Parma 2-2 Inter: Leaders pegged back to open door for Napoli

Serie A leaders Inter squandered a two-goal vantage to gully 2-2 against Parma successful Serie A connected Sunday, offering Napoli the accidental to adjacent the spread astatine the summit.

With caput manager Simeone Inzaghi serving a touchline prohibition aft being shown a reddish paper past weekend, Inter were undone by 2 goals successful 9 second-half minutes.

Matteo Darmian had enactment Inter up successful the 15th minute, striking location astatine the adjacent station arsenic the shot went wrong disconnected the woodwork.

Though Parma improved aft going a extremity down, the league leaders accrued their pb connected the changeable of half-time done Marcus Thuram, whose fortuitously lobbed decorativeness recovered its mode implicit Zion Suzuki from wrong the box.

However, Parma, who had threatened visiting goalkeeper Yann Sommer successful the archetypal half, pulled a extremity backmost connected the hr done Adrian Bernabe, who sent a pinpoint effort into the bottom-right country from 20 yards out.

And the hosts turned the crippled connected its caput successful the 69th infinitesimal erstwhile Jacob Ondrejka’s mazy tally ended with his onslaught deflecting disconnected Darmian and past Sommer.

Inter moved connected to 68 points from their 31 games and 4 wide of second-placed Napoli, who question to high-flying Bologna connected Monday.

Data Debrief: Inter surrender uncommon pb successful Serie A

For the 2nd clip successful Serie A this season, Inter person drawn a crippled aft being up by 2 goals, their archetypal since a 4-4 gully with Juventus backmost successful October. The Nerazzurri besides conceded 2 goals successful the 2nd fractional of that game.

This was besides conscionable the 2nd clip successful Serie A this play that Inter person conceded 2 goals successful the abstraction of 9 minutes successful the 2nd half, aft losing 3-0 to Fiorentina.

The effect besides saw Parma gully a Serie A match, recovering from a two-goal shortage for the archetypal clip since September 2024 (2-2 against Lecce).

There was besides a large infinitesimal for Thuram successful the contest, with his extremity the archetypal clip helium has scored successful Serie A since January. He took his tally to 14 league goals, a grounds for the Frenchman successful a azygous play successful Europe’s apical 5 leagues.