Inter face Roma with a 6 point lead over the Giallorossi at this stage in the Serie A season, for the first time in six years.
Both teams coaches, Luciano Spalletti and Claudio Ranieri, will face their former employers as will several players, including Juan Jesus, Nicolo Zaniolo, Davide Santon and Radja Nainggolan. A win will put the Nerazzurri a step closer to Champions league qualification.
Attack:
Inter have failed to win their 2 last games at home, 3 in all competitions. Last home win was against SPAL, 2-0, in early March. Inter now has three players tied with the most assists (4) – Politano, Icardi and D’Ambrosio. However, Icardi still remains the club’s top scorer with 10 goals but his last goal that did not come from the penalty spot, came against Roma in December.
Roma have only failed to score once in their last 15 games, vs Lazio 0-3. Stephan El Shaarawy is the Giallorossi’s top scorer with 9 goals.
Defence:
Spalletti’s defensive wall is almost impenetrable at home, just 7 goals conceded and are therefore the best defensive home team and the second best defensive team overall. Samir Handanovic has the most clean sheets in the league with 15.
The Giallorossi have kept clean sheets in their last two games, after keeping just one in their previous eleven matches. Roma have won the most aerial duels in the league with an average of 56.5%.
Interestingly, both sides have scored in their last six previous meetings.
Moving the ball:
Inter are highly possessive with an average possession of 56.5%, only beaten by Napoli’s 57%. Inter are 4th in terms of pass accuracy with 85.8%.
Roma have an average ball possession of 52% and a pass accuracy of 82.5%.
WhoScored rating leaders:
Best rated Nerazzurri players are Brozovic (7.07), Perisic (6.98) and Skriniar (6.97). For the Giallorossi they include El Shaarawy (7.25), Dzeko (7.20) and Kolarov (7.05).
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