Serie A | Inter 2-0 Como: Fabregas cannot crack Chivu code

Inter continued their remarkable record against Como, as Francesco Pio Esposito and Marcus Thuram brought Cesc Fabregas back down to earth after nine Champions League goals.

This was a fascinating Scudetto fight and local derby, but with very different moods. The Nerazzurri suffered their first Serie A defeat of the season in the Derby della Madonnina with Milan, but then crushed Feyenoord 3-0 in the Champions League midweek. Como made history with Wednesday’s 9-1 victory away to RC Lens, their sixth straight win in all competition.

Lautaro Martinez and Luis Henrique were still out of action, but John Stones and Curtis Jones were back on the bench after several weeks. Moise Kean, Trevoh Chalobah, Assane Diao, Jesus Rodriguez and Jayden Addai didn’t make the trip.

See how it all unfolded on the Liveblog.

The breakthrough came when Federico Dimarco robbed Lucas Da Cunha to spark the counter-attack, Marcus Thuram’s smart disguised pass sent Djed Spence down the right to roll across for the Pio Esposito tap-in from a couple of yards.

Dimarco had a big chance to double their lead moments later, but Thuram grazing his head to the Nicolò Barella cross put the Italian off and he scuffed the finish.

Inter did score again when Dimarco sent Piotr Zielinski down the left, the roll across was intercepted poorly by Alex Valle, acting as an accidental assist for Thuram to sweep home from six yards at the near post.

Robert Sanchez got down to palm a Carlos Augusto daisy-cutter round the near post, then after the restart parried the Dimarco effort when set up by Barella.

Dimarco also saw his volley deflected wide after Thuram knocked back the Barella cross, then Thuram’s angled drive skimmed the far upright after combining with Spence.

The first real Josep Martinez save wasn’t until the 63rd minute, needing to be alert on the Nico Paz strike that bounced in front of him, then Jacobo Ramon didn’t get any power on the header from a Bruno Kaiki cross.

Nico Paz came very close to reopening the game at the 84th minute when his first-time strike on the Marc-Oliver Kempf pull-back from 15 yards clipped the frame of the goal.

This was the 12th consecutive Serie A victory for Inter against Como, the only big club they have been unable to crack under Cesc Fabregas.

Pio Esposito 12 (I), Thuram 19 (I)

08-11-2026 17:00

MatchDay 11

San Siro Stadium (Stadio Giuseppe Meazza)

Inter

Como

1st half

2nd half

Inter

Como

1

Josep Martínez

Goalkeeper

95

Alessandro Bastoni

Defender

99

Djed Spence

Defender

32

Federico Dimarco

Defender

88'

25

Manuel Akanji

Defender

30

Carlos Augusto

Midfielder

20

Hakan Calhanoglu

Midfielder

81'

23

Nicolò Barella

Midfielder

7

Piotr Zielinski

Midfielder

72'

94

Pio Esposito

Attacker

73'

9

Marcus Thuram

Attacker

88'

97

Robert Sánchez

Goalkeeper

3

Álex Valle

Defender

74'

4

Jacobo Ramón

Defender

2

Marc-Oliver Kempf

Defender

27

Yan Couto

Defender

74'

6

Luis Milla

Midfielder

20

Martin Baturina

Midfielder

46'

5

Máximo Perrone

Midfielder

46'

10

Nico Paz

Midfielder

9

Anastasios Douvikas

Attacker

7

Lucas Da Cunha

Attacker

74'

49

Ivan Provedel

Goalkeeper

21

Curtis Jones

Midfielder

6

John Stones

Defender

5

Aleksandar Stankovic

Midfielder

12

Raffaele Di Gennaro

Goalkeeper

31

Yann Bisseck

Defender

53

Matteo Lavelli

Attacker

46

Leonardo Bovio

Defender

22

Henrikh Mkhitaryan

Midfielder

72'

14

Ange-Yoan Bonny

Defender

73'

8

Petar Sucic

Defender

81'

28

Benjamin Pavard

Defender

88'

17

Andy Diouf

Attacker

88'

18

Edoardo Goldaniga

Defender

22

Mauro Vigorito

Goalkeeper

1

Jean Butez

Goalkeeper

13

Alberto Dossena

Defender

53

Willy Kambwala

Defender

54

Matteo Papaccioli

Midfielder

55

Cristiano De Paoli

Defender

15

Adrian Lahdo

Midfielder

21

Samuele Ricci

Midfielder

46'

28

Ivan Smolcic

Defender

46'

8

Maxence Caqueret

Midfielder

74'

30

Mattia Liberali

Midfielder

74'

16

Kaiki

Defender

74'