Inter scored twice in stoppage time through Marcus Thuram and a Piotr Zielinski penalty to beat Fiorentina 2-1 at San Siro and move level with Lazio at the top of Serie A.
Inter Milan scored twice in stoppage time to beat Fiorentina 2-1 at San Siro on Sunday and move level on 22 points with Lazio at the top of Serie A after eight matches. Fiorentina had led through Alex Jimenez's strike in the 65th minute, a long-range effort that caught Inter goalkeeper Ivan Provedel, making his debut, off guard.
Marcus Thuram levelled in the 91st minute, finishing clinically after linking up with Andy Diouf at the edge of the box, and then won the penalty that Piotr Zielinski converted in the 97th minute after Victor Valdepenas pulled the France international's shirt inside the area. David de Gea had kept Fiorentina ahead with a string of saves in the first half, and Carlos Augusto hit the crossbar twice within two minutes as Inter pressed for the equaliser.
The win gave Inter a seventh victory from eight league matches, with one draw, while Fiorentina stayed on four points in the relegation zone, with six defeats, one win and one draw. Thuram's equaliser also put him in rare company: according to Opta, he became only the third Inter player in the three-points-for-a-win era to score in at least seven consecutive home Serie A matches, after Romelu Lukaku, who did it in seven straight home games in 2021, and Christian Vieri, whose run reached eleven in 2003.
The scoreline, the scorers and the order of the goals are the same across the match reports checked, with only the counting of stoppage time differing by a minute depending on whether a source writes 90 plus one or the 91st minute, which are the same moment. The table position is reported as level with Lazio on 22 points, and the Opta scoring-run claim is attributed to Opta through the match coverage rather than presented as this story's own count.
Inter's next league match is away at Venezia on Wednesday, October 28, and the value of Sunday's comeback will be measured there: a win keeps the unbeaten start intact and the pressure on Lazio, while a slip would hand back the initiative the stoppage-time goals just won. For Fiorentina, the defeat deepens a difficult start in which a lead at San Siro still was not enough, and the gap to safety is now the story of their season.