LIVE Barcelona vs Inter Milano UEFA Champions League semifinal

INTER MILANO is in the UEFA CHAMPIONS LEAGUE FINAL!!!

UPDATE 22.38: BARCELONA HAVE A GOAL DISALLOWED!

UPDATE 22.29:  GOAL BARCELONA! Pique scores for Barca! Barcelona – Inter 1-0!!!

UPDATE 22.25: Messi has been very quiet in this second half

UPDATE 22.23: Inter continue to play a very strong defensive game

UPDATE 22.20: Keita attempts a shot from long range, without results

UPDATE 22.19: Jose Mourinho is out on the touchline waving at Muntari

UPDATE 22.15: Pedro wins a corner for his side, without result for Barcelona

UPDATE 22.11: Barcelona make their third and final change: Jeffren comes on to replace Busquets,

UPDATE 22.05: Pedro shoots wide of the near post

UPDATE 22.04: Barcelona’s build-up play is very slow, Inter is waiting for a chance to score

UPDATE 22.00: Home fans are very frustrated, Inter defense work is very good

UPDATE 21.59: Julio Cesar is very courageous as he dives at the feet of Ibrahimovic

UPDATE 21.57: Maicon wins a free-kick for Inter

UPDATE 21.50: Barcelona still need to score twice. Can they do it?

Half-time whistle goes at the Nou Camp

UPDATE 21.30: Two minutes will be added at the end of this first half

UPDATE 21.29: Chivu fouls Messi and is booked

UPDATE 21.27: Messi wins a free-kick out on the right

UPDATE 21.26:  Samuel dives at the feet of Ibrahimovic as the Swede prepares to shoot

UPDATE 21.21: Julio Cesar is booked for time-wasting

UPDATE 21.20: Sneijder  win a free-kick for Inter

UPDATE 21.15: Thiago Motta is sent off! He take a straight red card for a push of Sergi Busquets

UPDATE 21.11: Pedro meets the ball on the volley, but he cannot direct it on target

UPDATE 21.09: Messi gets forward dangerously, but the Inter defense holds firm

UPDATE 21.07: Chivu makes an exceptional intervention as Xavi evades two Inter defenders

UPDATE 21.04: Guardiola is out on the touchline barking orders at Keita

UPDATE 21.01: Milito wins his side a precious free-kick in the Barcelona half

UPDATE 20.58: Maicon is down injured after a challenge with Ibrahimovic

UPDATE 20.55: Thiago Motta is booked for hauling down Ibrahimovic

UPDATE 20.54: Pedro finds Xavi, but Sneijder is all over the midfielder and he makes the challenge.

UPDATE 20.53: Pedro`s  another shot from outside the Inter box, this goes wide.

UPDATE 20.50: Ibrahimovic in the Inter box, the Swede wins a corner after a neat turn.

UPDATE 20.48: Pedro effort flashes wide of the far post!

UPDATE 20.45: Frank De Bleeckere of Belgium first wistle. Very tensioned mathc begin. 96,000 fans on Nou Camp.

UPDATE 20.44: Pandev injured, Chivu comes in

UPDATE: Inter LineUp: Júlio César, Maicon, Lúcio, W. Samuel, J. Zanetti, E. Cambiasso, T. Motta, S. Eto’o, W. Sneijder, G. Pandev, D. Milito. Subs: F. Toldo, C. Chivu, M. Materazzi, S. Muntari, M. Balotelli, M. Mariga, I. Córdoba

UPDATE: FC Barcelona LineUp: Víctor Valdés, Dani Alves, G. Piqué, G. Milito, S. Keita, Y. Touré, Xavi, S. Busquets, L. Messi, Pedro, Z. Ibrahimovic. Subs: T. Henry, R. Márquez, J. Pinto, Jeffrén, Thiago, Maxwell, Bojan

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FC Barcelona have already beaten Inter Milano once at home this season and they need a repeat performance if they are to claim a place in next month’s UEFA Champions League final.

José Mourinho‘s visitors may have performed well on their travels in recent rounds but they lost 2-0 at the Camp Nou in November and have never won a semi-final away leg in Europe’s elite club competition.

The Italian champions hold the upper hand in the tie, however, despite Pedro Rodríguez’s 19th-minute strike at San Siro. Wesley Sneijder levelled on the half-hour, and second-half goals from Maicon (48) and Diego Milito (61) left Barcelona with plenty of work to do in the second leg.

For two-time winners Inter, the goal is a first final appearance since 1972. Josep Guardiola’s Barcelona, by contrast, are looking to take the penultimate step towards becoming the first team since Inter’s neighbours AC Milan 20 years ago to win back-to-back European crowns.

In a contest rich in sub-plots, Inter coach Mourinho returns once more to the club he served as assistant coach and he is not alone, with Nerazzurri players Samuel Eto’o, Thiago Motta and Ricardo Quaresma all having enjoyed spells at the Camp Nou.

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