The only goal of the match was scored by Mauro Icardi, best striker of Series A last season and which puts Roberto Mancini’s team at the top of the leader board.

Eight points ahead of Juventus F.C. , quadruple champions, Inter Milan’s chances are looking good for the championship. Roberto Mancini however is a canny tactician and knows that there is still a long way to go: “The title? It’s not being first now that matters but being first at the end of the season. You remember Rome who took the first six matches last season but who finished way behind Juventus in the end? We don’t want to hide ourselves away but you never know who will clinch the title. Of course, I’m happy but it’s at the end of the season that we should be talking about the Scudetto.”

Roberto Mancini has been a Partner of the Richard Mille brand since 2013. An ex-professional footballer himself, he is six times Italian champion, was elected best Italian championship player twice, double-winner of the European Cup Winners’ Cup as well as the UEFA Super Cup. In his role as trainer for Inter Milan, he has won the Italian championship in 2006, 2007 and 2008.

After leading Manchester City to victory in the English championship in 2012 and then Galatasaray to victory in 2014 in the Turkey Cup, Roberto Mancini chose to move to Inter Milan mid-season last year to help them move up the rankings.

Richard Mille, who worked with him to develop the RM 11-01 Roberto Mancini, an automatic flyback chronograph which tracks game time, wishes him well as a trainer for the season 2015-2016 which has got off to promising start but also supports him as a friend whose name is being associated with the possible future role of official trainer of the Italian national team.