Inter Milan vs Salernitana

Runaway Serie A leaders Inter Milan will be looking to build momentum ahead of their Champions League clash against Atletico Madrid when they meet out-of-sorts Salernitana at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza.

Inter Milan proved their title credentials with an emphatic 4-2 comeback win at Roma last weekend, taking advantage of Juventus’ 1-0 home loss to Udinese to move seven points clear at the Serie A summit. With a game in hand, Simone Inzaghi’s men seem to be waltzing away with their first Scudetto since 2020/21 as they return to Meazza seeking their seventh consecutive league win on home turf. Not less is expected from ‘I Nerazzurri’ after thrashing Salernitana 4-0 in the reverse fixture, not to mention beating them in all four previous home H2Hs. Another victory ‘to nil’ could be in store, knowing five of their last six Serie A home wins have yielded a clean sheet, which has been the case in both top-flight H2Hs at Meazza in the 21st century.

In contrast to Inter’s scintillating domestic campaign, Salernitana’s survival hopes are hanging by a thread after a 3-1 home loss to Empoli last weekend left them pinned to the bottom of the table, seven points from safety. That result proved the end of the road for manager Filippo Inzaghi, whose successor, Fabio Liverani, couldn’t have hoped for a sterner test on his touchline debut. He can draw confidence from Salernitana’s decent scoring form, which has seen them get on the scoresheet in nine of their last ten league outings, though they’ve only won once in that sequence (D2, L5). The visitors’ travel sickness fuels the skepticism, as they’ve suffered seven defeats in their last ten away Serie A games (W1, D2).