Although this is the first season to apply the format of 4 teams competing for the Italian Super Cup in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia), Fiorentina and Lazio were defeated in the semi-finals so the final match will be between Inter Milan and Napoli.
Lautaro Martinez scored the only goal of the match (Photo: AP).
Inter Milan started the game with more determination and Federico Dimarco volleyed from outside the box and the ball went just wide of the post. Napoli goalkeeper Pierluigi Gollini then struggled to keep out Hakan Calhanoglu's long-range shot.
Lautaro Martinez headed the ball wide of the post before putting it into the net in the 38th minute. However, in this situation, the person who created the ball for Martinez, Marcus Thuram, was called offside.
The turning point of the match came in the 60th minute when Giovanni Simeone received a second yellow card for a stamp on Francesco Acerbi, leaving Napoli with 10 men. The following minutes saw Inter Milan apply terrible pressure.
Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup for the third consecutive time (Photo: AP).
Thuram had a great chance to put Inter Milan ahead with a volley from close range after Benjamin Pavard had fired home from Dimarco's cross, but the ball went wide.
Inter Milan's pressure finally paid off when Alexis Sanchez found Pavard running down the right and the France international crossed for Lautaro Martinez to finish from close range. Inter Milan beat Napoli 1-0 and won their third successive Italian Super Cup.
Line-up:
Napoli (3-4-2-1): Gollini; Di Lorenzo, Rrahmani, Jesus; Zerbin (Ostigaard 58'), Lobotka, Cajuste (Raspadori 74'), Mazzocchi (Mario Rui 74'); Politano (Lindstrom 70'), Kvaratskhelia (Gaetano 70'); Simone.
Inter Milan (3-5-2): Sommer; Pavard, Acerbi, De Vrij (Augusto 62'); Darmian, Barella (Frattesi 63'), Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco (Arnautovic 81'); Thuram (Sanchez 81'), Lautaro Martinez (Bisseck 90+3').
Goal: Lautaro Martinez (90+1')
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