A UCL classic at Camp Nou was enough to keep Barcelona alive for now, but the writing is on the wall. jonawils on the club whose significant summer gamble is on the brink of coming up significantly short
So much for the instant revolution. Barcelona is quite obviously playing far better football this season than it was last, but after taking—after mortgaging the future of the club—it expects far better than a second successive Champions League exit in the group stage. And yet after a relentlessly dramatic 3–3 draw against Inter Milan at Camp Nou on Wednesday, Barça is on the brink of just that.
Yet the feeling is not that Barcelona has been playing poorly. On the contrary, as seven wins and a draw from eight games has left it top of La Liga entering Sunday’s Clásico vs. Real Madrid. It has not played especially badly in either defeat in the Champions League, either. Against Bayern, in particular, Barcelona had chances, but after a couple of uncharacteristic misses from Robert Lewandowski, Wednesday’s hero, it conceded twice early in the second half.
There must have been fears the pattern was repeating on Wednesday, as Barcelona had almost all the ball but couldn’t score. Twice Inter went close, Edin Džeko hitting the bar after connecting with a right-wing free kick and Denzel Dumfries drilling an effort on the counter too close to Marc-Andre ter Stegen. But Barça got away with it and, having squandered a number of opportunities, finally scored with six minutes remaining in the first half.
That changed the game immensely. Inter’s use of the ball suddenly looked deadly as Barcelona’s defense disintegrated. ter Stegen made fine saves from a Hakan Çalhanoğlu 20-yard drive and a Milan Škriniar header. But the second Inter goal was coming and it arrived after 63 minutes as Lautaro Martínez took down a Çalhanoğlu ball on his chest, going past Eric García as he did so and then drilled a low shot in off both posts.
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