He Barça reserved nine headlines in the League and the Inter He took ten. Barça won in the first (1-2) colist field and preserved its advantage at the head of the table and interlected Hellas Verona, saved from the descent (1-0), to continue pressing Naples and recover the leadership. With the virtual recovery of the two nueves of each team –Lautaro He trained for the first time with the group and Robert Lewandowski entered the call-, The coordinates of the next battle are already drawn. With nothing negative than distort them. Not even the injured, although the absences of Jules Koundé and Alejandro Balde deprive Barça of their titular sides.
“We have to enjoy a Champions semifinal”, Hansi Flick proclaimed, cutting practically the motto that left coined Johan Cruyff In Wembley's locker room in 1992. It is now “a great opportunity to reach the final”, an extraordinary event that the German coach values, although he already played them in 2020 with Bayern. Barça said goodbye a year earlier, in 2019, with A thunderous batacazo when falling 4-0 in Liverpool, which traced the 3-0 azulgrana from the first leg. Six years without a semifinal will have passed the Barca club when, not so ago, he played six consecutive semifinals: from 2008 to 2013.
Flick, at the press conference prior to Inter-Barça, the return of the European semifinal in Milan. / @FCBarcelona
The man of the tie
That Barça de Messi has become Barça de Lamine Yamal. It is the emblem, perhaps conjunctural, of the tie for the formidable performance of the first leg. Italy, on the other hand, already knows him from the Eurocup.
“It is a genius at age 17,” says Flick, vibvo the memory of his transcendental interventions to match the 0-2 with which Inter. “It's a talent of those born every 50 years,” said Simone Inzaghi That Montjuïc night, seeing the valuable advantage his team had acquired before the first half.
Lamine Yamal toys on the grass of San Siro. / Javi Ferrándiz / Spo
Help Dimarco
“What struck me the most when I saw him live is his speed of thought; even before receiving the ball he already knows what to do,” Inzaghi added on Monday. He said he will take measures to cancel the Barca youth. One will be to reinforce aid to Federico Dimarco, The left side.
The man will need them. Unless he decides to relieve it by Carlos Augusto, as in the second half of Montjuïc. In Barça, the defense of the corners, which caused so much damage. The temptation is to raise the average height of the team with a defense formed by Eric, Araujo, Cubarsí and Iñigo.
Triplet's dream
In San Siro it is disputed, as Flick defined, “the final of before the final”, where the two teams start from zero with the 3-3 of the first leg although it is played, however, in enemy territory. The Italian fans exhausted the 75,000 tickets; nevertheless, More than 4,000 were bought by Culés throughout Europe excited about your team. Not only that: the triplet myth depends on the outcome of the Italian night, as Barça de Guardiola faced in the Chelsea field (2009) and Barça de Luis Enrique (in 2015) in Munich.
A panorama that does not intimidate, “but motivates,” said Dani Olmo. “We have played in the Metropolitan, in the Bernabéu, in the Signal Iduna Park and won and won the pass,” explained the Egarense footballer, results that have allowed Barça, along with others, to conquer two titles (Super Cup and Cup) and be in disposal to add another two.
“We have played in the Metropolitan, in the Bernabéu, in the Signal Iduna Park and won and won the pass”
Fermín López Toy in the heating of the San Siro preparatory session. / Javi Ferrándiz / Spo
“It's like I imagined it would be, I had the thought that we could win everything,” he confessed Elmof his expectations before returning to Barça last summer. “It was very worth it,” he added, despite the inconveniences he has had between the injuries and the bureaucracy of the registration of his file.
It is worth it because the team wins, he plays and lives a Magnificent atmosphere, “party” for the unconcern of young people, immune to pressure. They have supported her all their lives when growing in Barça, forced to a demanding game education and results. The party will continue.
