Thirteen goals in the semi-finals of the Champions League, that's a record! Seven years after the 2018 Liverpool-As Rome, the confrontation between FC Barcelona and Inter Milan gave such a prolific cumulative score. The Blaugranas and the Nerazzurri offered an exceptional show. The first leg had been incredible in Montjuïc (3-3), marked by a phenomenal Lamine Yamal; The second meeting was even more demented, with a final victory of the Inter in overtime in a Giuseppe-Meazza in delirium (4-3).
Two years after a 1-0 defeat against the Manchester City of Pep Guardiola, the Inter of Simone Inzaghi offers a second chance in the C1 final, on May 31 in Munich, against the winner of Psg-Arsenal. The collective strength of the interlockers is impressive and will bother any opponent. The Lombarde team is even more defensively experienced, more skillful in the midfield, more dangerous offensively with a powerful Marcus Thuram alongside Lautaro Martinez. And when the goalkeeper Yann Sommer works on his line …
Inter is a team that knows how to do offensively in fast attack, it first led 2-0 in its Milanese lair, as last week in Montjuïc. Lautaro Martinez opened the scoring on a service of the untenable Denzel Dumfries (21st). Then the Argentinian crack was broke by Pau Cubarsi before the penalty transformed into force by Hakan Calhanoglu (45th+1). 2-0 at halftime, the show was just beginning.
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Barça indeed reversed the situation thereafter, first returning to the score on two goals scored in six minutes. On a center of the left side Gerard Martin each time, Eric Garcia (54th) and Dani Olmo (60th) beat Yann Sommer to reset the meters to zero. The formation of Hansi Flick had the control over the meeting, before scoring the possible goal of qualification by Raphinha three minutes from the end of regulation time (87th)!
The rest? An equalization in the additional time of the second period by Francesco Acerbi, mounted at the forefront for the last moments and author of his first LDC goal at the age of 37! What more could you ask for? After a huge work by Marcus Thuram, Davide Frattesi brought the scoring to 4-3 for Inter in a crazy atmosphere (99th). Barça pushed, but Lamine Yamal fell on a Yann Sommer author of an exceptional judgment (114th). Incredible to the end.
