Venezia FC 0-2 FC Internazionale Milano: Serie A Match Report, 28 October 2026

Venezia FC 0-2 FC Internazionale Milano: bottom against second, goalless at the interval, both goals in the second half. When in that half they came is not on record. What is on record is that the shape was familiar for both clubs, which makes it a less surprising evening than a 0-0 half-time against the champions might suggest.

The table put 19 points between them after eight games. Venezia were 20th on three points, goal difference -11, with one win and seven defeats; their only points came from a 1-0 home win over Napoli eleven days earlier. Inter were second on 22 points, unbeaten in eight (seven wins and a draw at Roma), with 23 goals scored and a +13 difference.

Inter's half-time scores explain the pattern from their side. They had been level at the break in five of their eight league games and won all five, the latest the visit of Fiorentina on the Sunday, goalless at half-time and 2-1 at the end. This made it six level first halves in nine, and six wins from that position.

From Venezia's side it was a repeat as well. This was the fourth time this season they had reached half-time at 0-0 and lost 2-0, after Lecce, Milan and Lazio. Back in Serie A after a season outside it, they had beaten Napoli, last season's runners-up, and lost every other game. Against Inter the record offered nothing better: the two meetings on record, both in 2024/25, were 1-0 Inter wins, and Venezia scored in neither.

For Inter, 25 points from nine, no defeats and a goal difference of +15. Last season they won the title on 87 points, about 2.29 a game; this season's rate is 2.78. Nine games do not make this a better Inter than last season's, but the start has given them nothing to recover. Their away record is now three wins and a draw from four.

Venezia stay on three points, with the goal difference down to -13, and remain bottom, since a club in last place that loses cannot climb. One win and eight defeats from nine, and still no draw. With 87 points still available to them nothing is decided mathematically. The more practical measure is distance: the 38 points that kept Lecce up last season would take Venezia another 35 from 29 games, about 1.21 a game, from a side currently averaging a third of a point.

It is one of the late-October fixtures that never got a preview here, because we were not publishing at the time, and there is no pick to measure it against.