Inter chase Serie A's early leaders with just one goal conceded

Inter Milan go into Saturday's game with six points from two matches of Serie A 2026-27, having scored five goals and conceded only one — the same return as Roma, Milan, Juventus, Atalanta and Lazio, six clubs level at the top of a table where nobody has yet pulled clear.

The ownership and the coach

The club is owned by Oaktree Capital Management, the US investment fund, with Giuseppe Marotta as president. This season's head coach is the Romanian Cristian Chivu, tasked with leading a squad coming off a solid start to the league campaign. He is the man responsible for the tactical choices Napoli will face at the Meazza on Saturday.

Founded on 9 March 1908 by a group of members who broke away from Milan, Inter are the only Italian club to have played every Serie A season without ever being relegated. Their cabinet holds three European Cups/Champions Leagues, three UEFA Cups, and the treble of 2010, when they won the league, the Coppa Italia (Italy's cup competition) and the Champions League in the same season. They play their home games at the Giuseppe Meazza, the stadium they share with Milan, which holds 75,923 — on Saturday Napoli will walk into it as visitors, in one of the heaviest arenas in Italian football.

What the table says after two rounds

Six points and one goal conceded are a data point, not a verdict: the season is only just underway, and a table with six teams level at the top captures a start, not yet a level. That applies to Inter as much as to Napoli, who sit tenth on three points after a home defeat to Como and an away win in Genoa. On Saturday at San Siro it will be the pitch, not these two rounds of standings, that shows which of the two sides is currently in better shape.

For us, this is the season's first away trip that really matters, on a ground where Inter have written much of their recent history, against a team coming off a mixed start — the home stumble against Como and the win away in Genoa. At 18:00 CET (17:00 UK, 12:00 ET) at the Meazza on Saturday, we start to find out what both sides, Nerazzurri and Azzurri, are really worth, beyond the ninety minutes of league football already played.