Key occasions
ET 15 min +2: Thuram attracts a foul from Araujo out on the left. They don’t rush to take the free kick. Everybody ultimately hangs across the fringe of the Barca field.
ET 15 min +1: Yamal swings a cross in from the suitable, hoping to search out the top of Lewandowski. Nevertheless it’s a straightforward pluck for Sommer.
ET 15 min: There shall be three further minutes to this primary interval of additional time.
ET 14 min: Fort has a whack from distance. Full marks for ambition if nothing else.
ET 13 min: Frattesi is nice to proceed. In the meantime, as if this epic isn’t widescreen sufficient, the heavens open to deposit biblical portions of rain on San Siro.
ET 12 min: Frattesi goes down and requires some remedy. A uncommon pause in play. We’ve hardly stopped all night!
ET 10 min: Within the dugout, Hansi Flick, arms tightly crossed, slips right into a deep, quiet funk. He will need to have been dreaming of a return to Munich for the ultimate. Inside touching distance. However now so far-off.
GOAL! Internazionale 4-3 Barcelona (Frattesi 99); agg 7-6
Thuram causes Barca all types of trouble down the suitable. He reaches the byline by spinning his man, then cuts again for Taremi, who cushions the ball into the trail of Frattesi. One contact, then a fierce whip round Szczęsny and into the left-hand facet of the online! Bedlam! Inter have been down and out, however now look! San Siro takes off for the moon!
ET 8 min: Garcia is changed by 18-year-old defender Héctor Fort.
ET 6 min: Yamal’s crossfield cross finds Martin in house down the left … however the ensuing cross isn’t of early-second-half commonplace. Inter clear their traces.
ET 4 min: Thuram probes down the suitable however can’t work house to shoot. Inter win a throw, although, and Darmian flings it into the mixer. De Jong hoicks it clear. A barely scrappy begin to further time, however after the leisure these lads have served up, we’ll forgive them something.
ET 3 min: Some behaviour-infused admin. When Hansi Flick was booked for effing and jeffing, so too was as-yet-unused sub Pau Victor.
ET 2 min: The free kick isn’t any good.
ET 1 min: Yamal goes on one other energy wander down the suitable. He’s crudely blocked by Augusto, who goes into the e book. Free kick for Barca. Raphinha – who will need to have thought he was the match-winner – to take.
Inter get the primary interval of additional time underway. No adjustments. “If anybody’s , and admittedly who would wouldn’t be, Ayr United gained the primary leg of their play off quarter ultimate towards Partick Thistle 1-0,” reviews Simon McMahon.
This has been a tremendous, astonishing, astounding … nicely, we might work our means by way of all the alphabet. However suffice to say this is without doubt one of the actually nice Champions League semi-finals. Lamine Yamal was inches away from wrapping this up for Barcelona, however his late shot hit the bottom of the right-hand submit. Inter went straight up the opposite finish, Denzel Dumfries – arguably the participant of all the tie total – arrange Francesco Acerbi to attain a barely plausible screamer. At 37, Acerbi is the the second-oldest scorer in Champions League knockout historical past, after Ryan Giggs.
FULL TIME: Internazionale 3-3 Barcelona (agg 6-6)
It was by no means going to be every other means.
90 min +6: Raphinha drops deep and quarterbacks a beautiful cross down the inside-right channel to launch Yamal, who enters the field … however underneath strain from Augusto, slaps his shot straight at Sommer! We’re going to further time!
90 min +5: Acerbi is booked for taking his shirt off in celebration. Then the Barca boss Hansi Flick sees yellow for telling it as he sees it. Barca wished a free kick for Dumfries’s stripping of Cubarsi. Nope!
GOAL! Internazionale 3-3 Barcelona (Acerbi 90+3); agg 6-6
Yamal simply hit the woodwork. You understand what’s coming subsequent. Dumfries strips Cubarsi of the ball, simply to the suitable of the Barca field, and advances down the suitable. He cuts again for Acerbi, who roofs a first-time shot into the top-right nook! Szczęsny no likelihood! Spectacular!
90 min +2: Barella can’t beat the primary man. However the clearance flies out on the left, and Bastoni can fling lengthy into the field. He does so … however Barca break upfield once more, and Yamal pings a low drive off the bottom of the right-hand upright and away!
90 min +1: A free kick for Inter out on the suitable flank. Barella to loop it into the field.
90 min: Lewandowski comes on for Torres. Barcelona are 5 further minutes away from the ultimate!
89 min: Inter are surprised, however they should react, and fast. Frattesi tries to worm his means into house down the suitable however is crowded out.
GOAL! Internazionale 2-3 Barcelona (Raphinha 87); agg 5-6
Inter ship possession but once more. And the way pricey is that this. Pedri slips a ball down the inside-left channel for Raphinha, who enters the field and pelts a fierce drive in direction of objective. Sommer parries nicely, however the ball breaks again to Raphinha, who has one other whack. He pearls it throughout the keeper and into the underside proper. Torres, lurking on the far stick, does nicely to leap out of the street, to keep away from a deflection that will have rendered the objective offside. What a strike, although!
87 min: Thuram chases after a easy lengthy blooter down the center of the park. He’s onside, however Szczęsny is on level, racing out of his field to whack clear. And what an intervention, as a result of …
85 min: Martin’s free ball is pounced on by Darmian, who releases Dumfries down the suitable. A low cross is hacked clear, then the flag goes up for offside. Inter have improved a bit in the previous few minutes, however it’s been a low bar.
83 min: A second Barca change, as Fermín López comes on for Olmo.
82 min: … except they will rediscover their attacking verve, after all. Dumfries makes good down the suitable and cuts again for Frattesi, who can’t get a shot away. That’s a uncommon Inter assault on this second half.
81 min: Inter will get one other sub if this match goes to further time, after all. However there’s a variety of defending for them nonetheless to do earlier than we get there.
80 min: Inter make their final subs. Zielinski and Frattesi come on for Çalhanoğlu and Mkhitaryan. The latter was booked for the foul on Yamal that almost value a penalty, by the best way.
78 min: Yamal once more, this time {an electrical} present down the suitable. He enters the field and whips a shot from a good angle in direction of the top-left nook. Sommer palms away once more.
77 min: Yamal probes down the suitable. Nowhere to go. He’s pressured to show tail … however then abruptly swivels again spherical once more, and curls powerfully in direction of the top-left nook. Sommer does exceptionally nicely to palm the ball across the submit for a nook. Nothing comes of the set piece. That will have been an excellent objective, original out of nothing.
76 min: Barca make their first change of the night, changing Martinez with Araujo.
75 min: That is just about assault versus defence proper now. Inter can’t preserve maintain of the ball in any respect, and their followers are getting a bit bit pissed off as they preserve giving possession away.
73 min: Nothing comes of it.
72 min: Yamal crosses from the suitable. The ball floats all the best way to Martin, who’s turning into an actual thorn in Inter’s facet down the left flank. He wins a nook.
71 min: A double change for Inter, as Martinez and Bisseck make means for Taremi and Darmian.
70 min: The free kick’s labored to Yamal, who sends a screamer goalwards from the sting of the D. The shot takes a flick off the again of his personal man, De Jong, and over the bar. Inter regulate their respiratory once more.
No penalty!
69 min: The primary contact was outdoors the field, and VAR tells the referee to vary his determination. That’s robust on Barcelona, not least as a result of there was contact within the field as nicely. Inter get away with an enormous one there. however it’s nonetheless a free kick simply to the suitable of the D.
Penalty for Barcelona!
68 min: Mkhitaryan’s free cross out from the again is intercepted, and Yamal is distributed clear down the inside-right channel. Yamal enters the field and is introduced down by Mkhitaryan. The referee factors to the penalty spot!
66 min: Yamal strides away from an industrial lunge by Augusto, and away down the suitable. However his dinked cross is aimless. Inter, who have been quick on the again, breathe once more. That is all Barcelona now.
