Barcelona and Inter Milan share 3-3 thriller in Champions League semifinal | Football News
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- April 30, 2025
Barcelona and Inter Milan shared a convincing 3-3 draw in a first-stage clash of the High-Octane champions League.
The Italian team ran to an advantage of two goals on Wednesday with excellent attacks by Marcus Thuram and Denzel Dumfries, before the unstoppable Lamine Yamal retired Barça with an effort alone.
Ferran Torres was leveled for the five times champions and, although Inter advanced through Dumfries again, a goal from Yann Sommer left the tie on a knife edge in the middle of the stage.
The Inter expected desperately that Thuram was fit to play after a thigh injury, and showed precisely why, scoring the semifinal goal of the fastest victim champions league after 30 seconds.
The final scorer of the Copa del Rey de Barcelona, Jules Kounde, pirate a poor authorization on the edge of the box, and Inter Capitalized.
Dumfries Dumeman Dutch signed up for a low crossing towards Thuram and Inigo Martínez slipped at the wrong time, allowing France’s striker to end a disturbing fighting fight.
Barcelona seized Barcelona and pushed forward, roared by a nervous crowd of the 50000 Olympic stadium.
Yamal, in its number 100 of Barcelona, appealed for a penalty after Alessandro Bastoni pushed him and then established Torres, who shot from par.
The Spanish, standing for Barça’s injured scorer, Robert Lewandowski, lashed out a volley for the goal.
Against the Inter -game streak, whose hopes of acute collapsed after three consecutive national defeats before, he scored his second, with another good end.
Francesco Acerbi nodded in a corner, and Dumfries first came to the fall ball to score with an impressive acrobatic effort.
Barcelona teams in recent years may have collapsed, but Hansi Flick’s youth side is not loaded by the series of European failures since the last time they won the competition in 2015.
Less of all the teenage yamal wizard, who took Barcelona to the game only three minutes later with a wonderful individual goal that made him the youngest player to score in the semifinals.
On the eve of the game, the Spanish rejected comparisons with the great Lionel Messi of all time, but his goal was directly from the Argentine’s play book.
Yamal shook Thuram, floated inside the right flank and fits Henrikh Mkhitaryan to the box, attracting the defenders towards him, but before they could stop him, he stepped on a perfect inch shot in the left post.
Minutes later, Yamal almost repeated the trick. This time, he threw outside, pauses to let Federico Dimarco Lunge stay well and off the field.
From a tight angle, the young man showed a shot that Sommer inclined on the crossbar.
High of trust, Yamal created more opportunities for Torres and Dani Olmo that left, before Barça withdraw the level.
Pedri hooked a ball in the area for Raphinha to go through the goal and Torres became a short distance after 38 minutes without breath.
Kounde had before part time in a blow to Barça, who also replaced the inexperienced Gerard Martin with Ronald Arajo at rest.
Dimarco hit at the beginning of the second half, before Simone Inzaghi hooked him, having suffered a torrid night against the implacable Yamal.
Inter, the sting outside the game at the beginning of the second half and then to Barça beaten with fools, scoring from another corner, with the dumfries heading bouncing in Olmo.
Barcelona matched in two minutes, with Yamal stepping on a corner on the edge of the box, allowing Raphinha to run.
The Brazilian’s effort crashed into the crossbar and then, on the back of the unfortunate Sommer diving head.
Pau Cubarsi made a vital recovery backle to stop Thuram after he got behind the height of Barcelona, and Mkhitaryan had a discarded goal for an out -of -the -mind -tight game.
Yamal toured a second blow to the crossbar late, but the sides could not separate.
The second section takes place in Milan next Tuesday, with the winner to face Paris Saint-Germain or Arsenal on May 31 in the Munich final.
