Inter and Roma sit joint-top of the table on a perfect nine points, while Atalanta are on six points and Napoli have three. A last-gasp winner from Lautaro Martinez sealed a breathless win for Inter as the Serie A champions fought back from two goals down to edge visiting Napoli 3-2, while Roma also pulled off a late turnaround to beat Atalanta 2-1.
“It was a beautiful and entertaining match to watch, a great advert for Italian football,” Inter coach Cristian Chivu told DAZN.
Both goalkeepers were forced into early saves in an end-to-end encounter that remained goalless at half-time after Federico Dimarco’s free-kick rattled the Napoli cross bar.
The game exploded in the second half when Matteo Politano guided home a shot in the 50th minute before Rasmus Hojlund’s curler doubled the Napoli lead three minutes later. Inter responded almost immediately when Martinez hammered in his first goal of the season from a Dimarco cross. Substitute Marcus Thuram came agonisingly close to a leveller when he headed off the post. The France international would not be denied twice, though, and smashed a towering header past Alex Meret in the 82nd minute to level the scores. Chances fell at both ends before Martinez’s penalty box instincts proved decisive in the 91st minute as Napoli failed to clear in a goalmouth scramble and the Argentina striker pounced to settle an extraordinary match. Ederson’s bullet strike early in the second half came against the run of play but looked enough for a backs-to-the-wall victory as Atalanta goalkeeper Marco Carnesecchi kept out wave after wave of Giallorossi attacks.
