Stevan Jovetic scored a sensational volley as Inter swept La Liga outfit Villarreal aside 3-1 with Eder and Marcelo Brozovic also on target.
Luciano Spalletti continued pre-season preparations with a prestigious friendly at the Riviera delle Palme stadium in San Benedetto del Tronto.
Eder’s volley was off target and he was going clear on goal from a Borja Valero through ball before a desperate interception from Victor Ruiz.
Ruiz also just failed to get on the end of a Samu Castillejo free kick and Antonio Candreva drilled wide.
Stevan Jovetic scored a sensational volley as Inter swept La Liga outfit Villarreal aside 3-1 with Eder and Marcelo Brozovic also on target.
Luciano Spalletti continued pre-season preparations with a prestigious friendly at the Riviera delle Palme stadium in San Benedetto del Tronto.
Eder’s volley was off target and he was going clear on goal from a Borja Valero through ball before a desperate interception from Victor Ruiz.
Ruiz also just failed to get on the end of a Samu Castillejo free kick and Antonio Candreva drilled wide.
Eder was the danger man upfront and opened the scoring when he anticipated his marker, sliding to meet a Candreva low cross at the near post.
Villarreal equalised when Samir Handanovic only parried Nicola Sansone’s strike, but was beaten by the Roberto Soldado follow-up from close range.
Jovetic came off the bench and scored an absolute stunner, as he pounced on a poor clearance, flicked it up over a defender and then smashed a scissor-kick volley into the far top corner. The Montenegro international continue his remarkable pre-season campaign and had only been on the pitch for three minutes.
Mauro Icardi came off the bench for his first appearance of pre-season, having been injured in April, and made an immediate impact too. His sensational through ball released Brozovic to score with an angled drive.
Inter 3-1 Villarreal
Eder 25 (I), Soldado 40 (V), Jovetic 67 (I), Brozovic 90 (I)
Inter: Handanovic; D’Ambrosio (Ansaldi 64), Skriniar (Ranocchia 79), Miranda (Murillo 64), Nagatomo; Gagliardini (Kondogbia 46), Borja Valero (Gabriel Barbosa 71); Candreva (Brozovic 46), Joao Mario (Vecino 64), Perisic (Icardi 71); Eder (Jovetic 64)
Villarreal: Fernandez (Barbosa 46); Mario Gaspar (Torres 82), Victor Ruiz (Alvaro Gonzalez 75), Bonera (Semedo 75), Rukavina; Pablo Fornals (Enes Unal 66), Trigueros, Rodrigo (Moya Martinez 86), Sansone (Soriano 66), Soldado (Bakambu 66), Samu Castillejo (Leo Suarez 82)