MILAN – Roberto Mancini’s side march on. Rodrigo Palacio, Marcelo Brozovic and Ivan Perisic found the net on Tuesday night to fire Inter through to the Coppa Italia quarter-finals.
In collaboration with Opta, check out the key stats on the match at San Siro:
Inter have only failed to reach the Coppa Italia quarter finals once since the 2003/04 season. It came in 2013/14, when they were beaten by Udinese in the round of 16.
Inter have kept a clean sheet in seven of their last eight competitive games.
Tuesday’s match between Inter and Cagliari saw five players involved that were born after 1 January 1996: Manaj, Gnoukouri, Cerri, Tello and Colombatto.
Rodrigo Palacio found the net after 11 games without a goal for Inter.
Brozovic has scored three goals for Inter this season (two in his last two appearances): all of these have come in the second half of play.
Brozovic was involved in seven of Inter’s 16 shots on Tuesday night: four attempts, three chances created.
Juan Jesus recovered the ball on 11 occasions against Cagliari, more than any other Nerazzurri player.