Inzaghi the little one is the big sting

This will say the statistics over the years, when it will be forgotten that it was perhaps the most beautiful “double” in the history of the Champions League, thus defined by the amount of emotions delivered to the viewer and by the epic thread of the story. Inter is the winner and will go to Munich in search of supreme glory, Barcelona is defeated that opens a small paradox. Because she was defeated.

About the winners and winners-winners

I'll explain a little later why. To begin with, it is normal to give the triumphal to theirs. Simone Inzaghi's Inter and Beppe Marotta (who takes the latter from the context is far from everything that means football) is a force in Europe and not this season. It is what is called a difficult, complicated team, with unexpected physical and mental resources, which can be transformed into a nightmare for anyone.

Guardiola knows this best, who in the best season in Manchester City's history, when she had transformed the “citizens” group into a dragon, seriously sweated into the Istanbul final to get her hands on the “urecheta”.

He is not a young locker room, unlike that of Barcelona, ​​but he is an experience full of experience, who completes the value of some and compensates for the possible lack of value of others. It is a society that works quietly, and here the role of Marota is essential, according to well -developed plans, nothing seems to be done there.

And from this last point of view the contrast with Barcelona is as clear as possible.

Simone Inzaghi has built an gear that knows what and how to play. Inzaghi the little one, if we refer to the career of footballers of the two brothers, Inzaghi the Great, if we look at the coach's career.

When he woke up with his eyes in the sun after Count's departure, Marotta was not hesitant and snatched from Lazio's bench, although the only viable recommendation was that he plays in the same system with Count and so the transition will be smoother.

This is how an experienced leader is seen, and Marotta has demonstrated this over the years. The example of Sommer, on the order of the day after the colossal performance of the Swiss on Wednesday night (I do not think Barcelona had a chance at the break!), It is the most visible now: taken with 7 million euros, after beforea was sold to Manchester United for 50 million, which Ona had come for free.

But not only Sommer is in question. What about Marcus Thuram? But by Calhanoglu, Mkhityan, de Vrij, Pavard or Zielinski? They all came for free, in an era in which the hundreds of millions as a starting price of negotiations for some footballers has become something trivial.

With money can anyone, I talk about us, without money can only those who have something other than the wallet. And the money paid for a lautaro, a bar or a brother is far from their value today.

If Inter is a better team today than Barcelona, ​​it matters less. What matters is that it is the team that went on from this clash. If it was worth this qualification, and it matters less, it is important that it has obtained it. And to those who say that the result is unfair, the qualification more precisely, I want to remind them of a single aspect: on the whole of the double sleeve, Inter has been led by Barcelona for only 6 minutes. And gave 7 goals. Any theory of merit stops here.

Barcelona and Victoria from failure

And now about Barcelona. Can it be a winner at the same time? Statistics dry says no. Can it be a cheerful funeral? Never, death has nothing romantic in it. But it can be sober and can offer one last pleasant memory. For Barcelona, ​​the failure of Milan is far from a funeral.

It is rather a birth certificate, because the failures are born from failures. But this is also an exaggeration, because Barcelona was not born now, now he has just returned to the forefront. So it is not a birth certificate, it is only his finding, after a period when the Na club knew what his identity is.

If the inter eo team formed, welded, connected and, I said, hard, Barcelona is in training. For Hansi Flick he had to be a transitional season, as well as for Laport. The German took over a locker room full of teenagers, some of the children, an effect of a club with big financial problems, forced to all kinds of engineers to be able to enroll their players.

And it transformed it into a perpetual joy, a feeling that is difficult to find in other places full of rigor. Barcelona today is exactly a joy, a team that you look at, because you are sure that his matches are not boring. And this is a great victory.

However, a victory that does not bring, obligatory, the victories themselves. Those on the table, those in statistics. Hansi Flick has to work here, to convert this exuberance into a cynicism that, yes, it is mandatory, you must have to convert the performances. And this is obtained and experiencing the bitter taste of failure.

Barcelona has an extremely solid base, a spine called to knock on the door of the great successes, has a future, but also has present, unlike other seasons.

Barcelona from Milan, even if he lost, has nothing to do with the Barcelona of that 0-4 on “Anfield”, with the Barcelona of that 2-8 with Bayern, with the Barcelona of that 1-4 with PSG last season or with Barcelona navigating and failing through the Europa League.

Barcelona has stopped being a spectator in this competition and went from the stage to envy his rivals to fight part with them. He returned between the borders of Europe, and in the next season he will be clearly one of the favorites to win the Champions League.

The trophies themselves are important. However, the image you sell to people are important, because there are more money from there. And what Barcelona won, losing this image. Today, Barcelona is a reference, children want to imitate this style of play, and between mature people there are more about the losses than about the winners. This is the victory from a defeat.

How will Lamine Yamal be at 25?

And it is obviously Lamine Yamal. He will probably not take the golden balloon, because the Champions League trophy weighs decisively in this fight. He won't take him now, but he will normally take him. I did not catch Pele, I saw Maradona rarely because the times were, but Messi and Cristiano, yes, I enjoyed them almost every day.

Neither Messi nor Cristiano had, at the age of 17, the impact that this child, with a dental device and themes to do, has in the game. Even the fact that there is a debate if it is not the best footballer in the world at this time is a colossal success at this age.

Barcelona climbed right on the shoulders of this child, and he was not refused for a moment. He went on, again and again, although it was obvious that it was difficult. Not even Messi was sought by teammates with such insistence. And I think everyone in mind a single question: How will Lamine Yamal look at 25 years old?