Serie A made its comeback this weekend following a break brought about by a coronavirus crisis that hit Italy especially hard, SerieA RomeluLukaku InterMilan Football Soccer
Here, AFP Sport looks at five of the key moments from the first round of matches after three months away:The Belgian’s impressive debut season with Inter Milan continued on Sunday against relegation strugglers Sampdoria, with his first-half strike taking his league tally to 18 goals this term.
“It was very important to win today, as from now to the end of the season it’s 12 finals, they are all life or death,” Lukaku told Sky Sport Italia.Inter were not at their best against Sampdoria, but coach Antonio Conte would have been content with a 2-1 win that keeps their title hopes alive and by the performance of Christian Eriksen.
“This is not just any restart. It’s for a region that has suffered three months of living in warfare. Nobody can forget the sounds of the ambulances streaking down the street,” said director Umberto Marino pre-match. They will be one of the eight clubs to take part in the last eight Champions League tournament set to be held in Lisbon in August, and Sunday’s spectacular win showed why they are favourites to rejoin Europe’s elite next season.While matches in the Bundesliga and Premier League have begun with teams taking a knee in honour of the global Black Lives Matter, the approach has been more ad hoc in Italy.
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