Robert Lewandowski heroics save Barcelona in draw with Inter Milan play
Robert Lewandowski saved Barcelona's titleholders League knockout round hopes with two late pretensions to earn his side a 3- 3 draw with Inter Milan at the Camp Nou on Wednesday night.
Xavi Hernandez's Barca demanded at least a draw to have a chance to avoid missing the knockout rounds for the alternate time in a row and the Poland transnational delivered the goods near the end of a dramatic alternate half.
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Barcelona are still facing elimination at the group stage of the competition, but Lewandowski's cessation- time equaliser gave them a slim chance of progressing with two games left.
Inter need a home palm over Viktoria Plzen coming week to join Bayern Munich in the last 16.
" It's bad, I suppose this titleholders League is being veritably cruel to us," Barcelona director Xavi Hernandez told Movistar Plus." Now it's out of our hands. What's left for us is to turn our attention snappily to Sunday's El Clasico( against Real Madrid), bounce back and concentrate on LaLiga because the titleholders League came veritably delicate and complicated for us."
Edin Dzeko was denied by the bar for Inter's nature just after 15 twinkles as the callers looked to carry the instigation of their 1- 0 palm over Barca at the San Siro last Tuesday into the rear institution.
Barca, who pressed hard for their first, took a justified lead into the break when Ousmane Dembele shot once Andre Onana from Sergi Roberto's pass across the six- yard box just before half- time.
Inter drew level beforehand in the alternate half through Nicolo Barella, who attacked on a cross from Alessandro Bastoni and finished once Marc- Andre ter Stegen from close range.
Lautaro Martinez fired Simone Inzagh's side into the lead shortly past the hour mark with a fine individual trouble, settling Hakan Calhanoglu's long ball over the top of the defence, beating his marker and lashing home a low shot to pile more pressure on Barca.
Summer- signing Lewandowski did what he was brought in to do in the 82nd nanosecond as his title from a cross into the area came back to him off an Inter protector and he shot once Onana with a alternate trouble to make it 2- 2.
But Inter's Robin Gosens put Inter back in the supereminent twinkles latterly with a tidy finish on the counter before Lewandowski headed in for his brace in alternate.
" It was too numerous miscalculations, their first thing was a clear mistake by our defence, we let them have too numerous chances. Soccer is a game of miscalculations and we can not go those in situations like this," Xavi said.
" This is the titleholders League and you pay a high price for each error you make. You need to win, to defend well, to score. We demanded to play the entire game like we did in the first half. That intensity. Now it's hard because we aren't in control presently."
Barca are third in the Group C standings on four points, three behind Inter and eight adrift of Bayern, who settled a spot in the knockout rounds with a palm over Victoria Plzen on Wednesday.