Arnautovic's bomb and Calha's penalty: Lazio knocked out, Inter give themselves the Coppa Derby

The boy with the tattoos remembered those afternoons spent honing his technique on the outskirts of Vienna. Inter gives Lazio two hooks, joins Milan in the Coppa Italia semifinals and thanks the street eurogoal of Marko Arnautovic, star of an evening of light rain. The Austrian hits the corner on the fly with his left foot from 25 meters and saves Inzaghi from a shady performance against a good Lazio, knocked out by the scratch of a single and by Calhanoglu's penalty in the second half.

The first half score, soaked and illegible, is replaced in a few minutes. In the first half hour, Lazio is the one making the game. Rovella and Guendouzi shield Asllani - guilty of losing a couple of balls in the first quarter of an hour and of having received a yellow card for a foul on Zaccagni -, Isaksen shuffles the deck with dribbling and solos and Dia moves between the lines. In the 9th minute, on a great ball from Zaccagni, he slips into the space left by Asllani and wins a corner, while Isaksen tests Martinez twice. Inter tries to get out of it with the usual dribbling and the wingers, but most of the second lines seem like holograms. Taremi also slips on the fundamental on which he has always felt safe - the phrasing -, while Asllani and Frattesi never scratch. Furthermore, Darmian also gets hurt, out after 20' with a muscle problem. In Lazio Tchaouna was bad, deployed as a first striker out of position. De Vrij studied him, weakened him and finally cancelled him out.

Question. How do you unlock a bitter, cold game, one of those where you show up at San Siro with a sweatshirt and hood in the rain, knowing that it will be tough to dig a pearl from the bottom of the sea? With the flash of a single, Marko Arnautovic. Inter's man of the match comes from Floridsdorfer, a Viennese suburb of low houses and chimneys, and in the 40th minute he unleashes a left-footed volley from 25 meters into the corner. The bench stands up and goes to hug him, his teammates hug him and he, bold and proud, preaches calm. "Don't worry, I've taken care of it." Fourth goal of the season, second in a row in the cup.

Inter's cylinder runs out quickly. The second half is pure management, even if a couple of times Isaksen runs away and kicks on Martinez, impeccable on at least three occasions (third clean sheet in three games). Lazio tries to grab the semifinal with their nails, but the Nerazzurri defense raises the drawbridge and entrenches itself behind its center backs. In the 75th minute, following a foul by Gigot after a good move by Correa, Calhanoglu closes the match on a penalty kick with his seventh goal of the season. Among the positive notes are the victory without conceding a single goal and the semifinal against Milan, scheduled for April 2 and 23. Added to this is the good performance by Arnautovic - again decisive - and the usual de Vrij, a wall. Among the negative notes, however, is Frattesi's stop and the 5-point performances by Taremi and Asllani, with the latter whistled on more than one occasion. In the end, space for the last Inzagata: Bastoni on the full flank to make up for the lack of reserve wingers. One more problem in view of the Scudetto challenge with Napoli. On Inter's path, in the end, there is again Conceicao's Milan. See you in April.