Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup with a 2-1 victory over bitter rival Bianconeri after extra-time on Wednesday, thanks to a last kick by Alexisnchez.
Almost every member of the Inter bench ran onto the field to embrace their teammate after he scored his goal.
The first piece of silverware of the season was decided in the first half when Lautaro Martinez converted a penalty to cancel out Weston McKennie's opener.
The Italian Super Cup has a record nine victories by defending champion Juventus. They qualified for the game as Italian Cup winners, not league winners, for the first time since 2012 after their run of nine successive league titles was ended by Inter.
The more a champion plays, the better he is, and he does things nobody else can do.
It was like that today. I thought I would start because I was in good shape and I wanted to win. I felt like a prisoner.
The Inter Milan players won the Italian Super Cup.
Inter lead the Italian league again, 11 points ahead of second-place Juventus, who have had a difficult start to the season.
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Szczesny was on the bench because he hadn't had his second vaccine against the coronaviruses yet, and so he wasn't able to get in contact with his teammates until shortly before the game.
Inter had several chances to take the lead. After a quick check with the video assistant referee, play continued despite the fact that Nicolo Barella was shoulder barged by Giorgio Chiellini.
Inter Milan won the Italian Super Cup.
In the first quarter of an hour, Inter goalkeeper Samir Handanovic was so busy watching from the sideline that he tried to keep warm by jumping jacks in the middle of his own half.
Inter paid the price for their missed chances when, following a series of crosses, Alvaro Morata floated the ball back in for McKennie to head into the far side of the net. Inter got a penalty shortly after.
The Inter forward was brought down by the defender, who didn't realize Edin was running up behind him. The penalty was blasted into the top right corner.
The Bianconeri almost regained the lead at the start of the second half, but Bernardeschi missed the right post.
Inter went even closer to the goal on the hour mark, as a Denzel Dumfries headed from Hakan Calhanoglu's cross appeared to be going in, but Perin was able to palm it onto the frame of the goal. Perin made a great save to keep out the headbutt.
Inter almost immediately took the lead, butnchez headed a corner narrowly wide.
The match was heading for penalties when Inter won. Alex Sandro tried to chest the ball to Chiellini but gave Matteo Darmian a chance to flick it on for the goal.
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