Inter from Italy, which is captain with the Argentine striker Lautaro Martínezhe won 4-3 to Barcelona in an unforgettable party that was defined in extra time and qualified to the final of the Champions League.
The goals of Inter did Martínez, Hakan Calhanoglu, Francesco Acerbi and Davide Frattesi, while for Barcelona Eric García, Dani Olmo and Raphinha scored.
The meeting began in the best possible way for Inter, which was at the time with a good 2-0 advantage. At 21 minutes he opened the score of Martínez, who arrived among cottons after the injury he suffered in the first leg, defining only after a great collective play that resulted in the assistance of the Dutch Denzel Dumfries.
Martínez himself was in charge of generating the prison that Calhanoglu changed by goal when the first 45 minutes had already been played.
However, Barcelona had a second infernal half, in which he managed to turn the story. First he discounted at eight minutes with a good definition of Garcia, then it was Dani Olmo’s turn at the quarter of an hour, while Raphinha met a rebound at 87 minutes to stamp the 3-2 that seemed to sentence the story.
When everything seemed lost to Inter, Dumfries recovered a ball that seemed lost and attended with a great search for Acerbi, who tied the match at 93 minutes.
With the incredible mood that meant the goal of equality in time fulfilled, Inter came out much more determined to extra time. This is how at 98 minutes Frattesi defined to place for the final 4-3, which gave the classification to the Italian team after one of the best series in the history of the UEFA Champions League.
The Swiss goalkeeper of Inter, Yann Sommer, deserves a separate paragraph, since he saved his team on many occasions with impressive saved.
The other finalist will be known this Wednesday, when Paris Saint-Germain receives Arsenal after having achieved a great triumph as a 1-0 visitor in the first leg.
The Inter will go in search of its fourth title in the UEFA Champions League, after those achieved in 1964, 1965 and 2010. The last time the Italian team reached this instance was in the 2022/23 season, when it fell in the final 1-0 against Manchester City.
Source: Ambito
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