Inter and Barcelona play their pass to the Munich final, in a marked duel for Barça, for the history and curse that drags since 2012
Milan – al Barcelona A huge challenge awaits him in the Giuseppe Meazza. He Inter from Milanhis fan, he smiles even when he remembers that Semifinal The Champions League of 2010 in which an unpronounceable name volcano and a suspicious trial arbitrator collapsed to the Pep Guardiola team in the same stage as after 15 years the young group of Hansi Flick seeks to close the circle.
He suffered Barcelona That event in 2010 and after in 2011 he won in Madrid, the four later games As a visitor in one Champions (2012, 2013, 2015 and 2019) resulted in defeat, a bad omen for a team in need of transferring the mood that has recovered in a year that brushes excellence.
This is the Barça team, which will dress in green in the imposing Italian stadium, under the command of a busy coach to move an unstoppulously optimistic, brave and daring message than to get carried away by the ancestral fears of Barcelona.
The Barca fan would not be right who contemplates with respect, caution and even fear the duel that is coming in Milan. Not only for that memory of 2010, even more attending that its last four semifinal displacements in the Champions lost them and only in one of them, that of 2015, went to the final.
Conversely, however, an epic night, more than aesthetics, and legendary that coincides in the calendar with this clash in Italy. Another May 6, 2009, 16 years ago, the first Barça de Pep Guardiola went from hell to heaven through a miraculous howbated obus of Andrés Iniesta in Stamford Bridge that served to eliminate Chelsea when the clock, and the mood, already had collapsed to Barcelona.
This mitigates that subsequent curse. The 0-2 victory in the Bernabéu and before Real Madrid of 2011 was the last of Barça at home in a semifinal of Champions … In 2012 the Chelsea defeated him 1-0 in the first leg (Drugba goal) and matched 2-2 in the return of the Camp Nou; In 2013, Bayern crushed him in Munich 4-0 to put him again (0-3) in Barcelona; In 2015 he fell 3-2 again in Munich, but that defeat, in the second leg, did not prevent the Barca pass to the final after the 3-0 of the first leg at Camp Nou. And finally, in 2019, the unforgettable collapse of Anfield occurred, where Liverpool was able to overcome the 3-0 with which Barça had won at the Camp Nou.
Go out and enjoy
But against those fears, against that curse, the Barça expedition arrived in Milan with the word “enjoy” on stage. That legendary said of Johan Cruyff in the previous Wembley final in 1992, the ‘exit and enjoy’ that the Dutchman transferred to his players has remained in the imaginary of a club in permanent internal fight.
Flick said in the press room minutes after Dani Olmo did, who came to discover that the young, inexperienced and daring players of the staff take the game “as a party.”
Just five soccer players of the Barca squad have played a semifinal of the Champions League. And only one did it from Barca. Marc-André Ter Stegen, who will not play, enjoyed it in 2015 and cried in 2019, but Andreas Christensen, Robert Lewandowski, Olmo and Frenkie de Jong are the only ones who, with other teams and different luck, lived in the first person, in the Cèsped, the sentence of a semifinal of Champions that is coming in the Giuseppe Meazza.
