The hosts enjoyed a superb victory as the Slovenian scored two excellent goals, with the visitors wasting a number of gilt-edged chances on Sunday evening in Verona
Inter made a poor start to life under Frank de Boer as they slumped to a 2-0 defeat at Chievo in their Serie A opener courtesy of Valter Birsa's second-half double.
The former Ajax boss, appointed following Roberto Mancini's departure earlier this month, only took charge of one friendly in pre-season, and his side looked like one who had endured a chaotic summer with a sub-standard performance.
Birsa's cool strike opened the scoring - the first goal Inter have conceded on the opening weekend of a league campaign since Luis Muriel netted for Lecce in 2011 - and the same man added a second from distance with nine minutes remaining.