Champions League semifinals: Inter Milan and Barcelona balance evenly, PSG leads narrow lead at Arsenal
21 minutes into the first leg, Inter Milan scored a 2-0 score after 21 minutes before 17-year-old Spanish star Lamine Yamal scored a stunning goal, with Barcelona countering to a 3-3 in a pulsating match full of spectacular goals.
It was hard enough to stop Yamal, but then there was Rafenha – just the other Ballon d'Or in Barcelona.
Due to his long-range shooting and rapid attacks in the middle or side, he is a permanent threat. The Brazilian scored 12 goals in the game, one more goal than striker Robert Lewandowski.
But with all Barcelona’s firepower, defense remains fragile, coach Hansi Flick is under the right call pressure. Even as No. 1 Marc-Andre Ter Stegen recovered from a long knee injury and recovered from a 2-1 victory in Valladolid on Saturday, he kept Wojciech Szcz's goal in the goal. Barcelona hopes to win the game on its sixth, while Inter seeks a fourth championship. Inter Milan won in 2010, defeating Barcelona in a tense semi-final.
Players and coaches injured on foot have been warning of the destructive effects of crowded calendars.
There are no more examples seen in Barcelona and international highways.
Barcelona defender Jules Kounde suffered a left hamstring injury in the first leg and the prolific Lewandowski has been nursing a left leg injury for two weeks.
Lewandowksi scored 40 goals this season and needed another goal to score 100 goals for Barcelona.
Milan International captain Lautaro Martinez was also injured in the first round.
Strike partner Marcus Thuram got a great backflick in the first leg and returned last week with only a thigh injury.
Arsenal and Paris Saint-Germain’s 33 promising top scorer Ousmane Dembele will begin on Wednesday.
In the first leg of the semi-finals in London, the star striker played against Arsenal with a calf-string pull, and PSG won a 1-0 title.
Both sides won the match, and both sides lost the final.
PSG reached the semi-finals last season, but Arsenal has reached this stage for the first time since 2009.
Since Kylian Mbappe's offseason trip to Real Madrid, coach Luis Enrique has turned PSG into a smooth and cohesive unit.
After the shortcomings of the world-renowned stars, PSG fans truly believe that this young and dynamic team can eventually win the Champions League, which gives people a real belief in the Champions League.
Much of this depends on Luis Enrique's hard work that produces competition for the localities, without the favorable treatment as in previous years.
However, he took a break on Saturday and shrugged, shrugging in a 2-1 loss at Strasbourg, with the club losing for the second straight in Ligue 1, despite the league title already winning.
He stared at the bigger bonus, but without Dembele, PSG wouldn't have the same threat.
Angry Arteta Arsenal also lost 2-1 to Bournemouth at home in Bournemouth.
Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta promises to capitalize on the “frustration, anger and anger” of the Premier League defeat to launch against his players against PSG.
He not only needs it.
It was discovered in the first leg that Arsenal wanted to be tactical, when PSG dominated the first half and scored when 26 pass moves led to Dembeller's goal.
Star player Bukayo Saka was shut down by PSG Winger Khvicha Kvaratskhelia, who has excellent offensive and defensive abilities on the left.
Saka's duel with Kvaratskhelia may be crucial, and Arteta needs to improve significantly from Captain Martin Odegaard's midfield performance.
Arteta deployed him too far in the first round and when he returned to PSG, he was in control.
