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Edin Dzeko shows ageless class as Inter use recent history lessons to rock Milan | Nicky Bandini

11-May-2023 09:00:42 | The Guardian

With a goal from a corner and a blisteringly decisive start, Champions League meeting followed familiar patterns for Inzaghi’s cup kings

A banner hung from San Siro’s Curva Sud before kickoff claimed that every devil in hell had come to support Milan but they forgot the one who lives in the details. You can make a stadium into an inferno for an evening but leaving Edin Dzeko marked by a full-back at a corner is a recipe for eternal regret.

“He’s a lot bigger than me, there’s not much to be done,” said Davide Calabria of the goal that set Inter on the way to a 2-0 victory over the Rossoneri in the first leg of their Champions League semi-final. The biggest Milan derby in two decades was barely eight minutes old when Dzeko hooked his leg around the defender and volleyed home.