The triple dream of Inter Milan is alive and kicked after reaching the semi-finals of the Champions League on Wednesday thanks to the 2-2 draw with Bayern Munich, while the Giants of Serie A won a 4-3 draw from the Serie won the last 4-3 game. The Italian champions will confront Barcelona in the semi-finals after goals in the space of three minutes from Captain Lautaro Martinez and Benjamin Pavard canceled a Harry Kane strike for Bayern who leveled equality in the 52nd minute. Eric Dier’s loop head in the 76th minute earned Bayern a draw in the night in the soaking and windy Milan, but that was not enough for Vincent Kompany’s team to continue their attempt to be crowned from the Kings of Europe for the seventh time.
The Simone Inzaghi team has passed under horrible conditions at San Siro where a combination of heavy rain and driving winds assigned the capacity of the two teams to play their best football, but added uncertainty and tension on an already very busy occasion.
“We do not give up, we have personality, heart and intelligence. We were definitely on the step back sometimes today, but we have still shown today that we can do great things,” Martinez told Amazon Prime.
Inter is still repeating the Serie A, the Champions League and the Italian Cup Treble won under Jose Mourinho in 2010, because they are also three points ahead of Napoli in the high flight of Italy and will face the Milan in the semi-finals of the domestic cup.
Wednesday’s victory showed that Inter is more than capable of reaching the final of the Europe Elite Club competition, as two years ago, when they were narrowly beaten by Manchester City.
“We are thinking of winning everything at the start of each season, because if we don’t do it, we shouldn’t play this sport. This is our mentality,” added Martinez.
Bayern had won its three previous games outside the Champions League at Inter, but after Pavard crushed its first goal for the club in the 61st minute, there was no way to come back for the Bundesliga leaders affected by injuries, including the chance to win the Champions League in Munich has slipped by their scope.
“When you look at how the two games took place, we would not have wanted very different, except the goals we conceded,” said Kompany.
“It’s football, it’s life.”
Triple dream
The Inter will also benefit from playing the second stage of their confrontation with Barça, which they beat in the semi-finals en route to the victory in Madrid 15 years ago, at San Siro on May 6.
The hosts did not come to life before their fans, who had been seated and stood in silence during the first 20 minutes protesting the price of tickets, broke out hard in the song.
At that time, the wind had picked up so much that an intermediary inter-cross almost fell from the penalty surface, but even with the wind on their faces, the hosts were increasing.
Marcus Thuram simply failed to understand the scratched finish of Francesco Acerbi in the 29th minute, and a few moments later, Hakan Calhanoglu crushed a powerful blow right next to the amount.
Bayern reacted and repelled Inter in its own area during the last minutes of half a opening, but a combination of conditions, desperate defense and a bad finish kept the game aimless at the break.
Inter began the second half of the strongest, but Kane leveled the tie with a brilliantly taken goal, moving to his right and drilling an inclined tilt through the legs of Federico Dimarco and past Yann Sommer.
A few moments before Kane made the goalkeeper of Bayern recruit Jonas Urbig thank him for scoring him to score a own goal, and in the 58th minute, Martinez restored Inter when he controlled the corner of Dimarco and was wrong.
Pavard decided on equality three minutes later with a ball head against his old club in another corner, sending the Wild San Siro with pleasure.
It was not all this when Dier gave Bayern for more time, but when Sommer smothered Kane’s weak head in time, Inter was still on the right track for triples.
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