Inter Milan has one other Champions League final to look ahead to. Once the gamers catch their breath, that’s.
In the tip it took extra time, two astonishing comebacks and 13 targets to separate Barcelona and Inter and see the Italian membership — which was a mere seconds away from elimination — prevail 7-6 on combination after profitable one other rollercoaster encounter 4-3 on Tuesday (May 6, 2025).
Substitute Davide Frattesi was the extra-time star for Inter, firing house within the 99th minute to depart the Barcelona gamers slumped to the bottom whereas his Nerazzurri teammates — together with these on the bench — have been racing to rejoice with him.
“I don’t know what happened tonight. I’m lucky I managed to finish the game, I screamed so much [in celebration] that I saw everything black,” Frattesi informed Italian broadcaster Sky.
Moments earlier, he’d been encouraging the already loud San Siro crowd to make extra noise and the environment grew extra feverish after Frattesi delivered on his super-sub repute once more.
“That’s part of my career,” the midfielder mentioned.
“I wasn’t given so much incredible talent, but I am always the last one to give up and the first one to believe we can do it. At 3-3, I told Marcus [Thuram] that we would go through.” Three-time European champion Inter, which misplaced the 2023 final to Manchester City, will face both Paris Saint-Germain or Arsenal in Munich on May 31 for the title. PSG beat Arsenal 1-0 in London final week of their first match. The return leg is on Wednesday (May 7, 2025) in Paris.
Inter coach Simone Inzaghi thinks his squad has proven in wins over Barcelona within the semis and Bayern Munich within the quarterfinals that it will possibly compete towards the easiest.
“My players have been extraordinary, they’ve put out there two monstrous performances to get to this final,” he mentioned.
“We have to continue. The final will be played against a really great team, whether it’s Arsenal or PSG. Barcelona and Bayern are probably the best teams in Europe at the moment, but it will still be difficult.” There was little signal at halftime of the drama to play out. Inter was comfortably main 2-0 after Lautaro Martínez scored and earned a penalty, which was transformed by Hakan Çalhanoglu.
But Barcelona had been in that place earlier than, having gone 2-0 down early final week within the first leg earlier than securing an exciting 3-3 draw.
And Eric García scored 9 minutes after the break earlier than Dani Olmo headed within the equalizer six minutes later.
Raphina appeared to have secured the win for Barcelona when he put the Spanish membership forward two minutes earlier than full time, tucking away the rebound after Yann Sommer had saved his preliminary shot.
However, 37-year-old Francesco Acerbi astonishingly leveled in stoppage time — along with his first objective in European competitors — to add one other half-hour of time.
Frattesi had proved essential off the substitutes’ bench earlier than, each for Italy and Inter, and so he was once more, controlling Mehdi Taremi’s cross and beating Pau Cubarsí earlier than curling previous Wojciech Szczesny.
Barcelona nearly leveled once more however Sommer made a fingertip save to push Lamine Yamal’s shot previous his submit.
Barcelona coach Hansi Flick mentioned he informed his gamers “I know everyone is disappointed … but at the end we can be proud of our performance.” “I’m proud of my team,” he mentioned.
“We have to accept it and we start again next season.”
Published – May 07, 2025 04:02 pm IST
