MILAN – Antonio Candreva's superb finish saw Inter get back to winning ways with a 1-0 victory over Southampton on Thursday evening.
Here are a few match stats courtesy of our friends at Opta:
- The win ends a run of four consecutive defeats for Inter in European competitions.
- The Nerazzurri have now won each of the last four home games in Europe against English clubs.
- Before losing at San Siro, Southampton were unbeaten in their previous seven games in all competitions.
- Inter kept a clean sheet in a Europa League game for the first time since February 2015 (1-0 vs Celtic).
- Southampton have conceded two goals in their last two games (all competitions) having kept six clean sheets in the previous six matches.
- Southampton haven't conceded a first-half goal in their last eight games in all competitions.
- Inter have now failed to get a single shot on target in the first half for three consecutive UEFA Cup/Europa League games. That last happened in September 1997.
- Antonio Candreva's goal was Inter's only shot on target in the game.
- Inter's first shot against Southampton (including blocked efforts) came in the 40th minute, from Gary Medel.
