2026/2027 season

Serie A

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Inter
Head coach: Cristian Chivu · 3-5-2 avec Bisseck, Akanji et Bastoni en défense à trois — module confirmé à la fois par le guide de saison d'Ultimo Uomo et par la composition officielle alignée contre Cagliari (2e journée). Une source (SportMediaset, antérieure au début de saison) évoquait un possible passage à une défense à quatre / 4-2-3-1, mais ce changement n'est pas observé dans les faits de match recoupés à ce jour.
Rank
1st
Pts
19
P
7
Form
🔥 Excellent

The essentials at a glance

The summary of this page: estimated level of play, form trend and qualitative verdict. For the details, head to the other tabs.

Editors' ratings
10/10
Attack
7/10
Defence
9/10
Form
7/10
Confidence / mood
Current risk:Medium

1st with 19 pts from 7 matches: 6 wins, 1 draw, 0 defeats.

21 goals scored, 9 conceded.

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Foot Mercato · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

For its part, Madrid has full wins as a local, having joined five wins in the five games that it has played in the Bernabéu (4-1 to the Real Society, 4-0 to the Málaga, 2-1 to the Inter in Champions, 4-1 to the Vallecano Ray and 1-0 to the Villarreal). Possible alignment of the Seville to the Real MadridEn less than a week the list of casualties has grown considerably in the Seville.

ABC Deportes · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

On the night of Luis Suárez's maestro, who added two assists, and with Messi always enjoying foot time twice, Inter Miami won the Atlanta United out of the house at Major League Soccer (1-3).

zerozero · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

Two Inter in the same match against Bologna: Alberto Polverosi's comment

Corriere dello Sport · 18 Oct 2026 · machine-translated

How the team has played recently

Match-by-match results, record and rhythm of the current season.

Latest matches
Wvs Bologna FC 1909 (A) · 3-1
Wvs Parma Calcio 1913 (H) · 3-0
Dvs AS Roma (A) · 2-2
Wvs Udinese Calcio (H) · 5-3
Wvs SSC Napoli (H) · 3-2
WWWWWWD
21 scored / 9 conceded over 7 matches played
Rest: 1 day since the last match · 2 matches played in the last 15 days
Home form
4W - 0D - 0L
Away form
2W - 1D - 0L
Statistics

Computed from this season's scores, every time the page is shown.

Goals scored per match
3.2
Goals conceded per match
1.6
At home
11 scored · 5 conceded in 3 matches
Away
5 scored · 3 conceded in 2 matches
Over 2.5 goals
5 of 5
Both teams score
4 of 5
Clean sheets
1 of 5
Failed to score
0 of 5
Cumulative points vs league average

Not enough matchdays recorded yet for this curve — history builds up with every standings refresh.

How Inter play

System, playing identity, and what sets the team apart at both ends of the pitch.

Playing identity
Preferred system
3-5-2 avec Bisseck, Akanji et Bastoni en défense à trois — module confirmé à la fois par le guide de saison d'Ultimo Uomo et par la composition officielle alignée contre Cagliari (2e journée). Une source (SportMediaset, antérieure au début de saison) évoquait un possible passage à une défense à quatre / 4-2-3-1, mais ce changement n'est pas observé dans les faits de match recoupés à ce jour.
Philosophy
Chivu wants an aggressive, dominant team, seeking to “raise the level” and win the ball back high up the pitch, in offensive continuity with the system inherited from Simone Inzaghi.
Attacking strengths
Attack driven by Lautaro Martínez and Marcus Thuram, but the team sometimes struggles to convert its dominance once ahead, as was the case at Cagliari.
Defensive solidity
Aggressive pressing with full-backs pushing up to press the opposition's back line (Inter are presented as one of the league's most aggressive pressing sides); weaknesses are nonetheless noted in defensive transition when the opposition's wide players combine with their full-backs.
Pressing
Chivu has pushed the defensive line higher compared with the Inzaghi era and drives the team to press higher to win the ball back near the opposition's box; Carlos Augusto confirms “more pressure when we lose possession” (sports.yahoo.com, two separate articles, 31/08/2026).
Transitions
After winning the ball back, Chivu's Inter build play more directly and vertically than under Inzaghi, who favoured building from the back; Carlos Augusto speaks of “more verticality when we win the ball back” (sports.yahoo.com, two separate articles, 31/08/2026).
StrengthTwo wins from two Serie A matchdays (6 points from 6), including an away win at Cagliari.
WeaknessDifficulty killing off matches: several chances missed after Çalhanoğlu's early goal at Cagliari, leaving the opposition in the game.

The mood around the club, and who is missing

Internal climate, relationship with the supporters, and known absences before the next match.

Mood
Squad confidence
Six points from six, top of the table and a captain who has publicly chosen to stay: confidence is at its peak before the season's first big match. Lautaro Martínez defused the Barcelona saga at the Gran Galà del Calcio by acknowledging that the rumours were well founded but owning his decision to stay, which closes August's main area of uncertainty. The club was also named best-run side of last season's Serie A, with Federico Dimarco voted the league's MVP. That said, the parting with Piero Ausilio, announced on 2 Sep 2026, introduces an unknown just as they are building momentum.
Coach / players / board relationship
The weightiest change is organisational: after around 28 years at the club and twelve as sporting director, Piero Ausilio leaves Inter by mutual consent, replaced by Dario Baccin, promoted to Chief Sport Officer. Marotta presented the decision as an “innovative choice” compatible with continuity, paying tribute to his long-standing colleague. In parallel the club secured its sporting future by extending Francesco Pio Esposito until 2032, a six-year contract presented as significant for the balance sheet. The Marotta-Chivu line, meanwhile, shows no public crack.
Mood with the supporters
San Siro is coming off a sell-out for the season's first home game against Monza, and the clash with Napoli on 5 September at 18:00 looks set for the same. The Gran Galà del Calcio gave supporters a harvest of collective and individual recognition: best-run club in Serie A, Dimarco as league MVP, several Nerazzurri in the team of the season. Lautaro's declaration of loyalty, “I wanted to stay here with my people”, was the message the tifoseria most wanted to hear. To that is added a further source of pride, Inter Women's historic qualification for the Champions League group stage.
Pressure on the head coach
Cristian Chivu goes into his first big occasion with a perfect points record and his board's undiminished backing. The context is unusual, though: he is preparing Inter v Napoli a few days after the departure of the sporting director who appointed him, which will shift part of the questioning at his press conference on Friday 4 September at 14:30. Marotta had in fact played down in advance the significance of the matches against Napoli and then Real Madrid, judging them “not decisive for the final outcome”. The message to the head coach is clear: build continuity rather than chase a statement result.
Club objectives
The objectives remain those Marotta set in July, retaining the Scudetto and performing better in the Champions League, but on 3 Sep 2026 the president specified the manner: pursuing “that continuity which is the expression of good football”. The immediate schedule lines up Napoli in the league and then Real Madrid in Europe. In the Coppa Italia, Inter enter directly at the last-16 stage, where they will face the winner of Genoa v Südtirol. Pio Esposito's extension until 2032 reflects a parallel objective, getting value from the academy pathway.
Recent internal tensions
The summer's two sensitive matters were resolved in the same movement: Lautaro publicly closed the Barcelona episode, and the uncertainty over the sporting structure was settled by Ausilio's departure and Baccin's promotion. That departure was not presented as a conflict, but the Milan press is still looking for the underlying reasons, and it drew reactions from players, starting with the disappointment expressed by Calhanoğlu. Another subject remains open, Dimarco's contract extension, which he acknowledged the club and he had not yet discussed. Nothing, however, is disrupting preparation on the pitch.
Absences
DoubtfulDjed Spence — Troubled physically, his availability for matchday 3 is not assured.

Before kick-off

What to know before the next match: statistical form, qualitative analysis, and a computed estimate of the 1/X/2 probabilities.

Next match

Inter — Fiorentina

At homeSunday 25 October at 12:30Matchday 8
In 6 days. Kick-off time confirmed by the league. Paris time · football-data.org fixtures.

Prediction, odds and form of both teams →

What the press says

No preview found for this fixture. The press mostly covers the big games, and usually the day before.

Prediction
EstimateInter — Fiorentina
76 %
1 · Inter
13 %
X · draw
11 %
2 · Fiorentina
In-house calculation, from this page's standings data alone: 7 matches played by Inter, 6 matches by Fiorentina. Confidence: medium
The formula, in plain words — with this match's figures
  1. League average. 187 goals scored over 130 team-matches played (20 teams taken into account), i.e. μ = 1.44 goal scored per team per match. This is the reference point: everything that follows is expressed relative to it.
  2. Attacking and defensive strengths. Goals scored (or conceded) per match, divided by μ. 1.00 = exactly average; in defence, above 1.00 means “concedes more than average”.
    TeamGoalsRawKept
    Inter — attack21 in 7 matches2.091.58
    Inter — defence9 in 7 matches0.890.94
    Fiorentina — attack7 in 6 matches0.810.91
    Fiorentina — defence14 in 6 matches1.621.31
    The “Kept” column is the result of shrinkage towards the mean: weight = P / (P + 6), i.e. 0.54 for Inter and 0.50 for Fiorentina. The rest of the weight goes to the league average. This is what stops a lone 5-0 from producing an attack at 3.3 times the average — and hence a 95% probability.
  3. Home advantage (γ). Measured on the league itself: 1.65 goal scored on average by the host against 1.33 by the visitor, over the 52 fixtures present in each team's last 5 matches. Raw ratio 1.24; shrunk towards 1 (weight 0.44, on the log of the ratio) then capped at 1.25 → γ = 1.10. Shrinkage goes towards 1, i.e. no advantage at all: while the sample is small, the model does not assert a home advantage it cannot measure.
  4. Venue correction, specific to each team. Drawn from the home/away split: points per match at the venue concerned are compared to points per match over all fixtures, with stronger shrinkage (weight = P / (P + 8)) and a bound of ±12%.
    Inter at home: 3.00 pts/match versus 2.71 overall over 4 matches → ×1.035
    Fiorentina away: 1.00 pts/match versus 0.67 overall over 3 matches → ×1.120
  5. Expected goals. One side's attack is set against the other's defence. γ applies to the host only: applying it the other way round too would count the home advantage twice.
    λInter = 1.44 × 1.58 × 1.31 × 1.10 × 1.035 = 3.40
    λFiorentina = 1.44 × 0.91 × 0.94 × 1.120 = 1.38
  6. Poisson grid. Probability of every exact score from 0-0 to 8-8, assuming the two goal totals are independent, then adding up the cells: home win 75.7%, draw 12.7%, away win 11.6% — displayed rounded to whole numbers so that they add up to exactly 100. Most likely exact score in the grid: 3-1 (only 7.7%, which says enough about how unpredictable an exact score is).
Limits of this model — they are not anecdotal.
  • It only knows goals and a venue. Neither absences, suspensions, line-ups, fatigue, stakes, weather nor club context enter the calculation — while the other tabs of this page show that they matter.
  • The assumption that the two goal totals are independent is false in reality: it slightly underestimates tight scores, hence the draw.
  • γ is measured over a rolling window (each team's last 5 matches), not over the whole season.
  • The shrinkage constants (6, 60, 8) and the bounds are choices, not measurements. They were tuned to be cautious early in the season; they were not calibrated on a results history, as none is available here.
  • No after-the-fact evaluation has been made: at this stage, nobody knows whether this model is better or worse calibrated than another.
What other sources say
No external source has been collected for this match. That is the normal state: readings are taken by hand, and an empty box is better than an unverified figure.
This block shows probability estimates, not predictions, and carries no advisory value. The in-house estimate is the result of a formula applied to a small sample; the figures from external sources are reproduced as they were collected, without their method having been verified.

The full squad

The professional squad by position, captain marked with an armband.

Goalkeepers
  • Josep Martínez
  • I. Provedel
  • R. Di Gennaro
Defenders
  • F. Dimarco
  • A. Bastoni
  • M. Akanji
  • B. Pavard
  • Carlos Augusto
  • Djed Spence
  • Yann Bisseck
  • John Stones
  • Leonardo Bovio
Midfielders
  • Nicolò Barella
  • H. Çalhanoğlu
  • P. Zieliński
  • H. Mkhitaryan
  • Aleksandar Stankovic
  • Luis Henrique
  • Petar Sučić
  • Curtis Jones
  • Andy Diouf
  • Y. Massolin
Forwards
  • Lautaro MartínezC
  • Marcus Thuram
  • Pio Esposito
  • Ange-Yoan Bonny
  • Jamal Iddrissou
Squad last verified on 31 Aug 2026 — source: besoccer.com/team/squad/internazionale; captaincy confirmed by Goal.com and FCInterNews.it.

What has been said recently

Chronological feed of verified information about the club.

rss18 Oct 2026
Inter Milan soon bought by Qatar?
Source: Foot Mercato
rss18 Oct 2026
Pagelle Bologna-Inter: Sucic from “Mai dire Gol”, Unpredictable Bonny, Bernardeschi..
Source: Tuttosport
rss18 Oct 2026
MLS: Lionel Messi's double carries the Inter Miami against Atlanta United
Source: Foot Mercato
rss18 Oct 2026
Chivu, screams in the locker room at the interval with Bologna, as with Roma at the Olimpico: and Inter tilts
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
Moviola Bologna-Inter: there is no rigor on Thuram, but yellow. .
Source: Corriere dello Sport
rss18 Oct 2026
Messi scores twice during simple victory Inter Miami
Source: Voetbal International
Institutional3 Sep 2026
On 3 Sep 2026, on the fringes of the Gran Galà where Inter were honoured as the best-run club of last season's Serie A, Marotta stressed the method: “we have managed to become an example of excellence in Italian football”, with “a great deal of humility and a culture of hard work”. On the fixtures against Napoli and then Real Madrid, he added nuance: “they are very appealing matches, even if they are not decisive for the final outcome”.
Source: FcInterNews
Institutional2 Sep 2026
An institutional earthquake at Appiano Gentile: on 2 Sep 2026 Inter confirmed an amicable parting with Piero Ausilio, at the club for around 28 years and sporting director since February 2014. Under his direction the Nerazzurri won nine trophies (3 Scudetti, 3 Coppe Italia, 3 Super Cups) and played in three European finals. Dario Baccin, his former colleague, becomes Chief Sport Officer.
Source: FcInterNews
Club2 Sep 2026
Lautaro Martínez publicly ended the Barcelona saga at the Gran Galà del Calcio: “the rumours that came out were true. But in the end I wanted to stay here with my people,” the captain explained, before adding: “Today I have a contract and I am happy. I chose to stay once again because I feel good and I want to do great things at Inter.”
Source: FcInterNews
Club2 Sep 2026
Federico Dimarco was named MVP of Serie A 2025-26 at the Gran Galà del Calcio, where he recalled that he had “dreamed of Inter since he was a small boy”.
Source: FcInterNews
Contract2 Sep 2026
Francesco Pio Esposito has signed his first contract extension with Inter, a six-year deal tying him to the club until 2032 and appreciably changing the balance sheet. The academy-trained forward reacted soberly: “Sono felice, ma non ci accontentiamo.”
Source: FcInterNews
Refereeing2 Sep 2026
Simone Sozza has been appointed to referee the matchday 3 clash between Inter and Napoli.
Source: FcInterNews
Club2 Sep 2026
Cristian Chivu will speak to the press on Friday 4 September 2026 at 14:30 at the Inter Training Centre in Appiano Gentile, on the eve of Inter v Napoli, scheduled for Saturday 5 September at 18:00 at San Siro.
Source: FcInterNews
European competition2 Sep 2026
Inter Women made history by eliminating Wolfsburg on penalties, qualifying the club's women's side for the Champions League group stage for the first time.
Source: FcInterNews
Club2 Sep 2026
Seeded in the Coppa Italia, Inter enter directly at the last-16 stage and will face the winner of Genoa v Südtirol, scheduled for 15 September.
Source: Sky Sport
Transfers1 Sep 2026
Inter invested around €102m, with Djed Spence for €30m, Curtis Jones from Liverpool for €30m, Aleksandar Stanković for €23m and Manuel Akanji from Manchester City for €15m.
Source: Tuttomercatoweb
News last verified on 18 Oct 2026. Sources: sports press (L'Équipe, Le Parisien, Foot Mercato, regional press…) and official club websites — see the link on each item.
Editorial content (playing style, mood, absences, external prediction sources) last verified on 3 Sep 2026. The standings/form data above are refreshed automatically — as is the 1/X/2 estimate, recomputed on every view.