Barcelona struggled twice from behind to win a 3-3 tie with Inter during the excitement of the first section of the Champions League semifinal Wednesday.
Inter won a two-goal surprise at Lluis Companys Olympic Stadium, while Denzel Dumfries helped Marcus Thuram before scoring, but a Lamine Yamal search and an effort by Ferran Torres brought the Barcelona level before half the time.
Dumfries proceeded to mark his second at night 20 minutes after the restart, but Barcelona responded instantly, as Yann Sommer’s goal himself assured that there is nothing to separate the sides before the decision next week in Italy.
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Between It would have been forgiven for fearing the worst before the trip to Catalonia after three successive defeats without scoring, but unpleasant doubts were silenced only 30 seconds. Thuram, whose father Lilian represented once BarcelonaDumfries’ delivery with a hand to stun the crowd and relieve any concern about their physical form expertly equalized.
Barcelona desperately sought a quick fire equaltor (Torres surpassed his best opportunities), but he soon dropped his wounds as Inter doubled his advantage. The inability of the home side of defending another cross in the penalty box was expensive as Francesco Aerbi won the first contact in the corner, with Dumfries firing an exceptional acrobatic volley beyond Wojciech Szczesny.
The red and blue t -shirts returned to the halfway line, which were damaged by the Inter clinical sample, but Yamal will soon drag them easily to the contest. The 17 -year -old was seen beyond several challenges and produced an impressive finish that adapted to his devastating sprint, dragging on a timely effort inside the post.
Yann Sommer’s carpentry and fingers demonstrated Yamal’s nememas only two minutes later when the crossbar crashed, but Barcelona would get a well -deserved equal before the first half was concluded without breath. Another delicious sequence was proven too much because the Inter’s generally resistant defense stopped, and Torres became six meters after the Raphinha head.
Any fear of a second half abducted after a energy jump was put to rest 20 minutes after the restart. Both goals were breached in quick succession just after the time mark, Dumfries briefly restoring Inter’s advantage with a nearby range head, as Barcelona succumbed to another piece.
However, his advantage extinguished only a minute later, as Barcelona finally benefited from a corner. An impressive routine caught the ball as the ball fixed on the Raphinha road 25 meters from the goal – Yamal, adding another prominent element to its sample with a beautiful mannequin – and the Brazilian poisonous strike left the crossing on the back of Sommer and on the line until the performances.
Inter thought that they had restored their buffer for 15 minutes from time, while Henrikh Mkhitaryan shot at home another fatal installment from the insatiable Dumfrias, but the referee assistant rightly marked out of play, as the replacements showed the foot of the Armenian boot beyond the high line of Barcelona.
Feeling that they would not produce better on the dying embers, Inter retired in an attempt to quell the range of attacking dynamos in Barcelona. The defensive substitutions were effective for the visitors, although the Yamal Cross sweated them when he bounced off at the top of the crossbar for the final five minutes.
Despite their best efforts, Hansi Flick’s men could not find a winning goal to take San Siro for the second stage of next week, and Inter was relieved to move away from Catalonia with a hard tie.
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This was the Champions League football at the best.
There were concerns before the shot that the Battle on Wednesday would only be attack and defense, as the hosts sought to overflow their stubborn visitors, but the opening of the score after 30 seconds, certainly, saw that these fears evaporated. Early effort stunned all in Catalonia, regardless of its alliances and set the pace for an exciting evening.
The second of Inter only served Iger Barcelona, who proceeded to pour his arsenal to visitors. Yamal turned on and the supporting support of Raphinha, Dani Olmo and Torres began to make things happen. In what he felt a matter of seconds, it was 2-2.
While the levels of energy, rather surprisingly, fell a little after the restart, both parties still served some magic. Inter was a threat consisting of the counterattack, while the individual brightness of Barcelona was a joy to contemplate.
The Champions League rarely entertained in the last stages and Wednesday was another memory of the attractiveness of the competition.
Yamal reformulated comparisons with Lionel Messi during his pre-party media functions. “I don’t compare myself to him, because I don’t compare myself with anyone,” the teenager said. But these questions were not surprising, as he marked his hundredth appearance in Barcelona on Wednesday evening, surpassing Messi and others to become the fastest to reach a century for the Barça player.
A scare of injuries threatened to delay its milestone, but it quickly proposed to produce Messi-Esque performance. The eight Golden Ballon Cop, would have been immensely proud of the first jump of Yamal Scorcher, a Dribble Magès coincided with a prominent ending, which made him the youngest scorer in a semi -final of the Champions League.
Yamal’s effervescence was infectious and his companions soon increased their standards. However, the eyes around the stadium remained hooked at 19 in Barcelona.
It was proposed throughout the contest and was unfortunate only to move away with a lonely goal in its name, twice by hitting the carpentry and repeatedly tormenting Federico Dimarco, who was withdrawn before the time mark. The Italian return was not alone to endure an evening punished in the hands of Yamal, who produced another amazing exhibition on the great stage.
Barcelona’s ridiculous line has been the source of much debate this season, but it was their difficulties in defending the crosses that will happen under the microscope after a Wednesday relationship. The two efforts of the first half came from large deliveries, and the hosts did not have the size and physical to combine Italians.
Thuram turned Kounde’s unconvincing place, as Thuram was converted into a nearby cross, while no in the middle of central Barcelona managed to effectively challenge aerbium from the corner that forged the second of the visitors. Pedri will also set on fire for Ducking Dumfries’s scissors.
Things also did not improve in the second half. The exceptional Dumfrias came out again from a corner, as Barcelona did not coincide with the power of his career and his jump, while the strictest out of place prevented the Dutch from attending Mkhitaryan with another mocking cross.
Inter will be eager to exploit the aerial weaknesses of Barcelona in the inverse apparatus and show that they have the tools at their disposal to make it exactly.
Dumfries has been a remarkable absent for Inter during recent encounters and Wednesday marked his return to the starting line after a mishap of injuries. International Netherlands’ lung races were decisive in Catalonia and Gerard Martin was helpless to avoid it in the first half, while even a defensive rehabilitation in the middle of the time failed to affect its usefulness.
A player in the match show was compatible with two goals and assistance, the first of the first to show his amazing agility, and Barcelona has to find a way to silence it in San Siro. Will be desperate to see Alejandro Balde returns from injury Just in time for the final battle of flying.
It is not uncommon for the three -goals to contribute to the striker for star Lautaro Martinez. The Argentine Terrier has been crucial in Nerazzurri Champions League career, marking the two clashes with Bayern Munich in the quarterfinals and the last 16 against Feyenoord.
But Simone Inzghi may have to demand a similar production from his other attacking threats on his return after Martinez was demolished in Barcelona, withdrawn in the middle and headed to Mehdi Taremi, an incredibly different proposal.
Martinez made a smile as he put on the contact line for treatment in the first half, apparently the South -American adjusted to his leg under low pressure. Its absence could be catastrophic in Inter hunting for a champion league baga next week.
