Barcelona - Inter (24 Oct 18) [2-0]

[Guney]

i'm so excited to play Barca but at the same time so nervous to face them in such a short amount of time. Forza Inter per sempre as always

 

[Alex de Large]

I'm interested in the 6-3-1 if Brozo is out.

 

[koba]

I prefer to put 2nd team for this match,, so the 1st team will have good stamina vs Lazio.

 

[brehme1989]

I prefer to put 2nd team for this match,, so the 1st team will have good stamina vs Lazio.

We have a 2nd team? We barely have 1 midfield.

 

[Harpsabu]

Have a crazy feeling we will sneak a draw here

 

[Pimpin]

90 minutes of getting our asses whooped.



































And then

vecino makes it 6-1

 

[ElDuccio]

I prefer to put 2nd team for this match,, so the 1st team will have good stamina vs Lazio.

normaly you are right.. but it's CL, i would like that we try to get some point because Tottenham can still beat PSV. It's not over and we should try to get enough points to be safe for the Round of 16

 

[ADRossi]

Let's park the plane:

Handanovic
Vrsaljko Skriniar Miranda de Vrij D'Ambrosio
Vecino Asamoah
Candreva Icardi Keita​

1-0 troll win confirmed, Candreva goal in the 90th assisted by Vecino

 

[bolo]

I prefer to put 2nd team for this match,, so the 1st team will have good stamina vs Lazio.

vs Lazio in Monday night right?
i think players have enough time to rest for that

 

[Wobblz]

Barcelona have won three of their six Champions League matches against Inter (D2 L1), with the only defeat coming in the first leg of the semi-final in 2009-10 (1-3).

At home, Barcelona have won four of their five meetings with Inter in all competitions, including all three in the Champions League without conceding.

Their only home defeat against them was in the Fairs Cup in January 1970 (1-2).

Barcelona are unbeaten in their last 13 Champions League home games against Italian sides (W10 D3), since a 1-2 loss vs Juventus in April 2003.

Barcelona have won 25 of their last 27 home Champions League games (D2) since losing 3-0 to Bayern Munich in May 2013, scoring 85 goals and conceding just 13 in those games.

Inter are looking to win their opening three Champions League matches in a season for just the second time, also doing so in the 2004-05 season.

Lionel Messi has scored 65 goals in 65 Champions League group stage matches for Barcelona – at Camp Nou, Messi has scored in his last nine starts in the group stages, scoring 17 goals.

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has scored 10 goals in his last seven Champions League home games against Italian sides – every time he’s netted against Italian opposition at Camp Nou he’s scored a brace.

Since winning 4-0 against Werder Bremen in September 2010, each of Inter’s last nine Champions League wins have been achieved by a one-goal margin – of the 12 teams to win 50 Champions League games, Inter have the highest margin of victories by one-goal (32 of 52, 62%), while opponents Barcelona have the lowest (40 of 140, 29%).

Lionel Messi has scored five Champions League goals for Barcelona this season, more than 27 other clubs have managed so far, including Inter (4).

Inter have won their last two Champions League games despite conceding the first goal in both games; only two clubs have ever won more despite conceding first in consecutive games – Man Utd (three in November 2012) and Real Madrid (four in April 2017).

 

[JJM]

GdS says INTER (4-2-3-1):*Handanovic; D'Ambrosio, Skriniar, Miranda, Asamoah; Vecino, Brozovic; Candreva, Borja Valero, Perisic; Icardi.

Hmmm... Mhhhm
Candreva ftw haha

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[yoszee]

Let's park the plane:

Handanovic
Vrsaljko Skriniar Miranda de Vrij D'Ambrosio
Vecino Asamoah
Candreva Icardi Keita​

1-0 troll win confirmed, Candreva goal in the 90th assisted by Vecino

Any win so the income of the win could buy Rafinha.

 

[JJM]

It would be a damn shame to stop now
I want to live in delusion land a bit longer
A troll win against Farca(irritating club tbh) would be amazing for morale for the future games.

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[Il Drago]

Inter v Barcelona: revisiting the Mourinho-Guardiola classic from 2010

Internazionale’s return to the Champions League this season after a long sojourn was always bound to produce a flood of memories for the club’s fans, but few venues will evoke stronger nostalgia than that of Wednesday night’s game.

Luciano Spalletti brings his Inter side to face Barcelona at the Camp Nou, the scene of one of the most stirring victories in the club’s historic 2010 Champions League run, knowing that they have a long journey ahead if they are to emulate José Mourinho’s all-conquering Nerazzurri. That Inter incarnation was to prove the only side capable of denying Pep Guardiola the Champions League in his first three seasons at Barça, eliminating his fabled outfit over two legs of a fiery semi-final contest.

The tie pitted Mourinho against Guardiola in an early instalment of the rivalry that’s proven so enduring through the years, and, as ever, was billed a clash of styles: Guardiola’s Barça were flush with the riches of an unprecedented six trophies in 2009, boasting newly-anointed Ballon d’Or and FIFA World Player of the Year winner, Lionel Messi, and playing a brand of football most teams could only dream of.

Inter under Mourinho, meanwhile, had garnered a reputation as a somewhat less florid outfit. The Portuguese had steered the Nerazzurri to a Scudetto in his first season in charge, but even amidst the traditionally cerebral fare of Serie A, he had faced criticism for an unduly cautious approach.

The 2010 meeting with Barça was one fraught with significance for Mourinho: his predecessor Roberto Mancini had paid the price for a failure to make the breakthrough in Europe despite securing consecutive Scudetti, and there was little doubt that the former Porto and Chelsea manager had been hired to return Inter to Europe’s top table.

The previous season, he’d seen his side outthought and outfought by Manchester United, with Mourinho even apologising to fans for his safety-first approach in a first-leg 0-0 draw at the Giuseppe Meazza.

There was an undeniable personal enmity developing, meanwhile, between Barcelona and Mourinho. To many of the club’s fans he was still “the translator”, a pejorative reference to his stint as Bobby Robson’s assistant, and a series of ill-tempered duels between Barça and Mourinho’s Chelsea had heightened the friction in recent years.

To add insult to injury, Mourinho was interviewed, but ultimately overlooked, for the vacant managerial position at the Camp Nou when Frank Rijkaard left, with the club ultimately opting to appoint the comparatively serene Guardiola.

Mourinho’s chilliness towards Barça had been apparent the previous summer when asked about his view on Zlatan Ibrahimović’s impending move from Italy to Spain: “I told him that if he wins the Champions League with Barcelona, he won’t be doing anything extraordinary,” the Portuguese remarked slyly, “seeing as the Catalans have won it twice in three years. I like doing something extraordinary, not what’s normal.”

The pre-match narrative may have focused on a perceived contrast in approach between the exuberance of Barcelona and Inter’s pragmatism, but it was the Italian side who produced an unexpectedly thrilling display of high pressing and marauding attacking in the first leg to roar into a 3-1 lead.

A freakish development had seen Guardiola’s men forced to make an arduous 14-hour journey to Milan by coach as a result of the Eyjafjallajökull volcanic ash cloud, and despite going in front through Pedro, they were outmanoeuvred by Mourinho’s explosive Inter, who scored through Wesley Sneijder, Maicon and Diego Milito.

Still, Guardiola’s Barcelona were a daunting prospect to face at the Camp Nou, where it would be up to Inter to find a way of stilting and obstructing their naturally silky game. “In Barcelona, we will attack,” Guardiola remarked with typical equanimity after the first leg. “We will put water on the pitch so the ball moves quicker, which they didn’t do here.”

Mourinho, too, realised the tie was far from over, and chose to deploy some of his characteristic mind games ahead of the second leg by highlighting his former employers’ determination to win the Champions League title at the Bernabéu, where the final was due to be played. “It is not a dream for Barça – it is an obsession,” he declared. “The obsession is reaching the final in Madrid … it’s one thing to follow a dream, it’s another to have an obsession.

“I experienced what it is like here,” he continued. “I have won cups – against Betis in 1997 – at the Bernabéu, where everyone was wrapped in Catalan flags. I know what it is about – it is anti-Madridismo. It is an obsession.”

An unperturbed Guardiola, however, was quick to dismiss suggestions of a personal rivalry between him and the man he had pipped to the Blaugrana job. “I have a very good relationship with Mourinho,” he insisted. “We haven’t exchanged phone numbers, but I consider him the best, and we’ll try to beat him.”

The air throbbed with the roars of 98,000 enraptured fans inside the Camp Nou for the second leg, with Mourinho, as usual, happy to play the role of pantomime villain on the touchline. The Portuguese applauded sarcastically to the jeers of Barça supporters after Thiago Motta was sent off on a highly dubious second yellow card. Having warned of Barcelona’s appetite for theatrics prior to the game, Motta was shown the line following Sergio Busquets’ dramatic reaction to a high hand.

Still, Mourinho’s well-drilled Inter proved unflinchingly obdurate even in the face of Barça’s famed attack, and while Gerard Piqué’s 84th-minute goal set up a frantic finale, the Italians held firm for a famous aggregate victory. Nothing could curb Mourinho’s euphoria as he surged onto the Catalan turf, enraging Barça fans and Victor Valdés alike with his exuberant celebrations.

“It’s the greatest moment of my career,” an elated Mourinho later declared. “We were a team of heroes. We sweated blood.” It was a victory full of significance for the divisive coach: speculation was already rife that this season would be his last in Italy, intensifying after his post-match words – “I love Inter, but not Italian football” – and he had sent a clear message to his prospective future employers, Real Madrid, by ensuring that Barça would not win the Champions League at the Bernabéu.

Mourinho’s provocative celebrations following the game had also seemingly torpedoed one of the last obstacles standing between him and Madrid – his personal connection with Barcelona. Indeed, he appeared to accept after the game that he would never follow in the footsteps of his mentor, Bobby Robson. “I respect Barça and I’ll never forget what the club gave me in the four years I was here,” he commented, “but something has been created around me that is hard to make positive. It is clear that I will end my career without having coached Barça.”

Guardiola, for his part, was unsurprisingly magnanimous after the defeat. “We lost to a great team and a great coach,” he reflected. “We will be back.”

Mourinho had won this battle. But with the Portuguese seemingly destined to coach Barcelona’s arch-nemesis, it appeared that the two managers would be seeing a lot more of each other in the future.

https://thesefootballtimes.co/2018/10/23/inter-v-barcelona-revisiting-the-mourinho-guardiola-classic-from-2010/

 

[Universe]

Barcelona have won three of their six Champions League matches against Inter (D2 L1), with the only defeat coming in the first leg of the semi-final in 2009-10 (1-3).

At home, Barcelona have won four of their five meetings with Inter in all competitions, including all three in the Champions League without conceding.

Their only home defeat against them was in the Fairs Cup in January 1970 (1-2).

Barcelona are unbeaten in their last 13 Champions League home games against Italian sides (W10 D3), since a 1-2 loss vs Juventus in April 2003.

Barcelona have won 25 of their last 27 home Champions League games (D2) since losing 3-0 to Bayern Munich in May 2013, scoring 85 goals and conceding just 13 in those games.

Inter are looking to win their opening three Champions League matches in a season for just the second time, also doing so in the 2004-05 season.

Lionel Messi has scored 65 goals in 65 Champions League group stage matches for Barcelona – at Camp Nou, Messi has scored in his last nine starts in the group stages, scoring 17 goals.

Barcelona’s Lionel Messi has scored 10 goals in his last seven Champions League home games against Italian sides – every time he’s netted against Italian opposition at Camp Nou he’s scored a brace.

Since winning 4-0 against Werder Bremen in September 2010, each of Inter’s last nine Champions League wins have been achieved by a one-goal margin – of the 12 teams to win 50 Champions League games, Inter have the highest margin of victories by one-goal (32 of 52, 62%), while opponents Barcelona have the lowest (40 of 140, 29%).

Lionel Messi has scored five Champions League goals for Barcelona this season, more than 27 other clubs have managed so far, including Inter (4).

Inter have won their last two Champions League games despite conceding the first goal in both games; only two clubs have ever won more despite conceding first in consecutive games – Man Utd (three in November 2012) and Real Madrid (four in April 2017).

Those stats are fucking horrific.

GdS says INTER (4-2-3-1):*Handanovic; D'Ambrosio, Skriniar, Miranda, Asamoah; Vecino, Brozovic; Candreva, Borja Valero, Perisic; Icardi.

Hmmm... Mhhhm
Candreva ftw haha

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That is probably the correct lineup to play considering Nainggolan's injury. D'Ambrosio over Vrsaljko is interesting if true.

I think there's a high likelihood we concede early, like very early. I know Barca's league form hasn't been amazing but in the CL they've been good. I think Brozovic might be completely overwhelmed this match. Vecino had a strong match against Milan but as is always the case, when it comes to relieving pressure off Brozovic and playmaking duties, most of the time he's up front in line with the wingers looking for a forward pass from Brozovic instead of dropping deeper and helping him play the ball out from deep - hence the numerous misplaced forward passes, hence the numerous backwards passes to Handanovic.

I think if we go to Camp Nou looking to defend, we'll get raped. We should go there and try to play our game, or as closest as we can to it considering the fatigue and numerous injuries.

If only Keita could actually do something useful for a change. With his dribbling and speed, he's a great impact sub in theory but he's simply not performing. He looks completely short of confidence.

 

[.h.]

I'm not holding my breath for this game tbh considering it's away from home and against Barca.

 

[Ronaldo]

I don't like that lineup with Valero starting.

 

[ScottishInterista]

We don't really have anyone else though

 

[Wobblz]

Meh, with Nainggolan I would have had an ounce of hope for a positive result in this one but now that he's injured we will be needing an even bigger miracle.

 

[dax21]

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