Barcelona vs Inter Milan LIVE: Raphinha strike sets up Champions League second leg after Denzel Dumfries brace
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan: A cracker in Barcelona leaves both teams on the brink of reaching the final
Barcelona and Inter Milan have it all to play for after a thrilling and fascinating first leg clash ended in a 3-3 draw in Spain.
The visitors, tipped as underdogs ahead of kick off, shocked Hansi Flick’s men with barely a minute on the clock as Marcus Thuram backheeled the opening goal past Wojciech Szszesny to silence the crowd. Barcelona then found themselves near the brink of despair as Denzel Dumfries doubled Inter’s lead later in the first half.
Yet, the hosts turned up the tempo with thanks to an inspired Lamine Yamal. The teenager cut in from the right and scored a superb goal to bring the LaLiga leaders back into the match and Ferran Torres equalised just before the break.
A rapid and scintillating match continued after the restart with Dumfries heading in his second of the night, and Inter’s third, before a blistering strike from Raphinha brought the match level again and sets up the second leg perfectly.
Relive the action from the semi-final first leg with our live blog below:
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
90 mins: Three minutes of added time to play at the end of this match.
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
84 mins: Andreas Christensen and Gavi are the latest substitutes brought in off the bench.
The Barcelona stars replace Pedri and Pau Cubarsi.
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
81 mins: Into the last 10 minutes now and Simone Inzaghi decides to make some defensive reinforcements.
Marcus Thuram and Denzel Dumfries are off with Matteo Darmian and Piotr Zielinski are brought on.
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
78 mins: Raphinha drives a free kick through the Inter wall but can’t beat Yann Sommer who drops to the right and clings onto the ball.
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
75 mins: Disallowed!
Inter break quickly and send the ball out to Dumfries on the right wing.
He sweeps an early ball across the middle of the box and finds Henrik Mkhitaryan on the far side of the area.
He slots the ball home only for the offside flag to go up.
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
72 mins: There’s a touch under 20 minutes to play and Marcus Thuram has a couple of attempts to get in behind the high line of Barcelona.
Neither of them are successful.
Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan
69 mins: This match has been incredible. Inter Milan have never been allowed to get away from Barcelona.
The visitors have taken most of their best chances but Barcelona’s quality has been top class.
GOAL! Barcelona 3-3 Inter Milan (Yann Sommer OG, 65')
Unreal!
Barcelona win a corner of their own and lace it across to Raphinha over by the edge of the box.
He runs onto it and strikes a worldie at goal.
Yann Sommer tips it onto the crossbar but the ball bounces forward, hits the goalkeeper on the back and rebounds into the back of the net.
GOAL! Barcelona 2-3 Inter Milan (Denzel Dumfries, 63')
Inter lead again!
All the goals tonight have been strong, this one is too but it’s by far the simplest of the five.
A corner for Inter Milan is swung over to Denzel Dumfries. He leaps above Dani Olmo and scores as the ball ricochets off his shoulder.
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