Sassuolo does the double on Serie A champion Inter
Inter Milan suffered only its second defeat in Serie A this season as a first-half goal by Armand Lauriente gave relegation-threatened Sassuolo a crucial 1-0 victory.
Sassuolo has a unique hold over Simone Inzaghi's side this season as the only team to beat Inter in the league, and do so twice having secured a 2-1 victory in the reverse fixture in September.
The result was a big boost in Sassuolo's battle against relegation, as it sits second from bottom on 29 points, with only three points between it and Cagliari in 14th place.
Lauriente got the only goal of the match after 20 minutes when Josh Doig managed to wrestle the ball back from Denzel Dumfries near the corner flag and pulled it back, with Sassuolo's matchwinner on hand to slot into the net from close range.
This was the first time Inter has lost a league match against a team in the bottom two of the standings since November 2014. On that occasion, it went down 2-0 to Parma.
Lauriente, meanwhile, has scored four Serie A goals since the beginning of April, a joint-record in the period in the top-flight, level with Inter's Hakan Calhanoglu.
