Barcelona suffered again the curse of the Giuseppe Meazza, where Lamine Yamal was not enough to avoid a cruel, undeserved and, again controversial defeat.
Milan, “Yamal” is a genius. ” Thus he described him in the previous Hansi Flick. But geniuses sometimes need that pinch of luck they deserve. Not only he, even more, this team that proudly calls the future without wanting to think of the past. Barcelona lost in a stadium that is already cursed when in front is the internal, who showed off his best face after a first half to forget and showed, in the crying face of many of his players, the wounded pride.
It did not reach Lamine Yamalwhich stirred against everything and even forced a penalty that the Var quickly canceled, much more than the granted of Pau Cubarsí to Lautaro Martínez in the mouth of the first half. The young Barca star, is true, did not enjoy his ideal night but did not deserve such a cruel and such a heavy elimination.
MONUMENT MONEY
He endured what he could in the field (71 minutes) but was a monumental soccer player for Inter. First he scored the 1-0 assisted by Denzel Dumfries and driving the Barça rear with the offside; Then he forced a penalty as doubtful as well worked.
He left his leg for Cubarsí’s drag and stayed on the floor implying little less than a murder until the referee stopped everything and presented him with the maximum penalty that Hakan çalhanoglu transformed.
It was Lautaro the footballer who was expected by an Inter who knew how to fight and suffer, of a team that knew how to take advantage of Barça’s defensive weakness until the definitive moment.
Thuram, La Bestia
Francesco Acerbi’s 3-3, when the game already died, arrived after a superb performance by Marcus Thuram, still with physical background after 93 minutes played at maximum intensity.
The French striker, who took his first football steps at the Barça School one day, executed the Barca team with a master class for placement and career, knowing how to control backs and opening spaces for the arrival of his teammates in the second line.
The Barça cost too much to solve that riddle that Simone Inzaghi put in front of him because he pending spaces in the interist defense, was not inspired enough, ready or attentive to protect his defense … and Inter found the maximum prize.
The future
Lamine Yamal and Pau Cubarsí. And Gerard Martín, Erric García, Pedri and Ferran Torres. Also Fermín López, Hector Fort, Gavi and Pau Víctor. And the absent Marc Casadó or Alejandro Balde and even Marc Bernal. If they tell them, thirteen names of soccer players who do not reach 23 years and are part of an obligatory team, always, to rub shoulders with the aristocracy of world football.
This is the future of Barça because up to eight of these players are, they must be, headlines in Flick’s schemes, who in the press room, with the regret on his face for defeat and elimination, did not let the opportunity to praise everyone.
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