CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL : BARCELONA VS INTER MILAN – 30/04/2025 (PHOTO – LAMINE YAMAL CELEBRATES)

CHEEKY SKILLS, ACROBATICS AND MORE THAN A TOUCH OR TWO OF TEENAGE GENIUS! THE MATCH BETWEEN BARCELONA VS INTER MILAN LAST NIGHT HAD IT ALL! IT WAS MARCUS THURAM WHO GOT THE 6 GOAL PARTY STARTED WHEN HE SCORED AN ABSOLUTE BLINDER WITH A CHEEKY BACKHEEL FLICK IN JUST 30 SECS. INTO THE MATCH! (THE FASTEST GOAL IN SEMI-FINAL HISTORY!) THIS WAS FOLLOWED 20 MINS. LATER BY AN AMAZING BICYCLE KICK FROM DENZEL DUMFRIES AT 21 MINS. (THEREBY RENDERING INTER MILAN 2 – 0 UP AFTER 20 MINS!) CUE LAMINE YAMAL, (WHO OBVIOUSLY DECIDED HE WASN’T HAVING ANY OF THIS) WHO SPRANG INTO ACTION, SCORING A SUPERB GOAL AT 24 MINS. (HE HAS NOW SCORED 22 GOALS, AND MADE 33 ASSISTS IN HIS FIRST 100 GAMES, AND HE’S NOT EVEN 18 YET!) HE ALSO HAD SEVERAL FURTHER SHOTS ON TARGET WHICH DIDN’T QUITE REACH-THE-BACK-OF-THE-NET, INCORPORATING SOME SPECTACULAR DRIBBLING (AS IS HIS WONT.) THEN IT WAS THE TURN OF FERRAN TORRES, WHO RECEIVED THE PERFECT HEADER FROM RAPHINHA AT EXACTLY THE RIGHT MOMENT WHICH HE TUCKED NEATLY INTO GOAL! AND THEN IT WAS BACK OVER TO DENZEL DUMFRIES TO SCORE THE SECOND GOAL OF WHAT TURNED OUT TO BE A BRILLIANT BRACE AT 63 MINS! AND FINALLY, BACK TO RAPHINHA WHO WOULD HAVE SCORED A CRACKER, BUT AS THE BALL HIT THE CROSSBAR, AND BOUNCED DOWN INTO GOAL, IT BOUNCED OFF GOALKEEPER YANN SOMMER’S BACK AND ALTHOUGH IT WAS ORIGINALLY PUT DOWN AS A RAPHINHA GOAL, IT ACTUALLY WENT DOWN AS A YANN SOMMER OWN GOAL. SO THIS THOROUGHLY RIVETING MATCH CULMINATED IN A 3 – 3 DRAW! WHAT SUPERB ENTERTAINMENT!

CHAMPIONS LEAGUE SEMI-FINAL : BARCELONA VS INTER MILAN – 30/04/2025