{"id":403553,"date":"2026-01-12T00:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403553\/"},"modified":"2026-01-12T00:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T00:06:08","slug":"inter-milan-2-2-napoli-mctominay-scores-twice-as-antonio-conte-sent-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/403553\/","title":{"rendered":"Inter Milan 2-2 Napoli: McTominay scores twice as Antonio Conte sent off"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inter Milan missed the chance to move five points clear at the top of Serie A as Scott McTominay scored twice to earn a draw for Napoli, who had manager Antonio Conte sent off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inter went ahead in the ninth minute when Federico Dimarco latched on to Marcus Thuram&#8217;s pass and fired home from an acute angle.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eljif Elmas played a ball into the path of McTominay, who burst into the box and scored at the near post to equalise for Napoli with 26 minutes played.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The hosts went back in front in the 73rd minute when Hakan Calhanoglu&#8217;s thunderous penalty went in off the post with goalkeeper Vanja Milinkovic-Savic diving the wrong way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Amir Rrahmani was judged to have caught Henrikh Mkhitaryan in the box &#8211; and Conte was dismissed for his angry reaction to the decision.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">However, Napoli drew level once more through McTominay&#8217;s superb first-time finish into the bottom corner nine minutes from time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Inter are three points ahead of rivals Milan while Napoli move up to third, level on points with Roma.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cristian Chivu&#8217;s side have the chance to increase their lead to six points when they host Lecee on Wednesday (19:45 GMT).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Inter Milan missed the chance to move five points clear at the top of Serie A as Scott&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":403554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":["post-403553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}