The Result Carries Weight
MILAN — Federico Dimarco collected his Serie A MVP award, then immediately gave the voters a reason to feel good about their choice. The Inter Milan midfielder opened the scoring with a stunning 25-yard free kick into the top right corner, and the Nerazzurri held on for a 3-3 draw at Stadio Renato Dall'Ara on Saturday.
The result mattered little for Inter, who had already wrapped up the league title and the Italian Cup. Bologna, for its part, had no realistic path to European qualification. So the match became something rarer in late-season Serie A: a game where the result was almost irrelevant and the only question was whether anyone would remember the goals.
The table did the dramatic work without asking anyone to dress it up.
The Moment That Swung It
Dimarco made sure at least one would stick. Three minutes after his free kick, Federico Bernardeschi leveled for Bologna. The home side went ahead shortly before halftime when Tommaso Pobega's volley took a double deflection and found the net.
Inter's defensive issues resurfaced early in the second half when Piotr Zieliński turned a cross into his own net. But Pio Esposito tapped in a rebound in the 64th minute to pull one back, and Andy Diouf equalized in the 86th.
The Race Tightens
Across the city, Pedro gave Lazio a proper farewell. The 38-year-old winger scored the winner in a 2-1 comeback against already-relegated Pisa, closing out five years with the club. He won a World Cup with Spain in 2010 and a European Championship two years later, adding a few more lines to a résumé that already included Barcelona, Chelsea and Roma.
Most of Serie A's final round kicks off Sunday night, with four clubs chasing the last two Champions League spots and two teams trying to avoid the drop. Inter and Lazio can watch from the sides — one already finished, the other already moved on.