Practically a week for day after the first leg, no one has forgotten. For some, it was a millimeter madjer, for others, Marcus Thuram only marked heel. Everyone then agreed on the Dingo chisel of Denzel Dumfries, the capital response of the soloist Lamine Yamal, the missed output of Wojciech Szczęsny, the goal refused for a toe at Henrikh Mkhital or even the noise of the bar on the brutal goal of the equalization signed Raphinha: This barça-Inter was a masterpiece, football as we see too little. Six days after this football orgy, so we are served the little sister: the rest in a San Siro sold out Ready to serve as hell for the Barcelona, paradise for Nicolò Barella and the rest of the collective Nerazzurri Who will have everything except stolen, in the event of a victory, his place for a second Champions League final in two years.
Inter has the cards in hand to finish the work
It is enough to observe the European course of the army of Simone Inzaghi to understand how immense the task promises to be for Barça. In its legendary arena with 75,000 places, Inter has never lost in Europe this season, whether against Arsenal, Bayern or Feyenoord, where the Barça showed some signs of feverishly outside by losing to Monaco or being scary in Dortmund. Above all, the first leg between the two teams demonstrated that the Inter had fully understood how to hurt this defensive line placed as a row of security gates up to the midline. In addition, the Milanese training has shown that it was not only that a team that knows how to defend well as we still understand it too often on TV sets.
« Lamine Yamal is a phenomenon that is born once every 50 years »
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If Simone Inzaghi has not failed to build praise with Lamine Yamal by speaking of him logically as a “Phenomenon that is born once every 50 years”it would be surprising if the young Barcelona nugget allowed himself a second humiliation in good standing on poor Federico Dimarco far from Catalonia. And this is the risk for Barça: if this team knows how to hurt the adversary extremely well, its defensive generosity in the confirmed absence of its totem Jules Koundé are likely to prove to be too prejudicial at this stage of the competition.
Fifteen years later, has the hour finally arrived?
It is often rumored that at this time of year, it is experience and arriving with a complete workforce that prevails. If the return of Robert Lewandowski is for sure very good news for the Blaugranasthat of Lautaro Martínez is almost essential for Nerazzurri. The Argentinian captain, a great craftsman for the elimination of Bayern in the previous round and a real benchmark for the rest of the Italian eleven, is one of the few to have only this major title to be won at only 27 years old. If it succeeds, there is no doubt that he will become a living God for the worshipers of the stable of Javier Zanetti, the last Italian representative to have raised the C1 in 2010 in a completely different style. An eternity. Fifteen years later, the Inter can therefore restore a real chance to correct this anomaly while sending this signal to the rest of the world: Inter remains inter, and it would be a question of stopping to underestimate it.
Marcus Thuram, at the service of the beautiful
