Inter‘s seven game winning streak came to an end last night against Napoli as they lost 2-0 in their Coppa Italia quarter-final match.
This was a game of two penalties. One that was given, and one that was not.
Napoli went ahead in the 50th minute when Thiago Motta, in possible his last appearance in an Inter shirt, failed to control the ball and then fouled Cavani in his attempt to win it back.
Then seven minutes later the referee inexplicably failed to give Inter a penalty when Maggio clearly held back Milito as he was sent in on goal. A horrible missed call from the referee.
You got a sense that this wasn’t going to be Inter’s night when Alvarez spurned a great chance to score when he found himself one-one-one with De Sanctis after a great ball from Sniejder, but instead of equalising the Argentine could only weakly kick the ball into the keeper’s arms.
Inter bossed the final quarter of the game and could so easily have forced extra-time but De Sanctis frustrated the Nerazzurri with a wonderful double-save from Milito and then Esteban Cambiasso.
Napoli then sealed a semi-final showdown with Siena when Cavani finished in typically clinical fashion after a typically lethal counter from Napoli.
