Barcelona v Inter: Champions League semi-final, first leg ? live
Barcelona are currently high on life. They?re playing some delightful football. They?ve just won the Copa del Rey, they?re four points clear in La Liga with five matches to go, and the only team who can realistically stop them winning a domestic double are in no fit state, currently preoccupied with the throwing of a season-long tanty. And so it?s not much of a leap to suggest the continental treble is very much on. Hansi Flick and Robert Lewandowski have already completed one of these, with Bayern Munich in 2020, so Barca are in possession of the roadmap. It really is on.
Internazionale?s mood is less buoyant. They haven?t won in four, and while that sequence started with the 2-2 draw that saw them squeak past Bayern Munich in the quarters, they?ve since fallen behind Napoli on the Serie A run-in after back-to-back defeats against Bologna and Roma, and been spanked 3-0 in the semi-final of the Coppa Italia by their arch rivals Milan. A season that promised a continental treble of their own is unravelling at pace. They need something tonight.
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