The winner of the Inter Milan vs Barcelona Champions League semi-final sparked a debate in the studio between Poppy Miller, Nico Cantor, Nigel Reo-Coker, and Mike Grella. Did Inter Milan deserve to win the tie against Barcelona? Was the performance worthy of reaching the UCL Final? Watch the debate and decide for yourself!
00:00 Coming Up…
00:10 Who was the better team today?
02:01 Inter’s style of play vs. Barcelona’s style of play
05:15 Mike Grella on why Barcelona was the better team
10:39 Alessandro Del Piero speaks on Inter’s performance
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Inter fan here and, no….the best team didn't win but….who cares? Soccer is not mathematics!
It’s always the same story. When the team with the most popularity doesn’t win they downplay it, call it lucky, call it a robbery, “the better team lost” and whatnot.
In the first leg, everything Barcelona usually does was neutralized. There was no Raphina, no Ferran, no Pedri on his usual level, olmo was good only in the first 20 min of the game. So the whole plan switched from whatever they had, to work the ball to yamal and pray to god. If you think about it only as a plan I don’t see it as good football. Now ofc that guy was Yamal, an absolute phenomenon who ofc is fun to watch and brought Barcelona back to the game. So fun to watch is called good football.
And then second leg the whole first half the only thing Barca did better than Inter was the possession stat. And the second half Inter switched off completely until that Acerbi equalizer. In the end, it came down to experience and who wanted it more and the substitutes, who would give that extra thing the game needed. With the old team we have we have experience and we had 80k people pushing the team in that extra time.
Barcelona all the way .winning or loosing ❤
Need I remind people that in 210 minutes of football played between Inter and Barca, Barcelona was only in front for 6 mins… Thats 2.8% of the entire fixture. Let that set in.
Imagine being so delusional that you are gutted for a team to lose only because they had more possession. Give me a team which doesn't uselessly pass the ball around and can counter-attack with 2 lightning fast passes and score goals, I will support it any day. In 90% of cases the possession based football is just 1000 times more boring to watch, approach the box, go back to the half line, change the wing, come back to the middle.
This Grella man has been against us the whole season. I think he does this on purpose to be the villain on TV. But listening to him talk is so sad. I hope Napoli drop points and we have the chance to win the League also to make him cry
I’m so sick of commentated being goo goo gaga over Barcelona, even when they fkn lose LOL
Ipswich are sleeping giant merchant
Mike grella has absolutely no clue what he’s talking about. They played 2 full matches and Inter came out on top. They didn’t have the better attacking players, but they played better football and got the win they deserved. Barca played great and will be back.
Over two games, the better team always wins.
Inter won with experience with the ball
why did they hire an american 😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
3:14 We need now to vote on the goals that "deserve" to be counted
Wash yourself after you are done, buddy
What a joke commentary. Inter beat them almost beat them both games. Barca were lucky inter let them back in the game.
I will take inter team over barca. Are you joking. They showed the entire tournament. Who did barca play?
Grella what you are saying is a very disrespectful not only to Inter fans but to any soccer fan out there who supports any team other than Barcelona
Is grella serious? If this was Milan he’d would not be talking this way 😂
This show is a complete disgrace, it perfectly exemplifies what happens when you ask some random clueless individual (usually american) about a subject he is unaware of. 10 years ago americans barely knew a sport named football/soccer, today they talk about it as they invented the game 😂 guy on the right is ebarassing man, simply doesn't know what he's talking about.
Grella… idioto…. they scored 7 goals in 2 games !!!!!
Best teams create easy goals because they don't depend much on world star players to score extra ordinary goals. Inter tactics worked that's why they score boring goals they been doing it all season long so far
"Guys Barcelona just allowed Inter to win. It had nothing to do with Inter because Barcelona are not interested in going into the final". Lol Is the guy disrespecting Inter even hear himself. Inter were fighting knowing what was on the line
So the analysis is: if you don't score spectacular goals, then you're playing bad football?
Inter's plays come from great teamwork — clinical in some ways, but impressive.
Barcelona plays a different style (the same one they've used for 20 years), and everyone is free to prefer a different interpretation of football.
13 goals in 2 Champions League semi-final matches… what are we even talking about?
Continuate a gufare noi vinciamo
As a Barca fan, Inter fought for it and they won. They played their style and it worked out for them
Omg this Grella guy! This is why fans from other clubs don't like (hate?) Barcelona. They think they're better than the rest, just because they play with the ball, keep possession, high defensive line etc That's not football. They got exposed, Inter is a bad matchup for them. Barcelona's stellar attack got outscored by a "defensive" team, which again Inter is not. They adapted, played to their strength and beat them. Football is won by goals scored and the better team scored more goals (7!)
Better if he speaks about Hockey or Basketball
Dude talks like a greatest team of all time sent 4 OG out to lose the game.
Whichever team won they are the better side end of discussion.
Grella saying all 6 Barca goals were magical. The first 2 last night came from Inter players stuffing clearances straight to Barca players who then crossed to score. Good finishes but hardly magical flowing play. The Raphinha goal, Sommers only bad piece of play last night parried the shot straight to him and he sticks in rebound.
Even the Raphinha goal in first leg, a pass straight from a corner, he takes a shot that hits the crossbar and goes in off sommer back, officially an own goal.
Both teams scored some great goals and the type of goals you scored doesn't makes you any more deserving to win.
One team is in a completely difrent level… The level in which they are out of the champions league
An MLS ex player hahhahahhahhahah this dude is a comedy
Go study football bro
this guy is capping, how did he get into punditry? inter beat them fair nd square, either 1-0,2-1,7-6 it is total victory. This guy is caplord, watch the goals blah blah…barca had to mke a magik…story for the gods. U don't knw football, u re capping, get the hell out of the studio. And for the lady calling Inter an underdog, please rephrase that, Inter ain't any underdog, they have been formidable, consistent in Europe and they have shown they ain't pushover.
Who hired these analysts? Entertaining football doesn’t mean better football or wins you championship. Barca got scored on 7 timesss. 7 timessssss. That’s not a football
Inferior team…. Ahahahha give me a break, Who qualifies this two butthurted individual on the right to say that, the most organized team won period. Get over it, geeez what si this Barça TV?😅
Inter Milan are overrated and we’re beyond lucky to advance.
PSG or even Arsenal will embarrass them in that final. Watch this space
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Did the best team win ? Hell no
Who is "that" on the right?! When you say Inter stand up and salute 😡
Ok. "We don't need to talk about this" as an old coach told me when I just did something stupid.
He's clearly decided to generate fan comments over anything approaching insight.
If he doesn't apologize for coming to work drunk, then they should limit him to a typewriter. 🤡
Grella getting grilled here 😂
“Like a friend who goes to work and makes 300 bucks a day and then at night he gambles it all away.” 👏🏽 Couldn’t have come up with a better way to sum up Barca’s kamikaze defending, especially at the end.