Barcelona coach Hansi Flick expressed frustration with the refereeing of their Champions League semi-final defeat to Inter Milan following a second-leg traditional at San Siro.
Having fought again from 2-0 down at dwelling to attract the primary leg 3-3, Barca appeared to have clinched their place within the ultimate in Munich when Raphinha fired dwelling his thirteenth Champions League objective of the season three minutes from the tip of regular time to place Flick’s aspect forward 3-2 on the evening.
Lautaro Martinez’s Twenty first-minute opener and Hakan Calhanoglu’s penalty had earlier given Inter command, just for Eric Garcia and Dani Olmo to stage the tie as soon as extra previous to Raphinha’s exact end.
However 37-year-old centre-back Francesco Acerbi supplied a shocking twist, forcing additional time together with his first European objective within the 93rd minute, earlier than Davide Frattesi lastly settled an encounter that tied the file for the highest-scoring two-legged Champions League semi-final, giving Inter a 4-3 win on the evening and a 7-6 mixture triumph.
Talking afterwards, Flick had nothing however reward for his gamers, although he indicted dissatisfaction with referee Szymon Marciniak.
“I’m very disillusioned that we’re out – however I’m not disillusioned in regards to the efficiency of my group. They tried every little thing,” mentioned Flick.
“We’re out, however subsequent yr we’ll begin once more and we’ll make our followers, the membership and everybody round us joyful.
“They [Inter] are a extremely good group, a powerful group who defend nicely but additionally they’ve a extremely good striker.
“Within the second half we had been actually good. I don’t need to communicate in regards to the referee however each 50-50 choice was for them.
“We gave every little thing however ultimately it was like that and that’s what made me a bit unhappy.”
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Of explicit competition for Barca, whose hopes of a treble got here to an finish with defeat at San Siro, was the penalty awarded to Inter late within the first half.
It initially appeared as if Pau Cubarsi had timed his problem on Martinez completely to cease an Inter break down the left, however Marciniak pointed to the spot after a pitchside overview, with replays suggesting Cubarsi made no contact with the ball.
Garcia took subject with that call, telling Prime Video Sport: “For me, the primary one Curbasi, I used to be actually shut, for me it’s by no means a pen.
“I believe within the first half going 2-0 down was robust. The response we had within the second half was wonderful.
“We had much more probabilities to shut the sport.
“It’s from choices made, however that’s soccer and we must be actually happy with what we did.”
Barca nonetheless have work to do to finish a LaLiga and Copa del Rey double. They’re 4 factors forward of Actual Madrid in LaLiga with 4 video games to play, and may all however seal the title with a house win within the Clasico on Sunday.
“We now have bought to get going, we must be proud,” Garcia added.
“No person believed in us at the start [of the season]. A whole lot of modifications and altering the supervisor, actually younger gamers and we must be proud.”
