ROME: Leonardo made a dream debut as Inter Milan manager as fellow Brazilian Thiago Motta scored twice in a 3-1 win over Napoli Thursday. Leonardo replaced Rafa Benitez over the Italian league's holiday break and the victory was Inter's first in Serie A since November. Perhaps more importantly, Inter showed the same flare and goalscoring ability it had last season en route to a historic treble. “I don't want to talk too much just because we won one game, but we beat a good team that was second in the standings,” Leonardo said. Thiago Motta put Inter in front with a volley from the edge of the area three minutes in at the San Siro. After Michele Pazienza equalized for Napoli in the 25th, Esteban Cambiasso restored Inter's lead with a soaring header in the 37th and Thiago Motta added the third with a header in the 55th. Inter remained in seventh place, 13 points behind leader and city rival AC Milan, which edged Cagliari 1-0 earlier with an 85th-minute goal from Rodney Strasser. However, Inter has two games to make up that it missed while winning the Club World Cup last month. Madrid, Atletico thru In Madrid, a second-half burst of goals saw Villarreal rally from a two-goal deficit Thursday for a 4-2 win over Valencia that put it into the quarterfinals of the Copa del Rey. Villarreal plays defending champion Sevilla in the last eight of the domestic cup competition while Atletico Madrid will face city rival Real Madrid after a 2-1 aggregate win over Espanyol. Real Madrid lost to Levante 2-0 but still easily advanced to the last eight for the first time in five years, 8
