Overview
- Inter secured their first Champions League points of the season with a 1-0 home win over Shakhtar Donetsk at San Siro on Wednesday.
- Alessandro Bastoni was sent off after receiving two yellow cards in the space of two minutes for separate tussles with Shakhtar players, reducing Inter to ten men midway through the second half.
- Carlos Augusto scored the decisive goal in the 77th minute after a long pass from substitute Henrikh Mkhitaryan, with Inter surviving late Shakhtar pressure thanks to key saves from Josep Martínez.
- Cristian Chivu had shifted Bastoni into the centre of a three-man defence and handed Djed Spence a start as the coach tried to steady a back line hit by injuries to Lautaro Martínez, Benjamin Pavard, Curtis Jones and John Stones.
- The result gives Inter a short-term lift but leaves unresolved problems over defensive discipline, individual errors and squad fitness that club president Beppe Marotta and the coaching staff say must be addressed before the trip to Feyenoord.