Robert Lewandowski heroics save Barcelona in draw with Inter Milan
Robert Lewandowski saved Barcelona's Bosses Association knockout round trusts with two late objectives to procure his side a 3-3 draw with Entomb Milan at the Camp Nou on Wednesday night.
Xavi Hernandez's Barca required essentially an attract to get an opportunity to try not to miss the knockout rounds for the second year straight and the Poland global got it done approach the finish of an emotional last part.
Barcelona are as yet confronting disposal at the gathering phase of the opposition, however Lewandowski's stoppage-time balancer allowed them a thin opportunity of advancing with two games left.
Entomb need a home success over Viktoria Plzen one week from now to join Bayern Munich in the last 16.
"It's awful, I think this Champions Association is overall exceptionally horrible to us," Barcelona director Xavi Hernandez told Movistar In addition to. "Presently it is no longer any of our concern. What is left as far as we're concerned is to turn our consideration rapidly to Sunday's El Clasico [against Genuine Madrid], return and spotlight on LaLiga in light of the fact that the Bosses Association turned out to be truly challenging and muddled for us."
Edin Dzeko was denied by the crossbar for Entomb's opener soon after 15 minutes as the guests hoped to convey the energy of their 1-0 win over Barca at the San Siro last Tuesday into the converse apparatus.
Barca, who squeezed hard for their first, brought a merited lead into the break when Ousmane Dembele shot past Andre Onana from Sergi Roberto's pass across the six-yard box not long before half-time.
Entomb drew level right off the bat in the last part through Nicolo Barella, who jumped on a cross from Alessandro Bastoni and completed past Marc-Andre ter Stegen from short proximity.
Lautaro Martinez discharged Simone Inzagh's side into the lead in practically no time past the hour mark with a fine individual exertion, settling Hakan Calhanoglu's long ball over the protection, beating his marker and lashing home a low shot to heap more tension on Barca.
Summer-marking Lewandowski did what he was gotten to do in the 82nd moment as his header from a cross into the area returned to him off an Entomb safeguard and he shot past Onana with a second work to make it 2-2.
However, Entomb's Robin Gosens put Bury back in the number one spot minutes after the fact with a clean completion on the counter before Lewandowski set out in toward his support in second.
"It was such a large number of errors, their most memorable objective was a reasonable slip-up by our safeguard, we let them have such a large number of possibilities. Soccer is a round of errors and we can't bear the cost of those in circumstances like this," Xavi said.
"This is the Bosses Association and you follow through on a significant expense for every mistake you make. You really want to win, to protect well, to score. We expected to play the whole game as we did in the principal half. That force. Presently it's hard in light of the fact that we are not in charge any longer."
Barca are third in the Gathering C standings on four focuses, three behind Entomb and eight untied of Bayern, who secured a spot in the knockout rounds with a success over Victoria Plzen on Wednesday.