Barça hosts Inter in Montjuïc in the first leg of the Champions League semifinals. This is just the second time Barcelona and Internazionale have met in the knockout stages of the European Cup/UEFA Champions League, with both coming precisely at the semi-final stage. The previous one—played in 2009-10—saw José Mourinho’s Inter eliminate the reigning champions 3-2 on aggregate (3-1 at the Giuseppe Meazza, 0-1 at the Camp Nou).
In total, Barcelona and Internazionale have faced each other on 16 previous European occasions, with the Spanish side winning half of those (W8 D5 L3). They are winless in the most recent two, however, which came in the group stages of the 2022-23 UEFA Champions League (0-1 away, 3-3 at home).
Barcelona are unbeaten in their six home games against Internazionale in the UEFA Champions League (W5
D1). Those five home wins against them are their joint-most against an opponent in UEFA Champions
League/European Cup (also five v AC Milan), while the only team Barça has hosted more often in the
competition without losing is Chelsea (7).
Barcelona has not lost any of their six home matches in the UEFA Champions League this season (W5 D1),
while scoring 21 goals in the process. Only in the 1999/2000 edition have they ever netted more at home in
a single European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign (29 in eight games).
while scoring 21 goals in the process. Only in the 1999/2000 edition have they ever netted more at home in
a single European Cup/UEFA Champions League campaign (29 in eight games).
Barcelona are averaging 3.1 goals per game under Hansi Flick in the UEFA Champions League; the second-most by a manager-club duo with 10+ games, after Hansi Flick’s Bayern Munich (3.2). Meanwhile,
Internazionale could equal the record for most clean sheets by an Italian team in a Champions League
campaign (currently on eight), held by AC Milan in 2004-05 and Juventus in 2016-17 (both 9).
Inter‘s manager Simone Inzaghi is set to take charge of his 50th UEFA Champions League match
here, becoming the seventh Italian coach to reach this milestone; the most for any nation (currently level with
Spain on six). His 26 wins are already the most by an Italian manager through their first 50 Champions League
matches (one ahead of Marcello Lippi, 25).
Ahead of his 25th appearance, Barcelona’s Raphinha has been directly involved in 26 goals in the UEFA
Champions League to date (15 goals, 11 assists in 24 appearances). Only two players in the competition’s
history have more goal contributions through their first 25 games: Erling Haaland (36) and Luis Suárez (28).
Lautaro Martínez has scored in each of his last five appearances for Internazionale in the UEFA Champions
League. If he finds the net here, he’ll be just the second South American player to score in six consecutive
outings in the competition, after Edinson Cavani (seven between November 2016 and October 2017).
Barcelona’s wingers Lamine Yamal and Raphinha have combined for more goals than any other duo in the
UEFA Champions League this season (5), while they’ve also created the most chances between one another
of any teammate pairing (16 – eight each).
Internazionale’s Nicolò Barella has averaged more progressive passes per 90 minutes (7.1) than any other player in the UEFA Champions League this season (minimum of 500 minutes played). Similarly, he has the highest progressive pass percentage of any central midfielder in the competition this term (12% – also min. 500 minutes).
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