Inter ease past Feyenoord with 4-1 on aggregate

Inter ease past Feyenoord with 4-1 on aggregate

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Marcus Thuram and Hakan Çalhanoglu scored as Inter Milan beat Feyenoord 2-1 in the second leg of their Champions League last-16 tie at the San Siro on Tuesday to progress to the quarter-finals with a 4-1 aggregate win.


Serie A leaders Inter will meet Bundesliga leaders Bayern Munich, who beat Bayer Leverkusen 5-0 on aggregate, in next month's quarter-finals.


Three-time winners Inter last lifted the trophy in 2010, beating Bayern in the final as part of a treble-winning season, and Inzaghi's side are still on course to repeat the feat, with a Coppa Italia semi-final to come in April.


Feyenoord goalkeeper Timon Wellenreuther was called into action early on, keeping out a Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot from the edge of his box, but he did well to keep out Carlos Augusto's header from the resulting corner.


Aymen Sliti, making his senior debut for the Dutch club, tried his luck from outside the area, but Inter goalkeeper Yann Sommer did well to keep out the 18-year-old's shot as Feyenoord looked for an early goal.

Feyenoord came into the game with a tough task after losing 2-0 at home last week, and they had a mountain to climb after eight minutes following Thuram's superb solo strike.


Thuram, who opened the scoring at De Kuip in the first leg, collected the ball on the left wing before cutting inside the area and using some clever footwork to make space for a shot which he curled into the top corner.


Mehdi Taremi fired straight at the keeper as Inter looked to push the tie further out of reach, but Feyenoord pulled one back from the penalty spot three minutes before the break.


Çalhanoglu was penalised for a foul on Jakub Moder, who picked himself up and steered his spot-kick into the bottom corner to beat Sommer - only the second goal Inter have conceded in the competition this season, and the first at the San Siro.

Any hope of a Feyenoord comeback was all but extinguished when Çalhanoglu made amends for his mistake by converting his own penalty six minutes from time after Thomas Beelen fouled Taremi.


With Feyenoord taking risks in an attempt to get something out of the game, Inter continued to threaten on the counter and looked to be on the verge of conceding another penalty, but after a VAR review Thuram was booked for simulation instead.


Thuram still received a standing ovation from the home crowd when he came on, having just unleashed a thunderous shot that ricocheted off the underside of the crossbar, and Inter had little trouble seeing out the game.

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