Milan<\/a>, while Napoli are third in the standings on 39 points.<\/p>\nFollowing some early Napoli pressure Inter took the lead in the ninth minute after the visitors lost possession in the middle of the pitch.<\/p>\n
Marcus Thuram drove forward before laying off a pass to Federico Dimarco in the area who drilled his low shot into the far corner from a wide angle.<\/p>\n
Inter began to press high up the pitch, with Napoli struggling to get out of their own half for long periods but out of nowhere the away side drew level in the 26th minute.<\/p>\n
Leonardo Spinazzola\u2019s pass sent Eljif Elmas into the area and his low cross into the six-yard box was met by McTominay who got ahead of his marker Manuel Akanji at the near post to fire past Yann Sommer.<\/p>\n
Thuram had a header tipped over by Vanja Milinkovic-Savic shortly before the break and the sides went in level at the break.<\/p>\n
Napoli had chances after the interval, with Milinkovic-Savic\u2019s long clearance sending Rasmus H\u00f8jlund through on goal but his shot went narrowly wide and Giovanni Di Lorenzo headed well off target from a Spinazzola cross.<\/p>\n
Scott McTominay jumps in delight after making it 2-2 Photograph: Ciancaphoto Studio\/Getty Images<\/p>\n
The visitors were left ruing those misses when Inter were awarded a penalty for Amir Rrahmani\u2019s foul on Henrikh Mkhitaryan, with Napoli manager Antonio Conte shown a red card for his furious reaction to the referee\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n
Hakan Calhanoglu blasted his spot-kick in off the upright and Inter retook the lead with 17 minutes remaining. Napoli, however, refused to bow, and it was McTominay who again equalised with nine minutes left.<\/p>\n
Matteo Politano\u2019s floated cross into the box looked like going out of play but Noa Lang hooked the ball back from the byline for McTominay to volley home from the edge of the six-yard box.<\/p>\n
Mkhitaryan had an added time deflected shot come back off the post and Inter were denied their seventh successive league win.<\/p>\n
Christopher Nkunku scored in the 90th minute to earn Milan a 1-1 draw at Fiorentina on Sunday but, despite extending their unbeaten league run, the visitors continue to lose ground in the Serie A title race with their second stalemate in four days.<\/p>\n
Milan remain second on 40 points, two behind Inter, who could increase their lead when they host Napoli later on Sunday, while Fiorentina are third bottom on 14 points.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not thinking about it [Inter v Napoli] at all,\u201d the Milan manager, Massimiliano Allegri, told Dazn. \u201cWe have to think about ourselves, we have to return to winning ways, there are a lot of points still to play for.\u201d<\/p>\n
Milan\u2019s only league loss this season came on the opening day and after struggling once more against a relegation-battling side \u2013 they also came from behind in Thursday\u2019s 1-1 draw with Genoa \u2013 have gone 18 matches without defeat.<\/p>\n
Pietro Comuzzo races off to the home support after opening the scoring for struggling Fiorentina against Milan. Photograph: Andrea Staccioli\/Insidefoto\/Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Allegri left Luka Modric, Rafael Le\u00e3o and Adrien Rabiot on the bench, giving Niclas F\u00fcllkrug and Ardon Jashari their first league starts, with F\u00fcllkrug and Christian Pulisic looking very comfortable together up front. The pair played a neat one-two which launched Pulisic through on goal once more, this time going around David de Gea but taking the ball too far wide and his finish ended up in the sidenetting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe played a good first half, we had chances to score but didn\u2019t take them,\u201d Allegri said. In the second half Fiorentina pushed a bit more.\u201c<\/p>\n
Fiorentina began brightly after the break, Dodo\u2019s deflected shot looping over the bar and Mike Maignan gathering Robin Gosens\u2019s header from the resulting corner.<\/p>\n
Fiorentina hit the front in the 66th minute from a corner, Pietro Comuzzo rising unchallenged and his glancing header finding the net off the far post. The hosts had failed to win in their opening 15 league games but have shown signs of recovery of late and came close to a third successive home win.<\/p>\n
Nkunku, on as a substitute, timed his run to get on the end of Youssouf Fofana\u2019s ball and fired past De Gea from a wide angle.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bayern Munich, helped by two record-breaking own goals and two from Michael Olise, demolished Wolfsburg 8-1 to extend…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":407071,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-407070","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407070","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=407070"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/407070\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/407071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=407070"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=407070"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=407070"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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