A quick search in Italy’s main sports newspaper and the main Spain shortly after Inter Milan X Barcelona’s final whistle, on Tuesday night (6), offered a good portrait of what was the confrontation, valid for the Champions League semifinals. “Epic night,” said La Gazzetta Dello Sport. “Maximum cruelty to Barça,” the brand described.
The teams had a hallucinating clash of multiple twists in both matches. The first ended in a draw by 3-3. The second, held on Tuesday (6), in Milan, was decided only in extension, a 4 to 3 in favor of the owners of the house, to the delirium of the fans at the Giuseppe Meazza stadium.
The roller coaster-style duel started with the dominant interplay, 2-0 in the first half. Barcelona returned with another face to the final stage and turned on 42 minutes. Then Yamal still hit the post, in what would have been the fatal blow. The ball did not enter, and the Italian formation survived: tied in additions and turned in extra time.
The 17 -year -old Yamal left the field desolate, comforted even by the opponents. His companion Eric García had a similar countenance. “I don’t know what’s wrong with this stadium. For one reason or another, things don’t work for us,” said the defender, who, like coach Hansi Flick, complained about the referee’s decisions.
Polish Symon Marciniak marked an contested penalty for Inter after consultation with the video. Also after consultation with the video, he annulled a penalty he had scheduled for Barcelona. In a gesture with his hands that will be one of the images of the clash for posterity, showed that the infraction in Yamal had been very shortly outside the area.
On the other hand, no one talked about arbitration.
“It is not possible to explain. It’s amazing,” said the man who defined the scoring, nine minutes into the first extra half, Davide Frattesi. “I was lucky to have finished the match because I screamed so much at the time of the goal that everything was black. I almost faint, my heart was coming out of the chest. It was an amazing emotion.”
