Al -Malab newspaper – Inter Milan has joined the qualified for the 16th round of the Club World Cup, currently held in the United States.
In a charged match that witnessed two Hamrawin cards, Inter achieved a valuable victory and deserved two clean goals against the Argentine River Plate, yesterday evening, Wednesday, local time, in the last third round of the sixth group of the group stage.
Inter benefited from the numerical deficiency that the River Plate team suffered, which played ten players starting from the 65th minute after Lucas Martinez was expelled Quarta, then he fought the last seconds of the match with nine players after another red card from Gonzalo Montel.
Francesco Pio Esposito scored the first goal for the Italian team in the 72nd minute, and Alessandro Bastoni added the second goal in the third minute of the time calculated instead of lost.
With that result, Inter balance, the Champions League runner -up, rose to 7 points at the top of the standings, two points ahead of his closest followers Monterrey, who qualified with him for the round of 16 over that group.
On the other hand, River Plate’s balance stopped at 4 points in third place, to bid the competition alongside the Japanese Urawa Red Diamonds, who was in the bottom of the standings without points.
Inter became the second Italian team to reach the rounds of the Club World Cup after Juventus, which is currently leading the ranking of the sixth group before running the last round in its group.
As for River Plate, the pain of the Argentine fans, who felt frustrated after the early exit of its second representative in the competition, Boca Juniors, has also known that he was satisfied with obtaining the third place in the third group of the competition.
