Rome (AFP)

Inter Milan, after the initial cold sweats against Fiorentina (4-3), followed Wednesday in great width at the promoted Benevento of Filippo Inzaghi (5-2), with a hungry Lukaku and an already sharp Hakimi.

It took less than 30 seconds for Antonio Conte's men to take the lead thanks to "Big Rom", receiving a cross from Hakimi, in this late match of Day 1.

The agreement between the Belgian and the Moroccan, arrived from Borussia Dortmund, had already put Inter back in the saddle against Fiorentina and seems set to spark off this season.

Inter, thus launched, continued to martyr the fragile defense of Benevento.

Gagliardini doubled the bet with a nice volley (25th) before offering Lukaku his second goal of the afternoon (28th).

Hakimi then took advantage of the slowness of the defense to open his goal counter (42nd) before Lautaro Martinez, entered in the second half, went from his goal with a strike entering the area (71st).

"I am very happy with the way I have adapted to the team, although I still have some mechanics to perfect. My teammates help me a lot," said Hakimi.

"The title? We are working towards this goal, we have a very good team to fight for that," he added.

However, the match was too easy, no doubt, for Inter, which was also illustrated by guilty errors of deconcentration.

Benevento took the opportunity to limit the extent of the humiliation thanks to a double from Caprari (34th, 76th), helped by the Milan goalkeeper Handanovic and a static central defense.

The promoted was not even far from adding one or two goals that would undoubtedly have darkened the Milan afternoon.

- "Game idea" unchanged -

Antonio Conte, who has obtained the bench depth this season he dreamed of to hope to compete with Juventus, had largely revised his starting team, with no less than seven changes at kick-off compared to last weekend.

In addition to Hakimi, Alexis Sanchez and Vidal, who had largely contributed to turning the situation around against Fiorentina, thus had their first start this season, like Skriniar and de Vrij in defense.

"The greatest satisfaction for a coach is to see that the idea of ​​the game does not change beyond the interpreters. But we still take two goals, we must improve the balance of the team," responded Antonio Conte after the game.

The victory acquired, the interior coach quickly took out some pillars (Vidal victim of a blow, Lukaku, Young) in view of the difficult trip on Sunday on the Lazio field for the third day.

With six points in two matches, Inter join at the top of the table Napoli, AC Milan and Hellas Verona.

Three matches of the 1st day had been postponed to this Wednesday because of the summer European campaigns of Inter and Atalanta Bergamo (traveling to Lazio in the evening, 8:45 p.m.), and late entry dams disputed by La Spezia.

The latter, by winning against Udinese ten to eleven (2-0), has also won a historic victory, the first in Serie A in its history.

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