{"id":1163993,"date":"2026-02-23T10:35:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163993"},"modified":"2026-02-23T10:35:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T15:35:00","slug":"lecce-0-2-inter-milan-armenian-veteran-breaks-long-serie-a-away-drought-to-open-the-scoring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/lecce-0-2-inter-milan-armenian-veteran-breaks-long-serie-a-away-drought-to-open-the-scoring\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecce 0-2 Inter Milan \u2013 Armenian Veteran Breaks Long Serie A Away Drought To Open The Scoring"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lecce 0-2 Inter Milan \u2013 Armenian Veteran Breaks Long Serie A Away Drought To Open The Scoring<\/p>\n<p><strong>Inter Milan veteran Henrikh Mkhitaryan broke the deadlock in Saturday\u2019s 2-0 Serie A win over Lecce.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcinternews.it\/stats\/mkhitaryan-entra-dalla-panchina-e-sblocca-lecce-inter-il-gol-in-trasferta-mancava-dal-2022-1003275\"><strong>FCInterNews<\/strong><\/a>, it was the 37-year-old\u2019s first away league goal since October 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The Nerazzurri had to wait until the 75th minute to break down Eusebio Di Francesco\u2019s stubborn defense.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, they needed second-half substitute <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2026\/02\/04\/inter-milan-hesitate-offer-henrikh-mkhitaryan-new-contract\/\"><strong>Henrikh Mkhitaryan<\/strong><\/a> to end his long-standing scoring drought in Serie A away games.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, the former Roma star last scored on the road almost four years ago.<\/p>\n<h2>Inter Milan Ace Henrikh Mkhitaryan Ends Serie A Away Drought vs Lecce<\/h2>\n<p>MILAN, ITALY \u2013 JANUARY 23: Henrikh Mkhitaryan of FC Internazionale Milano celebrates scoring his team\u2019s sixth goal during the Serie A match between FC Internazionale and Pisa SC at Giuseppe Meazza Stadium on January 23, 2026 in Milan, Italy. (Photo by Marco Luzzani\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<p>Mkhitaryan has racked up 35 goals and 35 assists in <a href=\"https:\/\/sempreinter.com\/2026\/02\/23\/inter-milan-huge-serie-a-lead-allows-chivu-focus-ucl-duties\/\"><strong>Serie A<\/strong><\/a> since swapping Arsenal for Roma in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>However, the Armenian midfielder has fared much better on home turf, as evidenced by his shockingly long duck on the road.<\/p>\n<p>Still, Mkhitaryan couldn\u2019t have picked a better moment to end it.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, his late heroics set the tone for Inter\u2019s seventh consecutive Serie A victory.<\/p>\n<p>With AC Milan losing to Parma at home yesterday, the Nerazzurri are now ten points clear at the summit.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/lecce-0-2-inter-milan-103500857.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/lecce-0-2-inter-milan-103500857.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lecce 0-2 Inter Milan \u2013 Armenian Veteran Breaks Long Serie A Away Drought To Open The Scoring Inter Milan veteran Henrikh Mkhitaryan broke the deadlock&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1163994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163993","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163993","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163993"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163993\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1163994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163993"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163993"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163993"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}