Napoli were two up after 53 minutes, and Inter had never come back from that against them before
Inter trailed 2-0 at San Siro with 40 minutes left and won 3-2, Lautaro Martinez scoring twice including a winner in stoppage time. Opta says the fixture had never produced that comeback before.
Sep 6, 2026
For 49 minutes at San Siro on Saturday there was nothing on the scoreboard. Federico Dimarco had hit the crossbar. Both sides had been busy without being dangerous. Then Napoli scored twice in three minutes and the game looked finished.
It was not. Inter won 3-2, and the winner arrived in the first minute of stoppage time.
Politano and Hojlund, 50 and 53
Matteo Politano put Napoli in front five minutes into the second half. Rasmus Hojlund made it two three minutes later. Both goals came from Inter defensive errors rather than anything Napoli had to work particularly hard for, which is the sort of detail that stings more in hindsight.
Massimiliano Allegri’s side had 16 shots on the night and seven of them were on target. That is a perfectly respectable evening’s work. The problem was at the other end.
Dimarco, then Thuram, then Lautaro again
Lautaro Martinez pulled one back in the 56th minute, finishing a cutback from Dimarco. Allegri was unhappy about it afterwards, saying his players had stopped because they thought the ball had already gone out of play. He also said Napoli were paying a heavy price for their mistakes, which was harder to argue with.
Marcus Thuram levelled in the 82nd. Then, a minute into added time, Napoli failed to clear a corner and Lautaro put it away. Inter finished the match with 29 shots to Napoli’s 16 and an expected goals figure of 3.19 against 2.24.
Cristian Chivu called it a fantastic advert for Italian football. Coaches say that sort of thing after wins, but he had a case.
Inter had never done this to Napoli before
Opta’s line on the night is the one worth keeping. This was the first time in Inter’s history that they have come from two goals down to beat Napoli in a Serie A match. The fixture has been on the calendar for the best part of a century, and it had never happened until Saturday.
Lautaro’s second goal was his 134th in Serie A for the club, which moves him past Stefano Nyers into third on Inter’s list. Giuseppe Meazza is out of reach on 197. Benito Lorenzi, on 138, is not.
Napoli are 10th after three games
Inter, who won the title in May for the 21st time, have nine points from three games and sit second on goal difference. Roma are top with the same points and a better record, nine goals to the good after three matches.
Napoli have three points from three: one win, a home defeat to Como, and now this. That leaves them 10th with a goal difference of zero. Allegri has lost two league games in a row and is doing it without Scott McTominay, who had a pulsed field ablation procedure for a benign arrhythmia and is not expected back until after the September international break. The season is three games old, so nobody should be reading too much into a table this short. Napoli will still want the next one badly.