(ESP-ENG) Semifinales UCL: pronóstico reservado. [Opinión]

Hello friends, good vibes to all.

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Champions League semifinals week where we saw two very different matches. On Tuesday we saw Arsenal-PSG where the English were not even the shadow of what they were against Real Madrid, a very slow and boring match. Yesterday it was the turn of Barcelona-Inter. A rare encounter and I will explain why. Given the great dominance of the Catalans, it was expected that the score would be with a more comfortable goal difference but instead we saw a draw due to the high Italian efficiency and the great performance of Sommer. To see how the Culés were losing 0-2 in the first 20 minutes was something very surreal.

When I talk about a reserved prediction, I mean that the playoffs are extremely open in terms of results and that a 1-0 and a draw are not guarantees of absolutely nothing in the Champions League. Now, in terms of play? - That's another matter. On Tuesday PSG in almost the entire first half was infinitely superior to the Gunners, so much so that the goal came after 5 minutes at the feet of Dembele. Arsenal were missing, stunned and unable to respond to a Parisian team that under Luis Enrique seemed to be playing something else. It was a French monologue. It was not until the 40th minute when the English started to wake up and generated what they had not done in the first half.

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The second half was a little different, Arteta's team wanted to show something, to propose something but it was not enough, far from being the machine that overwhelmed Madrid. Even PSG could have gone with 0-2 but they forgave towards the end of the game. For the second leg I do not see a clear favorite, I think Arsenal's margin for improvement is much wider than that of the French, the thing is that they manage to implement it. The issue on Tuesday is that they came out very passive, they allowed themselves to be run over by a team that looked for goals and at least generated danger. I hope that on Wednesday we will see a different type of game, I have already said it but personally I want Arsenal to win the Champions League, the detail is that in these final instances they always owe a lot.

Now, let's talk about yesterday. A few weeks ago I said that it had been a long time since I had seen a player as differential as Lamine Yamal, it is true that his age may play “against him” because of maturity but what this young man shows every time he steps on the field and touches the ball is really crazy. Yesterday's game I would like to think that he proved me right a little bit, Lamine played an anthological game where Dimarco and Mjitaryan did not see any light in front of the Culé attacker, on that right wing he did whatever he wanted, feints, cuts, dribbles, runs, crosses, unmarking, everything to show that with only 17 years old he does not flinch in front of the big ones.

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This semifinal was like a Yin-Yan. On the one hand we saw a team absolutely dominating from start to finish, leading all possible statistics and on the other hand we saw the other team making the most of their virtues and exploiting them in front of goal. Inter's goals were the result of set pieces and a locker-room kick, nothing more, Inzaghi's team did not do much more and it was still enough for them to tie the game against the blaugranas. The Catalan goals came as a result of the reaction, they always had to come back, going down 0-2 is not something that was in the plans. It was here that the pieces fell into place and the eye-catching play of this club with Yamal at the helm began.

The Champions League is very unpredictable, there is Arsenal playing a bad game after what they showed in the quarterfinals and Barcelona always had to turn the score around despite being the clear controller of the ball and the tempo. That's soccer, very capricious and not very clear and accurate. That is why the outlook for next week is cloudy, there are no finalists in sight yet.

Well my people that's all for today, I hope you liked it.
¡Hugs to all, see you next time!

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