After the real ode to football offered last Wednesday in Barcelona (3-3), we secretly hoped that the show would be great again for this return match. It was even even better.
This is why we must thank these two totally different but oh so delicious teams that have brought us football again to the rank of art. With different tools. first for Inter: his courage, his physique, his intensity, his discipline, his accuracy and his tactical mastery. And three players to illustrate it: Denzel Dumfries, Lautaro Martinez and Franceso Acerbi.
The first, already three times decisive in the first leg (two goals, an assist), still played the engine role of counterattacks. It is he who offers the ball from 1-0 to Lautaro Martinez (21st). The latter had to show the example with his armband around the arm. And it was he who went to provoke the penalty of 2-0, transformed by Calhanoglu (45th). For its part, Acerbi led by a master of the Defense Nerazzuri with the Barcelona assaults (before succeeding in a miracle in the 90th+4).
Handlestive and end of the crazy match
Barça has nevertheless been able to respond with its own assets. Speed, technique, passion, audacity and selflessness. And also, astonishment, a quality aerial game. This is how two centers of Gerard Martin allowed Eric Garcia (54th: 2-1) then Olmo (60th: 2-2) to overthrow the meeting. Like in the first leg.
-The good news is that we could expect an equally crazy end of the meeting. We were not disappointed. With first two twists and turns. That of the Barcelona Captain Raphinha who thought he had done the hardest by going to register 2-3 just before additional time (88th). Then that of Acerbi, out of nowhere, who went to plant-like an attacker-3-3 after additional time.
Direction therefore the extensions with a new impetus in favor of the Inter, which materialized by the superb finish of Frattes – already decisive in the quarter -finals against Bayern – to make 4-3 (99th). It was then necessary to stick your elbows in defense and rely on two huge stops by Yann Sommer so that the Spaniards will no longer return.
We do not yet know who will succeed Pope Francis. On the other hand, the Milanese conclave has already found its heroes, who therefore meet PSG or Arsenal on May 31 in Munich.
