{"id":351700,"date":"2025-08-17T13:21:20","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:21:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351700\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T13:21:20","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T13:21:20","slug":"france-croatia-stars-stand-out-in-final-inter-milan-warm-up-friendly-vs-olympiacos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/351700\/","title":{"rendered":"France &#038; Croatia Stars Stand Out In Final Inter Milan Warm-Up Friendly Vs Olympiacos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Marcus Thuram and Petar Sucic were among the standouts for <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter<\/a> Milan in their 2-0 friendly win over Olympiacos yesterday.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the view in today\u2019s print edition of Milan-based newspaper Gazzetta dello Sport, via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcinternews.it\/rassegna\/i-gds-i-inter-olympiacos-chivu-piu-prudente-e-ritrova-thuram-sucic-regista-forse-e-presto-ma-col-torino-989277\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">FCInterNews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2025\/08\/16\/would-inter-milan-selling-benjamin-pavard-be-own-goal\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Inter Milan<\/a> beat Olympiacos in a friendly match yesterday evening.<\/p>\n<p>This was the Nerazzurri\u2019s final friendly match before the start of the Serie A season. They take on Torino in their league opener on Monday, August 25th.<\/p>\n<p>Inter beat Greek giants Olympiacos 2-0 in their final friendly match of the season.<\/p>\n<p>Wingback Federico Dimarco scored the Nerazzurri\u2019s opener in the friendly win. Subsequently, striker Marcus Thuram wrapped up the win with a goal in the second half.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the other end of the pitch <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Inter<\/a> managed to keep a clean sheet.<\/p>\n<p>This will be a good sign for coach Cristian Chivu, appointed at the start of the summer.<\/p>\n<p>CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA \u2013 JUNE 30: Petar Sucic #8 of FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale<\/a> Milano passes the ball during the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 round of 16 match between FC <a href=\"https:\/\/onefootball.com\/en\/team\/inter-16\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Internazionale<\/a> Milano and Fluminense FC at Bank of America Stadium on June 30, 2025 in Charlotte, North Carolina. (Photo by Michael Reaves\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>According to the Gazzetta, one of the players who really shone yesterday was striker Marcus Thuram.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, there was the fact that the Frenchman scored.<\/p>\n<p>However, more than that, there was a sharpness evident in Thuram\u2019s play.<\/p>\n<p>This was a positive sign considering the truthfully very underwhelming 2025 the Frenchman has had so far.<\/p>\n<p>Thuram has looked to be struggling with fitness for much of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Then, there was the adjustment to Cristian Chivu\u2019s intense training methods.<\/p>\n<p>However, the new coach appears to have unlocked something in Thuram.<\/p>\n<p>Then, the Gazzetta name midfielder Petar Sucic as particularly impressing. The Croatian international looked fairly comfortable at the base of midfield.<\/p>\n<p>However, Sucic will still need more seasoning before he can really dictate from holding midfield.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Marcus Thuram and Petar Sucic were among the standouts for Inter Milan in their 2-0 friendly win over&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":351701,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5309],"tags":[2000,299,36],"class_list":{"0":"post-351700","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-france","8":"tag-eu","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-france"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115044318154322250","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351700"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351700\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351701"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}