Barcelona vs Inter stay updates: Champions League semi-final predictions, group information and newest rating

On the one hand, Inter are old-school Italian. Towards Bayern within the quarter-final, they have been comfortable to defend deep for lengthy durations and made some wonderful last-ditch blocks. In home league competitors this season, they’ve the very best aerial success price, 59 per cent, of any aspect.

The three-man defence means they’re the one high aspect in Europe taking part in wing-backs, so their wing play is about off-the-ball working fairly than dribbling. They tried fewer dribbles than any aspect in Europe’s main 5 leagues final season.

They depend on breaking shortly greater than the opposite sides within the competitors, usually taking part in around-the-corner passes to maneuver ahead shortly, and they’re additionally the one aspect taking part in a strike partnership.

On the identical time, Inter additionally really feel like essentially the most progressive aspect of the 4 semi-finalists. Their midfield is comprised of three genuinely gifted ball-players in Hakan Calhanoglu, Henrikh Mkhitaryan and Nicolo Barella.

Most strikingly, Inter play rotations by way of their group that really feel utterly not like the rest in Europe, with the doable exception of Atalanta. By some means, they by no means appear to lose the ball and invite counters when their defenders are out of place.

Inter weren’t excellent in opposition to Bayern and it’s debatable they’ve been extra formidable in earlier seasons, however nobody will relish dealing with them. Definitely not Barcelona.