Five points clear. Three to play. Do the maths.

The goal that probably wins Inter the title

A Hakan Çalhanoğlu set-piece, a Lautaro Martínez header, a 1-0 win over Roma at the San Siro. It wasn't elaborate. It didn't need to be. Inter have spent the better part of this season finding the exact minimum required to keep moving forward, and against Roma that minimum was a single, clean, well-worked goal from two of their most trusted operators.

Çalhanoğlu delivered. Martínez attacked the ball. The net moved. Job done.

The maths

Five points with three games remaining is the kind of buffer that lets a manager sleep. One of those three fixtures is at home to Parma. Inter could, in theory, lose their next two and still be champions if results go their way — but they won't need to rely on that. They are the better side. They have been all season.

Inzaghi has said very little publicly this week. He didn't have to.

What Roma brought

Roma were not embarrassing. They were organised, they were competitive, and they made Inter work for large stretches of a game that could have gone differently with a bit more clinical edge in the final third. But Inter's defensive structure held, as it almost always does in games like this — tight, compact, deeply uninterested in giving anything away.

One goal was always going to be enough. It was.

Where this leaves everyone

For Inter, the finishing line is visible and close. For the rest of Serie A, the season is now essentially a conversation about second place. Martínez has been the difference-maker at the sharpest of moments all campaign — this header, in this game, against a side with nothing to lose, might be the one they show on the trophy-lift montage.