won the Italian Super Cup for the third time in a row, while registering 8 titles in total (1989, 2005, 2006, 2008, 2010, 2021, 2022, 2023). In this way, the Milanese club was one behind Juventus (9), the top winner. Napoli, winners in the 1990 and 2014 editions, accumulated their third runner-up finish (2012, 2020, 2023). The Italian Super Cup, in its 36th. In this edition, it was played for the first time with four teams: Napoli (Serie A champions); Lazio (Serie A runners-up); Inter (Coppa Italia winners) and Fiorentina (Coppa Italia runners-up). The quadrangular was played from January 18 to 22 in Riyadh, the capital of Saudi Arabia.

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