The penalty spot expels Getafe from Europe. He did it on the last day of the League, when Mata sent the passport to the post. It happened again in the eighths of the Europa League , with Molina putting the option of extension in the stands. The people of Madrid could not quote themselves with the story, despite the occasions they had. The plebeian team arrived at the Gelsenkirchen mine to chop the stone before a princely Inter who twisted the gesture in a match that he expected to be dirty, but which he solved with two flashes of the diamonds he has in his squad. [Narration and statistics]

Getafe needed to hide the fragility left by the very long hiatus. Bordalás did not find how to activate his men in the League and they ended up slipping in the classification until falling out of the European positions. Recovering ambition, the right dose of self-esteem and not making mistakes so that Inter would have a hard time punishing him was the recipe.

If doubts arose, enemies would grow in Madrid, on the grass and on their heads. So he chose to shake them off from the same initial whistle. Bordalás dissected Inter with numbers that shone: the eleven least scored at Calcio and the second most goalscorer. The player from Alicante did not hesitate to qualify his bet to short-circuit the rival, strengthening the midfield with Timor , giving air to Maksimovic and avoiding, with a consistent and generous defensive work, the direct fight of his defense with the colossi Lukaku and Lautaro .

His idea of ​​scaring, of chasing the dream with nothing to lose, was reflected in the Arena AufSchalke for 25 minutes in which only the goal was missing . Getafe had up to seven occasions to tip the game. Nyom warned with a cross without an auctioneer, but it was a Maksimovic header that forced Handanovic to reach out. Later it would be Cucurella who would embitter Godín to give Mata a ball that, by placing it, Bastoni ended up clearing from the ground.

Conte's team's engine took so long to start, but when it did, it consumed all of the Getafe's oxygen. From not smelling the ball to moving it at will. Inter's first shot came midway through the first half and Soria's hand cleared Lautaro's shot . It was a warning because they were beginning to find a way to get around the pressure and stay in the area. Sometimes without the ball even circulating. A long pass from Bastoni on the back of the colossal Lukaku was enough for Inter to achieve the first goal.

The Belgian beat Etxeita just by using his corpulence, which he moves on the field with the agility of a fighter in the ring. He ran, stopped dead, positioned himself and put together a shot before which Soria could do nothing. Player gestures that modest teams can't even dream of.

So much was a slab that Getafe struggled to shake. The task is not easy. Again the mental enemy in a long season, convulsed and breathless. And again the condition of a commoner. Without Kenedy and with Molina and Ángel in the stands, the Azulón team lacked an attack pulse against a rival with dynamite at the tip.

Despite the ability to handle short results that is always presumed to Italian teams, Inter did not want scares. He chose to come out of the locker room hitting. He repeated the play of the goal with a long pass for Lautaro's hat to Djene that the Togolese expeditiously resolved in foul. Without continuity solution, Barella released a right hand that brushed Etxeita's shoulder just enough to make him a corner, from which an acrobatic ball from D'Ambrosio was born that Soria cleared. The rejection was regretted by Godín for not being able to hunt him down.

It was precisely that arreón what spurred Getafe, already with Ángel in the field. There was nothing to lose, Bordalás thought. His team was alive and settled in the area. Jason , Molina ... everything that was around the goal ended up on the grass to look for a tie that Mata had saved by a masterful hand from Handanovic .

The key to his resurrection came in the 72nd minute, when the VAR caught a hand from Godín . Getafe was going to have an extra life. Just as it happened in the last league game against Levante, Europe was passing the penalty spot. Without Mata in the field, it was going to be Jorge Molina's responsibility . The captain tried to adjust so much to deceive the Slovenian that his shot did not touch the goal. In the stands, the European dream of a bargaining team ended.

Despite attempts to stay on their feet, Getafe had to sink their knees against Inter, who had a prize until Eriksen's second goal . Nothing can be done when glory is denied to those who are not summoned to enter paradise. No, at least, for now.

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