Scoring 11 or 12 times from the first shot on target and not even being at the halfway point of the season suggests a certain element of luck, and it has already provoked question marks about how sustainable it is. Looking at the stats for the league in general, Inter are the top scorers with 36 goals, eight more than Milan who have 28 so far.
The deadlock was broken inside just four minutes at Tottenham Hotspur Stadium, when a goalkeeping blunder from Luiz Junior saw him inexplicably turn the ball into his own net, after trying to deal with a Lucas Bergvall cross. Yet the early goal did not spark a flurry of goalmouth action. Indeed, there was just one shot on target from the two teams combined, taken by Pape Matar Sarr for Spurs in the 30th minute.