Barcelona fell 1-0 on their visit to Inter Milan, this Tuesday in the fourth day of the Champions League, a result that complicates their passage to the second round before starting the second round of the group stage.
A goal from the Turkish Hakan Calhanoglu (45+2) sentenced the Barça team, which is third in group C (3 points), behind the leader Bayern Munich (9) and Inter (6). Viktoria Pílsen, who was thrashed 5-0 in Germany, has yet to add.
Barcelona’s hope to be in the round of 16 is to win at home against Inter, next week, and Bayern Munich, who will then visit the Camp Nou.
Possession against danger. In the first half, Barcelona confiscated the ball (70% possession) but it was Inter who came close to scoring. Already in the 7th minute Marc-André Ter Stegen put the mitt in an excellent long shot by Calhanoglu. Even the
Inter managed to score (28) when the Argentine Joaquín Correa crossed the middle of the field to dribble past the German goalkeeper and score. It was disallowed for offside.
Barcelona, uninspired, trusted their success to Ousmane Dembele on the right, but the French winger, with a large volume of play, was not capable of creating scoring chances, without adding a shot or hitting a dribble in the first part.
After his warning, Calhanoglu did hit the second, taking advantage of Federico Dimarco’s pass from the edge of the box to convert it with a powerful and placed shot.
In the second half, Barcelona tried to take a step forward, but the lack of imagination during their possession penalized Robert Lewandowski, who did not exist because his teammates did not enable him.
What the team led by Xavi lacked, in the 55th minute the Danish center-back Andreas Christensen was injured, with a wound in his left ankle after a hard tackle. Gerard Piqué entered his place.
After the Frenchman Jules Koundé and the Uruguayan Ronald Araújo were injured in the international truce, the Spanish coach lost his third centre-back, so Piqué, who started as the fifth defender, gained prominence.
At game time came the first clear away chance. With bands changed, the Brazilian Rapinha started the play on the right and Dembele, now on the left, shot with everything in his favor to run into the wood.
Then Xavi played it, giving entry to Alejandro Balde and Ansu Fati for Marcos Alonso and Rapinha (64). And Barcelona came to celebrate the tie (67). Dembele had succeeded with a dribble and a center from the right and Pedri took advantage of the bad start of the Cameroonian André Onana to score. But Ansu Fati had touched the ball with his hand in the jump with the goalkeeper and the referee annulled the play after consulting the VAR.
In the last minutes, Barcelona turned to the interista area, but without being able to get a reward.
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with AFP
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