The story will long remember this semi-final of the Champions League between Barça and Inter Milan. On the outward journey already, the two teams had already offered a crazy show to finally leave each other on a zero score of 3-3, the Milanese having led 2-0 then 3-2 to finally crack at the end of the match.
And last night, the show was even crazier. As in Spain, the men of Simone Inzaghi led 2-0, but the Blaugrana managed to completely overthrow the steam to lead 3-2 at the beginning of additional time. And in this crazy evening, Marcus Thuram’s teammates gave up thanks to Francesco Acerbi at the end of the stoppages, to finally prevail thanks to a realization of Davide Frattesi.
Martinez completely fell in love
An evening that will forever mark the history of the C1, but of which certain moments have escaped the referee of the meeting. If Szymon Marciniak is criticized this morning by the Blaugrana for having potentially forgotten a fault on the equalization of Inter Milan or whistled the penalty on Lautaro Martinez, they forgot a polemical action.
Indeed, Inigo Martinez, the Barcelona defender, was guilty of a more than sanctionable gesture in the first period. While the Milanese had just widen the gap on a penalty transformed by Hakan Calhanoğlu, the Spanish defender seems to have spit on Francesco Acerbi.
-An action that explains why the Italian was crazy with rage just before returning to the locker room. And on videos broadcast on social networks, you can see the Spaniard targeting his opponent with a spit. Behavior that could legitimately have valid an expulsion. And at 10 against 11, at halftime and led 2-0, not sure that Barça would have managed to overturn everything.
A small action that is added to the long list of stories that make this meeting forever mark the history of the Champions League.
To summarize
During a memorable semi-final of the Champions League, Inter Milan beat Barça 4-3 after a dough match 3-3. Led 2-0, Barça overturned the 3-2 scoring before the INT does not equalize and gains in overtime. Arbitration is criticized, especially for an unancotted spit in Inigo Martinez on Acerbi, who could have changed the course of the match.
