Barcelona vs Inter Milan 1-0 Result Score Goals 28/04/2010 Barca Out Champions League final

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Barcelona vs Inter Milan 1-0 Result Score Goals 28/04/2010 Barca Out Champions League final

FC Barcelona – Inter Milan 1-0 aggregate by 3-2 Wednesday April 28th, Estadio Camp Nou Barcelona , Inter Milan has reached the final of the UEFA Champions League Wednesday, losing 1-0 to Barcelona in Camp Nou, but winning on aggregate by 3-2.

Too little too late could be the summary describing Barcelona´s efforts against an extremely defensive Internazionale. As expected Barcelona had possession of the ball virtually all game, but it created too few chances against the defensive wall Inter coach Mourinho had erected in front of goalkeeper Julio Cesar. In the first half only Messi came close to scoring for Barcelona, but the Argentinean missed, confirming he no longer is in the top form he was in during the greater part of the season. Inter reached halftime with 0-0, but saw Thiago Motta sent off after a foul on Busquets, giving Barcelona some hope of a spectacular ´remontada´.

But it wasn’t until the latter part of the second half that the sparks started flying in Camp Nou. Barcelona coach Guardiola again sent striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic to the showers early, as the Swede could not untie himself of his two and sometimes three defenders. Betting on the fast and technical home-grown attackers Bojan and Jeffren, Guardiola hoped to unsettle the ´Milan wall´, but it wasn’t until the 84th minute that Piqué scored for a by now fervently attacking Barca, leading to a hectic finish of the game. The last few minutes saw a goal by Bojan disallowed and Messi miss another big chance.

Where the referee was Barcelona´s black sheep a week ago in Milan, the Catalans could not complain about Belgian De Bleeckere, who missed Piqué being offside when scoring the 1-0 and sent off  Motta, leaving Inter a man down for most of the game. A few strange corner decisions in Inter´s favor did not compensate for those two moments.

Inter will play the final of the Champions League against Bayern Munich on May 22nd in Real Madrid´s Estadio Santiago Bernabeu. The game will pitch Bayern´s Louis van Gaal against his former interpreter and team assistant at Barcelona, José Mourinho. Both coaches have won the Champions League once before, van Gaal in 1995 with Ajax and Mourinho in 2004 with FC Porto. The winning manager will enter a select trio of trainers who have won Europe’s biggest club trophy with two different teams, now consisting of Austrian Ernst Happel and German coach Ottmar Hitzfeld. It will be Inter´s first European Cup final since 1972. The Italians won the trophy in 1964 and 1965. Bayern won the ´Cup with the Big Ears´ a total of four times, the last time in 2001.

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