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    Inter beat Milan to reach Champions League final

    David GreatBy David GreatMay 16, 2023No Comments3 Mins Read
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    Lautaro Martinez celebrates his goal with Inter Milan fans in the Champions League semi-final second leg
    Lautaro Martinez celebrates his goal with Inter Milan fans
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    Lautaro Martinez scored the only goal as Inter Milan defeated rivals AC Milan 1-0 in the second-leg semi-final of the Champions League to reach the final.

    Inter had taken a 2-0 advantage in the first leg and were largely unruffled by Milan as they sealed a 3-0 aggregate win to book their ticket to the showpiece in Istanbul.

    Milan recovered some of the spark they lacked in the first leg but Inter’s Martinez put the tie to bed when he struck powerfully from close range in the 74th minute at the San Siro.

    Inter went into the game holding a 2-0 advantage after Edin Dzeko and Henrikh Mkhitaryan had struck early in a flying start to the first leg and never looked in serious danger of missing out on the final, where they will face Real Madrid or Manchester City on June 10.

    Inter, who overcame Portuguese pair Porto and Benfica to reach the semis, will play in the final for the sixth time and first since lifting their third European Cup in 2009-10 under Jose Mourinho.

    “There was a lot of history in this game. I felt it, we did a great job in both games,” said Martinez, who won the World Cup with Argentina in December.

    “The unity of the group (motivated us). I experienced it at the World Cup, that’s important. If you have a united group, things are easier. We have shown that Inter deserve this moment.

    “Playing in the Champions League final is a dream. We started this season with goals and today we achieved a very important one.”

    Inter coach Simone Inzaghi fielded an unchanged team from the first leg, with Martinez and Dzeko up front, having rested players in Serie A over the weekend.

    Main forward Rafael Leao returned for Milan after an adductor problem sidelined him in the first leg, with Junior Messias and Malick Thiaw starting in place of Alexis Saelemaekers and Simon Kjaer.

    A much more daring Milan side could have scored early but Inter keeper Andre Onana saved a low Brahim Diaz shot that was heading towards the bottom-right corner.

    Leao had a great chance to halve the deficit late in the first half but struck inches wide, before Milan keeper Mike Maignan superbly denied Dzeko who leaped high to meet a free kick.

    While Stefano Pioli’s Milan kept probing for an opening to spark a comeback, Inter hinted in the first half that they would not be taking their foot of the gas.

    Martinez eventually proved Milan’s executioner, playing a one-two with substitute Romelu Lukaku before scoring his sixth goal in Inter’s last six games.

    It is the first time Inter have progressed from a knockout tie against their city rivals in the competition, with Milan coming out on top both in the 2002-03 semi-finals and the 2004-05 quarters.

    It is also the first time in almost 50 years that Milan have lost to Inter four times in a single campaign, the only other time being in 1973-74.

    And never before in their history had they gone four games in a row without finding the net against Inter.

    “It’s clear that we dreamed of the final and wanted to beat our rivals,” Pioli said.

    “Not succeeding causes us disappointment, but we’ll have to focus on the championship. The real disappointment would be not playing in the Champions League next year.”

    Milan, who have won only two in their last seven Serie A games, risk dropping out of Europe’s elite club competition next season as they currently sit four points off the top four.

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