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Key occasions
A reminder of how Inter made it to the semis. The Italian champions completed fourth within the group stage. Their marketing campaign started with a goalless draw at Manchester Metropolis, earlier than chalking up six wins – Purple Star Belgrade (h) 4-0, Younger Boys (a) 1-0, Arsenal (h) 1-0, RB Leipzig (h) 1-0, Sparta Prague (a) 1-0 and Monaco (h) 3-0 – plus a 1-0 defeat at Bayer Leverkusen. (5 1-0s and a goalless draw! Helenio Herrera would have been delighted with that sequence of scorelines.) Anyway, Feyenoord had been seen off 4-1 on mixture within the spherical of 16, after which it was Bayern Munich within the quarters …
Internazionale title the identical beginning XI as they did within the first leg in Barcelona final week. Their captain Lautaro Martínez, who went off injured at half time on the Estadi Olímpic Lluís Companys and was a doubt for tonight, has recovered from a muscle drawback.
Barcelona make one change to their beginning line-up from final week. Jules Koundé is injured so Eric Garcia takes his place in defence. Robert Lewandowski has recovered from his hamstring harm and takes a spot on the bench.
The groups
Internazionale: Sommer, Bisseck, Acerbi, Bastoni, Dumfries, Barella, Calhanoglu, Mkhitaryan, Dimarco, Lautaro Martinez, Thuram.
Subs: Di Gennaro, Josep Martinez, de Vrij, Zielinski, Arnautovic, Frattesi, Asllani, Carlos Augusto, Darmian, Zalewski, Taremi, Re Cecconi.
Barcelona: Szczesny, Garcia, Cubarsi, Martinez, Gerard, de Jong, Gonzalez, Yamal, Olmo, Raphinha, Torres.
Subs: Pena, Astralaga, Araujo, Gavi, Lewandowski, Fati, Christensen, Lopez, Victor, Fort, Farre, Darvich.
Referee: Szymon Marciniak (Poland).
VAR: Dennis Higler (Netherlands).
Preamble
If the second leg is even half pretty much as good as this …
… we’re in for a trip. Kick-off is at 8pm BST. It’s on!
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