The triplet, in any case, will be with the Super Cup. Not with the Champions. The objective capital, which of so complex and difficult that it is only signed ten times in the history of European football, is postponed for a future occasion, because future has the Hansi Flick template.
The glory of getting into the Munich final of May 31, which was going to be the novena in history, drained from the fingers to Barça. Inter snatched it in the extension and will have the second chance in three years to win it. This Wednesday will know whether in front of Paris Saint Germain by Luis Enrique or Arsenal.
Flick has worked the miracle of recovering this template and driving it much further than anyone expected: neither the coach who has seen the group evolve, nor the president who signed him to win back titles, nor the most delivered footballer nor the most positive Barcelona on the planet. Nor, of course, they would have been able to imagine that Barça, losing 2-0 in Milan, would be able to trace up to a 2-3 bestial.
The new deed vanished in the added time. He had marked Raphinha in 87 and scored Acerbi in 93, giving way to extension. The duel with another formidable 3-3 ended, as in the first leg, which definitely opted for Frattesi by working the miracle that San Siro could not do. Football belongs to humans. There was nothing supernatural.
or that he was expected of Flick was for them to recover pride in his team, and that the team recovered their historical identity, with a daring and offensive game. These expectations are full. Barça is already respected again. And he lost, as on previous occasions, as in eight of the 14 semifinals played, but with his head very high. The trade will surely take longer to acquire it because, precisely, time demands. And, if they agree among all, they can begin to apply the mischief that others use with time and simulations when it suits them.
Flick resisted the temptation to make inventions until the moment of despair and maintained the classic eleven: the one that has repeated in three of the last four games with the exception of the mandatory replacement of Jules Kundé, injured in the first leg. Eric protected the defensive flank behind Lamine Yamal. The changes he wanted to introduce, beyond accentuating the position of the double pivot of Jong-Pedri in defense, occurred in the marks to the stopped ball. A dumfries in Le Vigiló Dani Olmo, Overdue in the two goals of the Dutch in Montjuïc, but Gerard Martín, while Thuram caught Pedri.
The names of Dumfries and Olmo reappeared in the first interist goal: the Egarense lost the ball, pressured by Dimarco, and Dumfries escaped only to serve the caramel to Lautaro, The two of Szczesny. The captain reappeared, unnoticed and injured in the first leg. Of lost to the river thought Inzaghi, at the last Italian opportunity to seal a title with the Champions. He did a wonderful job and offered his leg to Cubarsí's onslaught to seem penalty. Olmo was redeemed with the goal of Hope, 2-2, after Eric had failed a very clear opportunity. Much harder to execute had been the volley to the squad.
It was. Szymon Marciniak did not see him, the suspicious Polish referee, but they did see it in the VAR room the Dutch assistants. Nor had Marciniak seen some hands of Acerbi claimed by Pedri, nor did they notice him; They told him to tell him that the penalty to Lamine Yamal was outside the area. It was foreseeable that the referee, who so badly gives Barça (a victory in five games), unleashed some controversy with his erratic decisions, but not that the president of FIFA foster the talk. “Everyone knows that I am a fan of Inter,” Gianni Infantino had clums away, opening the latrine where to pour the suspicions that arise. At 55, the comment could have been saved.
The prominence of Montjuïc was monopolized Thuram and Lamine Yamal. They made history in the Champions League, the interist for scoring the fastest goal of a semifinal, the Barca one for being the youngest to score one. Lamine Yamal gave Ferran a ball to 18 seconds to beat the French record, but Acerbi anticipated. A sign of the ambition of Barça and one of Valentía del Juvenil, whom they were waiting to reduce the fumes despite the admiration professed by Inzaghi.
Lamine Yamal is known in the center of attention, and as fear lost it in a Parque in Mataró, she did not wrinkle before the monumental whistle of the stadium or the whistle of the boots next to her legs- went for Dimarco every time he received the ball, then attacked Carlos Augusto and anyone who went out to pass in his drives. He was given the responsibility of the attacks, thick Raphinha in the start, and turned Ferran a terminal element, and no less pasty in the auction.
Barça scared and Inter hit, but the 2-0 of the break did not seem a definitive result. Not with the Barça of the comebacks.
