Internazionale Milan defeated AC Milan by a score of 2:0 in the first leg of the UEFA Champions League semi-final at the San Siro Stadium.
Internazionale is left with the feeling that matters most after a night of thrilling sensory overload: victory, and in the match that matters most.
Inter Milan took the lead in their Champions League semi-final against AC Milan with a 2-0 first-leg win at San Siro last Wednesday night, thanks to goals from Edin Dzeko and Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
Simone Inzaghi’s team exploded out of the gate, surprising their city rivals with two goals in the first 11 minutes.
After a dominant first-half performance that saw Hakan Calhanoglu hit the post and VAR overturn a penalty decision, the Nerazzurri should have easily won the tie in the first half.
The win in the Derby della Madonnina is not exceptional to soccer pundits and other stakeholders, but the Cameroonian goalkeeper making his mark in the goalpost for Internazionale Milan has been a topic for discussion.
For the first time since 1980, Onana, who retired from international football due to tactical disagreements with his coach at Qatar 2022, kept three consecutive clean sheets against Milan in a single season.
Onana, a former Ajax Amsterdam shoot-stopper, kept a clean sheet in a Supercoppa Italian match on January 18, 2023, when Federico Dimarco, Edin Dzeko, and Lautaro Martinez scored to lead their team to a three-goal victory.
A product of the Samuel Eto’o Academy from 2006 to 2010, Onana kept a second clean sheet in the Milan derby of the 2022–2023 season. In the 235th derby in the history of the Italian League, Lautaro Martinez scored the only goal on February 5th, 2023, which made Onana end without a goal in his net.
After Internazionale Milan won the first leg of the semi-final, Onana recorded his third consecutive clean sheet against Internazionale Milan’s bitter rival, AC Milan, prompting him to respond on his official Twitter handle.
He tweeted at @AndreyOnana, “Great result, but job not finished yet. We still have a lot ahead.”
