Inter take on the visitors Barcelona in the round 3 match of UEFA Champions League group stage. The match will be played on Tuesday, October 4th at Stadio Giuseppe Meazza (San Siro) (Milan).
Inter coped well with the challenges of the last season. Then the new mentor, Simone Indazghi, against the backdrop of financial problems and the forced sale of leaders, managed to show decent results. Yes, as expected, they didn’t keep the Scudetto, but they fought for it to the last. In addition, they won the Super Cup and the Cup. And in the Champions League it turned out to reach the playoffs. Now the picture is not so optimistic, there are already enough misfires and losses in Calcio. In the Champions League, initially, after the draw, it became clear that a difficult battle was ahead. So far, everything has unfolded there according to a fairly expected scenario: they lost to the favorite, Bayern, beat the outsider, Victoria. It is the current clash with a direct competitor from Catalonia that will decide which of the pair is worthy to join the Germans in reaching the playoffs. And in such circumstances, a draw in Milan may not be enough.
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Last season Barcelona flew out of the last Champions League after the group stage. But then the list of opponents was clearly simpler: the same Bayern, but in the company of Benfica and Dynamo Kyiv. That's the Portuguese who won the dispute for 2nd place in the quartet. Now it is clear that, despite the transfer of Lewandowski, they did not learn to play “more than a club” with the Germans. Yes, they looked decent in Munich, but what's the point if in the end they lost again? At the same time, with Viktoria, there were not the slightest problems. So the final alignment for the "Catalans" is identical to that of the opponent from Milan. It seems that status clubs within the group are playing some kind of 1/16 finals among themselves. Under such conditions, of course, the current visitors can be strategically satisfied with a draw.
In total, 10 head-to-heads were played between the clubs, in which Barcelona dominates. They took 6 wins with a single defeat, including winning both meetings during the last cycle, in the 2019 group stage. By the way, in a very similar situation, when the quartet also included the German grand, Borussia (Dortmund), and the Czech outsiders represented by Slavia. Bookmakers do not believe in Inter. Still, Barcelona at the start of the season looked more solid - we bet on the victory of the visitors.
Prediction for the match: Barcelona to win.
