Bayern Munich-Inter 1-2: goal by Lautaro, Frattesi and Muller

For a long time, the Nerazzurri people will remember this swing of emotions experienced in Bavaria, the Inter of Inzaghi’s Inter capable of disarming the great Bayern in his house after 4 years and 22 Champions League games. This 1-2, at times even heroic for the alternation of suffering and external courage, certainly does not close the qualification for the semifinal -on the return of the quarterfinals, next Wednesday in San Siro, there will be to suffer and even a lot -but shows how Simone’s team is now fully right among the greats of the continent: Inter can truly aspire to everything. And above all, when he plays as he knows, he must not fear anything and nobody. The very owner as Lautaro, captain and driver in the action of the first goal, and Frattese entered like a thunder from the bench, and hero in the convulsive ending after the German equal, know this.

formations

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Kompany’s surprise, deliberately secretly secret until the last second, was not even an ancient manuscript, is in the chosen solution in place of Musiala, one of the seven injured: not the old essay Thomas Müller, now in the last Bavarian fires, but Raphael Guerreiro, who would be a full -back and, in fact, has the task of lowering Calha. If Sparta cries, Athens does not laugh: Inter will also be less incomo than the rivals (3 absent for injury against 7), but the race begins without his two external owners and is not a trivial thing in a physical battle on the bands. In addition to the ko of Dumfries, replaced by the Stoic Darmian, Dimarco is also missing, fatigued and replaced by Carlos Augustus. Beyond the missing pieces, Bayern demonstrates absolute loyalty to an idea, to a style that regardless of the interpreters: Inter very high attacks, almost at the edge of the area, at the cost of leaving the central one against one with the Thula. And so it will be for most of the first half.

first half

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In this scenario, in fact, to exalt itself is Olise, a French that revives the glories of his compatriot Ribery here, even if it plays in the position that was of Robben: it is a mosquito that stings between sticks and Carlos Augustus and that knows how to do everything well. It engages a couple of times summaries, pisses another for Guerreiro. It was not enough, the banks of Kane are delicious and, at times, it lights up on the left also Sané: Inter suffer from these gusts, icy like the wind that makes the Bavarian spring seem winter, and long is held up by the Sommer parades. But above all, from an incredible mistake of the English center forward: a bloody ball of Pavard inadvertently serves that Devil of Olise, always him, who then frees Kane. Harry would have the whole door in front, but with the plate he widens too much and splits the pole.

the advantage

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The dangerous escaped has an unknown effect, it arouses from the torpor a team too shy so far. The Inzaghi gang finally comes out as he can do, with the tight dribble. The played player is also a brave, the play of Barella, the best Nerazzurri in the first 45 ‘, also free, free sticks and from there to Carlos Augustus who devours the opportunity to half an hour by shooting on the outside of the net. The Thula would miss, often anticipated and evanescent, but you do not have time to complain about Thuram and Lautaro that those two build the little jewel of the early ’45. An action to remember with a breakthrough of the usual sticks that breaks the line (too tender Olise, the only mistake so far) but, after the cross by Carlos Augustus, the beauty comes: imaginative heel of the Frenchman, outside under the crossbar of the Argentine. It is the 38 ‘and the Thula echoes. Inter are back. Bayern, who had rediscovered until just before, does not believe it almost and needs time to reorganize itself after the shock.

the recovery

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Neither in the last stretch of the first half nor at the beginning of the second the German wind returns to blow as at the beginning. Simone’s team does not lose, in fact, the certainties found since she left half an hour passed underwater. This is how, trying stubbornly with the ball, that it can get out of the rival pressing and hurt the kompany’s ratoped defense. So you can build a couple of occasions at the start to make an encore: Thuram makes Stanisic slices and, on the cross, Lautaro arrives with a train delayed. And then, always on the French bank, the Argentine is brought by Urbig, a baby prodigy already baptized as Neuer’s heir. This is the Nerazzurri “Momentum”, the game piece in which Inter play more relaxed, almost on velvet, without capitalizing. But as predictable, with the passing of the minutes and with an arena that turns into the bolt, the Bayern returns to plant the curtains beyond.

End

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Through the changes Kompany tries (and succeeds) to give the final blow, it makes three when there is a quarter of an hour: the idol of Casa Muller, Gnabry and Boey for Guerreiro, Kim and Sané (Inzaghi replies first with Frattesi for Micki and then with the German Bisseck for Darmian). In the new Bavarian structure, the Eternal Thomas is in the middle and Gnabry on the left, while Simone Dalla Benchina orders the resistance. The chills, then, run along the back: an immediate skid of Bisseck leaves everything only Laimer who serves Kane, but strangely English kicks very badly. The most dangerous, however, is always him, Müller, walled once miraculously, but the net is in the air and comes inevitable, right from the hero of the house. Laimer collects on the second pole and postpones inside, where Müller blows the cap. The hot ending seems already written because Bayern’s encore is in the air, but this Inter has something special inside. It must be that something that shines in the excited eyes of Davide Frattesi, who takes off his shirt and looks in heaven in the memory of the grandmother who has just disappeared, after having thrown the assist of Carlos Augustus into the goal: it is the incredible conclusion of an incredible counterattack started from the usual playing of Barella. Just 4 ‘from the German equal and 3 had passed by the advantage touched by Kane.