Barcelona fought twice from behind for a 3: 3 draw with Inter during the exciting first leg of her semi-finals in the Champions League on Wednesday.
Inte Inter at Estati Olimpic Lluis Companys with two goals, Denzel Dumfries Marcus Thuram supported the goal, but a scorcher from Lamine Yamal and a near-area effort by Ferran Torres brought Barcelona-Level before half.
Dumfries scored his second evening in the second evening 20 minutes after the restart, but Barcelona reacted immediately when Yann Sommer’s own goal ensured that nothing separated the pages in front of the decider in Italy next week.
How the game unfolds
Inter would be forgiven that after three consecutive defeats without points, he feared the worst before her trip to Catalonia, but all nagging doubts were silenced after only 30 seconds. Thuram, whose father Lilian once represented Barcelona, made a professional delivery with a clever film with a skillful film to numb the home quantity and to eliminate all the concerns about his fitness.
Barcelona desperately searched for a quick balance – Torres, who opened her best chances – but soon remained her wounds when Inter doubled her advantage. The inability of the home team to defend another cross into the penalty area proved to be expensive when Francesco Acerbi won the first contact at a corner. Dumfries shot an extraordinary acrobatic volley about Wojciech Szczesny.
Red and blue shirts trudged back into half time, shocked by Inters Clinical Representation, but Yamal would soon go back to the competition alone. The 17-year-old slalom left over several challenges and produced an astonishing finish that was appropriate to his devastating sprint and rolled up a precise effort from the inside of the post.
The woodwork and the fingertips from Yann Sommer demonstrated Yamal’s Nemesis just two minutes later when he collapsed against the crossbar, but Barcelona would earn a deserved compensation before a breathless first half ended. Another delightful sequence turned out to be too much so that the normally resistant defense could last, with Torres converted from six meters to Raphinha’s head.
All fears of a subdued second half after the first energy occurrence were put to rest 20 minutes after the restart. Both goals were injured in a quick episode shortly after the hour brand, and Dumfries restored Inter’s interview with a header nearby when Barcelona succumbed to another set piece.
However, their lead was deleted only a minute later when Barcelona finally benefited from a corner. An impressive routine that caught a nickering when the ball in the way of Raphinha 25 meters from the goal Lasorte – Yamal added another highlight with a nice dummy – and the poisonous strike by the Brazilianer stormed the cross bar on the back of summer and over the line on level process.
Inter thought that they had restored their buffer 15 minutes before the time when Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot another deadly delivery from the insatiable dumb fries, but the deputy referee rightly marked the side than the repetitions showed that the Armenians’ toe went beyond Barcelona’s high line.
You would feel that you would not produce better in the dying embers and withdraw to suffocate Barcelona’s attack disc from Dynamos. Defensive substitutions turned out to be effective for visitors, although Yamals sweated them away from the cross, when it bounced off the top of the crossbar in the last five minutes.
Despite their best efforts, the men from Hansi Flick were unable to win a profit for San Siro for the back of the next week, and the interests were easy to get relieved to come from Catalonia with a highly competitive draw.
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Before the start, there were concerns that the fight on Wednesday would only be an attack against the defense because the hosts wanted to overwhelm their stubborn visitors, but Inter certainly opened the rating after 30 seconds that they evaporated. The early efforts fascinated everything in Catalonia, regardless of their loyalities and set the pace for an exciting evening.
Inters second served Anger Barcelona, who put her arsenal against her visitors. Yamal lit and the supportive occupation of Raphinha, Dani Olmo and Torres began to make things happen. In a question of seconds it was 2-2.
While the energy levels surprisingly dropped a bit after the restart, both sides still served some magic. Inter was a consistent threat to the counterattack, while Barcelona’s individual brilliance was a pleasure to see himself.
The Champions League rarely talks in the last phase and on Wednesday there was a further memory of the attraction of the competition.
Yamal refused to compare with Lionel Messi during his media tasks before the game. “I don’t compare myself with him because I don’t compare myself to someone,” the teenager confirmed. However, such questions were not surprising, since he marked his 100th Barcelona appearance on Wednesday evening – Messi and others than the fastest to reach La Blaugrana for a century.
An injury frightening in warming up threatened to delay his milestone excursion, but quickly started to create a messie performance. The eight-time balloon d’Or-Sieger would be extremely proud of Yamals Scorcher in the first half, a Mazy Dribble that corresponds to an outstanding finish that made him recent goal shooters in a semi-finals of the Champions League.
Yamal’s excitement proved to be contagious and his teammates soon rose according to his standards. However, the eyes around the stadium remained glued according to Barcelonas No. 19.
Throughout the competition, he purred and was unhappy to only step into his name with a lonely goal, to meet the woodwork twice and to repeat Federico Dimarco – which was withdrawn before the hour. The Italian wing back was not alone when it enabled a classic evening through Yamal, which produced another amazing display on the big stage.
Barcelona’s ridiculously high line was the source of many debates this season, but it was their difficulties to defend crosses that will be under the microscope after the affair on Wednesday. Both efforts by Inter Inter Inter are broad deliveries, whereby the hosts were missing the size and physicality to meet the Italians.
Counds not convincing Clearance played a role at Inters Opener as a cross-post cross, which was converted by Thuram, while none of the Barcelona Center-Half managed to effectively challenge acerbi from the corner that had forged the second of the visitor. Pedri is also under fire because he poured Dumfries’ Scherenkick.
It didn’t get any better in the second half. The extraordinary dumb fries met again from a corner when Barcelona did not match the power of his run and jump, while the closest descents prevented the Dutch from supporting Mkhitaryan on another teasing cross.
Inter will endeavor to take advantage of Barcelona’s air swirls in the reverse lamp, and they have proven that they are available via the tools to do exactly that.
Dumfries was a remarkable absence for Inter in the last encounters and marked his return to the starting line -up after a setback of injuries. The Lung Busing runs of the Netherlands internationally proved to be crucial in Catalonia, and Gerard Martin was helpless to prevent him in the first half, while even a defensive redesign at half-time had not affected its benefit.
A player of the game was ended by two goals and a template, the first of the former to demonstrate his amazing mobility, and Barcelona has to find a way to silence him in San Siro. After the ultimate battle of flying the flying of flying the fly of the flying of the full -back, they are desperately returning from the injury.
It is rare that Inter scores three goals without a contribution by Star striker Lautaro Martinez. The Argentine terrier was of crucial importance in the Nerazzurri Champions League run and achieved in the quarter-finals and in the last 16 against Feyenoord in both collisions with Bavaria Munich.
But Simone Inzaghi may have to request a similar production of his other attack threats in the back leg after Martinez injured in Barcelona, withdrawn at half -time and downgraded to Mehdi Taremi – an incredible other suggestion.
Martinez distorted when he limped into the touch late in the first half for treatment. The South America seemed to be optimized in his leg under little pressure. His absence could prove to be catastrophic at Inters after a Champions League final.