After an unbreakable semi-final return to the improbable scenario, Inter Milan came to the end of FC Barcelona (4-3 AP, 3-3 in the first leg) and will play on May 31 its second Champions League final in three years.
Six days after an incandescent and spectacular first round, then considered one of the most beautiful matches of the year, Inter and Barça made even stronger. Even more crazy, by far.
Their second duel may never have reached the technical heights of the outward, illuminated by the genius strokes of the Lamine Yamal phenomenon.
But they undoubtedly wrote one of the most memorable pages in the history of competition after 120 minutes of rare intensity and twists and turns to make supporters of the two teams crazy.
History will remember that the Italian international Davide Drattesi is the one who sealed this double gluttony confrontation in goals (13!) And suspense in the 99th minute.
Before he offered the victory at Inter, Barça thought he had won his ticket for the Munich final with a goal scored in the 87th minute.
Yamal extinguished
But it is indeed the Nerazzurri who will try to offer themselves against Paris SG or Arsenal a fourth Champions League and to erase the disillusionment of the 2023 final lost little against Manchester City (1-0).
In the first period, the device put in place by Simone Inzaghi worked perfectly and the Inter extinct Yamal with an intransigent double marking.
On his first acceleration, in the 4th minute, the 17 -year -old prodigy understood that he was going to spend a difficult evening: Federico Dimarco whom he had wrung and disgusted on the outward journey, was responsible for informing him with a rough tackle.
A few seconds later, a first opportunity by Nicolo Barella with a half-volley cover, after a sombrero, pushed back, in two stages, by Wojciech Szczesny (20), the Inter opened the brand.
Dimarco intercepted a Catalan recovery and immediately launched in depth Denzel Dumfries. The Dutch community, untenable since his return from injury and author of two of the three Milanese goals on the outward journey, served impeccably Lautaro Martinez, alone in the area, for his ninth goal of the season in the Competition-Reine (21).
The Argentinian captain of Inter was however uncertain until Monday because of a thigh injury that had shorted his semi-final to go.
The inter disassessing
But retailed in fourth speed by the Inter medical staff of the Inter, he was also behind the second goal of his team in the 42nd minute when he went to the goal before being tackled from behind by Pau Cubarsi.
After consulting the Var, the referee granted a penalty to the Inter who was transformed by the great specialist in the exercise, Hakan çalhanoglu, taking Szczesny.
After the break, Inter players quickly disillusioned.
It was first Eric Garcia, forgotten in the penalty area that reduced the mark of a superb volley of the right foot (54).
Six minutes later, on a free kick from Gerard Martin, Dani Olmo equalized.
Inter, at the Abois, is saved by his goalkeeper Yann Sommer, already decisive in the 54th minute: the Swiss goalkeeper has deflected a rolled strike from the left foot of Yamal who spun in her skylight (77).
In the 87th minute, he interposed a first time against Raphinha, but the ball returned to the feet of the Brazilian who cheated on at close range, thinking that he had scored the goal of qualification.
But at the end of additional time, Inter Milan torn the equalization by taking advantage of an error of Gerard Martin: the inevitable dumfries recovered the ball to serve perfectly the Francesco Acerbi veteran, who, like a center-forward, exploded San Siro, with his right foot.
And in overtime, in the rain, Frattesi, served by Mehdi Taremi, has entered the story of a strike from a left and put San Siro in a trance. For eternity.
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