13 goals, a succession of reversals of situation and an extension as an outcome … The Champions League has just experienced one of the most memorable semi-finals in its history and it was the Inter who came out of it, Tuesday May 6. Passed by all the emotions in front of a domineering Barça, the Milanese club ended up exulting in front of its audience in San Siro, after extension (4-3, after 3-3 of the first leg).
He could thank his defender Francesco Acerbi, who snatched the extension in the 93rd minute when Barça had just spent 0-2 to 3-2. Present to cut a center on the ground of Denzel Dumfries, the 37 -year -old Italian chose the best time to score the first goal of his career in C1.
Inter was then able to count on other heroes in overtime, including its replacements. Coming into play in the 79th minute, Davide Prattesi gave the last word to His team scoring the goal of 4-3 (99th) on a delivery of another entrant, Mehdi Taremi. On this goal, it will be necessary to credit the work of French Marcus Thuram, whose name has not blackens the stat, but whose impact and the game of corps did a lot of good at Inter.
The other strong man of this high -tension end of the match will remain Yann Sommer. The Swiss goalkeeper, author of seven stops and appointed man of the match by UEFA, sounded the Glas du Barça a few minutes before the final whistle by leaving the frame a superb rolled strike from the Lamine Yamal prodigy (114th).
-FC Barcelona has lost everything when the hardest one seemed to have been done. Led 2-0 as in the ALLLER match, Hansi Flick players had still found the resources to pick up. Eric Garcia (53rd) and Dani Olmo (60th) had responded to the opening of the score of Lautaro Martinez (21st) and the station wagon signed Hakan Calhanoglu on penalty (45th). Above all, Raphinha had ended up giving the advantage to the Barça at the very end of the match by resuming twice against Sommer (88th), concretizing the domination of his team (71% possession, 22 shots at 13 at the end of the match).
But the Inter is a prowled team, seven of the titular players on Tuesday evening were already in the final of C1 lost against Manchester City (0-1) two years ago. The formation of Simone Inzaghi resisted the Lamine Yamal threat, elusive a week earlier in Montjuic. In the other sense, she took advantage Spaces left by the very high defensive line of Barça.
Inter waiting to know if he will face Paris Saint-Germain or Arsenal in the final on May 31 in Munich. The Nerazzuri will try to win the fourth coronation of their history in C1, fifteen years after the last, obtained under orders José Mourinho.
