Five goals has conceded Barça de Flick in the last two games. And four have been stopped: the lack of Mbappé and the header of Tchouámeni, at the exit of a corner, in the final of the Cup. Three marked the Inter in Montjuïc in the semifinal of the Champions League, who achieved a treasure also in this type of actions. Two corners launched the Italian team and two goals: 0-2 and 2-3 of Dumfries, proof of Barca weakness, which fought through a luminous game guided by the creativity of Lamine Yamal.
Dumfries marks the 0-2 of Inter at the exit of a corner against Barça in Montjuïc. / Jordi Cotrina
In 20 minutes, Barça de Flick fit two goals. The problem was not that 0-2 but felt vulnerable because Inter knew how to rummage into the wound that left Gerard Martín's back. Up to two centers needed dumfries, a physical portent, to find Marcus Thuram, who invented a monumental heel to silence Montjuïc. Just 30 seconds of a night that should be historical. And 0-1 for the Italian team.
The wound would be even greater when in a corner kick, missed throughout the Barca structure, up to two auctions were allowed within the Szczesny area. An Acerbi header was the prologue of the Chilean acrobatics of Dumfries, already in the small area, to seal the 0-2. Chaos was coming. Up to two goals received the Flick team in two corner kicks. One in the first part; another, in the second.
Lamine Yamal starts an attack play at Barça-Inter in Montjuïc. / Jordi Cotrina
Barça chaos could only be fought from the genius of Lamine Yamal, transformed by one night into an almost perfect merger of Messi+Neymar. But, in reality, it was simply Lamine, qualified by the Italian newspaper 'La Gazzetta dello Sport' as “the wrath of God.” From nowhere an extraordinary goal was invented that stripped Inter of those tons of confidence acquired by Thuram and Dumfries. He created a 'Messian' goal undressing a battalion of Italian players, who were stunned.
Montjuïc lit a 17 -year -old teenager and then the draw arrived through the collective game thanks to an action with 14 passes in which up to nine players intervened, all but Szczesny and Lamine. Until the ball, delicate and precise of Pedri, hit Raphinha's head, which attended Ferran Torres.
Barça players serve Koundé after the muscle injury he suffered in the first half against Inter. / EFE / ALEJANDRO GARCÍA
Montjuïc was passionate when Jules Koundés asked for change. He sat on the lawn of the Olympic mountain claiming to be replaced because he could no longer continue. The hero of the Cup burst, physically squeezed after an endless season. He left all his energy in the Cartuja when he stole that ball before he reached Brahim's feet. Then he scored the goal of his life.
He endured 42 minutes until his muscles burst. He is the most used player by Flick during this campaign to the point that he had played 4,423 minutes in nine strenuous months. But his muscles burst in the semifinal of the Champions League.
Barça players, after the 0-2 of Inter in Montjuïc. / Jordi Cotrina
With Koundé's injury, Flick ordered Eric García to end up the first half playing with three centrals. Gerard Martín remained on the left flank, but lasted little in the field because another change was lived in the break. He removed the coach from the young left -handed side because he took Araujo, so he resigned the entire defense. He placed the Uruguayan central on the right -hand flank, displaced Pau Cubarsí as a left -handed central and cornered Iñigo Martínez, as happened in the final minutes of the Cup final, as a left -handed side. That is, Flick ended up playing with four centrals and without his two titular sides since Balde has been injured for days and Koundé fell on the night of 3-3.
Even Christensen appeared, who did not play since last August.
