Barças Lamine Yamal (M.) employed the entire Milan defense.
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Shortly before the kick-off, it became restless in the Lluís Company’s Olympic Stadium in Barcelona: 17-year-old Lamine Yamal broke off the warm-up training early and went into the hands of the physiotherapists. Shouldn’t the highly gifted youngster be able to play his already hundredth competitive game for the first team of FC Barcelona because of muscular problems? It was the false alarm, rather none of the Yamal Fints, with whom he would embarrass his opponent in the following 93 minutes.
Unthinkable whether FC Barcelona would have come back after the false start against Inter Milan in the semi -finals of the Champions League without Lamine Yamal. The French international Marcus Thuram, formerly Borussia Mönchengladbach, who was freshly recovered after an injury, shot a fabulous hack gate after just 30 seconds. At presentation of the Dutch national player Denzel Dumfries, who has also returned to the starting eleven from an injury. Without these two, Inter Milan had recently scored a goal in three games, said goodbye to the Italian trophy and lost the lead in the Italian league. Inter arrived in crisis mode in Barcelona, but there was nothing to be seen. Instead, a team that effectively took advantage of their few chances: In the 21st minute, Dumfries met with a spectacular side puller for a corner.
Defending standard situations is one of the few weaknesses that the Barça team, which was given by the German coach Hansi Flick on spectacular offensive football, comes on top of that. But what the 60-year-old fleet of his young group, which failed as a German national coach, has been unavoidable in addition to counterpressing, is never to give up, to maintain the risky style with a highly standing defense, regardless of the course of the game. On the last Saturday night, the archrival Real Madrid, in the Spanish cup final, was still falling 3-2 after an additional 1: 2 behind in extra time.
On Wednesday evening it was the youngest player who took the team on his shoulders and got back on track with his sensational goal in the 24th minute. Yamal shut down the ball and started an irresistible solo run, which he crowned into the upper left corner with an unsustainable Schlenzer. And just two minutes later, Yamal almost added, but this time Inter-goalkeeper Yann Sommer managed to steer the ball onto the crossbar.
Yamal stands like no other for youthful carefree, nor does he get a head over his status, he is already a European champion, super cup and cup winner, a driver’s license and a long-term professional contract, he is not yet pending from July 13th if the 18 becomes freshly bleached. “I try to have fun, I think that’s the secret. I try to give people fun playing football. I still have a lot to do and I hope that I will continue in the second leg, «said the youngster after the game.
The rest of the first half followed the rest of the first half of Barcelona, Inter Milan hardly came out of his own half and Yann Sommer, the Swiss national goalkeeper with Bundesliga past, was able to distinguish itself several times. It was only in the 38th minute that after a nice combination he had to give up the goal of Ferran Torres, who played in the center forward position instead of the injured Robert Lewandowski.
In the second half, Barcelona could not quite maintain the intensity of continuous pressure, in the final phase of an exhausting season with games only too understandable every three days. But the mentality is right: Even from Dumfries header in the 64th minute after a corner, the boys could not get themselves down, but equalized a minute later with a violent shot by the Brazilian Raphinha, who jumped from the latte to the back and then into the goal. But the crossbar was not always the enemy. She saved him twice at shots of Yamal, once before the end with a new fabulous Schlenzer, who was not a failed flank on Raphinha, as Yamal clarified: »The truth is that I didn’t see Raphinha. I wanted to shoot. “
Inter-coach Simone Inzaghi was full of praise for Yamal. “He has caused many problems. Lamine Yamal is a phenomenon that is born every 50 years. He really impressed me today. “
Yamal’s previous career is indeed impressive: after his first 100 games, he had 22 goals and 28 preparations for Barcelona, and that before the age of 18. He himself lives at the moment and is already looking at the second leg: »I have a lot of confidence in my team. I think we will give everything and get on in the second leg. “
Trainer Hansi Flick sees it similarly. »The team’s mentality was strong as it came back after the deficit how Lamine put the team on his shoulders. We will stay true to our style in Milan. Hopefully it will be enough for the final. ”On May 6th there will be a show-down in the San Siro stadium of Milan. A similar spectacle as in Barcelona is not excluded.
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