AC Milan 3-1 FC Internazionale Milano: Serie A Match Report, 31 October 2026

Three days after losing at home to Bologna, Milan handed Inter their first league defeat of the season. AC Milan 3-1 FC Internazionale Milano was decided before the interval: it was 3-1 at half-time, and nothing was added after it. Who scored, and in what order, is not on record, only that Milan were two up at the break and stayed there. No preview of it ran here, the site having gone without updates through the closing days of October, so the page carries the result without a call attached.

Inter came in top on 25 points from nine games, goal difference +15. Twenty-five from nine allows only one record, eight wins and a draw, and the draw had come in Rome in September, where they were 2-0 down at half-time and finished 2-2. Their four away games had brought three wins and that draw, the latest a 2-0 in Venice three days earlier. They had conceded three in a league game only once, in a 5-3 home win over Udinese.

Milan were fifth on 18 points from nine, goal difference +7, and that 4-2 defeat by Bologna was their first of the season. They had led it 2-1 at the break and conceded three times after it; this time a half-time lead met a goalless second half.

The league derbies on record lean Milan's way. They had gone four unbeaten against Inter, winning three, including both meetings last season by 1-0, in a campaign Inter finished as champions on 87 points, seventeen clear of Milan. Those four derbies produced seven goals in all; this one had four before half-time.

Inter's unbeaten start ends at nine games. They stay on 25 points from ten, and the goal difference falls from +15 to +13, three goals conceded in one half where they had let in two across their previous four league games. Milan move to 21 from ten, and their goal difference returns to +9, exactly where it stood before the Bologna defeat. At home they now have four wins and that one loss. The seven-point gap between the clubs before kick-off is now four. One derby changes the size of that gap, not the order.

Ten games is about a quarter of the season, and both clubs are running ahead of last season's rate. Milan's 21 points is better than two a game, against the 70 from 38 that brought fifth place; Inter's 25 is two and a half a game, against 87 from 38 for the title. Neither figure is a forecast, and Milan's two home games inside four days, a 2-4 and a 3-1, were each settled by a single half.

It is also Milan's third straight league win over Inter, and their fifth league derby running without defeat.