Inter Milan head coach Cristian Chivu has decided to retain Ange-Yoan Bonny in attack for tonight’s Serie A showdown against Napoli, partnering captain Lautaro Martinez at the Stadio Diego Armando Maradona.
This evening’s Matchday 8 clash kicks off at 18:00 local time (17:00 BST) in Naples, as Inter look to extend their impressive winning streak in both Serie A and the Champions League.
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The Nerazzurri arrive on the back of seven consecutive victories across all competitions and will aim to maintain their momentum against a Napoli side under pressure after recent setbacks.
The hosts, meanwhile, have struggled to match last season’s consistency but remain a dangerous opponent at home under Antonio Conte.
Chivu has several absences to manage, with Marcus Thuram, Matteo Darmian, Raffaele De Gennaro and Tomas Palacios all unavailable for selection.
The French forward is targeting a return after the upcoming international break as he continues recovering from a muscle issue.
Napoli Vs Inter Milan – Bonny Keeps His Place As Chivu Backs Lautaro Martinez
All eyes will be on the Inter attack, where Bonny has once again been trusted to start.
The 22-year-old French striker partners Lautaro Martinez from the first whistle. Therefore, Chivu continues to show faith in his young forwards.
Meanwhile, Lautaro, fresh from decisive performances for both club and country — leads the line as Inter’s captain and reference point.
With Bonny retaining his spot, Francesco Pio Esposito is expected to start from the bench and could feature in the second half if needed.
Stability Across The Pitch For Inter Milan
Elsewhere, Chivu has opted for continuity across the pitch.
Therefore, keeping faith in the same structure that has delivered results in recent weeks.
Yann Sommer starts in goal behind a familiar back three of Akanji, Acerbi and Bastoni. On the flanks, Denzel Dumfries and Federico Dimarco provide width, athleticism and crossing threat.
In midfield, Nicolò Barella, Hakan Calhanoglu and Henrikh Mkhitaryan all play.
In conclusion, Inter will again look to control possession where possible. All while remaining alert to Napoli’s aggressive pressing and quick vertical breaks.
Official Starting Lineups – Napoli Vs Inter Milan: Bonny Retains His Place In Attack
Napoli (4-1-4-1): 32 Milinkovic-Savic; 22 Di Lorenzo, 4 Buongiorno, 5 Juan Jesus, 37 Spinazzola; 6 Gilmour; 21 Politano, 99 Anguissa, 11 De Bruyne, 8 McTominay; 7 Neres.
Substitutes: 25 Ferrante, 55 Spinelli, 3 Gutierrez, 17 Olivera, 20 Elmas, 26 Vergara, 27 Lucca, 30 Mazzocchi, 31 Beukema, 35 Marianucci, 69 Ambrosino, 70 Lang.
Coach: Antonio Conte
Suspended: None
Unavailable: Meret, Hojlund, Lobotka, Rrahmani, Lukaku, Contini
Inter Milan (3-5-2): 1 Sommer; 25 Akanji, 15 Acerbi, 95 Bastoni; 2 Dumfries, 23 Barella, 20 Calhanoglu, 22 Mkhitaryan, 32 Dimarco; 14 Bonny, 10 Lautaro Martinez.
Substitutes: 13 J. Martinez, 40 Calligaris, 6 De Vrij, 7 Zielinski, 8 Sucic, 11 Luis Henrique, 16 Frattesi, 17 Diouf, 30 Carlos Augusto, 31 Bisseck, 94 Esposito.
Coach: Cristian Chivu
Suspended: None
Unavailable: Thuram, Di Gennaro, Darmian, Palacios
Referee: Mariani.
Assistant referees: Bindoni – Baccini.
Fourth Official: Ayroldi.
VAR: Marini.
Assistant VAR: Pezzuto.
Don’t get how anyone could defend Zielinksi. If you like someone that can’t create and can’t move forward but loves a good back pass then that’s ur guy. Why is he even on? Absolutely making it a 10v11. Had no impact.
You probably have your own personal problem with the guy
like i said, no idea why people defend him. what has he ever done good?
hes absolutely correct Zielensky didnt add any thread of offense
if anyone has emotional issues its you towards Piotr
Inter’s defence were just escorting Napoli players on many occasions with intent to win the ball. Zielinksi or anyone for that matter couldn’t do anything about that.
Defense definitely to blame, that’s usually why i like a 4 back. but besides the defense being shaky, there was no output from midfield. we just kept passing midfield to go to the strikers.
ffs. we have been playing back 3 since conte days 19-20…
Zielinski is not the problem, he did okay when he was on. The blame is not on him
We need to fix our defenses if we really want to go further in the league. January signing is a must
What do you want to sign? Bastoni replacement? Akanji replacement?? or De Vrij/Acerbi replacement?
The latters
pretty obvious that we are lacking at center of back 3.
if akanji were to play there, then we need a right center back.
unfortunately , money also a big problem.
Luis Henrique is atrocious. Terrible.
I realize napoli defense is really tight. The problem for chivu is lack of strategy when our players get it hard to penetrate opponent’s defense. At least, we want to see more shots.
PSV scored 4 goals from shoots from outside the box, we should have done the same but beside Chala no one shoot in our team.
the little fag got triggered it seems.warra fag
This is real Inter. Weak against strong sides. So, top four is real target. Even that is tough. Hope Napoli wins scudetto and no second star for Milan.
Chill dude lol
That’s what I heard from all Inter, Milan or Juve fans. lol.
Milan fans say that they don’t want Inter ur Juve to win the scudetto.
Inter fans say that they don’t want Milan to win their 2nd star.
Juve fans don’t want Allegri or even Inter to win the scudetto.
So in the end, all of these fans are praying for Conte and his Napoli to win it if their own supported team doesn’t get the scudetto. Lol
are you a juve fan in disguise? we’ve gotten our second star.
Who said we haven’t?
Running circles around us rn
It is time to switch the 3-5-2 for another tactic 4-2-3-1 or 4-3-2-1 or 4-1-3-2. The only thing I know we need to change the 3-5-2.
Milan’s curse is relegation clubs, ours is top teams. Napoli lost 6-2 to PSV and 0-1 to torino. Is it a mentality thing? what’s going on?
Napoli simply took over with that third goal. Oh well, let’s keep our heads up and keep fighting. Losing against Napoli and Juve is definitely not a good look, but nothing has been lost yet. There’s still plenty of games to be played and Inter is only three points away. Even though top 4 finish is most likely, I wouldn’t rule out Scudetto just yet. After all, Napoli is playing in CL too and they’re dealing with a bunch of key injuries (Lukaku, Lobotka, Hojlund, and now De Bruyne) and Milan keeps dropping points against smaller teams.
I think they’ll find it hard to create and win against weaker opponents. Inter got the wrong strategy when Hakan scored. It has to be said at that point it became a Conte’s match with Chivu out of ideas other than just going long. In fact it was Napoli who could’ve scored more goals during that period. Inter must continue winning matches against weaker sides because that’s where I think others teams struggle because of low motivation
Lets be clear Inter conceded goals that were preventable. All Inter had to do was continue to keep the ball and build from the back but no one saw the going long strategy which was nonesense. Chivu has been good with his subs but when losing 3-1 you don’t take out Barella and Dumfries because they are the difference maker.Napoli all game long couldn’t create anything from normal build up play but from situations that even lower teams can defend better by causing a foul or something. Chivu in the end wasn’t brave enough to switch formation when needed
So where is the butthurt retard who said to me that we have far better squad then Napoli and we have to win the scudetto. Bruno was his name i guess. Back to reality kiddo, long way to go till may
If you really thing Napoli has better team than Inter think again
They dont need to have supeestars in their squad to be better. They have Conte, the best league specialist and they have much better subs then we. Their midlefield.destroyed us today. Ofc they are a better squad, better GK, better defense, better mf, only attack is now limited but wait until Lukaku or Hojlund are back. 7 shots while we had 15. 3 shots onto the goal and each shot goal. If this aint better performance then go watch ballet.
You think Napoli squad is better than Inter’s? LOL Their heart is bigger today I will give you that but their squad is wrecked with injuries now for the foreseeable future. They are fu**ed!
they at least have fast center backs who aren’t geriatric
Napoli is still only 3 points away and there are 30 games to be played.
Also, I never said Inter had a far better squad. My exact words were that Inter was being underestimated and Napoli were overhyped by the commentor I was replying to. Napoli also got their asses handed to them by PSV four days ago by the way.
inter does not have a better squad.. we have a better team. if u see the names merdentus, bilan or Napoli have, we can’t match them. but what we have going our way is we play better as a team. more united, more intuitive. the two shots which hit the post and Toro converting the one on one, and we could have won this one. we were unlucky with the penalty as well. the match could have gone our way. I just hope we learn from our mistakes and improve.
Each time we play against these bastards McTominay and Anguissa rise to the occasion, the rest are average at best.
i hope napoli lose againts other mediocres, just like jube and bilan
Mikhi injury messed up everything
Referee messed up the game with the unexplainable penalty.
Inter needs to learn to chase game without taking too much risks
all those shots on the post coming to haunt us.. chivu going Inzaghi way today.. I would have imagined a change in formation, but no.. we had like for likes..
Between the juve game and this game, 7 shots on goal was 7 goals. Every shot on goal turn into a goal!
sommer is the problem. and the defence is a shambles with acerbi as cb
Inter milan when we have play Napoli Juventus and Milan instead of WiFi passwords in the champions league
As soon as we get too confident we get brought back down to earth. This was sad but overall we’re never going to be in the scudetto race..
Napoli are having an excellent game and are taking full advantage of the fact we have been chasing a goal. Now we are two goals down and still can’t get it together. This game is a lesson for Chivu, in what way, I don’t know.
I guess changing players is of little matter. Of the 3 put in not one can defend whatsoever. Should be interesting last 20 minutes
sucic and fratessi better start next game.
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There were four around Anguissa, yet not challenge.
Need a change in midfield. Once again Zielinksi makes zero difference when subbed on. Needs legs and creativity
It is easy to look good vs Cremonese and Slavia Praha….
LOL tell that to the losers delusional fans! Here is a bold prediction Napoli will get advanced to the CL next round and inter won’t save these words.
conte, in UCL round of 16? LOL
And Inter will be relegated to Serie B, right?
Some of us are just waiting to pounce on our misfortunes. Napoli have played their hearts out. This doesn’t take anything away from what Chivu has done with Inter.
Oh I know. Inter has lost against Juve and will likely lose this game. Yet, Inter is only 3 points away from first place with 30 games to play. Anything can happen between now and the end of the season. Nothing has been lost. Last season, Inter did not win a single game against Napoli, Juve or Milan and still fought until the last match day.
the fag is back
Hey Mortoccon Fag is used in your religious boojk which ic a trash ur Quran
You’re not only a retarded piece of shit, you’re also a racist scumbag. No surprise here.
hey loser yu are the racist trash who calls others (fag). U are racist
only fags behave like u. done be upset when u get called out.. lusty fagg is what u r. lol
Racist Muslim
Hey Muslim Your Quran calls. other fags. Tell us why Muhammad at age 54 married a child Aisha at age 6?
am not muslim NOR Moroccan. I am Canadian LOL…. you are the dumbest individual on the internet. If you want to talk about religions go somewhere else. but if you mentioned young marriage then maybe u should look into jews and how old was Rebecca when she got “graped” SHE WAS 3 in your book. fuck israel since the day it produces little fags like u
Muhammad your trash was 54 and Aisha was 6. You worship a pDF
Just take out your tongue from Contes ass, you mighty prediction expert!
statistically, we are doing better than napoli. even our xG are higher.
but every once a while, there is always this team that scores with its every shot on target.
Not gonna lie we are getting cooked! Lol
Our defense is going to be our downfall this season, we get torn to bits too easy on the counter. We really needed a fast center back
What the hell is happening? For all of you who are clamoring that we should keep oldtimers from defense, FUCK you. Players are going around Acerbi like he is a fucking tree which is rooted in one place. Zielinski and Hakan 0 help in midfield, Mhiki may have been bad in attack, but in defense for the rest of our midfielders (beside Barella) he is Maldini himself.
De vrij needs to be the one playing in our big games.
Defence is so, so shaky today.
When the season started we know defensively Inter will be sucked. I will never take Bony off it was Lautaro and Zielinsky is making any difference.
not our day. quite concerning tbh. at the high level when cunte speaks ill and starts playing his dirty tricks becomes effective then i question the mentality of the players..
gg
You moroccan Trash I thought 2 days ago you said inter is the best club ever and will win everything. Stop using drugs which is widespread in ur country
fuck you and your country. btw am not Moroccan.
i dont support inter cos theyre the best or not. i support inter win or lose.
but little fags like you dont deserve internet. you deserve a big fat dildo up ur ass
Hey Muslim racist. Stop spreading the hate your Miuhammad the trash Quran. Another Muslim who is racist
Are our defenders awake?
Love acerbi, but way too slow per usual
My dead father is quicker and faster than our centerbacks. This has been an issue for years and yet no one bought with any speed
akanji defense is strong, but his passes terible
An uphill battle once again
I thought you weren’t delusional~
He is
Wow
akanji has been so bad with his passes. chill
Accept a tie in this match. Napoli is finished for the future DeBruyne is done for a long time
I do really wish we wouldn’t see DeBruyne until May.
what conte did?
we.
need.
defence.
reinforcement.
asap.
NIce goal. Terrible defending like WTF
Lets Go!!! Lets get back into the game now
I am sure he will miss the penalty
You hope
And I’m the delusional one LOL
I am sure I will be the next pope as well
Sure you are. Sure as ever!
fuck you Davide merda
YESS CMON
Huge pressure for Hakan.
we were good against weak teams both in the domestic championship and in UCL, but this is where we are when playing against strong ones. We can just imagine what it will be like when get to play the likes of Liverpool, Dortmund, Arsenal…This team is just not good enough and the management screwed us during the transfer window.
maybe right, maybe not. but too early to say that.
Inter has not played bad in this game at all and Inter did not play bad against Juventus either. Relax a bit and lets judge the team (and management) at the end of the season
The is will be another tie just like last season.
How the referee is o front of it could not see that is penal?
Exactly! Blind!
Relax, that’s what VAR is for
You do not need VAR for this kind of action.
This ref is doing everything he can to make inter lose.
one goal first, please..
If a penalty is awarded and Inter scores, we might still be able to get a tie.
If the ref doesn’t give penalty for this, the league is really corrupt.
That’s shocking. How can we let someone run right through the defense and not have anyone pick him up?
2 golden opportunities missing by Lautaro and we still fans defending him.
fricking bastoni didn’t close him down and watched him shoot.
at the very least should have force him taken more touch before shooting.
big mistake
Lack of speed at the back fully exposed by Napoli. Napoli is awful and yet we cannot score. Unreal
I am not sure why Sommer didn’t go out to intercept the ball
the ball isn’t ending up in the box. and if he fouls mctominay, its likely a red.
He had plenty of time to play the ball
Going to see full blown Conte haramball now.
Yeah, the tie is not happening tonight.
Dafuq are Acerbi and Basto doing?
watching a free volley shot by tominay
Sommer thank you!!
McTominay. Always him.
just so embarrassing.
Great defending by Akanji, but I hate when he does passing.
I hate to say this: similar to against juve, we did everything, but scoring. we played the first half very well. if we can keep this up, the goals will come. conte and inzaghi have similar patent when their teams score first that’s play defensive. as I always say, inter’s biggest enemy is themselves. inzaghi had troubles against very good team, I hope we win tonight!
My god. Akanji again.
Napoli is trash. We can win this game
of course we can, but we won’t. Not with this team
CBS is doing a replay of the game and gilmour clearly gets 2 yellows? What is this corrupt league doing.
Some di lorenzo’s soft challenge is yellow carded bs gilmours studs up challenge… and the pen was soft. Absolutely ridiculous this league keeps making these mistakes
the first one was for di lorenzo. I’m at the stadium now and we were also confused at first, but the others said so
Terrible pen but we’ve been on the front foot most of the game. Pretty terrible finishing so far but I think we get back in this
I wish I was wrong, but seems that we will lose this game.
Bruno is the only one who disagrees with you cause he lives in his own fancy bubble!
Just STF up!!!
So where is the butthurt retard who said to me that we have far better squad then Napoli and we have to win the scudetto. Bruno was his name i guess. Back to reality kiddo, long way to go till may
Expected. Inter are stronger even without Lukaku and Hojlund.
I mean Napoli.
Inter need to keep attacking Napoli got lucky with the penalty but now they know they’ll be facing the most attacking team trying to defend the goal. Napoli so far looks weak in defending corners and crosses plus they’ll make more subs. This match is a true Chivu test like how’s he going to deal with the current situation
gilmour got 2 yellows, right?
Comentator said so, but then said NO.
We were better, let’s continue second half like this, we’ll score. Plus they don’t have any quality substitute, everyone is injured
isn’t it second yellow for gilmor?
No. It was for Politano before. Which is also strange considering that tackle was also really hard.
look at gilmor’s foot when he tackled at first foul. should be a yellow. corrupt napoli!
The referee made sure to nullify the first yellow card so conte can win with full squad.
Did gilmor just get 2 yellows and not a red???
Nah, Di Lorenzo got the first yellow
i said.
what’s happening in this corrupted napoli game?
I’m looking at google and di Lorenzo doesn’t have a yellow
It was for Politano
Now it shows for both di Lorenzo and gilmour, politano doesn’t have anything
I know. I just heard that from the TV commentators
Chivu’s subs have been good so far. Let’s see what happens in the second half. Pio, Sucic, and Fratessi will hopefully change the game.
What was Akanji thinking? And why did it take the rest of the players so long to get back? That could’ve ended in Napoli’s second goal.
Luckiest Clubs of all times:
Juve,
Ac Milan
Napoli
I feel like Inter can get at least a tie in this game. It’s clear now that Napoli will simply sit back now and hope for a counter. If Inter keeps this up, it’s very likely Inter will score once.
bastone header on the post. we create many chances from corners. let’s hope some goals from these situations.
I said that to my friend, if it was Lautaro or Thuram in the Roma games Inter would be lost or draw because both are not serious. It is being almost 3 years Lautaro is problem on front on missing golden opportunities.
Oh please stop nowwww
How many goals Lautaro will miss in this game to make one?
Lautaro has never been clinical.
he has good shooting technique, his ability to shoot from impossible positions is good.
however, his finishing is like weather. may be good at days, may be bad at times.
yet, he is still way better than striker who struggles to get into shooting position.
Let’s not forget Lautaro’s contributions in defense, pressing, and build up play.
And he’ll still score constantly 25+ goals per season, while Thuram didn’t get to 20 goals yet, i think.
is this the same ref who gifted bilan pen against fiorentina?
I wonder why the Referee didn’t check the VAR video since he decided to let the play continue.
Corrupt
Glad he got injured let’s hoppe he won’t make it until April so he can get depressed
please guys.. we had many chances but thrashed them away.. so, it’s not just sommer.
let’s comeback this!
Hoping for Pio in the 2nd half to change the game.
Karma is a bitch
Barely any contact for the pen, what a joke.
how the F was that a penalty….. how ? seriously… I can’t believe this. shouldn’t say this but divine justice the injury!!
By the way Somer is very shot for a GK but that doesn’t mean he is not good
I guess inter will lose and of course c.unte is happy first time ever for napoli to score quick. I am 100% sure it wasn’t a penalty
Of course you show up right at this moment
I cannot watch all the matches all the time I happened to have time now
I never trust Sommer for a penalty.
lol. scored a penalty, pulled a hamstring.
hopefully he will misss six months. what a loser. wish him ill
Italian is getting worst with those referees on a daily basis. I understand the stadium situation but……
zielinksi over sucic. jesus christ.
Where’s the problem exactly?
he’s not good, that’s the problem
He’s not good according to who??
according to his time at inter?
What’s wrong with that?
This could go either way, there was contact, but enough for a penalty?
Soft penalty, but you’re right. There is contact. Oh well…
Sommer too short, slower reflexes
Lautaro missed a very good chance from nap’s blunder. Calha couldn’t reach goal target a moment before. While Barella continues his moaning.
I’ve said it before, if only Lautaro has a little better finishing, easy top 3 striker season after season
Lautaro only makes goal when the target is empty.
Oh Lautaro!
Good chance by Bastoni.
We cannot take a break from a player who we cannot the last time he scored and assisted: Mkhitaryan. Can someone why Sucic not playing?
Chill mate. Mikhi didn’t play a single minutes from the champions league. We expect him to be fully alive. This game requires patience my friend. Sucic times will come
Did you not see his performance against Roma? The guy never stops running and pressing.
Tough match. Draw would be good result.
Excited for this one!! Napoli are on the ropes,and we need to make a statement here!! We want our title back, and between Conte fucking up his second season, and Milan just simply not being that good, I’m starting to think we can do this!!
No surprises in the line up, just hope the boys can carry on with their good form, especially Lautaro and Bonny!! Gonna watch the first half in peace, as I can’t be arsed with calls for players to be dropped or sold every time they mis-control a ball…. FORZA INTER!!!!