Inter 5-0 win leaves Frosinone sweating over relegation
FROSINONE, Italy (AP) — Serie A champion Inter Milan beat up Frosinone 5-0 and left the lowly home side sweating over possible relegation on Friday.
With two weeks of the season remaining, six teams are still hoping to avoid joining Salernitana in the second tier.
Frosinone is 16th on the 20-team table, two points above the relegation zone. It has two games left, while teams above and below it have three. The result ended Frosinone’s six-game unbeaten run.
Davide Frattesi scored Inter’s first-half opener and Marko Arnautovic made it 2-0 after an hour. Canadian midfielder Tajon Buchanan got the third with his first goal for the club. Lautaro Martinez’s left-foot shot was his 24th goal of the league. Marcus Thuram completed the rout with a nice lob.
COMO PROMOTED
Como was promoted back into Serie A, 21 years after its last appearance in the top flight.
A 1-1 draw with Cosenza was enough to secure Como second place in Serie B, since third-placed Venezia lost at Spezia 2-1.
The top two finishers are promoted automatically, while the third- through eighth-place finishers go into a playoff to determine the third promotion.
Serie B leader Parma already secured promotion.
Since Indonesian billionaire brothers Robert and Michael Hartono bought the club in 2019, Como has steadily climbed up from Serie D.
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