Rome, Jan 14 (IANS) Inter Milan registered a snug victory as they beat Monza 5-1 away in Serie A with Lautaro Martinez and Hakan Calhanoglu bagging a brace respectively. Inter have been topped the winter champion within the final spherical whereas Monza have been coming off a 3-2 thriller over Frosinone.

The away aspect opened the scoring within the twelfth minute when Calhanoglu transformed a spot-kick, two minutes earlier than Lautaro slid it in on Federico Dimarco’s help.

Calhanoglu made it 3-0 on the hour mark when Marcus Thuram’s sensible back-heel flick arrange the Turk for a rocket.

Matteo Pessina pulled one purpose again for Monza via a penalty.

As the house aspect simply breathed a life again, Lautaro shattered their hope within the 84th minute because the Argentinean restored a three-goal margin by sending one other penalty into the online, earlier than Thuram put the icing on the cake with a low-strike.

With the win, Inter maintained their main place on the desk with 51 factors, 5 forward of second-placed Juventus who host Sassuolo on Tuesday.

Additionally on Saturday, Napoli ended their dismal run due to a 2-1 comeback victory over Salernitana, with Amir Rrahmani grabbing the last-gasp winner.

Elsewhere, Hellas Verona beat Empoli 2-1, and Genoa shared the spoils with Torino at 0-0.

–IANS

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