Memorable spectacle
Inter destroys Flick’s final dream
Updated on May 6th, 2025 – 11:52 p.m.Reading time: 3 min.
After a breathless duel at world-class level, the Nerazzurri initially look like the winner. Then Barcelona strikes back. But the last word has Inter again in extra time.
The first finalist of this year’s Champions League season has been determined. Inter Milan defeated FC Barcelona on Tuesday in a game that was once again outstanding with 4: 3 after extra time and may play the final in the Munich Alliance Arena on May 31.
After the 3: 3 first leg spectacle, each fan had expected a new football festival in the San Siro-and that was too. With the clearly better start for the home side, who emphasized the team of coach Hansi Flick vigorously, disturbed the construction game of the Catalans early and rewarded the lead after 21 minutes.
In one of these pressing moments, Federico Dimarco Barcelonas Dani Olmo shook the ball 30 meters in front of the opposing goal. Inters left midfielder switched quickly, played a plug-on pass on the Starting Denzel Dumfries, who suddenly appeared in front of Barça goalkeeper Wojciech Szczęsny. The Dutch lay the ball across the run on the Emiliano Martínez, who only had to insert – 1-0.
Shortly before half-time, it got even better in front of 75,000 spectators in the sold-out Giuseppe-Mazza Stadium from an inter-perspective: After a risky tackle by guest defender Pau Cubarsi against Martínez, referee Szymon Marciniak (Poland) showed the video pictures at the penalty point. Hakan çalhanoğlu converted into a deserved 2-0 break management (45.+1).
Half -time used Flick for a speech that did not miss its effect. Because: After the change, Barça properly turned up and equalized the leadership of the Italians with two dream goals within six minutes.
In the 54th minute, Eric García chased a Gerard-Martin flank in the corner before the former Leipzig Dani Olmo also completed a cross from left-back Martin by flying header. Summer had previously prevented this with a world-class parade against Garcia (57th), this time he was powerless.
Barcelona was now about to turn the game completely, Inter hardly got relief attacks. In the 68th minute, Marciniak whistled a penalty for the Catalans after ex-Dortmund Henrikh Mkhitaryan exceptional talent Lamine Yamal fouled at the penalty area. Happiness for the home side: the Var took in and laid the offense outside the sixteenth meter space. The free kick brought nothing.
Barça’s permanent pressure was no longer up to Inter. And so it was Raphinha who once again gave the guests into the lead with his goal in the 87th minute. First the Brazilian failed with a tight left shot from an acute angle on Yann Sommer, and the former Bavarian goalkeeper had no chance on the margin with right.
Anyone who thought was the decision in this crazy duel was deceived. Once the team of coach Simone Inzaghi reared up. Dumfries conquered the ball far in added time, brought the ball flat inwards, where the long -awaited defense chief Francesco Acerbi lurked at the short post and the ball was banging into the short corner (90.+3) – 3: 3 and the game received what it deserved: an extension.
In this it went seamlessly as in the 90 minutes before: thanks to Joker Davide Frattesi, Inter presented his colors back to the front with the left (99.). Marcus Thuram and Mehdi Taremi had prepared. Because a header from the recently substituted Robert Lewandowski went just over the goal (107th) and the outstanding summer then brilliantly steered a Yamal shot around the post (114th), Frattesi’s goal was the final point of a memorable football evening, which also set up a royal class record. Never before had there were more goals in a semi-finals after the first and second leg.
Inters final opponent will be determined on Wednesday between Paris Saint-Germain and Arsenal (9 p.m. in the T-Online Live ticker). The French had won the first leg in London 1-0.