• Narration: So we live the game
  • Classification Group F

The day Ansu Fati signed his last contract with Barcelona, ​​which should fix him in the club and keep him safe from siren songs from outside, his entire family broke up to applaud in the presidential office of Camp Nou. The employees had never lived something similar. The boy from Guinea-Bissau, to whom the Messi family has offered his protection, broke another record of precocity in a legendary scenario, the Giuseppe Meazza in Milan. Ansu Fati, when the game was already dying, ended up sinking Inter with a right from the front that dug him into the history of the Champions League. With 17 years and 40 days he surpassed Ofori-Quaye (17 years and 195 days) and became the youngest scorer in the Champions League. [Narration and statistics: 1-2]

There was nothing more to notice the gestures in the band of Antonio Conte, a man on the verge of madness, to understand the harsh reality of Inter: a club forever cursed and that, after another mastodóntica investment, ended up eliminated again in the first Champions curve. The 'nerazzurri', to which they annulled three goals for offside, could not knock out a denatured Barcelona and had to take out the rosary every time Lautaro and Lukaku roamed the twilight Umtiti. The triumph of Dortmund against Slavia at home ended up tearing apart Conte's project.

With the classic just around the corner and before the visit on Saturday to a stadium as damn for the Catalans as Anoeta, little could be reproached Valverde. If anything, let him leave Riqui Puig in the stands. The Catalans classified as first of the group, the visit to Giuseppe Meazza was going to allow the technician to offer rest to his pantocrator, Messi, but also to experiment with the possibilities of his staff.

Valverde twisted the scheme with a 5-3-2, in which Umtiti, very limited to the open field, suffered as never before as a free man with Todibo and Lenglet, with Wagué and Junior Firpo as lanes and the Net debutante under the crossbar. Although the good news for Barcelona came from the center of the field. Aleñá, at least, contributed construction and criteria to the side of Rakitic and Arturo Vidal.

Carles Pérez, like Ansu, also left his mark. He faced Godin, De Vrij and Skriniar without fear, who could well be the guardians of the gates of hell. And that the emergence of this Fati campaign had condemned Pérez to a strange indifference. In fact, the forward, always discreet but with a competitive eagerness that relates him to Pedro Rodríguez, came down to the mud of the subsidiary after a start of the course in which he had more than fulfilled. The 22-year-old Granollers footballer appeared in what was his Champions premiere. He needed half an hour of play to win a contract with the first team. Not only did he add the minutes he needed, but he also scored the goal with which Barcelona opened the scoring.

It was Griezmann who deciphered the pass to the area. Arturo Vidal won the position to Godín and the poor control of the Chilean allowed Carles Pérez to finish off the net with his soul. Handanovic, who came from saving a goal to the youth player, nothing could do.

Lenglet could well sentence the crash, unable to orient after a corner kick. He failed and Inter, despite his initial precautions, carried the weight of his story on an Argentine thrown into stardom, Lautaro, who was knocked out 2-1 for offside at a quarter of an hour's end, and on a battering ram that was intended to be imposed by demolition, Lukaku. The former Manchester striker, denied by a great Net, caught the draw with a sigh of rest after taking advantage of Lautaro playing Todibo.

But Inter, in full football agony, did not expect that the illusion of two children would be enough to erase them from the tournament. Ansu Fati and Carles Pérez offer a future that is already present. Barcelona has reason to chain itself to La Masia.

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