Verona 0-5 Inter: Nerazzurri run riot in first half, Thuram nets double

Inter hammered lowly Verona 5-0 away from home on Saturday to move top of the Serie A table, with all five goals coming in the first half.

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Match Report

The hosts could easily have taken the lead through Casper Tengstedt just six minutes in as he struck the post after causing chaos in the box, but Inter sparked to life after that.

Joaquin Correa rattled the crossbar moments later, and then opened the scoring after 17 minutes, finishing off a lovely team move by chipping Lorenzo Montipo.

Having set up the opener, Marcus Thuram added a quick-fire double; twice in three minutes, he took the goalkeeper out of the game with clever play before picking out the back of the net.

Substitute Stefan de Vrij fired their fourth past Montipo before Yann Bisseck managed to pick out the top corner despite initially tripping over the ball in the 41st minute.

The second half was a subdued affair, though Correa almost scored another, but instead smacked the crossbar for a second time.

Inter leapfrogged Napoli, who do not play until Sunday, as they moved into first with 28 points. Verona are 14th on 12 points.

Data Debrief: Full-throttle first half

It was a pretty much perfect first half from Simone Inzaghi's side, and it gave the manager a chance to rest some key players with a Champions League tie ahead of them in midweek.

Inter scored five goals in the first half of an away league game for only the second time in their history in Serie A - after the 5-1 score against Sampdoria in the first 45 minutes of play back in March 1964.

The visitors scored with all five of their shots on target in the first period and outperformed their 2.79 expected goals (xG) by some margin.

Correa has scored in a Serie A game 756 days after his last goal in the top-flight, on 29th October 2022, against Sampdoria, at Meazza. Meanwhile, all three of his away goals have come against Verona at Bentegodi.

Line-ups

Verona XI: Lorenzo Montipò, Dawidowicz, Giangiacomo Magnani, Serdar, Abdou Harroui, Domagoj Bradarić, Daniel Mosquera, Casper Tengstedt, Flavius Daniliuc, Jackson Tchatchoua, Reda Belahyane

Subs: Lazovic, Faraoni, A. Berardi, Simone Perilli, Grigoris Kastanos, Tomas Suslov, Dani Silva, Faride Alidou, Amin Sarr, Daniele Ghilardi, Yllan Okou, Dailon Rocha Livramento, Alphadjo Cissè, Ayanda Sishuba, Mathis Lambourde

Inter XI: Sommer, Darmian, Mkhitaryan, Acerbi, Correa, Barella, Thuram, Bastoni, Yann Bisseck, Carlos Augusto, Kristjan Asllani

Subs: Arnautovic, De Vrij, Zielinski, M. Taremi, Raffaele Di Gennaro, Dimarco, Dumfries, Pavard, Frattesi, Josep Martínez, Tajon Buchanan, Tomás Palacios