Montjuïc shuddered with a monumental match that will remain for the memory of the Champions League. Barça, a spring team, still with the milk teeth, broke with an admirable strength and greatness against Inter, a rival with a lot of trade and fang that plays by heart and has been in search of the European Cup for four years. The meeting was an ode to football in which it was not repaired in the return, but the first leg was raised as if it were Munich’s final. The semifinal is already a gift for a Barca team that has just won the Cup and leads the League. The continental trajectory has been sufficiently fun and successful to awaken the fans of the unforgettable nightmares of Rome, Liverpool and Lisbon and recover the lost reputation in Europe. No one is capable in any case of venturing to spend day 6 in San Siro because after the exercise of courage, pride and good game deployed in the Olympic stadium. To better rivals, greater is the response of a Barcelona squad that does not repair physical or mental spending but its ambition has no limits since the arrival of Flick and the emergence of a 17 -year -old star name Lamine.
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Wojciech Szczesny, Jules Koundé (Eric García, Min. 41), Iñigo Martínez, Gerard Martín (Ronald Araujo, Min. 45), Pau Cubars (Andreas Christensen, Min. 82), Pedri (Gavi, Min. 82), Dani Olmo (Fermín López, Min. 67) Jong, Lamine Yamal, Raphinha y Ferran Torres
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Yann Sommer, Francesco Acerbi, Alessandro Bastoni, Yann Bisseck, Hakan çalhanoglu (Davide Frattesi, min. 70), Federico Dimarco (Carlos Augustus, min. 55), Nicolò Barella, Denzel Dumfries (Matteo Darmian, min. 80), Henrikh Mkhiharyan, Marcus Thuram (Piotr Zielinski, Min. 80) Y lautaro Martínez (Mehdi Taremi, min. 45)
Goals
0-1 min. 0: Marcus Thuram. 0-2 min. 20: Denzel Dumfries. 1-2 min. 23: Lamine Yamal. 2-2 min. 37: Ferrán Torres. 2-3 min. 62: Denzel Dumfries. 3-3 min. 64: Summer
Referee Clément Turpin
Yellow cards
Calhanoglu (min. 58), Cubarsi (min. 69)
The game began in warming when Lamine retired and put Fermín when the coach had sung the same alignment as in Seville. The alarm was deactivated very soon and Barça was able to face Inter with the impulse given by victories such as Saturday against Madrid. The Barça joy lasted less than a minute, the seconds that Thuram took to finish a heel, soon a dumfries center. The precision and elegance of the Italians in the play contrasted with the chain of Barca errors for a bad rejection of Koundé, the slip of Iñigo and the open gap on the flank of Martín. At 30 seconds, Barça lost 0-1.
He congratulated Thuram’s return. He had recovered the goal with the striker after three zero games that have been thrown out of the cup and crackled from series A. In favor of a scoreboard, Inter is very bad enemy, surely the worst for offensive teams such as Barça. The formula of 3-5-2 is a dress to kill for its defensive soul, knowing how to make and be of the midfielders and the claw of two complementary strikers, Lautaro and Thuram, players who download the ball, attack the space and mark goals that tend to be very well managed by the approaches of Inzaghi. The power of the Inter is even greater if the ball plays are added as it was seen at the same time of Dumfries. The side marked a fallen ball from Chilean in Chilean.
Neither 0-1 nor the 0-2 temper the load of Barcelona. There is no rival that surrenders the Catalans, always brave, also against the best inter. To two Ferran shots that licked the Sommer sticks, when the Italian advantage was still minimal, a couple of Lamine anthological plays followed that turned on the Montjuïc pebetero one night. The end won a melee with an athlete like Thuram, he faced Mkhitaryan and crossed the ball to the right stick of Inter: 1-2. Lamine does not need to be compared to Messi or Neymar, nor with Ronaldinho, but at 17 years she competes with her own goals and plays, each one better, few as extraordinary as the one that ended in the crossbar after dismembling Dimarco. Lamine’s magic infected a dazzling Barça.
The game rhythm increased, the shots happened, there were no defensive concessions to Inter but Barca recoveries and the goal was sung at each arrival of Lamine, Raphinha, Olmo and Ferran. The 2-2 later arrived in a beautiful collective play by Pedri’s precise pass, the Raphinha’s head and Ferran’s shot. Only Koundé’s injury broke the Barcelona charm in such a demanding match. Flick rebuked the rear with Eric and then with Araujo replacing Martín. As in the Cartuja, Iñigo returned to the left side while the Inter was careful in possession and depth to explain that it was not confident with the 2-2.
The game was balanced so much that the two teams marked in a corner: 3-3. Dumfries headed the cross ball on Szczesny and Lamine let Raphinha hook a shot to the crossbar that bounced in Sommer. The physical and tactical quality of Inter did not intimidate a Barça that ended up peeled at the door of Inter. Lamine’s last shot gave in the post and let the series continue in Milan. It will be difficult to forget the irreducible character of a Barça that, despite its fragility, excites.
