Italian journalist Andrea Di Caro feels that Juventus and Max Allegri showed that yesterday evening’s Derby d’Italia clash meant more to them than it did to Inter and Simone Inzaghi.

Writing in his column in today’s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, Di Caro notes that the Bianconeri approached the match like a team who knew that any result other than a win wasn’t an option for them.

Inter and Juventus were both looking for three points in order to start to climb up the Serie A title in yesterday’s meeting in Turin.

Neither team had gotten their season off to the start that they wanted, but both have been slowly getting back on track.

The atmosphere was a tense one to start with as neither side looked like they wanted to risk making any errors.

However, as the match went on, it was Inter who looked to have a bit of a soft underbelly at both ends of the pitch, whereas the Bianconeri were ruthless in punishing errors on their two goals.

“Woe to they who lose,” Di Caro writes.

“The troubles are right back on the horizon for Inzaghi, who might have thought that he had gotten Inter back on track with a string of good results and a well-deserved qualification for the Champions League round of sixteen,” he continues.

“But then it’s Juventus who suddenly find themselves just a couple points off of Lazio and Atalanta in third place.”

“The team that most wanted the victory more won,” he argued, “finding it in a second half of great intensity, concentration, concreteness.”