Inter vs Barcelona – UEFA Champions League: Start time, team news, lineups | Football News
- World
- May 5, 2025
WHO: Inter Milan vs Barcelona
That: UEFA Champions League semifinal, second stage
Where: San Siro stadium, Milan, Italy
When: Tuesday at 9 pm (19:00 GMT)
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The five -time winners of the UEFA Champions League, Barcelona, travel to northern Italy to play three times holders of Inter Milan headlines in a second and decisive stage of their semifinal on Tuesday night.
The Catalan giants remain on the way to a strange sharp: LaLiga, Copa del Rey and the titles of the Champions League, but moved away from the opening stage of their semifinal of the Champions League at the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona with all against them.
Inter, who is making an offer to make a second final of the Champions League in three seasons, he will like his chances of obtaining the tight leaders of LaLiga in his homeland. But the Nerazzurri were far from being the best on Saturday, forging a thin 1-0 house against the 15th Verona place in a fixed element of the National Series in San Siro.
Here is everything to know before the decisive semifinal between two of the European soccer superclubes:
What happened in the first leg of the semifinal?
Barcelona fought twice to share a 3-3 attraction at home against Inter Milan on April 30.
The Italian team ran to an advantage of two goals with excellent attacks by Marcus Thuram and Denzel Dumfries before the unstoppable Lamine Yamal took Barça with a sublime solo effort.
Ferran Torres was leveled for the five times champions, and Althehegh Inter us through Dumfries again, a goal from Yann Sommer left the tie on a knife edge that goes towards the second leg.
Why do everyone talk about Yamal?
Playing his number 100 game with only 17 years and 291 days of age, Yamal became the youngest player to score in a semifinal of the UEFA Champions League against Inter on Wednesday, eclipssing the record established by Kylian Mbappe, who was who was.
The manager of the intersection Simone Inzaghi said that talents such as the adolescent of Barcelona come only once in half a century.
“He is the son of talent that was born every 50 years, I had never seen him live, and today he really impressed me,” said the coach of the inmate after Yamal helped Barcelona to meet in the first game full of action.
Barcelona coach Hansi Flick described his attacker as “a genius” after the game.
Before the first leg, Yamal himself was forced to rule out comparisons with the great Lionel Messi, who played the same position in Barcelona.
“I don’t compare myself with him because I don’t myself with anyone, much less with Messi,” Yamal told reporters.
“So I don’t think the comparison makes sense, with Messi even less. I will enjoy Myelf and be myself.”
Yamal said he thought the Argentine striker was the best player of all time.
“I obviously admire him as the best player in history, but I don’t compare myself with him,” Heerated.
Team News: Barcelona
The initial defender of Barcelona, Jules Kounde, will miss the clash of the second stage of the semifinal of the Champions League with Inter after an injury in the hamstrings on Thursday.
Unexpected, the film can call star striker Robert Lewandowski, who is ahead of what was expected to be a three -week recovery period of a leg injury. Lewandowski was included in the team on Monday after being left aside for approximately two weeks.
The goalkeeper Wojciech Szczesny is inclined to start against Inter despite the return of the first choice goalkeeper Marc-Andre Ter Steg to the first XI in a fixed element of LaLiga the weekend after a long dismissal of injuries.
Team News: Inter Milan
Intervene in its second stage appearance in San Siro with the availability of the top scorer Lautaro Martínez highly questionable after Argentina’s star suffered a leg injury to agastone last Wednesday. Inzaghi will have Mehdi Taremi or Marko Arnautovic waiting to replace Martínez in the initial alignment.
But trust is growing in the camp that Martínez will play, according to the reports of the Italian media on Monday. Lautaro himself published a cryptic message on Instagram: a photo of him exercising in the gym, subtitled with emojis of a sand watch and a battery.
In a separate positive development for the Inter, the Key defender Benjamin Pavard, who lost the first stage of the semifinal against Barça, will return to the initial XI, according to reports from the Italian media Gazzetta.it.
The star midfielder Hakan Calhanoglu is available for the selection after sitting out of the 1-0 victory over Verona with a suspension.
Possible initial alignments:
Barcelona possible XI: Szczesny; Eric, Rodo, Cubarsi, Inigo; of Jong, Pedri; Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha; Ferrán
Inter Milan Possible XI: Sommer; Acerbi, Pavard, Bastoni; Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco; Arnautovic, Thuram
Face to face:
The teams have played in 13 previous used cars:
- Barcelona wins: 6
- Inter Milan Wins: 2
- Drawings: 5
What managers had to say:
Hansi Flick, Barcelona Manager: “[In the second leg] Inter cannot defend itself. They have to try to score too. They are the semifinals of the UEFA Champions League and the four best teams in Europe are there. We play with style and trust, and we know what we can do. We have 90 minutes next week, and I hope it is enough to reach the final. That is our goal, and we will fight for it. “
Simone Inzaghi, Milan Inter Manager: “We saw a fantastic game [in the first leg] And we knew that semi -finals are difficult. We won some. I really liked the impact that our subs. Our fans know that we have been giving our maximum in difficult times and we know that Tesday will be a “end.” “
When did Barcelona and Inter Milan win for the last time at UEFA Champions League?
Barcelona won recently, while Inter Milan for the last tested victory in 2010 in 2015.
When and where is the UEFA Champions League final of 2025?
The winner of this semifinal is directed to Germany on May 31 for the final of the Champions League.
The largest annual exhibition of European football will be played at the 75,000 capacity for the capacity of 75,000 in Munich.
