Three goals conceded at Camp Nou in a match of Champions League there are many and it is very difficult to make them a marginal, almost useless detail. There is still’inter managed to make them overshadow them, in the face of a more than positive test that allowed a big step in the classification and that confirmed that the team gathered around its coach, returning to express itself at excellent levels. A 3-3 that even smacks of defeat if you think about the opportunities missed by the Nerazzurri, who flew away with goals from Barella, Lautaro and Gosens. We will a new capital proof by André Onanaincreasingly added leader on and off the field.
After the first game as a starter in Serie A, against Sassuolo, Onana also kept his role in the Champions Leaguedefending Inter’s goal again against its recent past, the Camp Nou, the ‘House’ of Barcelona, where the Cameroonian winger took his first steps. A game as an ex, full of tensions that resulted from the penalty not awarded to the Spaniards in San Siro, continued with fierce controversies and threats, until the diktat in the limits of the surreal of the Catalan club. All this did not affect Onana’s spirits, not even Dembele’s first goal in the 40th minute that shook the foundations of the stadium.
Just as Inter showed that they could play in a balanced way, even for the offensive choices of an Inzaghi voted for the three points, the cold rain arrived one step away from the break: a goal that could have spelled the beginning of the end for the Nerazzurri, with Camp Nou’s 100,000 blasting into the stands to drag Xavi’s players into the rout. But Onana’s reaction was exemplary, unique to the point of revealing the basis of the team’s reaction then seen in the second half.
While captain Skriniar and his teammates headed with their heads down and lost their eyes to midfield, it was the Cameroonian, born in 1996, who had just arrived at the nerazzurri court in the summer, who became an authentic leader on the field: an angry and heartfelt incitement to shake the team so it wouldn’t give up, like a true captain without a band. An attitude that captivated Inter fans, making Onana even more darling and emblem of Inter’s possible comeback. What needed to be done was done by the classic newcomer who he rose through the ranks in a couple of months.
Onana’s match was then enriched with more value on the occasion of the Nerazzurri’s third goal that gave the illusion of an extraordinary triumph for the Nerazzurri at Camp Nou: his thirty-meter throw to feed Lautaro Martinez on the midfield line who then mocked the Azulgrana defense for Gosens’ goal, became yet another flag to be waved loudly by the Nerazzurri people. Something that hasn’t been seen for some time with Handanovic in goal, a confidence and charisma also accompanied by intuition and that hint of recklessness that is enshrining Onana, now increasingly master even in the head of an equally bloodthirsty Inzaghi at Camp Nou.
And if what was seen on the pitch against Barcelona was surprising to some, it is in the post-match that the 26-year-old Cameroonian international confirms that he has perfectly entered his new role: “in defense hor tried to run the game by cheering up the group and supporting my supporters and the entire team in general. Thanks also to Handanovic who follows me closely, giving me useful advice. Today it was essential not to lose”. And then, the pebble to reiterate the concept: “Was it a test of maturity? This is the reason why Inter bought me. playedwith almost 300 games, I’m used to playing games of this level. I would say I have enough experience. And this thing that I miss and have to experience bothers me. I already have“. A clear and strong concept. As of Tuesday night also in Simone Inzaghi’s mind.
Source: Fan Page IT
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