Inter's wild comeback has Serie A talking

Inter's collapse that wasn't

Going 0-2 down to Napoli should have been the story of Inter's weekend for the wrong reasons. Instead, Cristian Chivu's side turned it into the opposite: a 3-2 win that Football Italia's Monday papers are already framing as the start of a genuine rivalry between the two clubs. On Sunday, Inter looked like a team that trusted itself to chase a game most sides would have written off by half-time.

Roma managed something similar elsewhere in the round, mounting their own comeback in a result Italian papers lumped in with Inter's as evidence that this early Serie A season refuses to sit still. Neither result was a smash-and-grab. Both were sides going behind, staying calm, and finding a way back into it in front of their own fans.

Fabregas has Como playing above themselves

While the big two grabbed the comeback headlines, Cesc Fabregas has quietly turned Como into one of the stories of the opening weeks. Italian papers are now talking about Fabregas and Como in the same breath as the traditional heavyweights, which is not a sentence Serie A has produced very often in recent seasons. It is early, and early tables lie, but a club that spent years bouncing around the lower divisions doesn't usually get mentioned alongside Inter and Napoli by accident.

Juventus and Milan cancel each other out

The weekend's other headline fixture, Juventus against Milan, delivered plenty of tension and not much clarity. Football Italia's coverage points to Matteo Gatti as the man who eased some of the pressure building around Luciano Spalletti at Juventus, in a game the papers describe as falling short of the spectacle either side needed. Spalletti has arrived at a club that does not do patience particularly well, and a result that keeps the wolves at bay for another week matters when the alternative headlines write themselves.

It is September, and the table barely means what it will mean in May. But Inter coming from behind twice against Napoli, Roma doing the same elsewhere, Como sitting level with the traditional heavyweights under Fabregas, and a Juventus-Milan derby settled by a single Gatti moment: that is the state of Serie A after one wild round.