The Italian and Spanish media greet the huge match between Inter and FC Barcelona (4-3, AP) on Tuesday in San Siro, in the semi-final return of the Champions League. The superlatives are out and the words of love too.
There is certainly a share of bitterness against arbitration and the deep disappointment of the camp of the vanquished. But the fantastic scenario of the semi-final between Inter Milan and FC Barcelona (3-3 on the outward journey, 4-3 AD on return) causes a flood of inflamed items this Wednesday morning in the Italian and Spanish press. In Italy, the Gazzetta dello Sport, the most read sports daily in the boot, celebrates an “inter mythical” in one of its edition of the day. And complain about the too eager Lombard fans who left the spans of Giuseppe-Meazza at 2-3 to avoid traffic jams.
“The imprint of the old alumni in the magic night”
“Inter supporters who left the stadium in the 90th minute, tired and discouraged, have lost a pure life fragment that they will never recover,” says the newspaper that uses the Hollywood metaphor to tell this film in several acts. “The keystone of a first cinematographic half is a combination of eleven letters: electricity,” says the newspaper. She did not leave the evening stadium.
“Yamala”, exclaims the Corriere dello Sport, in reference to the Catalan prodigy Lamine Yamal, still brilliant if not decisive and out of the Champions League at the gates of the final. An unexpected hero takes his place on the cover, Davide Frattesi with his ecstatic eyes to celebrate his goal of victory. The Repubblica lingers on “the imprint of the great elders in the magic night of 4-3” by linger on Francesco Acerbi, an unlikely author of the equalization in additional time and 19 years older than Lamine Yamal.
-The newspaper recalls its victory against testicles cancer detected in 2013 after its signature in Sassuolo. “After that, Barça is not scary,” added the journalist. Goalkeeper Yann Sommer, author of several miraculous judgments, is also one of the tauliers who shone. “Summer, the dream attracture like Julio Cesar on Messi in 2010”, compares Tutto Sport. That year, Inter won his third and last Champions League.
In Spain, the mood is less joyful but just as hallucinated by these crazy scenarios of a double confrontation with thirteen goals. “What a proud team”: Sport applauds the men of Hansi Flick, capable of going on a disability of two goals against Inter and very close to the perfect blow. “He missed a minute,” said Marca, referring to Acerbi’s goal in the 93rd. Same remark but different chronometer for AS: “He missed two minutes”.
“The largest semi-final in the Champions League of all time”
In Catalonia, newspapers raise their hat to the glory of Lamine Yamal partners. “Epic farewells”, title Mundo Deportivo with a photo of Lamine Yamal, lying on the ground. “Barça falls in Milan and lets the grand finale escape after playing a superb match led by a stratospheric lamin,” greets the newspaper.
The match fascinated all of Europe. And the Daily Mail, English media, sums up the general feeling well: “it was a glorious and filtering madness – the greatest semi -final of the Champions League of all time”.
